Kashgar: On The Move
October 14th, 2013
Via The Diplomat, an interesting look at Kashgar: China’s westernmost city, Kashgar lies at the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, closer to Bagdad than Beijing. For travellers and traders coming from Central Asia and Pakistan, the city offers a first glimpse of China. Yet, in most cases, Kashgar strikes them for its similarities to the […]
Read more »Life Gets More Difficult For Gazprom
October 14th, 2013
Via Bit Tooth Energy, a detailed look at Gazprom: There was a time, not that long ago, when if I was short of a topic for a post, I could Google “Gazprom” and there was sure to be a story out there about another expansion, or take over of a national pipeline – or some […]
Read more »Quenching Your Thirst On Road To Democracy: Coke, Pepsi Wage War In Myanmar
October 14th, 2013
Courtesy of NBC News, an interesting look at soda wars in Myanmar: A Myanmar woman takes a can of Coca-Cola from a shelf at a supermarket in Yangon, the capital city. Consumers in long-isolated Myanmar are getting their first taste of globalization — and finding it is sweet, fizzy and comes served in a can. An […]
Read more »Somalia Seeks Foreign Investment in Energy Sector – Big Oil Cautious
October 14th, 2013
Via OilPrice.com, a report on Somalia’s oil ambitions: Oil companies are renowned for going into hostile environments in their relentless search for the world’s seemingly insatiable thirst for “black gold.” That said, there remain a few nations where even the intrepid masters of the universe hesitate to tread. In Central Asia, it is Afghanistan, despite […]
Read more »Snaxis Of Evil
October 12th, 2013
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an interesting look at snacks from some “black sheep” countries around the world: From Pepsi in Prague to Hershey bars in Hong Kong, American snack-makers enjoy a de facto oligopoly on global junk-food consumption. But what do snackers in U.S.-sanctioned countries eat when they get peckish? To find out, I embarked on […]
Read more »Nicaragua’s Proposed Canal: A Man, A Plan— And Little Else
October 11th, 2013
Via The Economist, an interesting article on Nicaragua’s proposed canal mega project: NOT since the civil war of the 1980s have so many helicopters been clattering over remote parts of Nicaragua. But now the guys squinting down through the tree canopy are in suits: lawyers and business consultants from the United States, Australian engineers, British […]
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.