Japan’s hopes for its sixth new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to be more successful than his previous predecessors in less than 5 years plummeted after the barely a week old cabinet suffered a set back after the very recently appointed Japanese Minister of Trade and Industry Yoshio Hachiro resigned due to public outrage over an “offensive” joke about...

Like many countries specifically in the Persian Gulf or Arabin Gulf area, Saudi Arabia require a large amount of imports of vegetables, rice, and the other usual agricultural products. It also heavily relies on foreign labor forces from Asia.  Vietnam remains to be one of the top exporters of farmed goods to Saudi Arabia and many other countries. Vietnam on the other...

There is a real economy on the planet comprising the consumption of about 2500 million humans that drives the mass-production that propells the world trade. The remaining 4000 million humans subsist largely from local sources on a cash and carry basis because they don’t have bank accounts or savings. A rough estimate shows that the 2500 million whose excessive consumption...

The five permanent members of the U.N Security Council and Germany had decided to lay out the plans for a new and yet another harsher round of sanctions on Iran to punish it for pursuing a non-transparent nuclear program to use for civilian purposes, however the U.S and many of its allies suspect the program is for developing nuclear weapons. France and Britain supported...