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Officially, China is helping Cambodia to expand its naval base in Ream, the country’s biggest naval base. On Wednesday (June 8), officials from both countries attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of the port. When completed in 2 years, the port will include a maintenance workshop, two piers, a dry dock, slipway, and sand […]
... written on Jun 10 2022George Soros, arguably the most outspoken liberal billionaire financier, went berserk at the world’s financial elite gathering in Davos, Switzerland. Speaking at the World Economic Forum this week, the man who broke the Bank of England in 1992 has raised concerns over not only economic meltdown, but also has warned the possibility of an end […]
... written on May 28 2022Following Donald Trump’s footstep is his best friend, Scott Morrison. The Australian prime minister has just lost power, as expected, after Aussie voters decided he had done enough damage to the country. At the eleventh hour, the desperate Scotty admitted he was a bit of a “bulldozer”, but his drama was enough to convince the […]
... written on May 23 2022Dow Jones dropped 1,164.52 points on Wednesday (May 18) – the biggest drop since June 2020. In fact, at 31,490.07, the DJIA saw the lowest close since March 2021. Likewise, the S&P 500 plunged to its lowest drop since June 2020. The fact that this is the fifth Dow decline of more than 800 points […]
... written on May 19 2022America is facing crises. The land of freedom just saw a “racially motivated” mass shooting at Buffalo supermarket, where a white man went on a shooting spree against the black people. The American Dream also saw how more than US$7 trillion in market value of the blue chip stocks in the S&P 500 has been wiped out […]
... written on May 16 2022Crude oil hit more than US$130 a barrel after Russia launched its so-called special military operation in Ukraine. But crude oil was not the only commodity which skyrockets after the invasion. Sunflower oil, the world’s third most traded vegetable oil after palm and soybean oil, also hit the roof. Worse, Ukraine and Russia accounts for […]
... written on May 14 2022Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, speaking during a news conference on May 4 to raise interest rate by 50 basis points, has signalled that the Fed could continue to approve increases of half a percentage point. Investors, however, spooked by earlier speculations that the rate could be up to 75 basis points, did not pay […]
... written on May 10 2022China has a huge problem – US$3.2 trillion foreign exchange reserve – the world’s largest reserves. In comparison, Japan, the country with the second largest foreign reserves, has only US$1.4 trillion (as of Feb 2022). China’s foreign assets included more than US$1 trillion in U.S. bonds and huge amounts of real estate, especially hotels and […]
... written on May 06 2022Scott Morrison has again attacked China on Saturday (April 30), accusing the Chinese government of interfering in foreign politics. Like the sore loser Hillary Clinton, who had accused Russia of interfering with the 2016 U.S. election, resulting in the stunning victory of Donald Trump, the Morrison administration too is accusing Beijing of trying to influence […]
... written on May 02 2022Vladimir Putin has finally made good on his threat to punish “unfriendly countries” that stubbornly and defiantly refused to pay for Russian natural gas in rubles. The first casualties – Poland and Bulgaria – saw their gas supplies cut on Wednesday (April 27), coincides with a sharp rise in tensions between Western powers and Russia as the war in Ukraine enters its […]
... written on Apr 27 2022