Uzbekistan To Launch A New Smartphone Company
June 10th, 2014
Courtesy of Eurasia Review, an interesting article on a new Uzbek company: Uzbekistan, the only Central Asian country making smartphones, should reap economic benefits from the growing mobile technology industry, industry watchers said. Olive Telecom is planning to release its first batch of smartphones this July, becoming the third smartphone manufacturer in Uzbekistan, behind Artel […]
Read more »Coca-Cola To Invest Over US$50m Into Uzbekistan In 2014
September 22nd, 2013
Via Emerging Frontiers, a report of a planned large scale investment into Uzbekistan: American firm Coca-Cola is planning to invest over US$50million into Uzbekistan in 2014, a regional manager of Coca-Cola Oleg Piletsky said at the US-Uzbek Business Forum. Annual US-Uzbek Business Forum was held in Washington, the United States, on 5 September 2013. Speaking […]
Read more »Uzbekistan And China Sign Agreements Worth $15 Billion
September 12th, 2013
Via Oil Gas Daily, a report on China’s growing ties with Uzbekistan: Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday signed agreements worth $15 billion in key sectors, including the exploitation of oil, gas, and uranium fields in the Central Asian state. In the latest stop on Xi’s tour of Central Asia, […]
Read more »Chinese Inroads Into Central Asia: Focus on Oil and Gas
November 21st, 2012
Via the Journal of Energy Security, a report on China’s efforts to focus on oil & gas opportunities in Central Asia: There is no question that if any country has experienced unprecedented economic growth over the past two decades, it is China. Since 2008, at a time when global economies recorded one of their slowest […]
Read more »Today’s Great Game: China, India, Iran and Pakistan Crowd Russia in Central Aisa
November 10th, 2011
Courtesy of James Brooke, an interesting look at the geopolitics of Central Asia: When I was in Dushanbe, India’s defense minister just happened to be in the neighborhood, and popped in for a visit. After the traditional bread and honey welcome ceremony at the airport, he met behind closed doors with Tajikistan’s defense minister and […]
Read more »China-Uzbekistan: Gas diplomacy
April 26th, 2011
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on recent Chinese and Uzbekistan discussions over natural resources. As the article notes: “…China has taken another step to loosen Russia’s stranglehold on central Asian gas supplies after winning an offer from Uzbekistan to double the amount of gas it has promised to supply. Uzbekistan has already committed […]
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.