Yes MJ, BIEL has had its share of non producing distributors
If this SE Asia company is expending the resources to get RecoveryRx registered in 7 of those 25 countries it appears they are commited to promoting the product.
After a reread of the Update I noticed the use of the word "additional", "to distribute RecoveryRx in 25 additional countries". This sounds a lot like an expansion of an existing distributor.
SE Asia consists of 11 countries:
Brunei Cambodia Indonesia Laos Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand Timor-Leste Vietnam
That leaves another 14 countries outside of SE Asia.