Duterte laments Asean brain drain

DONALD TRUMP , US president A man exercising as the Lodhi garden is blanketed in heavy smog in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday. wimp, and he’s not obligated to (political) parties,” said Lehmann, who arrived in 1965 as a serviceman and spent 18 months in the conflict.

To Vietnamese vets, Trump is not as easy to love as some of his predecessors.

“He seems odd; he doesn’t pay DANANG: Globalisation has pressed the brightest workers from poor Southeast Asian countries to move overseas in a brain drain that must be reversed if real development is to be achieved, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday.

In an impassioned appeal by a leader better known for expletive-flecked outbursts, Duterte said the efforts of poorer countries to rise up the value chain were being undercut by mass migration of skilled workers.

“Globalisation, to a certain extent, has really damaged poor economies,” he said in a speech to chief executive officers gathered here ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit.

He urged Asean members to speed up economic integration to power the region up the manufacturing chain, retain its skilled workers and educate those who had been “left behind”. AFP much attention to Vietnam, unlike Clinton or Obama,” said ex-Vietnamese soldier Nguyen Thu, 72.

But none of that fazes Lehmann. He has offered to drive Trump in his war-era American Jeep that sits in his driveway in Danang. The White House still hasn’t replied to him. AFP