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“The best speakers are good storytellers. The best writers are good storytellers. The best leaders are good storytellers.” – Rodger Dean Duncan Power and influence can come from unexpected sources. The
One of the more troubling elements of the recent drama over Greece’s debt was the urge by many to see a deficiency of national character, rather than euro-zone economics, as the
Panic is in the air as China suffers its biggest one-day stock plunge since 2007. It shouldn’t be. The 8.5 percent slide in the Shanghai Composite Index is actually a development that
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For decades, central banks lorded over markets. Traders quivered at the omnipotence of monetary authorities - their every move, utterance and wink a reason to scurry for safe havens or
Being in the news for allegations of vote-buying during election time is never a great thing in terms of image, to say the least. This is even worse when it
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It’s as ironic as it could get: a surveillance software provider gets a taste of its own medicine when it is hacked, and soon finds millions of its emails disclosed
I’m not a big fan of the public consultation concept, at least the way it is done in Macau. It seems that the local obsession with public consultations is linked
It’s easy to blame massification of tertiary education for the fact that educators have now to consider maintaining discipline in the classroom. In the past, with engaged, clever students, a
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After months of deadlines that turned out not to matter and final demands that weren’t met, the threat of a one-way ticket from the euro seems to have finally persuaded
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak may very well be, as he insists, innocent of charges that nearly USD700 million in government-linked funds ended up in his personal accounts. But his
Honestly speaking, I never expected some of my friends - many of them educated - to fall victim to arguments that only the most cynical and unrefined individuals would dare
With many students turning away from the city’s two big annual marches this year — the June 4 vigil to mark the anniversary of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown, and the
China’s financial world has officially entered the paranoia zone. As the Shanghai stock market experiences its worst three-week rout since 1992 – in defiance of government efforts to reverse the
The Executive Council concluded its revision on Macau’s Tobacco Prevention and Control Law last week, proposing a full smoking ban in casinos. The move, made against the will of the gaming
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