The United States-China trade war caused global markets to rise and fall based on the rumour of the day. One moment US President Donald Trump praises the process and tweets that a deal is imminent, the next he forecasts doom....
1,660kg of cocaine was found in Guinea-Bissau in September 2019, in one of Africa’s biggest drug seizures. The drugs, found in a bungalow outside Canchungo, Guinea-Bissau, was seized with another 250kg of cocaine found in a couple of houses nearby....
ASEAN is one of the few successful examples of a trade bloc in an emerging region. The latest ASEAN business and its parent summit produced many interesting resolutions and outcomes. How will they influence the trade blocs and Southeast Asia’s...
Negotiations between Washington and Beijing send the US stock market soaring one day and falling the next. On Nov. 15, the Dow Jones Industrial Average peaked at 28,000, it’s highest point ever, amid positive news on the on-going discussions. This...
Huawei’s international troubles continue, this time in Germany where members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party have gone against her wishes. Merkel favored an open bidding process for deploying 5G telecommunications infrastructure, which would have left the door open for the...
The Qatari state-owned, Qatar Petroleum, has announced the successful operation of a gigantic refinery, in which it owns a major stake, north of Cairo, the capital of Egypt. Qatar Petroleum owns 38.1% of the shares of the Arabian Refinery Company,...
Whether it was merely symbolic, tactical or genuine, Trump might have in recent weeks withdrawn a good deal of US troops and equipment stationed in Syria for most of the nine years of Syrian conflict, but when it comes to...
Two years ago, Germany’s Chancellor Merkel launched the “Compact with Africa” program during Germany’s G20 presidency. The program had two goals in particular: African statesmen promised to create better conditions for trade and investment while the Chancellor promised economic development...
The past few months have seen a fair share of angry citizens across the globe, from protests over election rigging in Bolivia to massive agitations in Hong Kong. In that backdrop, it doesn’t come off as a surprise when Iranians...
Protests across the globe are growing at a worrisome rate. The right to fight for your beliefs and rights has now become a turning point worldwide where the ordinary citizen is eager to get what it deserves. Protests in Hong...