Via The Economist, an article on Hamas’s financial networks: Viewed from one of Istanbul’s glitziest restaurants, the Bosphorus looks sublime. The venue is a favoured haunt of mandarins, businessmen, minor celebrities—and Hamas’s financiers. A man on whom America has imposed sanctions for funding the Islamist group describes his various board seats. “It’s ridiculous,” he says, […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Financial Times, commentary on Indonesia’s economic prospects: Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo is a man in a hurry. Accompanied by a vast retinue of cabinet ministers, his chef, and 100 chief executives he has travelled to the heart of Borneo’s rainforest to oversee his audacious plan to build a new capital there. In […]
Read more »Via The Wire China, a look at how/whether India can become the de-risking champion multinationals are looking for? “We’re living in the midst of India’s automotive renaissance,” Shah Rukh Khan, Bollywood’s most-coveted megastar, announced at the 2023 Auto Expo outside of New Delhi. In sunglasses and a dark suit, Khan was on hand for the India-launch […]
Read more »Via BusinessWire, a report on a the Saudi Fund for Development’s two new MoUs with Caribbean nations: The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) Chief Executive Officer, H.E. Sultan Al-Marshad, signed today two developmental Framework Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with the governments of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. The signing took […]
Read more »Via Balkan Insight, an article on a new gas deal that will help Serbia achieve its strategic goal of diversifying supplies and strengthen its position as a transit country for gas supplies to Central Europe: Serbia and Azerbaijan signed an agreement in Baku on Wednesday under which some 400 million cubic meters of gas from […]
Read more »Via Time, an article on Thailand’s interest in reviving an old idea of a southeast Asia shipping route shortcut: Since attaining the premiership in August, Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has branded himself the nation’s chief “salesman,” traveling around the world to court foreign investments to boost Thailand’s stagnant economy. This week, as global leaders descend on San […]
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