At a summit in Fortaleza, Brazil, BRICS countries launched a slew of initiatives, including two new international financial institutions: A new development bank and a joint monetary fund. The leaders of five of the world’s...
Narendra Modi was being widely discussed in China in the week before the election results were announced in India. Several Chinese scholars and researchers I met in Shanghai were curious to find out the prospects...
Recently China’s largest online direct sales company Jingdong, or jd.com (JD), successfully launched its initial public offering and raised $1.8 billion on the Nasdaq. Very soon, its domestic rival, Alibaba (ABABA), the largest e-commerce company in China, as well...
Some truly monumental changes are taking places in the world of business, particularly entrepreneurship. Today, a quarter to a third of all new businesses in the formal economy worldwide are started by women entrepreneurs, according...
Despite increasingly strict regulations, investment in China’s real estate industry, as well as sales totals and prices, still achieved high levels of growth last year. During the Communist Party’s third plenum, the new leadership announced...
After countless hours being bounced and shaken on dilapidated roads around India, Xu Huadong finds the country “interesting.” “There is a huge gap between the rich and poor, but most people seem happy regardless of...
UK teleco regulator ‘comfortable’ with Huawei despite US concern over South Korea deal Two US Senate committee heads, dealing with national security, have expressed their concern over a network provisions deal between Huawei and South...
A nuclear deal has been struck just months after Iran elected President Hassan Rowhani, seen as a relative moderate, replaced the hard-line Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. After four days of negotiations in Geneva, representatives of the P5+1...
Apple (AAPL) was widely rumored to come out with an iPhone version which would cater to the middle segment of the smartphone market if not the lower end. This would greatly enhance the company’s TAM...
China’s pledge to give the market a “decisive” role has attracted international attention as Beijing aims to find new growth momentum for the world’s second largest economy. “Economic reform is key and the core solution...
A rare insight into Iran’s indigenous industrialization marvel The Herat industrial city has 300 factories and most of them have been set up with the help of Iranian technologies”, said Haji Saeed Khatibi – Head...
When EU leaders meet in Brussels next week, they will face with a stark choice: embrace proposals to modernise the digital economy or fall further behind China and the US. When Europe took its first,...