On the 23rd of September 2013, the Lebanese port authorities confiscated 2750 Tonnes of illegal ammonium Nitrate, a strictly regulated compound used for fertilizers and explosives; from a Russian cargo ship sailing under a Moldovan flag. Th...
Business will not be the same in the city as institutions would have to be wary of not toeing the line. This will naturally dissuade investors, especially foreign investors who do not wish to get caught up in the political and legal crossfi...
In an age of constant change, uncertainty, and increased power play, every country seeks to counter the other in more ways than one. This has indeed given rise to countries like China adopting tactics which can coerce and alter dynamics to ...
The Indo-Pacific region that marks the importance of the confluence of two huge oceans viz. the Indian and Pacific Oceans, has become the key hotspot globally, even surpassing the middle east region. It has also turned out to be one of the ...
Our world at present has been withstanding the pernicious coronavirus and the ramifications have been felt on the world economies, their financial sector and the healthcare facilities[i]. COVID-19 has rattled the economic and the social wel...
The term ‘bank’ originates from the Italian word ‘banco’ meaning bench. During the renaissance, moneylenders carried out most of their transactions over these benches, and since then they have become symbolic of banks, and other financial f...
The world has been shaken by the global pandemic and has been battling through economic upheavals to medical shortages all across the world. These have led to a global collaboration through regional and global institutions and forums, to st...
The world, since the end of December 2019, has been battling the global pandemic COVID-19 which has left the global financial situation in a flux. Most of the world economies have been in a state of stagnation and looking for ways of recove...
Even when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was forced to announce a state of emergency on April 7 to contain the spread of novel coronavirus from assuming the proportion of threat never seen in Japan’s history, Barak Kushner, Professor of East Asi...
China has blocked a proposed meeting in the United Nations Security Council to discuss on the new coronavirus disease (Covid-19). It argued that Covid-19 crisis is not linked to global security. But President Donald Trump recently had a wor...
The outbreak of coronavirus, labeled by the World Health Organisation as COVID-19, in the Chinese city of Wuhan and now spread to more than 70 countries has shaken the world, upsetting the world’s capital markets and severely impacting inte...
Faced by a virus that has spiralled out of control because of its fault, China is perhaps at a defining cross-roads in its history. As fear of the new Wuhan corona virus spreads, it has become increasingly clear that this is another of Beij...
