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Motorola Takes on Russia

Russia is growing and so are the shadows that are cast over the business goings on there.
The bureaucracy is still extremely burdensome and growing. And laws are a matter of convience and seemingly ci…

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Posted by Bill Belew on June 22nd, 2006 in All About Russia, Russia | No Comments

Duck! North Korea is Throwing Things

North Korea is getting reading to launch a missile and everybody is running for cover.
Nobody in particular mind you. Everybody everywhere is running because nobody is sure what they are aiming at an…

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Posted by Bill Belew on June 21st, 2006 in Asia News | No Comments

Mt. Bulusan in the Philippines is Getting Angrier

The PI has a very restive volcano…Mt. Bulusan.
Recently it spewed ash and pepples in another new explosion forcing some 40 families to be evacuated.
This is the eighth time since March that the…

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Posted by Bill Belew on June 21st, 2006 in Asia | No Comments

Oil’s New Ball Game

In the 1960’s 85% of the oil in the world was available for ownership, development, partnerships and such. At the time, 14% of the oils reserves belonged to the Soviet Union.
Today it is the rev…

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Posted by Bill Belew on June 21st, 2006 in All About Russia, Russia | No Comments

Where’s the Oil in Asia? China and India Team Up

Asia has a pultry 5% of the world’s oil reserves.
Compare that to the former Soviet Union which has more than one fifth (20/8%) and Africa and the Middle East which has nearly 2/3s of the oil re…

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Posted by Bill Belew on June 20th, 2006 in Asia | No Comments

BIG OIL

Exxon Mobil Corp made $8.4 billion in one quarter! BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, Total, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil together are predicting earnings of $135 billion this year – roughly the s…

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Posted by Bill Belew on June 19th, 2006 in Asia | No Comments

Sakhalin Island (part 3) Nervous as Shell

When Shell started shelling out mega bucks to drill for oil off the coast of Sakhalin island, Russia wasn’t one of the global oil suppliers. Russia is now.
It is just plain costing too much for …

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Posted by Bill Belew on June 18th, 2006 in All About Russia, Russia | No Comments

India to Double Exports

$100 billion in annual exports is India’s new target.
Add to that 25 million new jobs within the next 4 years. These are India’s new economic goals.
India expects its low-cost labor …

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Posted by Bill Belew on June 16th, 2006 in All about India, Doing business in India, India | No Comments

Sakhalin Island (part 2)

There is a lot of oil off the coast of Sakhalin Island located in the Sea of Oshkosh, off the coast of Far East Russia and seven time zones from Moscow.
I almost went there once but got stuck in the i…

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Posted by Bill Belew on June 16th, 2006 in All About Russia, Russia | No Comments

Russia’s Positive View of the US Drops

The Washington Post Pew Research Center polled people in 15 different countries.
Nearly all of them have worse opinions of the US now than they did a year ago….and they didn’t like the US …

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Posted by Bill Belew on June 15th, 2006 in All About Russia, Russia | No Comments