ASIA:   India is poised for an economic boom driven by investment in manufacturing, the country’s energy transformation and advanced digital infrastructure, and these drivers will make it the world’s third-largest economy and stock market by the end of the decade ending in 2030, global investment bank Morgan Stanley said in a report. Four global […]

ASIA: Japan’s factory output fell in September for the first time in four months as manufacturers grappled with rising raw materials costs and global economic slowdown and is likely to fall again next month before picking up in November, the government said. Factory output fell a seasonally adjusted 1.6% in September from a month earlier, […]

This is one of the oldest methods to brainwash a population known to ancient history. The high priests had discovered the cycle of the heavens. They would pretend to turn the sun dark, for they managed to calculate the cycles when an eclipse would take place. They would call the people together and tell them […]

ASIA: Officials in Chinese cities and provinces across the country are pulling no punches in stamping out sporadic COVID-19 outbreaks as winter nears, quickly closing venues and enforcing longer temporary lockdowns on millions of people. Cases in mainland China hit 2,898 on Sunday, topping 2,000 for a second straight day and pressuring the country’s controversial […]

With most con artists, you need to count your fingers after shaking hands. With the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, you have to make sure you still have your arm. He wears the same clothes to project he is at war raising some to hope he at least takes it off to wash. Both Germany […]

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 […]