East Asia has shocked the world when at least 10 of the region’s emerging economies have showed significant economic growth, registering at 8.1 percent last year, the strongest so far recorded by the World Bank in the past 10 years. This means that the region’s impoverished sector has constricted, as against previous figures recorded prior […]
Doha goes down, again
The “Doha round” of WTO negotiations to increase free commerce in the world was a very difficult task from the beginning, almost impossible in some ways. To find a common denominator between developing countries with strong industry and agriculture, rich countries with even stronger industries and heavily subsidized agriculture and countries with nothing at all […]
Barrymore feeds the world’s hungry children
Only a select few of celebrities get out of their comfort zone to extend help to others, especially the hungry who are desperately in need of food to survive. But not famous actress Drew Barrymore, 32, and one of the world’s recognized film stars. Recently, the World Food Programme has named her as its […]
Huge reserves boost PRC’s trade surplus
With bilateral trade surpluses reaching US$194 billion last year, China’s trade with the rest of the Asia has slackened owing to the increase in supply chains, which sought manufacturing inputs from its neighbors. The largest conributor to the trade surplus was the assembly and export of imported intermediate items, whose inputs were exempted from tariffs, […]
Are You Sabotaging Your Career?
My experience working with thousands of leaders world wide for the past two decades teaches me that most leaders are screwing up their careers. On a daily basis, these leaders are getting the wrong results or the right results in the wrong ways. Interestingly, they themselves are choosing to fail. They�re actively sabotaging their own […]
And for my next trick, I will eviscerate the emo label…
The ‘emo’ label is loosely based on the term emotional. It takes the term, sectors it off and slaps negative connotations onto it, implying that’s it’s a ‘bad thing’ to be an emotional being. To be or look emotional means you are apart of the entire section of society deemed emo because you look, act, […]
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