Phil Butler, Policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist /NEO, Japan Bloomberg writer Joe Nocera says Russian kleptocrat Bill Browder is the “man Putin can’t get out of his head.” But Browder is the man Bloomberg and the west won’t let any of us forget. Here’s why. Bill Browder’s claim to fame is that he,…
BSS Just when the twilight begins at the dawn, he has to jump off the bed and rush for work. A child of around 10 year of an affluent family normally gets off the bed, brush teeth, take breakfast and gets ready for school. But his story is different. Not so smooth and comfortable life,…
Anand van Zelderen, Currently working on research at the University of Calgary/ Channel NewsAsia Dealing with employees who aren’t placed on a company’s talent management programme needs to be handled very delicately, say two observers from the University of Calgary. Have you ever compared your work performance to a colleague’s? It’s a daily habit for…
Karol Markowicz/New York Post In the crazy, topsy-turvy year of 2018, socialism is somehow on the rise in America. To those of us unfortunate enough to have been born in the Soviet Union, this is troubling. The new socialists say it’s different this time. They have a new name and everything: “Democratic Socialism.” Don’t buy…
Lorenzo Marsili, Writer, politic activist, and the founder of international NGO European Alternatives/Al jazeera Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon has vowed to help start a far-right revolution in Europe. Who will oppose him? There is something that ties together nationalist leaders the world over: from US President Donald Trump to the new Italian interior minister,…
Melissa Blake/ I came across some old photos last week. Two photos, actually. One from 2002, when I was editor of my college newspaper at Kishwaukee College. The other from 2012, when I was the adviser to that same college newspaper. After developing a passion for journalism while working on the student newspaper in college,…
Anadolu Agency: Egypt has allowed domestic gas deliveries into the blockaded Gaza Strip for the first time, according to a Palestinian official on Sunday. “Some 250 tons of domestic gas have been allowed into Gaza,” Khalil Shakfa, head of the General Authority of Petroleum, told Anadolu Agency. The official said that the move came as…
Sky News: A parasite that infects the brain could be the secret weapon of business tycoons, as it affects a person’s risk-taking behaviour, a study says. Researchers said that entrepreneurship was characterised as a “high risk, high reward” activity which was often accompanied by a loss of one’s financial stability. But toxoplasma gondii, a single-celled…
UNB: The Association of Indigenous Students, of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) unit on Sunday formed a human chain and rally demanding safe roads and justice for rape victims of the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Reuters: Foreign payment firms could keep copies of customer data in India while retaining offshore storage operations, the government said, as a way to resolve a row with MasterCard, Visa and American Express over the localization of such information. A decision by India’s central bank in April that all payments data should, within six months,…