OPERATING IN ASIA FOR 22 YEARS
VIETNAM
Vietnam’s greatest economic resource is its literate and energetic population. Its long coastline provides excellent harbours, access to marine resources, and many attractive beaches and areas of scenic beauty that are well suited to the development of tourism. Since the late 1990s, the country’s economy has been on a vigorous upswing. Tourism has expanded, manufacturing and export earnings have increased, and the per capita gross domestic product (GDP) has grown rapidly. Early in the 21st century, state markets were opened to foreign competition, and Vietnam became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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THAILAND
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Prior to the 1960s the Thai economy was based primarily on the production of rice and other foods and goods for domestic consumption and of rice, rubber, teak, and tin for export. The government then began to promote a shift from agriculture to the manufacture of textiles, consumer goods, and, eventually, electronic components for export. By the 1980s Thailand had embarked on a solid path of industrialization; even the economic crisis of the late 20th century only slowed, but did not halt, this economic transformation.
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Southeast Asia’s second most populous country is a flashpoint in the new geopolitics and geoeconomics of Asia. Filipino thought leaders and change makers convened for the first FES national geopolitics lab to discuss the current state of play, identify emerging trends and develop strategic options.
CHINA
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China has 33 administrative units directly under the central government; these consist of 22 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities (Chongqing, Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin), and 2 special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The island province of Taiwan, which has been under separate administration since 1949, is discussed in the article Taiwan. Beijing (Peking), the capital of the People’s Republic, is also the cultural, economic, and communications centre of the country.
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Even before 1975, Cambodia’s economy was one of the least-developed in Southeast Asia. It depended heavily on two major products—rice and rubber—and consequently was vulnerable to annual fluctuations caused by vagaries in the weather and world market prices. Agriculture dominated the economy, with most rural families engaged in rice cultivation. Although the tradition of landownership was strong, family landholdings were relatively small, and the rural population was largely self-sufficient.
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Malaysia’s economy has been transformed since 1970 from one based primarily on the export of raw materials (rubber and tin) to one that is among the strongest, most diversified, and fastest-growing in Southeast Asia. Primary production remains important: the country is a major producer of rubber and palm oil, exports considerable quantities of petroleum and natural gas, and is one of the world’s largest sources of commercial hardwoods.
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Myanmar’s economy, based on the kyat (the national currency), is one of the least developed of the region and is basically agricultural. Much of the population is engaged directly in agricultural pursuits. Of those who are employed in other sectors of the economy, many are indirectly involved in agriculture through such activities as transporting, processing, marketing, and exporting agricultural goods.
INDONESIA
Pop: (2023 est.) 7,557,000
Superficie: 236,800 sq km
Gni (in USD M): (2020) 18,022
Since independence, Indonesian foreign relations have adhered to a "free and active" foreign policy, seeking to play a role in regional affairs commensurate with its size and location but avoiding involvement in conflicts among major powers. During the Presidency of Sukarno, Indonesia's Foreign Relations were marked by engagement with other newly independent nations in Asia and Africa, as exemplified by the Bandung Conference, the subsequent foundation of the Non-Aligned Movement and a confrontational attitude towards Western powers, justified by a belief in the CONEFO and opposition to what Sukarno termed as NEKOLIM (Neocolonialism and Imperialism).
confer us a real efficiency regarding all the services proposed in our offer. We have strong references, and we have knowledges in legal and local behavior wich is the most important in those cases. Emerasia expertises is about security of your business in Asian countries: protection of individuals, property and data.
Due diligences
Compliance
Investigations
Intellectual property
and more...
Business Intelligence
Security & Protection
Agents
Close protection
CCTV systems
Security audits
And more...
INTERNATIONAL RISK ASSESMENT
International risk analysis is about identifying existing and potential risks in a country where one wishes to invest. Decision-making in an international business context requires constant mindfulness of the ways in which global current affairs can create opportunities and hazards for your company. Staying ahead of the game helps to convert favorable developments into competitive advantage and to anticipate unwelcome occurrences.
Making the right decision requires having reliable information that provides insight into the situation at hand. Emerasia offers its clients thorough, comprehensive, and bespoke assessments on specific issues in order to provide them with a deeper understanding of a given situation.
Expanding within an emerging market necessarily entails risk-taking, and the risk is all the greater where considering a substantial investment. Emerasia offers its clients a clear roadmap to effective risk management in which all risks have been identified and recommendations are provided in order to create the most favorable investment scenario. Equipped with a deeper and better understanding of the situation, our client can launch its investment under the best possible conditions.
Our company assesses legal frameworks of host countries, the profiles of potential business partners, or benchmark assessments of the existing competition. When collecting this information, national and regional factors feature prominently in our analysis as these must be included to make an informed decision. We monitor current affairs on a daily basis in each of the 8 countries where we operate directly...
INVESTMENT COUNSEL
Emerasia offers its expertise to companies wishing to maintain a first-rate quality standard from their employees abroad. The ability to choose staff that are motivated, hard-working, and honest is as good a guarantee of success as possible. Having the right people in place makes it possible to make plans for the future with greater confidence.
For that, we provide both pre-employment screening and assessment of existing staff’s integrity.
INTEGRITY SCREENING
INCLUSIVE PERSONAL
& ASSETS PROTECTION
As a risk management specialist, Emerasia advocates a preventive approach to the different problems our clients can run into. Our starting point is that risk is always present and that our task is therefore to seek to reduce its potential impact as much as possible. Emerasia offers its clients a range of practical services all aimed at actively preventing the emergence of dangerous situations.
Furthermore, we also provide bespoke services to deal with dangerous situation once they have arisen. Our team are quickly dispatched to wrest back control of the situation in conjunction with the local authorities.
Stress-tests are a set of operations to detect potential vulnerabilities within your existing operations and prevent them from exposing you to unwelcome consequences. Amongst our eight services this is the one that most faithfully reflects our philosophy: it is better to prevent than to cure.
The exercises we offer our clients aim at:
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Identifying potential areas of vulnerability
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Proactively creating situations likely to expose underlying risks within a fully secure environment.
INNOVATIVE STRESS TEST
Emerasia has developed a niche expertise in protecting the intellectual property of international corporations. Our ultimate goal is to dismantle counterfeiting networks operating across national borders.
With more than 15 years of experience in this field in Southeast Asia and China, we implement a rigorous methodology coupled with the excellent contacts we have established with the local authorities.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
PROTECTION
Emerasia uses our expert local knowledge and cultural understanding in order to improve communication between our clients and local authorities. More generally, a company operating in an Asian market should consider having a good relationship with the authorities as an asset. To optimize a client’s chances of success, knowing the characteristics of the local administration is a huge asset. IAS8’s method allows us to swiftly identify the key decision-makers in a position to contribute towards finding a satisfactory solution for our client.
INFORMED SKATEHOLDER
ENGAGEMENT WITH AUTHORITIES
Commercial exchanges sometimes lead to disagreements between the parties involved which can quickly escalate and become a source of instability. In an international context, this potential can be compounded by misunderstandings springing from cultural and linguistic differences, which can occur even when the foreign party is well-acquainted with the local culture.
As a mediator in conflict situations, our first goal is to defuse tension between the parties. Our mediator is introduced as a neutral party and strives to bring to the fore concrete points of shared interest upon which a reasonable and constructive discussion is possible. This is the starting point in our conciliation methodology and the objective is for discussions to yield acceptable solutions for everybody involved.
INTERMEDIARY
IN CONFLICT SITUATION
Team members
TEAM MEMBERS:
DO GAUDIN THUY
MINH TRAM
Tram created the SHG Group, from which IAS8 later developed, already in 2005 and now Emerasia. Since then, many clients have shown confidence in our expertise, becoming partners over time. As chairman, Tram oversees the operations of our group. She brings her entrepreneurial acumen acute and understanding of the region and specifically of her native country, Vietnam to lead the group.
BRUNO CHAILLOU
Our Vice-President and former General Manager, Bruno has in the past worked in Africa and the Middle East before coming to Asia for the French Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs. Thanks to his wealth of experience, our company can provide you with reliable results that ensure the protection of your assets as well as that of your staff and reputation.
NICOLAS AASHEIM
Present and active within the SHG Group since January 2011, Nicolas has gone through all the nooks and crannies of the Group, having had responsibilities as country manager in Cambodia and deputy director of operations and analysis. Thanks to his international experience on three continents and long experience in the company, Nicolas naturally took over as General Manager after Bruno stepped down. As such, he is in charge of boosting the development of the company throughout the region by providing our clients with state-of-the-art expertise in risk management.
MANUEL BRIQUET
A former high-ranking officer of the French Interior Ministry, Manuel is an expert in the fight against organised crime and in the field of international cooperation, having led a regional project against counterfeited products affecting public health and security. His judicial expertise, his mastery of security-related issues concerning persons and assets and his intimate knowledge of local institutions, all combine to give him the relevant capacity to analyse and identify your needs and provide you with the appropriate responses to them. He is currently focusing his work on EU-based projects aimed at training law-enforcement agencies in South East Asia in scientific crime investigation procedures.
HA DUY DUONG
Dr. Hoang N. Giao has an extensive academic background, received his Ph.D. degree in 1988 in the former Soviet Union and was a Fulbright Scholar at Boston University Law School from 2003-2004.
JACQUES GILGENMANN
Former officer in the French GIGN, Jacques puts at your disposition a wealth of experience in the field of security. The support he can provide you with is of utmost quality.
SUY CHUNHAC
A professor in criminal law, he has more than 30 years of experience in dealing with legal issues and analyzing political and legal situations. Since 2012, he has been very active in brand protection and IP matters. He has, among other things, been involved in the most important anti-counterfeiting cases in Cambodia against fake cigarettes. He can also plead in the UK, Singapore, HK, and Thailand in addition to Cambodia.
PHAN MINH HAI
Hai has been working for IAS8 from the start and we have always been able to count on his very solid operational experience. He is in charge of carrying out the secured audits as well as of an field team operating throughout Vietnam.
LAM THI QUOC THANH
Mastering three languages and familiar with both Asian and Western cultures, Thanh provides discreet yet essential assistance to the executive directors in their tasks. Efficient and good humoured, she can always be counted on.
ALICE GAUDIN
With a degree in international trade, Alice is in charge of our external communications strategy, providing potential clients with a clear understanding of our work and making sure that our 8 services are properly explained.
CELIA QIN
Celia has since 2007 overseen the financial and administrative work of our agency in Shanghai. Her intimate knowledge of the Chinese administrative system represents a great asset for our company.
TRAN QUYNH CHU LY
Her operational expertise recognized by all, Ly brings to a strong commitment as well as a proven capacity to engage with all types of actors in the pursuit of her objectives. Under the direct command of Dung, she is in charge of quality control of all agents working in the field of individual and asset protection.
EMMANUEL NAHMIAS
Relationship Manager Europe
Emmanuel has spent all of his professional career in the banking system. He started as Relationship Manager with the Société Générale Group, following which he joined Natixis Wealth Management as Risk Manager; as such, he went over to the investment bank BNP, where he carried out audit missions, change management as well as working on the implementation of the new banking regulations linked to Basel II and Basel III. The missions were carried out mostly in New York, London, Spanish-speaking countries and Eastern Europe.
ARNAUD FOUCART PERRIN
Business Development manager
With a wealth of experience in Business Development, Arnaud brings his in-depth knowledge to boost the growth of the company in a context full of opportunities for those willing move beyond their comfort zone. His acumen will allow future clients to tap into Emerasia´s expertise to make the most out of the current economic trends.
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