The government is serious about tackling inflation. Investor confidence has returned. The IMF believes Vietnam is on the right track. Food inflation is set to fall drastically. Domestic manufacturing capacity increasing rapidly. Oil refinery set to come online in 2009.Let me explain this in a bit more detail…

As far as foreign direct investment in Asia is concerned, China is still the undisputed leader, drawing approximately $42.78 billion in just the first five months of the year, an increase of 55% from the same period a year ago.

With the market the way it is today, you can’t help but look for an investment, any investment, that might react differently than everything else. These kind of investments are “non-correlated” because they move independently of the overall market. But they can be tricky to locate, and even harder to trust.

What has really changed?…importing inflation…hoping to prove Friedman wrong…Can the U.S. central bank really begin fighting inflation in a serious way? Ah, dear reader – there’s a cruel twist to this story…The cure for high prices is high prices…and so the global economy lurches forward…and more!

Short-term speculators are selling Asian stocks in their droves. No more so than in my favourite market of them all: Vietnam.

Hedge fund managers are piling money into Asian markets. It proves something we at Profit Hunter have believed for months…Asia has bottomed out!

Amidst all the furore regarding the Labour administration’s embarrassingly mis-managed tax shortcomings, the cries of those in the UK warning of a growing humanitarian crisis in the developing world have been lost.

This emerging Asian economy is better value for big business, labour costs are cheaper… and huge investments are flooding in… here’s why…

The price of rice finally started to moderate this week, with rice futures sinking for a fifth straight day. Rice has retreated 11.6% on the Chicago Board of Trade since hitting an all-time high last Thursday.

It may be the twenty-first century, but this planet still faces some major food issues.  We could be in for some tough times.