MTN: Syria Calling
August 7th, 2014
Courtesy of the Financial Times, a report on MTN’s plans to acquire a mobile phone license in Syria: Syria’s capital Damascus MTN is pressing ahead with plans to acquire a 20-year mobile phone licence in Syria, in spite of the four-year civil conflict in the Arab nation that has seen thousands killed. Africa’s biggest mobile […]
Read more »North Korea’s Art Factory Has An International Market Niche
August 6th, 2014
Via the Daily Beast, a look at a very interesting niche North Korean company: Did the Hermit Kingdom’s Soviet-style Kim Jong-il statue catch your eye? You’re in luck! The art studio-cum-propaganda factory is taking international orders. There are a lot of things North Korea is known for—threats of missile strikes, visits from Dennis Rodman, collecting […]
Read more »New Road To Mandalay: The Trade Route Vital To Asia’s Future
August 3rd, 2014
Courtesy of the Financial Times, a look at how the ancient trade route from Myanmar to China has been upgraded and the role it will play a vital role in the globalized future of Asia: It is just after 8am on a sunny Saturday morning and the Muse border post is buzzing. The line of […]
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.