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Iraq and Afghanistan sit near the top of a list of the world’s most corrupt nations despite years of occupation by Anglo-American forces and more…
Who says miracles can’t happen? After four straight days of steady decline, crude oil prices finally plummeted by nearly 9 percent on Thursday to US$99.80…
In a shocking report by Frederick Kaufman that has been featured on the Foreign Policy website, the role of Goldman Sachs and its Wall Street…
Betting on the future generally receives the stamp of immorality when elected officials and consumers come out on the losing end. President Barack Obama and…
Higher oil prices are usually good news for clean energy because they make costly technologies like solar and wind less daunting to investors. But for…
The world may have no more than half a century of oil left at current rates of consumption, while surging demand from emerging markets threatens…
The British oil giant BP has said it would pay $7.2 billion to buy into India’s fast-growing oil and gas industry. It is yet another…
In Asia, it's a truism that, as Chairman Mao put it, "the wind comes from the East", at least as far as the world economy…
For the last several months, several observers including ourselves have noted that whatever is going on at the “lower-value-added” end of the manufacturing and technology…
In a global economic scene dominated by continuing uncertainty, one of the few “sure bets” has SEEMED to be the “green tech / cleantech” sector.…
It is a sobering thought. In 2006, according to the UN, India was the fourth largest emitter of carbon dioxide (C02, or greenhouse gas) in…