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Russia’s “Startling” Proposal To Europe: Dump The US, Join The Eurasian Economic Union | Zero Hedge
Russia’s “Startling” Proposal To Europe: Dump The US, Join The Eurasian Economic Union | Zero Hedge. Slowly but surely Europe is figuring out that as a result of the western economic and financial blockade of Russian, it is Europe itself that is suffering the most. And while Germany was first to acknowledge this late in […]
2015 Will Be All About Iran, China and Russia
2015 Will Be All About Iran, China and Russia Upcoming 2015 year will be all about further moves towards the integration of Eurasia as the US is progressively squeezed out of Eurasia, Pepe Escobar believes. BEIJING, December 31 (Sputnik) — Fasten your seatbelts; 2015 will be a whirlwind pitting China, Russia and Iran against what I have described as the Empire of Chaos. So yes – it […]
Asia’s Fragile Caves Face New Risks from Development by Mike Ives: Yale Environment 360
Asia’s Fragile Caves Face New Risks from Development by Mike Ives: Yale Environment 360. Botanist Li-Bing Zhang has spent years collecting ferns in the caves and limestone formations of southwestern China and neighboring Southeast Asia. When I met him recently in a Vietnamese national park, his research vehicle, a silver van, was bursting with fern specimens. Zhang […]
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: It’s Not Just Japan That’s Failed; The “Asian Miracle” Model Has Also Failed
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: It’s Not Just Japan That’s Failed; The “Asian Miracle” Model Has Also Failed. The inevitable result of the centrally planned Asian Miracle Model is credit bubbles and the crippling misallocation of capital in Building Bridges to Nowhere. Japan’s extraordinary rise from the ashes of World War II created an “Asian Miracle” template […]
Saudi Oil Market Fight Shifting to U.S. as Asia Prices Rise – Bloomberg
Saudi Oil Market Fight Shifting to U.S. as Asia Prices Rise – Bloomberg. Saudi Arabia’s increase in oil prices for Asia signals the world’s biggest crude exporter is shifting the focus of its fight for market share on U.S. buyers. While Saudi Arabian Oil Co. boosteddifferentials for supplies to Asia next month after cutting some November […]
Asia ‘not doing enough’ to fight Ebola – Asia-Pacific – Al Jazeera English
Asia ‘not doing enough’ to fight Ebola – Asia-Pacific – Al Jazeera English. Asian countries are not contributing enough to the global effort to fight Ebola, despite having a wealth of trained medical personnel who could help stop the spread of the deadly virus, World Bank Group president, Jim Yong Kim, said. Addressing a news […]
Saudi Oil Market Fight Shifting to U.S. as Asia Prices Increased – Bloomberg
Saudi Oil Market Fight Shifting to U.S. as Asia Prices Increased – Bloomberg. Saudi Arabia’s increase in crude prices for Asia signals the world’s biggest oil exporter is focusing its fight for market share on the U.S. While Saudi Arabian Oil Co. boosted differentials for supplies to Asia next month after cutting some November prices to the […]
The dollar decline continues: China begins direct convertibility to Asia’s #1 financial center
The dollar decline continues: China begins direct convertibility to Asia’s #1 financial center. This morning some of the biggest financial news of the year made huge waves all over Asia. Yet in the Western press, this hugely important information has barely even been mentioned. (CNBC.com, for example, has yet to report on this story as […]
Why Asia Could Be the Next Ebola Hotbed – The Epoch Times
Why Asia Could Be the Next Ebola Hotbed – The Epoch Times. SINGAPORE—The longer the Ebola outbreak rages in West Africa, the greater chance a traveler infected with the virus touches down in an Asian city. How quickly any case is detected — and the measures taken once it is — will determine whether the […]
Protesters take back key parts of Hong Kong – Asia-Pacific – Al Jazeera English
Protesters take back key parts of Hong Kong – Asia-Pacific – Al Jazeera English. Some of the worst violence since demonstrations began erupts after police try to clear key protest site. Last updated: 18 Oct 2014 09:50 Protesters in Hong Kong have reoccupied the Mong Kok site, a key zone in the heart of the city, […]
