At Kyrgyzstan’s Kumtor Mine, Not All That Glitters Is Gold
May 24th, 2021
Via Radio Free Europe, commentary on the Kyrgyzstan’s Kumtor Mine scandal: Mining the Kumtor gold deposits in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan was supposed to bring economic salvation to the former Soviet republic in Central Asia. For a country lacking large reserves of oil or natural gas, the government’s joint mining project with a foreign firm was […]
Read more »Ethiopia Raises $850m From Historic Telecoms Auction
May 24th, 2021
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on UK’s Vodafone and Kenya’s Safaricom’s winning consortium for African country’s first licence sale: Ethiopia has awarded its first telecoms licence for $850m to a consortium including the UK’s Vodafone in what could herald the start of an opening up of Ethiopia’s closed economy. The consortium, led by Kenya’s […]
Read more »Yunnan: The Powerhouse of China’s Opening-up to South & Southeast Asia
May 24th, 2021
Via Belt and Road News, an article on China’s Yunnan Province: Yunnan is located at one of the seven geographical zones of China, Southwest China, covering mainly mountains and plateaus with a rich resource reserve, huge industrial potential and complicated landforms. Along high mountains and big rivers, Yunnan has a relatively long borderline, with 25 […]
Read more »Pakistan Looking For Huge Increases In Central Asian Trade
May 24th, 2021
Via Silk Road Briefing, a report on Pakistan’s ambition of significant increases in Central Asian trade: Pakistan is looking to increase trade with neighboring Afghanistan and other countries in Central Asia, as it looks to diversify commerce beyond the top global players, the nation’s trade adviser has stated. Abdul Razak Dawood, the commerce adviser to Prime Minister […]
Read more »Boten: The Renaissance of Laos’s Golden City
May 19th, 2021
Via The Diplomat, an article on the one-time casino boom town on the Laos-China border is on the rise again, powered by billions in Chinese investment: A thick morning mist covers the empty buildings as Lao workers lazily walk towards construction sites and Chinese businessmen, waiting for noodle soup, frantically shout into their mobile phone. […]
Read more »Syria’s Surprising Solar Boom: Sunlight Powers the Night in Rebel Idlib
May 19th, 2021
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on how Syrians in a poor, embattled enclave have turned en masse to solar panels to charge their phones and light their homes and tents: When the Syrian government attacked their village, Radwan al-Shimali’s family hastily threw clothes, blankets and mattresses into their truck and sped off […]
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.