This is Abdul Sattar Edhi. He ran Pakistan’s largest ambulance service, but never took a salary or donations, and offered help to anyone without judgment. He passed away last Friday at the age of 88.
Coalition may clinch enough seats to form majority government Former banker lacks strong mandate for economic reforms While annual growth has accelerated toward its 30-year average of 3.2 percent and unemployment has fallen to 5.7 percent, Australians don’t feel richer. The nation is the world’s most China-dependent developed economy and needs new growth drivers after prices for its iron ore and coal exports plunged.
If you’re worried that you may spread sinusitis to classmates or co-workers, breathe easy. It isn’t contagious. Go back to your normal activities if you feel well enough.
The issues of the South China Sea are too trivial to be allowed to spark armed conflict or trans-Pacific confrontation. They are solvable, if those enmeshed in them are willing to make the effort to imagine and pursue solutions to them. The parties need urgently to get on with this. And they deserve American encouragement to do so. Diplomacy on the Rocks: China and Other […]
Little john was in his junior school class when the teacher asked the children what their fathers did for a living. All the typical answers came up: Fireman, policeman, salesman, politician, etc. However, little john was being uncharacteristically quiet, and so the teacher asked him about his father. Reluctantly he replied, “My Dad is an exotic dancer in a gay club, and takes off all […]
The expert view is that China will be just fine. “But out of all of the market turmoil and uncertainty will emerge at least one big winner: China,” writes Michael Schuman on the Bloomberg site. A headline in ValueWalk went even further: “Brexit: China Could Be the Biggest Winner of All.” That is not an unreasonable view. China, after all, will have far greater bargaining […]
The EU’s response to Brexit could well prove to be another pitfall. European leaders, eager to deter other member states from following suit, may be in no mood to offer the UK terms – particularly concerning access to Europe’s single market – that would soften the pain of leaving. With the EU accounting for half of British trade turnover, the impact on exporters could be […]