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Hi, This is an interesting article which sums up the influence and power of the Overseas Chinese Families in South East Asia. Many of them came from China dirt poor and penniless and literally build their way to the top. But more importantly they built up huge businesses in a country...

This is something I got at work a few days back thought I post it up, nice to see Singapore main 3 local banks are all on this list. Congrats to the other nations a well. World’s 50 safest banks 2013 Rank Group Name Country 1 KfW Germany 2 Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten Netherlands 3 Zürcher...

For all those China Watchers examining tea leaves for some sign of what sort of Communist party leader and national president Xi Jinping will be, a column in Monday's edition of the magazine Study Times is looming large. The article argues that in the pursuit of political reform, China should...

I was reading this book "Shadow Market" and one of the chapters made reference to this article which I find quite interesting, this is just for general knowledge and discussion but no need for anyone to do any kind of back patting. Ps there are probably better articles on this but I just put...

I am not sure if this has been posted before but it makes a good read and shows the humanity of some people that go beyond others, unfortunately the good doctor has passed on otherwise I would love to pay him a visit. Road to redemption -- china.org.cn A very, very old doctor greets a few...

I thought this was a good sign of China's progress to managing the population and providing for a city living. Excerpt Straits Times Singapore 1st Oct 2011 (Subscription only) BEIJING: Big is beautiful in China, but gigantic could turn out to be the fairest of them all. More and more...

Just for Laughs

With all the cross cultural tension maybe some laughs will get us together

NEW DELHI: Firmly placed in the centre of the world's most promising growth area, Singapore-based companies continue to hire steadily, with talent from India benefiting from the demand. But 60,000 new jobs for Indian nationals? No way. That was the Ministry of Manpower's (MOM)response to...

The United States is playing a game of 'cat and mouse' on the Web and funding new technology aimed at breaking Internet censorship in repressive regimes, including China and Iran, officials have said. Mr Michael Posner, the US assistant secretary of state for human rights, said projects being...

I am not sure if these video's were posted before but if there were then apologies. I'll let you guys be the judge of the contents. Collateral Murder

Some positive news from gasp the US :D Enjoy US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said that China is taking steps to rebalance its trade policy, though more needs to be done. The US has been one of the fiercest critics of China's trade policy. It has accused China of keeping the...

Got this in an email, thought it'll be nice to share it with everyone. Its quite long though.