Recent Posts

Shanghai Disney draws 4 million guests, sees break-even in 2017

  Bloomberg Walt Disney Co. said its new $5.5 billion Shanghai theme park attracted four million visitors in its first four months and will be close to breaking even in its first full year of operation in 2017. About 50 percent of the park’s guests are from outside the Shanghai area, a “big surprise” as the Chinese city had been ...

Read More »

Malaysia GDP beats estimates, private sector held up

  Bloomberg Malaysia’s economic expansion beat estimates as private consumption growth quickened, helping counter weak government spending. Malaysia’s consumers and companies are now the growth pillars of the economy after a collapse in global crude prices hurt exports and curtailed the government’s ability to spend. Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election poses a risk to Asian economies should ...

Read More »

Net neutrality could be another casualty of the Trump era

  Bloomberg The Obama administration’s signature policy on technology was net neutrality. Rules passed by the Federal Communications Commission in 2015 prohibited internet service providers from treating web traffic differently depending on the service being used.To Obama’s FCC, the rules were a way to prevent broadband providers from inappropriately knee-capping companies like Netflix whose services competed with their own. Opponents ...

Read More »
Send this to a friend