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Billionaires Rule the World The  prestigious Bloomberg News, which provides a barometer for reading the international business world, has announced that this world of seven billion  people has 1,426 billionaires who owned US$5.4 trillion in 2012, an increase in  wealth … Continue reading →

The Story of Qiu Ju Film Review Most cinema goers who patronise the neighbourhood cinema hall are usually treated to blockbusters with plenty of sex and violence with strong nationalistic overtones where our good guys overcome foreign bad guys. So … Continue reading →

Sri Lanka:  Church Missionary Society during early British rule Book review Recollections of Ceylon,  after a residence of thirteen years; with an account of the Church Missionary  Society’s Operations in the Island by Reverend James Selkirk, Curate of Middleton TVAS, … Continue reading →

Australia in Transition:  A Traveller’s Impressions in 2013 Overcoming racial bias Having travelled and lived in 52  countries, both as a business traveller and a tourist, I was always conscious  that I had missed visiting Australia.  This lapse was rectified … Continue reading →

USA: Have guns, will shoot! Amendment 2: USA Constitution A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Another gruesome mass murder … Continue reading →

Mo Yan, winner of Nobel Prize  for Literature in 2012. “Through a  mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has  created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of  William Faulkner and … Continue reading →

18th Congress of the Communist Party of China The constitutions of governments of all  countries that seek to be representative of their people have evolved over  centuries with both home grown and imported characteristics. In Britain, the  first country to … Continue reading →

The Story of Qiu Ju Film Review Most cinema goers who patronise the neighbourhood cinema hall are usually treated to blockbusters with plenty of sex and violence with strong nationalistic overtones where our good guys overcome foreign bad guys. So … Continue reading →

John Carlos Story, by John Carlos and Dave Zirin Published by Haymarket Books, Chicago,  Illinois. 2012. Book Review The only reason I bought this book about a now forgotten episode in the American Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s was … Continue reading →

  The Man Who Changed China, by Robert Lawrence Kuhn Crown Publishers, New York, 2004 Book review and commentary This is not just the biography of an important modern Chinese leader, Jiang Zemin, who became the General Secretary of the … Continue reading →