Pacific Strategies & Assessment North America

Business Environment Updates

What do the latest election results mean for your area of business? How do the recent trends in crime affect your personnel, especially expatriates? How can you make sure that your investments, facilities and staff stay safe in the rapidly-changing business environments of developing Asia?

Pacific Strategies & Assessments' (PSA) staff has decades of experience in Asia's business environments: Our extensive network of contacts and security expertise gained at some of the world's top law enforcement, military and intelligence agencies guarantees you pithy, to-the-point information on what matters most to you.

Our business environment update services include:

  • Regular country reports covering politics, economy, crime, rule of law, social stability, and insurgency in China, India, Thailand, and the Philippines
  • Electronic news clippings services that highlight key articles on information technology, labor, oil and gas, crime, insurgency and other critical issues
  • PSA Monitor: SMS text alerts on emergency developments in your market (premium service)

Regular country reports

Our regular reports are designed to answer your biggest security questions on a regular basis, digging behind the headlines to see what the latest developments in politics, crime, rule of law, social stability and insurgency really mean for the value and safety of your business.

PSA regular reports help busy executives make quick and well-informed decisions. Our coverage responds to client needs, but sample copies of our more popular regular reports are available below:

Electronic news clippings

For companies that want to track business developments in specific countries and industries but don't have the time to comb the headlines daily, we offer electronic news clippings services on a select list of topics.

We mine domestic and international media to find the news with the most impact on some of the world's fastest-changing and most profitable industries.

PSA Monitor

PSA Monitor is a premium service currently being offered only in the Philippines. PSA monitors breaking news developments that affect traffic, public transportation, and social order in the Metro Manila area and sends updates via SMS text message to premium clients. PSA Monitor covers events such as civil disturbances, political protests, and outbreaks of violence, helping clients avoid undue worry, extensive traffic delays, and disruptions to daily routines.