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Financial Times

Hungarian opposition picks outsider as poll challenger to Orban
Venezuela halts talks with opposition after key Maduro ally extradited
Bank of England chief warns it ‘will have to act’ to curb inflation
MPs confront need to find balance between accessibility and security
Brussels plays host to some tricky international debate

Branko Milanovic Personal Blog

Pro-equality turn in China and the United States?
While the United States and China are at loggerheads on many issues from trade to intellectual property rights to South China Sea islands, and the talk is rife of a new Cold War, internally both countries are trying to adopt policies to reduce income inequality. The similarity in objectives, and in some cases, even in […]
Can globalization be “improved”?
In an excellent just-published book “Six faces of globalization” Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp, produce six plausible narratives of globalization and what, according to each, went wrong or right with globalization. Their approach is to take a given narrative, present all its points as its defenders would, with rather minimal outside (i.e. their own) interventions, […]
Nobody’s war
Stephen Platt, Professor of Chinese history at the University of Massachusetts, has in “Imperial Twilight” written an excellent book on the origins of the first Opium War, and perhaps even more importantly, at this time of US-China tensions, he has shown how wars may occur not just because the two sides do not agree, not […]
Trotsky after Kolakowski
As people who follow my feed know, I have recently reread the three volumes of Leszek Kolakowski’s magisterial Main Currents of Marxism. I read them first in the mid-1980s (the date when I bought them, inscribed on my copy, is June 1982), and rereading them almost forty years later. It is even more impressive now—because […]
The long NEP, China and Xi
Many journalists, commentators and political scientists see the recent policy changes in China as “the return to communism”. They in particular point out to a number of measures whose objective was to limit lending by internet companies, to ban for-profit tutoring, and to put a squeeze on companies producing internet games (the latter were, tellingly […]

BBC World News

Russia sets condition for return of BBC journalist
Bill Clinton: Thumbs up as former US president leaves hospital
Haiti kidnap: 400 Mawozo accused of US missionary kidnap
Bill Clinton: Former US president discharged from hospital
Pedro Sanchez: Spanish PM vows to abolish prostitution

Channelnews Asia

Ansu Fati stars on first start in almost a year as Barca beat Valencia
Conservative mayor Marki-Zay wins run-off to challenge Hungary's Orban
Kean goal earns Juventus narrow win over Roma
Venezuelan opposition urges government to resume suspended talks
No end in sight to volcanic eruption on Spain's La Palma: Canaries president

Singapore Straits Times

Missionary group confirms kidnapping of 16 Americans, one Canadian
Iran MP says to resume nuclear talks, awaits EU confirmation
Hundreds pose nude for Tunick shoot in Israel near Dead Sea
One hurt in French nightclub shooting over Covid-19 pass

Business Times

Raising tax revenue the 'sustainable and responsible' way to fund Singapore's expenditures: Lawrence Wong
THE sustainable and responsible way to fund Singapore's recurrent expenditures is to raise tax revenue and to do so with a fair and progressive tax system, Finance Minister Lawrence Wong said on Friday (Oct 15).
Construction to outstrip growth in manufacturing globally over the next 10 years: report
THE construction industry is set to lead global economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, overtaking growth in the manufacturing sector in the decade to 2030.
ESR-Reit, Ara Logos propose merger with pricing favouring ESR-Reit unitholders
ESR-REIT and Ara Logos Logistics Trust are proposing to merge in a S$1.4 billion deal, in a move that will create a real estate investment trust (Reit) with S$5.4 billion in total assets.
Shopee to hire over 1,600 staff as battle in home markets heats up
SHOPEE, the e-commerce arm of Singapore-based Sea Ltd, is planning to hire over 1,600 full-time staff to bolster its ranks, amid an urgent talent crunch and stiff competition in its home markets.
EMA cites high demand, gas supply curbs for sharp spikes in Singapore's spot electricity prices
THE staggering spikes in Singapore's spot electricity prices in recent months are due to a confluence of factors including gas curtailment from Indonesia's West Natuna and "low landing pressure" of the gas supplied from South Sumatra, said the Energy Market Authority (EMA).

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Malay Mail

Show to go on for Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, but will it be the same?
Labuan Bersatu gears up for GE15, says division chief
Umno candidates for Melaka election, GE15 to be finalised by three top leaders, says Zahid

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