Coca-Cola To Begin Bottling Operations In Laos
December 1st, 2012
Via The Wall Street Journal, a report on Coke’s planned bottling and distributions operations in Laos, which has seen high growth over the past decade and was recently admitted into the World Trade Organization: Coca-Cola Co. KO -0.13% plans to begin bottling its products in Laos by 2014, moving in on Southeast Asia’s smallest economy, where […]
Read more »Venezuela’s Topsy-Turvy Economy
December 1st, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting article on Venezuela’s economy: It has been pointed out before that Father Christmas and Hugo Chávez share a thing or two in common. Venezuela’s populist president may not have the fluffy white beard, but he has roughly the right build, and sometimes the jovial temperament. Most importantly, the […]
Read more »The New B & B (Beijing & Baghdad): China’s Oil Quest Reaches Iraq
December 1st, 2012
Via The Diplomat, a report on China’s efforts to secure oil supplies from Iraq: A lot of attention has been paid in recent years to energy-hungry China’s billion-dollar bids on oil fields in Canada and the Asian giant’s reliance on oil from countries like Iran and Sudan to fuel its growing economy. But its growing […]
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