Kashgar: On The Move
October 14th, 2013
Via The Diplomat, an interesting look at Kashgar: China’s westernmost city, Kashgar lies at the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, closer to Bagdad than Beijing. For travellers and traders coming from Central Asia and Pakistan, the city offers a first glimpse of China. Yet, in most cases, Kashgar strikes them for its similarities to the […]
Read more »Quenching Your Thirst On Road To Democracy: Coke, Pepsi Wage War In Myanmar
October 14th, 2013
Courtesy of NBC News, an interesting look at soda wars in Myanmar: A Myanmar woman takes a can of Coca-Cola from a shelf at a supermarket in Yangon, the capital city. Consumers in long-isolated Myanmar are getting their first taste of globalization — and finding it is sweet, fizzy and comes served in a can. An […]
Read more »Somalia Seeks Foreign Investment in Energy Sector – Big Oil Cautious
October 14th, 2013
Via OilPrice.com, a report on Somalia’s oil ambitions: Oil companies are renowned for going into hostile environments in their relentless search for the world’s seemingly insatiable thirst for “black gold.” That said, there remain a few nations where even the intrepid masters of the universe hesitate to tread. In Central Asia, it is Afghanistan, despite […]
Read more »Don’t Be Fooled By Libya: This Is A Failed State – OpEd
October 11th, 2013
Via Oil Price.com, an OpEd on Libya: Gunmen today seized Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from a hotel in central Tripoli, releasing him shortly afterwards, but making it clear that post-Gaddafi Libya is a failed state and that the government is incapable of taking full control over its oilfields and export terminals. While the markets […]
Read more »Is North Korea About to Go Capitalist?
October 10th, 2013
Via the Petersen Institute for International Economics, an interesting commentary on North Korea: Everywhere I went in Tokyo last week, Japanese officials asked me about a story that appeared in Dong-A Ilbo titled “N. Korea`s new economic system could reduce state control.” The article claims that planned reforms will turn the country off the socialist […]
Read more »Sudanese Oil: The Key To Peace And Growth
October 10th, 2013
Via Eurasia Review, an interesting look at Sudan and its oil potential: Amidst the difficulties inherent to any transition of sovereignty involving the relinquishing of economically relevant territory, the leaders of the Republic of Sudan are showing investors and the international community that permanent peace and cooperation between the two Sudans is not only possible, […]
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.