TikTok Takes on Shopee and Others in ASEAN e-Commerce Race
August 11th, 2023
Courtesy of NikkeiAsia, a report on TikTok’s aggressive emergence into ASEAN’s e-commerce marketplace: TikTok is emerging as one of Southeast Asia’s most prominent e-commerce [...]
IIT: The Exclusive Network Behind India’s Global Tech Success
August 10th, 2023 What ‘s harder to get into than Harvard? Try IIT, the elite group of Indian engineering schools that accepts just 1.8% of applicants. (Harvard’s rate? 4%) Not only has IIT produced Silicon [...]
August 10th, 2023 What ‘s harder to get into than Harvard? Try IIT, the elite group of Indian engineering schools that accepts just 1.8% of applicants. (Harvard’s rate? 4%) Not only has IIT produced Silicon [...]
China’s BeiDou: New GPS-Enabled Dimensions of Great Power Competition
August 10th, 2023 Via GPSWorld, an article on the strategic and economic impact of China’s BeiDou GNSS service: China’s BeiDou GNSS is newer, has more features, is more accurate, and has more satellites in the [...]
August 10th, 2023 Via GPSWorld, an article on the strategic and economic impact of China’s BeiDou GNSS service: China’s BeiDou GNSS is newer, has more features, is more accurate, and has more satellites in the [...]
Egypt: Promises of Prosperity Have Made The Country Flat Broke
August 10th, 2023 Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an article on how the coup leader-turned-president promised Egyptians prosperity, but the country is flat broke: Throughout much of the summer of 2013, Egypt was in the [...]
August 10th, 2023 Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an article on how the coup leader-turned-president promised Egyptians prosperity, but the country is flat broke: Throughout much of the summer of 2013, Egypt was in the [...]
On Track: Uganda Revives Colonial-Era Railway After Chinese Funds Fall Through
August 10th, 2023 Uganda’s government is revamping a 400-kilometer old railway line between Tororo in eastern Uganda, near the border with Kenya, and Gulu in the north, near South Sudan. The revamp, set to cost [...]
August 10th, 2023 Uganda’s government is revamping a 400-kilometer old railway line between Tororo in eastern Uganda, near the border with Kenya, and Gulu in the north, near South Sudan. The revamp, set to cost [...]
CPEC In The Shadow Of Balochistan’s Insurgency
August 10th, 2023 Via Eurasia Review, commentary on the persistent security issues that overhang CPEC’s success: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) initiative aims to link China and Pakistan by oil and [...]
August 10th, 2023 Via Eurasia Review, commentary on the persistent security issues that overhang CPEC’s success: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) initiative aims to link China and Pakistan by oil and [...]