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MARKUS SPISKE-UNSPLASH I am pleased to share with readers the political section of our latest quarterly outlook report for Globalsource Partners (globalsourcepartners.com), a subscriber-based network of independent analysts in emerging…

PEXELS ANGIE-REYES The bill establishing the Maharlika Wealth Fund (MWF), described as a Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF), has taken a severe beating. It has been attacked on all fronts. Representative…

PEXELS-LARA JAMESON China’s rise as an economic powerhouse is arguably the most spectacular story of the early 21st century. But are China’s glory days coming to an end? China faces…

WHOSE pandemic strategy really saved lives? Which states or countries lost the most people to the virus? Or to the unintended consequences of mitigation efforts? Now there’s finally some clear,…

More than half of all Londoners have either started their own business or aspire to do so in 2023, compared to nearly a third of people overall across the UK.…

The John Lewis Partnership has struck a £500m deal with the investment firm Abrdn to build 1,000 residential rental homes, redeveloping three sites already owned by its Waitrose and eponymous…

The first four scale-up visa licences have been approved by the Home Office three months after the scheme began, prompting lawyers to question the slow take up. Macademia, a children’s…

Barclays has been fined £8.4 million by the payments industry watchdog for failing to be transparent with retailers about the fees they were being charged to use its card services.…

Ministers have called on Britain’s biggest rail union to be “altruistic” and suspend strike action over Christmas and new year amid warnings that it will cost the economy more than…

Dr. Nicanor G. Tiongson Filipino writers, poets, and playwrights play an important role in countering and correcting falsehoods running rampant in an extremely polarized public sphere, said Dr. Nicanor G.…