ALL ARTICLES - ASIA

• LONDON/SHANGHAI - A possible Chinese PMC in London

• LONDON - James Stothard moves from asset recovery to investigation

• PARIS - Hervé Zany poaches hire from interior ministry

• CHAMONIX - Nick Day moves back to Geneva

• LONDON - Diligence veteran goes solo in business forensics

• VIETNAM - To Lam wants to further condense public security hierarchy

• IRAQ/IRAN - Qassem Al Araji defuses Sulaymaniyah security issues before return to Tehran

• FRANCE/VIETNAM/ROMANIA - Olivier Brochet tipped to succeed ambassador Warnery in Hanoi

• RUSSIA - FSB's new technical director settles in

ST Engineering builds up its presence in Washington as it looks to boost its drone capacities 

To improve its naval drone expertise, ST Engineering is drawing on the services of a small army of consultants, many with a US Navy background. Some of them recently joined a low-profile special purpose acquisition vehicle.

Thai defence firm ACEIS clarifies links with China to lure US 

In a bid to build stronger ties with the US defence industry, Thai firm ACEIS has had to clarify any potential associations that could be made online between it and Chinese companies, especially strategic ones.

S2W pins hopes for EU breakthrough on language model trained on dark web 

In mid-May, South Korean threat intelligence company S2W published research on the first language model pretrained on the dark web. Now the firm is eager to enter the European market, but experts in the field remain sceptical.

Premier Li Qiang plies pressure on China International Capital Corp boss 

China's freshly created national financial regulator, the State Administration for Financial Regulation under the authority of the Chinese premier, has launched its first investigation, focusing on the CICC bank.

India and US shore up border surveillance on China 

Though still impervious to India's requests for a greater military presence in the region, Washington has accepted supporting Indian armed forces in their bid to regain disputed territories currently under the control of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

• RUSSIA - FSO regulates military service

• FRANCE - Former COS liaison chief ordered to return extra pay

• TAIWAN - NATO slows down rapprochement with Taipei

• UNITED STATES - All drone policies point to the DNI

Washington lobbyists plead Kazakh protesters' cause in US 

Trials in connection with last year's protests are in full swing in Kazakhstan. Supporters of some key figures, including Arman Dzhumageldiyev, known to be close to the country's intelligence service, the KNB, have hired Washington lobbyists to drum up support for their cause.

• CREIL - Artemis roll-out speeds up

• PARIS - RB 42 woos French companies for Singapore at Campus Cyber

• FORT MEADE - Khoi Nguyen replaces Michael Clark as head of acquisitions at US CYBERCOM

• LONDON - Omri Lavie and Isaac Zack's cyber firm Orchestra Group closing UK subsidiary

Ron Wahid falls back on Kazakh networks as UK tax office starts hunt 

The founder of RJI Capital and Arcanum Global Intelligence has been gradually withdrawing from the London affairs of his advisory and intelligence firms, but not so of his companies with assets in Kazakhstan. Those entities have been calling on their lobbyist networks in Washington.