Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on how the forced closure of a US-owned site in Yucatán says about Mexico’s investment climate: The closure of a large US-owned limestone quarry in Mexico has jolted investors and the world’s largest bilateral trade relationship, in a case seen as a thermometer for the political and legal […]
Read more »Via Bloomberg, an article on Resolute Mining’s crisis in Mali: Holohan and two colleagues have been held since late last week Government wants mining firms to renegotiate economic terms Mali is demanding Australia’s Resolute Mining Ltd. pay about $160 million to resolve a tax dispute after the government detained the gold producer’s chief executive, according to people […]
Read more »Via the New York Times, a report on how – with Donald J. Trump promising tariffs – Malaysia hopes a deal with Singapore for greater economic integration will strengthen its role as a China alternative: During his first term as president, when Donald J. Trump started a tariff war to pit the United States against […]
Read more »Via Nikkei Asia, an interesting look at Vietnam’s booming Korea Towns: Peter Jung’s very niche enterprise would have been unimaginable just a short time ago in Ho Chi Minh City. Last year he opened Fill It, a high-end clinic specializing in scalp micropigmentation, a treatment for hair loss, serving the city’s South Korean population. “Of […]
Read more »Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at China’s evolving BRI in Latin America, where China is saying goodbye to big bets and bridges in favor of a new approach: Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Peru this week for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, during which he will inaugurate the deep-water port of Chancay, about […]
Read more »Via African Arguments, commentary on the planned Africa Energy Bank, a $5B oil bank set to be launched by a coalition of African oil producers: At COP29, the UN Secretary General Antonio Gutteres said doubling down on fossil fuels would be “absurd”. The proposed Africa Energy Bank would do just that. Credit: Stakeholder Democracy. In […]
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