Reuters: KPMG hit by Hong Kong High Court in $400 million China Medical fraud

Both the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal – two of the world’s most important shipping routes – are “now under stress from various sources”. Published in Bill Mitchell’s blog. Read the article HERE.

Malta contniues its policy of selling citizenship to the rich. To obtain a Maltese passport, which grants the holder  full access to the European Union, applicants must pay €650,000 and invest €150,000 in government stocks […]

Portugal has gone entirely coal-free, 9 years ahead of the country’s initial deadline to phase out coal, the planet’s most polluting fossil fuel. Read here Wikimedia Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Internationa