AMRACE-PTC collaboration to support complex manufacturing in Malaysia

Targets US$1.06bil to US$1.7bil Malaysian aerospace manufacturing market
Attests to AMRACE ability to roll out complex solutions in fast evolving market Kuala Lumpur based, the Advanced Manufacturing & Robotics Accelerator Competitiveness (AMRACE) Centre of Excellence has been selected by PTC Corporation of the US to become its Approved Training Centre (ATC) in…Continue Reading

Does Elon Musk have a coherent vision for Twitter?

Elon Musk’s proposed US$44 billion deal to acquire Twitter and take it private is reportedly coming together as a court’s October 28, 2022, deadline is upon us. Musk told his bankers he intends to complete the deal by then – and his lenders have reportedly already begun funding the deal. If he doesn’t, Twitter’s lawsuit […]Continue Reading

A Hindu son of South Asians is Britain’s new PM

It is a huge relief. For the first time in many years, Britain’s ruling Conservative Party has made a sane, even boring choice as its new leader. The selection of Rishi Sunak gives the country its first prime minister of Indian ethnic origin, its youngest ever prime minister (at 42, pipping David Cameron, who when […]Continue Reading

How (and how not) to protect intellectual property

Technology leaders have been fighting intellectual-property theft for centuries. History shows that a static defense has never worked for long. Sustained leadership depends on innovation, not barriers. The United States is now engaged in an unprecedented effort to deny semiconductor technology to China. Maintaining US leadership depends more on US innovation than on technology controls.  […]Continue Reading

China supply chain cut would cost Japan 10% of GDP

TOKYO – On October 18, the top article on the front page of Japan’s leading business daily screamed that cutting off imports from China would cost Japan 53 trillion yen (US$353 billion) in lost production, or about 10% of annual gross domestic product (GDP). Meanwhile, the yen has depreciated by 31% against the US dollar […]Continue Reading

Turkmenistan is open for business

Western observers are mistaken in their tendency to overlook Turkmenistan, a resource-rich, strategically consequential country that borders such key regional players as Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and has a long coastline on the Caspian Sea.  The country serves as one of the most important east-west and north-south transport and logistics hubs in Eurasia.  Oddly, neither […]Continue Reading

Nippon Steel pouring big money into India and Thailand

Nippon Steel and ArcelorMittal, two of the world’s largest steel companies, have turned their attention to India and Thailand amid weakening demand in Japan and the energy crisis in Europe. The ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India joint venture (AM/NS India) has announced two new initiatives to expand operations in India: New construction and capacity expansion of […]Continue Reading