Press Gallery MD’s got far more than 3 percent share of PTV going bankrupt’ PTV’s three per cent formula Saeed Minhas Islamabad: Another routine day consumed by the parliamentarians to discuss nothing but personal anomalies and army bashing to ensure that time earmarked for the budgetary discussions is consumed and their per diems […]
Lagos – new Monopoly game, old gang rivalries
From card games to gang violence, Lagos is being affected in two very different ways. Lagos playing cards. The highly acclaimed and ever innovated Monopoly game captures the contrasts of Lagos in its first special edition dedicated to an African city. The most expensive property in this game launched last December, is called Banana Island, […]
Mukesh Ambani’s Grand Plans for RIL
Few people in the world can claim to be billionaires. Fewer can claim to have shaped a country’s economy and contributed to its growth. Among those incredibly rare individuals who’ve done both, an underlying common thread that seems to unite them all is the mystique that surrounds them. For Mukesh Ambani, this sense of curiosity […]
Invisible Money 5
Invisible Money 5 The Cloud Factory Revisited Up The Ladder, Marius Kohl To Luc Frieden Iddhis Bing With the equivalent of 67 trillion dollars floating in and around what is known as the off-shore "shadow banking system" – in tax havens and fiscal paradises from Delaware to Mauritius, the isle […]
On Running Headlong Into 2012: Stay Light on Your Feet
by Donald Croft Brickner Per the Growing Importance of a Tenable Global World View — a Recommended Ontological Backdrop to the Essay that Follows: Ours is not a primary reality. Everything in our cosmos is a construct of an invisible-to-the-naked-eye building-blocks foundational reality — whose operating rules are not only consistently different from those of […]
Predictions for 2012
After a year full of interesting news from around the world, what lies ahead in 2012? Multiple News correspondents make their predictions about the great stories and characters that have to pay attention. Economic Crisis The future of the euro is a major concern of Western leaders. Mark Mardell, North American editor, believes that we […]