Despite the current diversity of the Stan’s interests, let’s start with some news on regional cooperation with an expansion to the West.

France was the week’s main newsmaker for the region, however there were other important news as well. Make sure to scroll the news feed a bit more once you’re done with our column. And here we go.

The Gulf Standards Organisation (GSO) of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has published a technical regulation that recognises extended shelf-life for chilled vacuum-packed red meat. This recommends that all GCC members bring their regulations for the shelf-life of chilled, vacuum-packed red meat into alignment. The GCC is a cooperative (bloc) of six Middle Eastern countries: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab...

Chile’s Economy Ministry and InvestChile concluded a successful investment promotion tour in Asia, where over 420 representatives from Asian companies participated in more than 40 activities.

Global circumstances have changed dramatically over the past five years, both globally and nationally within China. It is clear that, more than ever, multinationals operating in China need to adapt to the new normal. How to understand the Chinese macro environment and how it will evolve over the next decade? How will the competitive situation be affected? These are the key questions we will discuss during the event.

For better or worse, the region continues to be an area of interests’ intersection for the superpowers that currently have rather complex relations with each other.

The Sino-Swiss Business Awards (SSBA) is a highly regarded biyearly event organized by SwissCham China in partnership with the Swiss Embassy. Its primary objective is to recognize and celebrate companies's significant contributions to the Swiss and Chinese business communities.

The region’s week passed under the Chinese red banner. Strategic projects, big money, and ambitious political moves. All of those in our release.

After a quite energetic tour of the region’s leaders in the West along with a series of major deals with China, it’s quite expected that Russia is at effort to regain the Stan’s attention.

We were gratified to have such a great audience for our recent 2024 Forecast for Latin America webinar.