When entrepreneurs in China seek financing for their projects they often turn to the informal credit market because the state-owned finance channels tend to prefer state-owned firms. Wenzhou is a manufacturing capital in China that produces everything from cigarette lighters to tennis shoes – its economy is both a shining example of how far China […]
Read MoreMyanmar’s famed freedom fighter and long time house bound political prisoner, Aung San Suu Kyi, has challenged her party, the National League for Democracy, to contest all seats in the upcoming parliamentary elections in a change from the party’s previously non-participative stance regarding Myanmar’s government. Originally Aung San Suu Kyi ran in 1990 and her […]
Read MoreThe nation of Yemen has been locked in a political crisis since January 2011. Negotiations between President Saleh’s regime and the opposition has reportedly led to an agreement for Ali Abdullah Saleh to transfer power to his deputy minister Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi in an act that will bring 33 years of uninterrupted rule over the […]
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