Economic pressure. There are growing concerns about the finances of China’s Logan Group, one of the strongest developers in the country. This week, ratings firm Fitch downgraded the company one level to BB- following questions about the scale of Logan’s undisclosed debt. Uncertainty over the company’s financial state only adds to existing concerns about the […]
The U.S. and NATO respond. Washington issued a formal response to security guarantees Moscow demanded after it began amassing military forces along the Ukrainian...
Production disruption. Power cuts in Turkey forced some manufacturing facilities, including a joint venture between Turkish carmaker Tofas and Renault, to halt production. The...
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see,” Winston Churchill once quipped. Predicating expectations of the future on an understanding...
Troop withdrawal. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said that the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization’s peacekeeping mission, launched last week amid escalating unrest in the...
Order restored? After reporting over the weekend that 164 people were killed in last week’s unrest, Kazakh authorities say order has been restored and...
Kazakhstan under fire. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said he ordered police and the army to open fire on protesters without warning amid continuing anti-government...
