There’s been a kind of pandemic in the press in recent weeks about Europe being “sick.” The trouble is, it’s very hard tofigure out, after reading the articles, exactly what the sickness is. A recent Bloomberg Opinion column asks “What...
Cairo – Egypt’s new transport minister is focusing national attention on the railways in a positive manner for the first time in more than two decades. Kamel al-Wazir, an army general who headed the Engineering Section of the Egyptian army...
Pakistan recently celebrated its Republic Day with the standard military parade, air show, and a host of other activities to show off to dignitaries. Understandably, the holiday is a big deal for the nation, but having the military front and...
Cairo-Egypt is expecting major international interest in oil and gas exploration along its Red Sea coast, shortly after the country invited international companies to apply for concessions in the area. The Ministry of Petroleum said on March 10 that it...
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman spent a few weeks last month touring Asian countries and striking economic deals with Pakistan, India, and China. He pledged to commit $20 billion of investment to Pakistan and set a goal of...
When Poland‘s state-run oil and gas firm PGNiG signed a 20-year deal for liquefied natural gas deliveries from the US last year and said it would be spending €200 million buying into a project to deliver gas from Norway via...
From 2000 to 2016, China had already lent as much as $125 billion to Africa, according to the China Africa Research Initiative. In 2017, the two counterparts’ bilateral exchanges were estimated to have reached the sum of $180 billion, most...
Last January marked the 20th birthday of the euro, launched in January 1999, and so it is a good time to consider whether the euro is doing any good to the citizens of the EU from whom it was created....
Drones that deliver your lunch on the golf course, cellphones that manage your lives (but safeguard your privacy), solar energy managers, some of the most successful technology in the world has come out of Israel, and the country continues to...
When government authorities in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu advertised various sanitation jobs, they were not expecting highly qualified graduates to apply. They were surprised when 150 engineers and Masters in business administration graduates responded to the announcement....