How a Delhi district stopped the ground from sinking
2023-01-22
Dwarka has managed to reverse land subsidence by boosting groundwater levels.Continue Reading
Robotic upside to China’s demographic decline
2023-01-21
China’s population has started to decline and this has set off a Pavlovian negative reaction – via the news media – of the sort that we have seen before in the case of Japan. Reuters warns that the news “sounds alarm on demographic crisis.” CNN predicts that the “impact will be felt around the world”, […]Continue Reading
Bustling Wuhan markets celebrate Chinese New Year but grief remains
2023-01-21
Wuhan, a metropolis on the banks of the Yangtze River now synonymous with COVID-19, reported the first cases in late 2019 of what was then a killer virus. Authorities imposed a strict shutdown just two days before the Year of the Rat in late January 2020 to stop the spreadContinue Reading
Chinese New Year influx
2023-01-20
About 240 direct flights are expected to fly from China to Thailand during the Chinese New Year holiday, according to the Aeronautical Radio of Thailand (Aerothai).Continue Reading
China says COVID-19 has peaked as holiday rush gets into full swing
2023-01-20
PENT-UP NEED President Xi Jinping said this week which he was concerned about a good influx of travellers to rural areas with poor medical systems, and that protecting the elderly : many of whom aren’t fully vaccinated – was a top priority. China reported a huge jump in COVID-19 hospitalisationsContinue Reading
Cambodia revival hinges on Chinese tourists
2023-01-19
The many unfinished buildings — most owned by Chinese investors — lining the streets of the coastal town of Sihanoukville may be symptomatic of the Cambodian economy entering 2023. Cambodia’s economic rebound in 2022, with GDP growth of 4.8%, has been slower than many had hoped. For 2023, the Ministry of Economy and Finance has pegged […]Continue Reading
India needs an overall trade-profile revision
2023-01-18
Part 1 is here. It is vital for India to identify critical dependencies, with criticality being defined in terms of the essentiality, quantitative utility and multi-sector relevance of the imported items (product categories and subcategories) as well as the singularity, stability, and vulnerability of their import origins vis-à-vis the viability and readiness of domestic and […]Continue Reading
US sanctions bite as Huawei runs out of phone chipsets
2022-12-24
HiSilicon, a fabless semiconductor unit of China’s Huawei Technologies, has used up all its smartphone chipset inventory with no clear source of new supplies as Taiwanese fabs are no longer allowed to produce chips for it under US sanctions. The Shenzhen-based firm has seen its global smartphone chipset market share fall to zero in the […]Continue Reading
BOJ fires shot across US Treasury market’s bow
2022-12-23
The Bank of Japan’s surprise policy tweak sent US government bonds down sharply, but US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen probably hasn’t seen anything yet. As the BOJ allows the yen to appreciate at long last, Yellen’s team may soon find itself short of buyers for US Treasuries in Asia and beyond. As Japanese government bond […]Continue Reading
TAT: Tourist arrivals to beat target by 15%
2022-12-23
Foreign tourist arrivals to the country are on track to exceed the government’s 2022 target by 15%, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT).Continue Reading