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The Global Problem of Clean Drinking Water

Clean drinking water is the kind of water that is safe for drinking by human beings without causing health risks […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 18 Jun 14 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Food for Thought, Latin America, Private Equity | Comments (0)

Borderlands: The View Beyond Ukraine

From Stratfor, Installment in George Friedman’s recent series written during his journey from the Baltics, through Central and Eastern Europe […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 12 Jun 14 | Also posted in Eastern Europe | Comments (0)

ASEAN Cooperation: A Growing Global Power

By Mark Mobius, Franklin Templeton, Southeast Asia represents one of the fastest-growing regions of the world today, and to us, […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 05 Jun 14 | Also posted in Asia, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Statistics | Comments (0)

Geopolitical Journey, Part 2: Borderlands

By George Friedman, Stratfor, A borderland is a region where history is constant: Everything is in flux. The countries we […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 04 Jun 14 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Western Europe | Comments (0)

This graphic shows how much CO2 the average American produces each year

By Simran Khosla, Global Post, http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/science/global-warming/140527/graphic-shows-how-much-co2-american-american-produces-climate-change

By Liu-Yue Lam | 03 Jun 14 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Food for Thought, Latin America, North America | Comments (0)

At big-ticket dinners, a blunt Bernanke sounds theme of low rates

By Jonathan Spicer and Svea Herbst-Bayliss, Reuters, In a series of quarter-million-dollar dinners with wealthy private investors, Ben Bernanke has […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 02 Jun 14 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

BRICS emerging nations close to launching bank; to start lending in 2016

By Alonso Soto, Reuters, The five BRICS nations will likely agree to fund their $100 billion development effort equally, giving […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 01 Jun 14 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America | Comments (0)

The World’s Most Content (and Miserable) Countries

By Thomas Frohlich and Vince Calio, 247WallSt, World news does not always fully capture people’s level of happiness. Last year, […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 29 May 14 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Borderlands: First Moves in Romania

By George Friedman, Stratfor, I arrived in Bucharest, Romania, the day after U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. U.S. Secretary of Defense […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 28 May 14 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought | Comments (0)

How India’s 2014 race was won

You Tube Link: How India’s 2014 race was won From the Economist YouTube Channel,

By Liu-Yue Lam | 22 May 14 | Also posted in Asia, Commodities | Comments (0)