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World - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 12, 2019
NZ plans to curb Foreign Influence in Politics
New Zealand is considering introducing laws aimed at curbing foreign influence in domestic politics, ahead of a general election next year. New Zealand is a sovereign island country in the…
Technology - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 12, 2019
App to monitor freshwater ecosystem
Google, UN Environment & European Commission’s Joint Research Centre have unveiled a web-based platform to monitor global freshwater ecosystem. Freshwater ecosystems are a subset of Earth's…
Technology - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 12, 2019
Big tech to break up : Elisabeth Warren
A prominent Democrat senator, Elizabeth Warren has promised that she would break up the country’s biggest technology companies if she is elected president in 2020. The Big Four technology companies…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 12, 2019
Babiš looks to bolster image with Trump meeting
Babiš visited the White House seeking to bolster his domestic image. Trump and Babiš share a number of similarities and are likely to find common ground. The Czech Republic is a landlocked country…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 12, 2019
ISIS in Philippines
The threat of Islamic State is mounting in the Philippines along with the growing momentum among local pro-Islamic State militant groups. In Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State’s territory has…
Elections - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 12, 2019
India goes to the polls in April-May
The Election commission has announced the dates for the seven phases of India’s quinquennial General Elections, starting on April 11 and ending on May 21, 2019. India is a federation with a…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 12, 2019
Guadio seeks to galvanize domestic and international support
Opposition leader, Juan Guaido remains free following his drive to secure support from Venezuela’s neighbours. Guaido increases pressure on Nicholas Maduro by calling for a civic strike among public…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 10, 2019
Is Japan in a recession?
The Japanese government downgraded its assessment of a key indicator of economic trends, suggesting Japan may have already entered a recession rather than marking its longest growth phase since the…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 10, 2019
Hungary against EU’s Immigration Policies
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that a break-up of the European Union would be inevitable due to the imposition of pro-immigration policies. Since the 1950s, many nations in Africa…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 10, 2019
Phillip Morris circumvents investment ban
Phillip Morris International Inc. (PMI) has been paying for the manufacturing costs of Marlboro cigarettes in India circumventing a nine-year-old ban on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the tobacco…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 10, 2019
Erdogan confirms S-400 deal
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan broke his silence over a U.S. threat to punish Turkey with sanctions should it buy an advanced Russian S-400 missile-defence system, saying the purchase is a “done deal…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 10, 2019
EU urges tariff cuts
The European Union's chief trade negotiator urged President Donald Trump to stop imposing tariffs on the bloc if he wants the EU to help the United States pressure China to abide by rules governing…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 10, 2019
ECB’s new stimulus package
The European Central Bank said it will offer more cheap loans to banks and keep interest rates at a record low for a longer period as a weakening economy derails its plan to withdraw stimulus. The…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 8, 2019
Microplastic scourge spreads
According to new studies by the University of Exeter, microplastic pollution spans the world, showing contamination in UK’s lake and rivers, in groundwater in the US, along the Yangtze river in China…
Technology - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 8, 2019
Zuckerberg changes Facebook?
Mark Zuckerberg has pinned the future of Facebook on a shift from its historic mission to make the world more “open and connected”, saying that “privacy-focused” communications were becoming more…
Elections - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 8, 2019
Radicals surge in Thai election preparations
The emergence of the Pandin Dharma Party to contest the March 24 election points to the rise of a fringe of Thai society that is at odds with the royalist-military establishment over religion and…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 8, 2019
EU declares end of migration crisis
The European Commission has declared the migration crisis over, as it sharpened its attack on “fake news” and “misinformation” about the issue. Frans Timmermans, the European commission’s first vice-…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 8, 2019
May’s plan to avoid “Hard border”
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s government outlined steps to develop technology to keep the Irish border open after Brexit even if Britain is unable to negotiate a trade deal with the European…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 7, 2019
Italy to endorse OBOR?
Italy has planned to sign a memorandum of understanding to become part of China's Belt and Road Initiative, the flagship multi-national, mega-project which is investing billions of dollars in…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 7, 2019
Saudi Arabia faces censure at U.N Rights forum
European countries have urged Saudi Arabia to release detained activists and to co-operate with the U.N led probe into the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Jamal Khashoggi was one of the Arab…