Chinese private security firms spreading far and wide in Africa

Chinese private security companies have found a profitable niche market in Africa: guarding Chinese executives and construction sites. They’re also securing Chinese vessels at sea against piracy. The growing presence of Chinese private security companies in Africa comes against the backdrop of a global security architecture that’s in transition. These changes reflect the US moving […]

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US Fed becoming Asia’s Public Enemy No. 1

As Joe Biden revels in a series of legislative victories in Washington, events in Moscow remind the US president that his troubles may be just beginning.

On Monday, United Co Rusal International PJSC, an aluminum producer listed in Moscow and Hong Kong, raised US$590 million in a first-of-its-kind debt sale in Russia. The reason it matters for Biden’s White House: the bonds were denominated in yuan.

Gazprombank, the lead manager of the deal, said it received about 100 orders from asset managers, banks, investment and insurance companies, and individuals.

It remains to be seen if such transactions amount to death by a thousand cuts to the US dollar. Yet the trend is emblematic of how economic policy errors are colliding with global reactions to Western sanctions on Moscow for its Ukraine invasion. The latter includes freezing hundreds of billions of dollars of Russia’s foreign currency reserves.

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NCT Group, TM to future-proof Selangor Smart Industrial Park

TM One can integrate digital options for NCT’s milestone parkM’sia to implement end-to-end digitisation across all facilities NCT Group of Companies (NCT) and Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) through its business and public industry business solution adjustable rate mortgage, TM One, have signed a collaboration agreement for the incorporation of end-to-end electronic…Continue Reading

China gives green light to self-driving cars

The Chinese government offers started an one-month public consultation for the nationwide law that will allow driverless cars to run on roads and will define the culpability when traffic incidents happen. The Ministry of Transport upon Monday (August 8) released a set of recommendations that encourages the usage of self-driving cars designed for taxi services […]

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