ASIA:   Core consumer prices in Japan’s capital, a leading indicator of nationwide figures, rose 3.4% in October from a year earlier, data showed on Friday, marking the fastest annual pace since 1989 in a sign of broadening inflationary pressure. The rise in the Tokyo core consumer price index (CPI), which excludes volatile fresh food […]

ASIA:   China’s consumer prices rose in September at their fastest pace in more than two years as pork prices climbed, the National Bureau of Statistics said last Friday. The consumer price index increased by 2.8% last month from a year ago, matching expectations from a Reuters poll. Much of the gains came from a […]

ASIA:   China has decided the status quo of Taiwan’s situation is no longer acceptable and has begun to ratchet up pressure on the self-governing island, including holding out the possibility of using force, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday. Speaking at an event organized by Bloomberg, Blinken said China had altered […]

COMMENT: Hi Marty, I. Deep seated hatred You have written frequently how hate in a country keeps on running deep as result of intense war violence long time ago. And you do not see how this is ever going away. I was born in the Netherlands Rotterdam area. What the Germans did over here during WWII […]

ASIA: Web3 boom is expected to add USD 1.1 trillion to the Indian economy over the next decade, supporting the investment-based momentum driven by over 450 in-house startups. A recent study from the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), an Indian non-governmental trade association and advocacy group, highlighted India’s position as a leading […]

Numerous European nations have already stated that energy would be rationed during the winter. The Northeast area of America will now be required to ration energy as well. Biden released 15 million barrels from the emergency reserves to aid the Democrats in the 2022 US midterm elections. He did not provide any oil to the […]

Protests over the rising cost of energy are popping up throughout the West. Over the weekend, thousands of Germans from six different cities took to the streets to express their dismay. This particular day of protests was organized by the trade union ver.di and Greenpeace, and their ideas for lowering costs differ. The trouble is […]

ASIA: China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) project has reached the mark of close to USD 14 billion in transactions during its pilot phase. This makes the digital yuan, the most wildly adopted CBDC in the world. With its first CBDC trials launched in April 2020, China’s central bank has been aiming to eventually replace […]

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has close ties to Vladimir Putin. Berlusconi, leader of the Forza Italia party, now serves as a junior partner under new PM Giorgia Meloni. Meloni fiercely supports Ukraine, but leaked audio indicates where Berlusconi stands. “I can’t personally give my opinion because if it is told to the press […]

Reports first circulated that Iranian soldiers were training Russians to operate drones after numerous reports of technical failures. Both Tehran and Moscow denied the allegations, but the writing was on the wall. Now, there are reports of at least ten Iranians dying from Ukrainian air strikes. Some ask whether it would be safer for Russian […]