All articles - Asia

The Agencies' Gazette
Journalist's 'prison lottery', new ODNI appointment, from Tracfin to the AFD, cybersecurity in Manila

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

FranceAhead of his trial, journalist Alex Jordanov launches ‘prison lottery'

United StatesODNI shuffles strategic comms department

FranceFinancial intel analyst joins national development agency

PhilippinesNational cybersecurity council on Senate's agenda

Vietnam
Airbus moves to sell helicopters to Vietnam, via third country if necessary

Major international groups have submitted bids to the airborne division of Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security. Although its position is sound, European aircraft manufacturer Airbus may be forced to take an administrative detour in order to complete a sale.

The Agencies' Gazette
Russian ambassador to France, ex-CIA at Spy Museum, French crimorg database

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

FranceSparse audience for Alexei Meshkov at Academy of Geopolitics

USFormer CIA official joins Spy Museum

FranceCrimorg database soon to come into force

The Agencies' Gazette
US agencies hiring, Élysée Palace foreign unit changes, Vietnam PM post between two, PNAT loses in court

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

United StatesMajor agencies resume gradual recruitment

FranceGulf ambassador gears up for Élysée Palace post

VietnamPower struggle for PM position

FranceCourt overturns refusal to grant clearance to PNAT contract worker

Cambodia
Russian-funded nuclear information centre project in Cambodia stalls

Phnom Penh would like to curb Moscow's influence on its future nuclear projects, regardless of the joint working committee meeting recently held between the two countries.

Thailand, UAE
Israeli private investigator arrested after death of crypto entrepreneur Roman Novak

The investigation into the murders of the Russian cryptocurrency entrepreneur and his wife has led to several people being taken into custody. Among them is a well-known figure in the private investigation industry in Southeast Asia.

China, Russia
Beijing overtakes Moscow as geospatial intelligence supplier to the global south

Beijing is building a growing network of allies in the global south in the field of geospatial intelligence. That technical and commercial dependence is not so much at the expense of Western competitors, but of Russia.

China, Europe
Global Times conducts charm offensive in Paris and Brussels

A delegation of three journalists from the Global Times, a newspaper close to the Chinese Communist Party, visited Belgium at the end of January, staying in Brussels and Bruges before travelling on to Paris.