Impact Of Venezuela’s Faltering Oil Sector On Central America & The Caribbean
August 27th, 2014
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting analysis of the impact that a declining Venezuelan oil industry could have wider effects in Central America and the Caribbean: The Petrocaribe summit in Managua in June 2013. Summary The decline of the Venezuelan oil sector could have wider effects in Central America and the Caribbean. Venezuela supplies crude oil […]
Read more »ISIS: The World’s Most Frightening Start Up
August 11th, 2014
Via Fortune, an interesting look at the business dealings of the Islamist extremist group ISIS: Every startup needs financing and a market to succeed. So, too, for the Islamist extremist group ISIS—or simply the Islamic State, as it calls itself—whose fighters stormed across the Syrian border into Iraq in June and seized the country’s second-biggest […]
Read more »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 »Gas Pains: Central Asian Clash Impacts China’s Pipeline Plans
July 31st, 2014
Via Eurasia Review, a report on the potential impact that recent Central Asian violence may have upon China’s pipeline construction plans: A fresh outbreak of border violence in Central Asia has raised doubts about China’s plan to start building a gas pipeline through Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan this year. The deadly clash between border guards of […]
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