Silk Road

The 2019 Silk Way Rally is over and 5,000 kilometers of tracks - from the Siberian forests, across the Mongolian steppes, to the giant dunes of the Gobi Desert - are behind us, from Irkutsk and lake Baikal, across Mongolia and China. Motorcyclists are featur…

Customs data showed trade with BRI countries for the period was up 9.7 percent year-on-year. It has outpaced the growth rate of China’s total trade, which remained stable at 3.9 percent. Exports and imports with Russia, Saudi Arabia and Egypt were up by 11.5…

© GVL Gossamer GLV Gossamer has released images of their design for a 19 kilometer stretch of waterfront along the Jing River in Xian, China. The proposal, a finalist in an international design competition, celebrates the sites history at the origin of the S…

Why do some countries grow faster than others, year after year? Why do China and South Korea grow rapidly while a large group of countries in Africa and Latin America remain underdeveloped? Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Lucas famously wrote that “the c…

From the expansive dunes of the Taklamakan Desert to the snow-capped peaks of Tianshan, Chinese authorities are selling troubled Xinjiang as a tourist idyll, welcoming travellers even as they send locals to internment camps. The government has rounded up an …

GEORGETOWN, Cayman Islands & OSLO, Norway--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AV Group Ltd. (AVG) is a Cayman based asset manager with offices in New York, Cayman Islands, Norway and Singapore with a focus on growing Norwegian based ESG and Impact companies globally. AVG …

The Trump administration tends to view Iran in isolation or as a Middle Eastern problem—a regional nemesis with nuclear ambitions that threatens Israel and America’s Arab allies. This is a mistake. Iran sits at the critical cross section of the Middle East, C…

Common transport infrastructure can improve welfare for participating countries, but they are costly undertakings with potentially asymmetric effects on trade and income of individual countries. This column uses new data on Chinas Belt and Road transport proj…

Shanghai-based startup Aiways wants to become the first Chinese automaker to sell electric vehicles in Europe. The company has already unveiled the U5 electric crossover at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year and has now announced the latest project that…

GEORGETOWN, Cayman Islands & OSLO, Norway--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AV Group Ltd. (AVG) is a Cayman based asset manager with offices in New York, Cayman Islands, Norway and Singapore with a focus on growing Norwegian based ESG and Impact companies globally. AVG …