Turkmenistan’s Gas Pains: Looking Towards Traditional Chinese Medicine For Relief?
April 29th, 2010
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a look at Turkmenistan’s hopes that China will agree to increase the amount of gas it imports in order to reverse the precipitous drop in Turkmen natural gas exports during the last year. As the article notes: “…Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimukhammedov will travel to China on April 30, where he […]
Read more »BRICs Meet SARCs
April 23rd, 2010
Courtesy of Forbes, an interesting report on the continuing emergence of a global Internet power bloc along the lines of the BRICs: “…Today China’s largest Internet firm Tencent announced a $300m investment into Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies Limited (DST). DST is the most powerful Russian Internet firm, and has investments across Eastern Europe as well […]
Read more »Indonesia: The Fifth “BRIC”?
April 23rd, 2010
Via The Global Guru, a look at Indonesia – a country which some consider to be the 5th BRIC. As the article notes: “…As the world’s largest Muslim nation with a population of almost 248 million, Indonesia is the fourth-most populous country in the world after China, India, and the United States. Already among the […]
Read more »Building BRICs Of A New World Order?
April 20th, 2010
Courtesy of TIME, an interesting look at the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China and how the world may change if their growth continues apace. As the article notes: “…Whenever the BRICs have a powwow, as they did during their second summit this week in Brasilia, I can’t help thinking about the future […]
Read more »Rwanda Inc.
April 12th, 2010
Via Global Post, an interesting look at Rwanda’s economic growth of late: “…Young, business-savvy and geeky as Silicon Valley’s finest, Viateur Mugenzi is a one-man incarnation of the new-look Rwanda. A telecom administrator by day, the boyish 32-year-old is a partner in three start-up companies by night, including a venture that uses open-source technology to […]
Read more »China’s Thirst For Angolan Oil Fuels A Growing Relationship
April 6th, 2010
Courtesy of the always informative Riches Among The Ruins, an article on the relationship between – and growing importance of – China’s relationship with Angola. As the report notes: “…The economic and political ties between Iran and China are often brought up in the context of geopolitical negotiations, with China’s oil purchases leading the headlines. […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.