Kyrgyzstan at the Crossroads: Climate and Economic Challenges in a Warming World
August 11th, 2023
Via Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting (CABAR), a look at the impact that climate change – both environmentally and economically – will have upon Kyrgyzstan: In the shadow of towering mountains, Kyrgyzstan faces a landscape as volatile as its climate. A nation grappling with escalating temperatures, dwindling water supplies, and the spectre of energy […]
Read more »TikTok Takes on Shopee and Others in ASEAN e-Commerce Race
August 11th, 2023
Courtesy of NikkeiAsia, a report on TikTok’s aggressive emergence into ASEAN’s e-commerce marketplace: TikTok is emerging as one of Southeast Asia’s most prominent e-commerce platforms, with sales growing sevenfold in one year as it attracts a wave of young, tech-savvy users with shopping and entertainment features. The rapid rise of the world’s most popular short […]
Read more »IIT: The Exclusive Network Behind India’s Global Tech Success
August 10th, 2023
What ‘s harder to get into than Harvard? Try IIT, the elite group of Indian engineering schools that accepts just 1.8% of applicants. (Harvard’s rate? 4%) Not only has IIT produced Silicon Valley leaders like Google’s Sundar Pichai and VC Vinod Khosla, more than *half* of India’s 100+ unicorns were founded by IIT alums. Courtesy […]
Read more »China’s BeiDou: New GPS-Enabled Dimensions of Great Power Competition
August 10th, 2023
Via GPSWorld, an article on the strategic and economic impact of China’s BeiDou GNSS service: China’s BeiDou GNSS is newer, has more features, is more accurate, and has more satellites in the skies of more nations than the venerable U.S. GPS, according to Sarah Sewall, Executive Vice President for Strategic Issues at IQT. More than […]
Read more »Egypt: Promises of Prosperity Have Made The Country Flat Broke
August 10th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an article on how the coup leader-turned-president promised Egyptians prosperity, but the country is flat broke: Throughout much of the summer of 2013, Egypt was in the grips of what could be described as “Sisi-mania.” Songs, sandwiches, music videos, poems, and even pajamas paid tribute to Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the military […]
Read more »On Track: Uganda Revives Colonial-Era Railway After Chinese Funds Fall Through
August 10th, 2023
Uganda’s government is revamping a 400-kilometer old railway line between Tororo in eastern Uganda, near the border with Kenya, and Gulu in the north, near South Sudan. The revamp, set to cost $55.4 million over the next two years, follows an agreement with the Chinese contractor China Road and Bridge Corporation. As reported by Rfi, Uganda […]
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.