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How an unsung wine nation opened doors at New York hot spot
NEW YORK: Selling Yugoslav furniture in America prepared Emil Gaspari for an unlikely life as a wine promoter.
Can Shenzen replace Hong Kong as financial centre?
Hong Kong boasts a free flow of information, trade and capital, as well as rule of law, in line with international standards but has been rocked by anti-government protests. Shenzhen operates under a hybrid market and state-directed system, but Beijing is keen to turn the tech hub into a modern ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’ city.
China plans to turn Shenzhen into world city by 2025
SHENZEN: China will support Shenzhen, adjacent to Hong Kong, in building a pilot demonstration zone for socialism with Chinese characteristics, under a guideline issued on Sunday (Aug 18) by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council.
US millennials approach middle age in crisis
New data show they’re in worse financial shape than every preceding living generation and may never recover
Two NPC sessions in China
What are we to do? by Lin See-Yan UNLIKE the consultations last year, the 2019 annual sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC) in early March (two sessions) was sobering in setting the tone for economic policies in 2019 and beyond.
I drank myself to the bottom of Luckin Coffee’s IPO
The pending Nasdaq debut of China’s Luckin Coffee Inc begs the question of whether it’s a purveyor of beverages, or a technology company.
Gen Z turns to socialismto change the world
AS we move deeper into the 21st century, a new generation has emerged today to take over. It’s Generation Z, which includes persons born between 1995 and 2002 – also termed iGen by US psychologist Jean Marie Twenge, author of the bestselling: “iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy – and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood – and What That Means for the Rest of Us.”
An existential identity crisis
Having visited Washington DC, London and Beijing in the last fortnight, the eerie feeling is a perspective of confused existentialism. In Washington, the mood is “My Way or No Way”; in London, “If Brexit, May Exit”, and in Beijing, “One Belt, One Road”.
India’s crony capitalist edifice is creaking
A smug, entitled business class driven by greed and hubris, but sorely lacking in resources to legitimise their control. I could be describing the India Inc of today - or 1959. Nothing much has changed.
Rethinking social progress in the 21st century
WHAT do we mean by social progress? That is the theme explored by the International Panel on Social Progress, a group of over 300 academics, including Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. After four years of work, its report has finally been published last month by Cambridge University Press, with a useful summary at www.ipsp.org.
