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The Leaderboard: Doan Nguyen Duc

Who is he? Doan Nguyen Duc is a prominent Vietnamese businessman and founder of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group (HAGL), a Vietnamese company that specializes in real estate, rubber, furniture-making, mining, and hydropower. Under Duc’s chairmanship, HAGL has become one…

Friday Five: March 8, 2013

North Korea’s bizarre and provocation-filled 2013 has shifted to outright danger this week. Following an additional UN Security Council resolution after the DPRK’s latest nuclear test, the government of the North is threatening South Korea and President Park Geun-hye with…

The Leaderboard: Guan Tianlang

Who is he? Mr. Guan Tianlang is the 14 year old amateur golfer from Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China who shocked the golfing world by winning the Asian-Amateur Championship on Sunday, November 4 outside of Bangkok, Thailand. Guan won the…

Basketball Diplomacy

By Victor Cha [Editor’s Note: Victor Cha is a professor at Georgetown and holds the CSIS Korea Chair. He traveled as part of the University’s official delegation that accompanied the men’s basketball team to China.] So, what exactly happened in…