Category: World

The US-China trade war has disrupted the complex supply chains which stretched from the Pearl River Delta to California. Washington is looking at Vietnam favourably, but China remains the dominant manufacturer on the planet. President Trump is known to have a protectionist outlook on trade. On the campaign trail, he…

Ministers from the 16 countries negotiating about what could become the world’s largest free trade area, agreed in Singapore on Friday on a package of deliverables they hope to achieve by the end of the year. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a…

The South American country with the smallest GDP is about to burst with oil. ExxonMobil found oil off Guyana’s coast in 2015, and believes the reserves are between 4.4 billion to 6 billion barrels. Guyana is a state on the northern mainland of South America. It is, however, often considered part of the Caribbean region…

President Trump on Thursday threatened to pull the U.S. out of the World Trade Organization (WTO) “if they don’t shape up,” a stance he has reportedly discussed in private but has denied publicly. The WTO officially commenced on 1 January 1995 under the Marrakesh Agreement..

A soldier based in Hawaii pleaded guilty to trying to help the Islamic State group by providing military information and a reconnaissance drone. Ikaika Kang reportedly swore allegiance to ISIL in Arabic and English and kissed an Islamic State flag. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant also known as ISIL and ISIS..

Theresa May has announced plans to boost Britain’s investment in Africa after Brexit, during her first trip to the continent as prime minister. The UK is looking to secure all its trade partners in the event of a no-deal Brexit. It was on June 23rd, 2016, when Britain narrowly voted to leave the European Union…

US President accuses tech giant of “rigging” search results and illegally censoring content. President Trump also vowed that the situation “will be addressed”. A search engine uses a sorting algorithm to find websites which match the entered keywords. Tech giant like Google can change the algorithm to show different..

Oil prices fell marginally on Tuesday, caused by a gradual rise in output from the OPEC coupled with additional supplies from Venezuela, Africa and Iran. From 2010 until mid-2014, world oil prices were around $110 a barrel. However, the price of oil has fallen significantly in the subsequent years. It is currently traded around $…

Namibia’s President Hage Geingob on Sunday urged citizens to participate in land expropriation talks, as he seeks to ease political and ethnic tensions over the transfer of wealth to its majority black population. Namibia was a German colony from 1884 to 1915. Apartheid South Africa then took over and ruled…

French president Emmanuel Macron has cautioned that Europe can no longer depend on the US for its military defence. He called for an urgent new European security policy in the face of rising nationalism and extremism. The Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), is the doctrine that defines the…