China’s New Rail Link To Vietnam
Via RailFreight.com, an article on China’s new link to Vietnam: A new rail freight link has been launched between China and Vietnam. It connects the Chinese Silk Road hub Chongqing and the capital [...]
Sri Lanka’s China-Built Isle Beckons As Economy Sinks
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on Port City Colombo, a still barren, sand-filled island built by the Chinese off the coast of Sri Lanka’s commercial capital: A growing list of companies are [...]
Bangladesh: Untapped and Underestimated
Via The Realistic Optimist, a look at Bangladesh: Bangladesh suffers from a damaged international image; not only do most people associate it with poverty and natural disasters, but many fail to [...]
South Sudan’s Oil Sector
Via Crisis Group, a look at South Sudan and its nascent oil industry: South Sudan’s fortunes have always been tied to its oil. The discovery of oil in the late 1970s deepened tensions between the [...]
Uzbekistan Looks South for New Trade Routes
Via The Diplomat, a report on Uzbekistan search for new trade routes to the south: Uzbekistan has received its first transit shipment via Pakistan and Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. For Uzbekistan, [...]
PEACE Launch: Kenya’s New Internet Cable
Via The East African, an article on Kenya’s new $399m internet cable which it hopes will help it unlock the digital economy: Thirteen years since Kenya welcomed its first ever fibre optic [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.