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Monday June 1
* Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, is in Beijing. Geithner, who criticised China for “currency manipulation” during his confirmation hearings, gave a speech this morning at Beijing University calling for China to have “a full seat at the international table”. According to various reports, topi…
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With North Korea taking its game of nuclear brinkmanship to the next level over the last week, the security situation in Northeast Asia is looking increasingly bleak.
The only country with any real leverage over Kim Jong-il’s hermit nation, China, is not eager to raise the pressure on its neig…
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Apparently the most stressful experiences in life include divorce, moving house and losing one’s job. The most stressful jobs include teaching and working in the casualty ward of a hospital. The most stressful day of the year, as calculated by researchers in a godforsaken university somewhere, is January 6.
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A tale of two venture capital communities. First Britain. The British Business Angels Association has been given money by the Business Department to raise awareness of private investing in young by promising companies.
According to the association there’s been a “40-50%” increase in demand from businesses for angel equity among its angel network members across the UK, which it parts down to the current l…
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Fear stories about graduate and school leaver jobs prospects this summer are rife. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has contributed to the latest story.
Its survey of HR-types found that almost half of them would not be hiring graduates or school leavers this year - without giving any comparison of recruitment from this pool during the good times.
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Thursday May 28 - Happy Dragon Boat Festival!
* Hewlett Packard is in talks with three Chinese mobile phone companies to offer netbooks in a move to focus on low-cost personal computers. (WSJ)
* A small group of Chinese protesters gave Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US Congress, <a target=”_blank” href=”http://www.reut…
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At the height of the economic crisis in Argentina, desperate contestants battled it out in a bleak reality show called “Human Resources” where the ultimate prize was nothing more glamorous than a job.
Things haven’t got that bad in Britain yet but one young MBA graduate became so fed up with sifting through newspapers every day for the handful of relevant recruitment ads that he decided to take matters into his own hands.
So Daniel Tudor, an ambitious 26-year-old Oxford gra…
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In the Sunday Telegraph, I wrote about how the S&P rating warning over the UK’s creditworthiness last week represented the shift to the next stage of the economic/financial crisis. The point being that whereas 2008 was a year defined by banking crises, 2009 and 10 will be years defined by sovereign debt crises. This is qu…
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Earlier today, I watched Anwar Ibrahim, the leader of the Malaysian opposition, give a very smooth and spirited performance at a lunch organised by Singapore’s Foreign Correspondents Association.
While he answered a series of tough questions about Malaysian politics with wit and guile, he seemed particularly exorcised about Burma and the junta’s treatment of Aung San Suu Kyi.
The normally supine Association of Southeast Asian Nations has spoken out for once against the late…
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A few of the more establishment commentators have sought to defend our pilfering MPs by suggesting that the level of political corruption in Britain is nothing compared to Malaysia or Mexico.
That’s a very complacent attitude, which ignores how much damage the ongoing expenses scandal is doing to the once-lofty reputation of Britain’s parliamentarians abroad.
Earlier this week, I went to a talk by Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, the chief minister of Selangor, one of Malaysia’s most im…
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