By Antoni Kapcia As academics and the media recall and reassess the Cuban missile crisis sixty years on, their focus will primarily be on the two superpowers — the United States and the USSR — that seemingly came close to nuclear war. However, it is also timely to reconsider those who found themselves in the […]
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On the eve of voting to elect the new Congress president, Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said he is batting on a track with an “uneven bounce” and doesn’t want “pitch tampering”. Asked to comment on the fairness of the polls, Tharoor in an interview told PTI, “I had said there is an uneven playing field […]
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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 17 October 2022 – Beyond the repercussions of the war in Ukraine, the global monetary tightening and the multiple constraints on Chinese growth paint a gloomy outlook. In the short term, the economy seems to be settling into a regime of “stagflation”, where almost no growth and rapidly rising prices coexist. The possibility of a global recession, meanwhile, is becoming […]
Matein Khalid Investor | Family Office CIO | Portfolio Strategist | Board Advisor | VC | Finance Professor I have always fantasized about buying into a midtown Manhattan office building portfolio since New York City is the nerve center of global finance, banking, digital media, fashion, art and the coolest, most creative yuppies, the best and brightest of mother earth. Now my fantasy has come true. I […]
At the opening of a key meeting of the Chinese Communist Party, President Xi Jinping said that China has achieved comprehensive control over Hong Kong, turning it from chaos to governance, while condemning what he said was interference in Taiwan. Xi Jinping walked onstage to thunderous applause from nearly 2,300 delegates who have gathered at Beijing’s […]
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Shashi Tharoor, who is running for Congress President, has clarified on his recent comments that some people in the party were assuming that there’s an official candidate. It was seen as alluding to Mallikarjun Kharge, the other candidate in the Congress President election, which is being closely watched by party insiders as well as the […]
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Matein Khalid Investor | Family Office CIO | Portfolio Strategist | Board Advisor | VC | Finance Professor September CPI was a disaster and now makes it impossible for the Federal Reserve to pause, let alone ease monetary policy until the Fed Funds rate reaches at least 5%, which it will by early 2023. This is not a mere opinion as opinions are like a certain body […]
What was thought as a passing trend, became a trendy and sensational niche with K-Wave becoming more popular amongst this generation. Sejong Korean Language School has gone beyond the hype to establish a systematic learning method for students to develop good foundation. SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 14 October 2022 – Sejong Korean Language School was founded by Ryan Kwak Seong Hoon, a native Korean, 10 years […]
By Branko Marcetic If you’re going to undermine your own public rhetoric and supposed values by cozying up to a brutal autocrat, you might as well get something out of it. While maybe an obvious point to the rest of us, it’s apparently something US officials are just now belatedly realizing about the US-Saudi relationship. […]
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The Supreme Court on Saturday suspended the Bombay High Court’s order acquitting former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba and five others in alleged Maoist links case. In a special sitting of the court held to consider a plea against the acquittal, the Supreme Court said that the offences involved are very serious in nature […]
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India has slipped to the 107th position in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2022 of 121 countries, from its 2021 position of 101st and is behind its neighbours Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Seventeen countries, including China, Turkey, and Kuwait, shared the top rank with GHI score of less than five, the website of the Global […]
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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 14 October 2022 – The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors Building Surveying Division hosted the Building Surveyors Conference 2022 at New World Millennium Hong Kong Hotel today. Themed “Sustainability in Built Asset and Countryside Conservation”, the Conference gathered around 250 professionals from various government departments, business leaders, experts, and scholars to deliberate on surveying industry prospects. Sr CHEUNG Hau-wai, SBS, […]
By Rahil Nora Chopra Targeting the 2024 parliamentary elections, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has asserted that his party’s success in winning the support of women, farmers and marginalised groups with various welfare schemes, can be replicated at the national level. KCR has projected himself as a pro-farmer leader by financially helping the kin […]
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By Eileen Jones It’s good to discover, in reading the tributes to Angela Lansbury — who died on October 11 at age ninety-six — that the beloved actor reportedly considered herself “a proud socialist.” She was a comrade via her illustrious lineage: her father was Edgar Lansbury, the British socialist politician, and her grandfather was […]
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Reckitt Benckiser and its brand Dettol promote Global Handwashing Day and support over 10,000 families in need to ‘Seize the Childhood and Keep On to Protect Our Future’ HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 14 October 2022 – The sense of touch is the primary way young children bond with their parents and peers. It is also through physical touch that they learn and explore the […]
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 14 October 2022 – The world is facing the most severe food crisis in decades, with close to 50 million people living in emergency or catastrophic levels of acute hunger globally, a number that is 1.8 times higher than that of 2019. The impact of such sheer volumes of people experiencing extreme hunger will have devastating and lifelong impacts on […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The next eight years of the present decade would be decisive not only for Net Zero by 2050, but also to ensure energy security. The world is already not on track to achieve SDG target of providing universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy by 2030, which may fall […]
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By Ashis Biswas In West Bengal, the administrative deadlock with the centre over the mandatory provision of 100 days work for unskilled rural people under the MNREGA scheme drags on, adding to the political concerns of the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) Government. This project, suspended since last December in the state, is the centrepiece of the […]
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Congress presidential poll candidate Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday listed fighting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as the most important challenge before his party and accused the saffron outfit heading the government at the Centre of “destroying” the Constitution and “weakening” autonomous bodies. Talking to reporters here, Kharge said he believes in collective leadership and if […]
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Matein Khalid Investor | Family Office CIO | Portfolio Strategist | Board Advisor | VC | Finance Professor The Microsoft 320 short idea is a beauty now that MSFT has fallen to 225. This is just a valuation compression due to interest rates. Once the overleveraged consumer rolls over, I believe MSFT will fall to 150. The modern era of floating exchange rates began when President Nixon […]
By James M Dorsey Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has blown new life into Turkey’s vision of a Turkic world that stretches from Anatolia to Xinjiang in north-western China. “Central Asia now resembles the 1990s when there was a huge competition between global and regional powers for influence over the resource-rich region. The shadow of Russia […]
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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 12 October 2022 – The Board of Clean Air Network (“CAN”) is pleased to announce the appointments of Mr. Chris Roberge and Mr. Stephen Howard as Board Directors and Ms. Lin Mau Tong, Kitty as Board Advisor, effective from 9th September 2022. We extend our warmest welcome to the incoming members, who are strongly committed to supporting the clean air […]
Amid reports that Roger Binny is likely to replace Sourav Ganguly as the BCCI President, West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress on Tuesday accused the BJP of “trying to humiliate” the former Indian skipper as it failed to induct him into the party. The BJP had tried to spread a message among people ahead of last […]
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By Nitya Chakraborty The Communist Party of India (CPI) is holding its 24th Party Congress at Vijayawada on October 14 ro 18 this year at a crucial time of the country in terms of both politics and economy. There has been a decisive shift in the political direction of India towards farright in the last […]
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