Silk Road

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 …

BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia’s new president, a former activist lawyer, used a meeting with China’s top diplomat on Wednesday to criticize Beijing’s human rights record, in a rare departure for an east European politician in a region hungry for Chinese inv…

Friends and family kept saying "have a great holiday" our response was "its looking more like an adventure than a holiday" and so it was. We were becoming comfortable with the typical mid-winter escape for 10 days, which, don't get me wrong, is always wonderf…

The massive infrastructure project, the Meridian highway, has won the support of the Russian government, Vedomosti business daily said, citing government officials. The highway is set to stretch over 2,000km from the Belarus border to the frontier with Kazakh…