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RSS Financial Times

  • Iran denies links to Salman Rushdie attack
  • Delhi’s drinkers face a dry summer under new alcohol rules
  • Stock markets subdued after weaker than expected China data
  • South Africa’s fear of state failure
  • Funds want SEC’s ESG names rule ‘discarded’

RSS Branko Milanovic Personal Blog

  • Socialism with Chinese characteristics for the young person
    Several years ago, Chinese state’s People’s Publishing House introduced  English translation of excerpts from Xi Jinping’s speeches and, in a few cases, from his writings under the title of “Anecdotes and sayings of Xi Jinping”. The original was published in Chinese in 2017. The link to the book is available here. I could not find […]
  • Interpreting or misinterpreting China’s success
             I recently read a review of China’s long-term economic progress by two well-known scholars of Chinese economy: Loren Brandt and Thomas Rawski. I have read and cited both. Just to give some examples: I liked very much a paper on inequality in the Chinese countryside in the 1930s co-authored by Brandt; or Rawski’s […]
  • On import substitution, Fukuyama, eternal growth and more
    My conversation with James Pethokoukis from the American Enterprise Institute.1.  Russia is a nation with vast natural resources, a well-educated population, and a deep scientific base. Yet on a per person basis, Russia is only the 67th richest nation in the world. Why? The problem with Russia is what I called her “circular economic history”. […]
  • Hopelessness?
     That today’s world situation is the worst since the end of the Second World War is not an excessive, nor original, statement. As we teeter on the brink of a nuclear war, it does not require too  many words to convince people that this is so. The question is: how did we get here? And […]
  • The rule of nihilists
     A friend sent me recently an abbreviated version of Xi Jinping’s January 2013 speech to the members of the Central Committee of CPC (the English translation is here). The speech is often mentioned, generally in the context of greater ideological control and “authoritarian tendencies” of Xi Jinping, but I have not read it until I […]

RSS BBC World News

  • Kenya election result: Raila Odinga and William Ruto await verdict
  • Russia vows to expand relations with North Korea
  • Salman Rushdie: Iran blames writer and supporters for stabbing
  • Trapped Mexico miners: Setback as water levels rise
  • Shanghai Covid: Ikea shoppers flee attempt to lock down store

RSS Channelnews Asia

  • Japan plans fresh package to cushion blow from rising living costs
  • Japan PM makes donation to Yasukuni war dead shrine, Cabinet members visit
  • South Korea urges improved ties with Japan on freedom anniversary
  • Quick Style: Meet the dance crew whose moves in a viral wedding video have been viewed more than 50 million times
  • China's July daily coal output jumps 16% yr/yr on peak summer demand

RSS Singapore Straits Times

  • French sorghum farmer defies drought with sustainable crop
  • Kosovo starts power cuts as a result of energy crisis
  • Iran ‘categorically’ denies link with Rushdie’s attacker
  • Norwegian wooden bridge collapses, 2 vehicles fall into river
  • Much of the US will be an 'extreme heat belt' by the 2050s
  • Russia pounds Ukraine's Donetsk region, Zelensky warns 'special targets' at nuclear plant
  • Castes in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy
  • US says Al-Qaeda has not regrouped in Afghanistan
  • US adversaries could exploit Afghan ex-commandos: US Republican report
  • Zimbabwe blames measles surge on sect gatherings after 80 children die

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RSS The Economist

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RSS Malay Mail

  • Sabah to develop carbon exchange legislation within a year, says climate change committee
  • Inflation task force: Chicken export ban, new ceiling prices to be decided after data reviewed
  • LCS project: Former shipping company MD to be charged tomorrow, according to source

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Anti-G8 and Anti-War Graffiti in Geneva 2003

Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003

Bastakiya, Dubai 2012

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