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Osterreichisches Judisches Museum is located in Eisenstadt. Arrange to visit Osterreichisches Judisches Museum and other attractions in Eisenstadt using our Eisenstadt day trip planner. Create a full itinerary - for free! Osterreichisches Judisches Museum reviews This is a well planned museum that tells an important story of a community that no longer exists in the town. Collection of objects is impressive, as was the private synagogue. While some parts of... This is a well planned museum that tells an important story of a community that no longer exists in the town. Collection of objects is impressive, as was the private synagogue. While some parts of... more » Gives an intimate and detailed picture of daily life from a time now gone but which is still relevant today Gives an intimate and detailed picture of daily life from a time now gone but which is still relevant today more » Eisenstadt alias Ash was home to a century old and vibrant Jewish community of wine and textile merchants. Since only a few families survived the Shoah, the museum does not only tell their story, but the story of the colourful religious life in the historical pannonia region. Not easy to swallow but well worth a visit. The museum is housed in the so-called Wertheimer house, a historic building named after the Hungarian Rabbi Samson Wertheimer (1658-1724), who was also court and war factor. This is the first house on the former Judengasse that went all the way to the older Jewish cemetery. Sabbath chain, basin and the tankard of the Levites over the gate of a neighbouring house remind of the Jewish past. The Wolf Family acquired the house in 1875. Until the forced “arianisation” in 1938 the house served as wine whole sale outlet of the Wolf family. The jewel of the museum is a private synagogue. The walk around on the first floor gives a good overview of Jewish festivities and stages of life, as well as a library. On the ground floor there is a Moses-cycle comprised of 50 pictures painted by Uriel Birnbaum as well as an area for alternating exhibitions. Plan your trip to Eisenstadt - Get a personalized tripA full day by day itinerary based on your preferences - Customize itRefine your trip. We'll find the best routes and schedules - Book itChoose from the best hotels and activities. Up to 50% off - Manage itEverything in one place. Everyone on the same page. Popular things to do in Eisenstadt Side trips from Eisenstadt Hidden gems in Eisenstadt Nearby attractions in Eisenstadt Historic Sites in Eisenstadt Shopping in Eisenstadt Trips in Osterreichisches Judisches Museum by other users 18 days in Austria BY A USER FROM INDIA Hallstatt Salzburg Zell am See 16 days in Italy, Austria & Berchtesgaden BY A USER FROM UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Rome Naples Tivoli 35 days in Vienna BY A USER FROM UNITED STATES Imperial Carriage Museum Vienna Schonbrunn Palace Neptunbrunnen 12 days in Austria, Hungary & Munich BY A USER FROM MALAYSIA Vienna Budapest Eisenstadt 12 days in Austria, Hungary & Munich BY A USER FROM UNITED STATES Vienna Budapest Eisenstadt 57 days in Vienna BY A USER FROM MEXICO Looshaus Schonbrunn Palace Schönbrunn Zoo
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Royal Belum State Park in northern Perak, estimated at 130 million years old, is much older than that of the Amazon and the Congo. Gazetted as a State Park on May 3, 2007, it covers an area measuring 117,500 hectares encompassing over 90 per cent of the Belum Forest Reserve. It is now known as “Royal Belum” after being bestowed the royal title by HRH Sultan of Perak, Sultan Azlan Shah in July, 2003. It is said that the name “Belum” originated from the noise emitted from stick grasshoppers (belalang ranting) that sounds like “Belummm, Belummm…”. So, what is there to do or see in Royal Belum? According to Dato’ Hj Abdul Karim bin Osman, General Manager of Perak State Park Corporation, the agency that oversees the Park, visitors MUST check out the Rafflesia, the largest flower on Earth. While this flower is found in tropical rainforests throughout Southeast Asia, the Rafflesia is an iconic symbol for Royal Belum. A “normal” Rafflesia flower has five petals but recently, a flower with ten petals, measuring 40 cm in diameter was discovered at Sungai Gadong. It was definitely the first of its kind in the world. Another attraction for visitors is the Sungai Rouk Waterfall, which is not any ordinary waterfall. This is where various species of local freshwater fish are bred specifically to promote aquatourism. Popular species are Kelah, Tengas and Temonggeh. While on the subject of waterfalls, Royal Belum has quite a few to offer. The most unique is the Sungai Kooi Waterfall, with a height of 50 metres. The water does not cascade but showers down! Those who prefer to check out the wild animals in Royal Belum are recommended to visit the salt lick. There are 12 areas where wild animals would come by to obtain their salt nutrients. The famous licks are Sira Papan, Sira Damar Siput and Sira Rambau, to name a few. On the other hand, those who prefer a simpler life are invited to experience the Sungai Kejar or Sungai Tiang Tourism camps. These camps are located some 30 minutes by boat from Pulau Banding. Facilities provided, besides the camping sites, are community sheds, bathrooms, toilets, kitchens and barbeque equipment. Those who opt for Sungai Kejar Tourism Camp should also visit the Kejar Hilir Village, a village of the Orang Asli Jahai. This isolated tribe originated from the Austroasia group, similar to Orang Asli Temiar found in central Peninsular Malaysia A trip to Royal Belum is not complete without watching the birds, especially the hornbills. Ten species of the bird are found here. In fact, bird-watching is a popular activity, although it takes a lot of luck to spot specific species of the birds. Royal Belum is indeed an experience of a lifetime. Explore all that it has to offer personally. Be blown away by the thousands of species of flora and fauna that make the forest their habitat. Today’s guide is a good starting point. Incidentally, a permit is required to enter the State Park. This can be easily handled by tour operators registered with the Perak State Park Corporation. For more information, contact them at 05-791 4543 or 05-791 7858 during office hours
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‹ See all press releases SINGAPORE - FOX Networks Group Asia’s video-streaming service, FOX+, has selected Adyen, the payments platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies, to process their payments and improve customer experience in Asia. The recently launched business collaboration will enable on-demand customer easier access to FOX+ content in Taiwan and the Philippines. “Innovative features and understanding of subscription payment challenges are instrumental in our plans to create an enhanced FOX+ customer experience in Asia. With Adyen, our subscribers can now pay with credit cards and enjoy access to our amazing host of content from the latest TV series, Hollywood blockbusters, inspiring documentaries and live sports,” said John Kotsaftis, Executive Vice President, Digital and FOX+, FOX Networks Group. Through this business collaboration with Adyen, FOX+ will be able to accept credit card payments that are integral to a frictionless subscriptions business in Asia. Adyen’s end-to-end solution also enables consolidated reporting across Asia, resulting in greater operational efficiency. The payment platform’s unique visibility on the entire payment flow also provides valuable data insight for FOX+ to continue optimizing their payments process for greater revenue and customer loyalty. “Across markets, we see that offering trusted payment methods is key to growing revenue and customer loyalty. This is especially important for subscription businesses like FOX+ who must ensure consistent and uninterrupted service for subscribers. With our in-depth understanding of local payment preferences, we are excited to work with FOX+ as they expand their offering and optimize customer experiences across Asia,” said Warren Hayashi, President of Adyen Asia-Pacific. About FOX Networks Group FOX Networks Group Asia (FNG Asia) is 21st Century Fox’s multi-media business in Asia Pacific and the Middle East. FNG Asia develops, produces and distributes entertainment, sports, factual and movie channels in 14 languages. The FNG Asia portfolio includes over 30 channel brands, on both linear and non-linear platforms, including FOX Sports, FOX Life, FOX Movies, National Geographic, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo People, SCM (formerly STAR Chinese Movies) and SCC (formerly STAR Chinese Channel) and its on-demand video-streaming service FOX+. As the region’s leading broadcaster, FNG Asia reaches more than 580 million cumulative homes with offices in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Australia and the UAE. FNG Asia is a fully owned subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. FOX+ is the only video-streaming service in Asia that combines TV series, movies and live sports, in one place, accessible from any device, at any time and in HD. With a combination of first-run Hollywood blockbusters and hit Chinese series and movies, plus exclusive live sports, FOX+ is the ultimate destination for entertainment. More than 11,000 hours of programming across multiple genres are available, comprising of the most popular content from global movie studios and television channels, as well as original FOX programming and exclusive FOX+ content.
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I Create Funny And Cute Cat Comics To Spread Positivity And Happiness (30 Pics) My name is Olive Yong and I'm a self-taught artist from Malaysia. You can find my art on my Instagram art account named "bichi.mao". I create tons of funny and relatable short comics, quote series, animated songs and illustrations about cats. I started my comics and illustrations as a way to mimic my cat's naughty attitude (that's how the name "bichi.mao" was born). My main motivation is my want to spread positive energy to people in a funny and cute way. Check out my Instagram account for more cuteness and happiness! More info: Instagram
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Children’s Books from Southeast Asia My Night in the Planetarium From the author/illustrator of the bestseller A is for Activist comes My Night in the Planetarium, a high-adventure, true story from his childhood in Indonesia. The thrill of spending the night in a museum is the capstone to a story ultimately about free speech, political progress, and artistic defiance. Featuring Inno’s gorgeous art style recognizable from A is for Activist, Counting on Community, and his joyous activism, My Night in the Planetarium cleverly and humorously combines history, geography, politics, and activism in an adventure story of childhood wonder, political resistance, and familial connection. Seven year-old Innosanto’s father, a famous Indonesian playwright, is in trouble with the government for his newest play’s unfavorable portrayal of governmental power and corruption. After a rousing performance at a large theater complex which also houses the Jakarta Planetarium, Innosanto’s father manages to sneak out of town to avoid arrest while Innosanto and his mother spend an exciting night sleeping under the stars in the Jakarta Planetarium. A beautiful introduction to the history and culture of Indonesia, My Night at the Planetarium is an engaging, thought-provoking starting point for a discussion of colonialism, political corruption, and artistic resistance. Am I small? ໂຕຂ້ອຍນ້ອຍບໍ?: Children’s Picture Book English-Lao/Laotian Philip Winterberg (Author), Nadja Wichmann (Illustrator), Bouakeo Sivilay (Translator) Bilingual Edition English-Lao/Laotian “Am I small?” – Tamia is not sure and keeps asking various animals that she meets on her journey. Eventually she finds the surprising answer… Malaysian Children’s Favourite Stories Kay Lyons (Author) and Martin Loh (Illustrator) Malaysian Children’s Favourite Stories is collection of folk tales drawn from the rich treasure trove of legends and historical stories in the lush Southeast Asian nation of Malaysia. This story book contains a fascinating collection of tales of brash animals, brave villagers and of course handsome princes and beautiful princesses, all set in strange and exotic locations. These stories are widely retold and much beloved by children and adults throughout Malaysia to this day. Retold for the first time here for an international audience, the beautifully illustrated tales in this story book will give children insights into the traditional culture and rich natural environment of Malaysia. Norma Olizon-Chikiamco (Author) and Mark Salvatus (Illustrator) **Winner of the Carlos Palance Memorial Award for Literature** A heart-warming story of a young Filipino girl who builds self-confidence after spending a day with her classmates, Pan de Sal Saves the Day: A Filipino Children’s Story is an award-winning inspiring tale for young children everywhere. It’s the story of a young girl named Pan de Sal who lives in the Philippines and thinks she’s the unluckiest girl in the whole world. Aside from not liking her own name and finding her appearance strange, she doesn’t have all the fancy things her classmates have. She can’t even muster the courage to try out for the Glee Club, even though she has a beautiful voice.Things change suddenly when an unexpected event forces her into the limelight. With her innate talent and resourcefulness, Pan de Sal wins admiration of her classmates and finds the confidence she needs to fulfill her dreams. For anyone who has ever felt like an outsider or experienced adversity, Pan de Sal Saves the Day teaches children to see the unique qualities in everything and everyone, even themselves.
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‘Maurits wrote a serie of beautiful fantasy books about microorganisms for children with the aim to emphasize on the importance of microorganisms for life on earth. The board of the Royal Netherlands Society for Microbiology is very enthusiastic about his books, as we more and more focus on outreach to the general public.’ Dutch royal society for microbiology the KNVM ‘The abyss of Azu, the final part of the Diego Dazzler serie, filled with new adventures... will the young heroes be able to control Krudon Kragt and his endless cravings for more Terrafos? Besides Diego and his friends, other heroes are present in the story: useful bacteria. These microbes help to make and keep Diego’s World livable: Alcanivorax that eats oil and cleans up waste; Nitrosomonas that eats the ammonium in sweat and keeps our skin clean, the miraculous Methylomirabilis Oxyfera that produces oxygen while breaking down the greenhouse gas methane. Maurits van Huijstee shows u show we can and must keep our World livable, and how dependent we are on microbes cleaning water, capturing nitrogen, producing oxygen and tasty products of fermentation and breaking down greenhouse gasses. The whole family has read the four books with great, great pleasure. Diego Dazzler & The abyss of Azu is a great ending to a great story. Absolutely recommended.’ Professor in microbiology Mike Jetten, winner of the Spinoza price 2012 Comment from my 11-year-old son: "I enjoyed it very much and very exciting, and it is one of my favorite books. I really want to read the next part! ' Suuppeerr exciting, very beautiful life lessons too, thanks, we have been glued to the book. ' Evert Lichtenbelt and children (7, 9 and 11) Should part 4 ever appear .... my daughter is waiting for it! Annet Klein Holkenborg, Zeist I lost my daughter (9) for days through this book. She secretly read in her room. And now she wants to be my successor. Marjan Minnesma, founder and director of Urgenda Our son (group 6) is a big fan of your books! He has held a book review about it. Comment from my 12-year-old daughter: "I held my book review about Diego Heatstroke and the return of the eagle and I got a ten. Everyone in my class thought it was a very exciting book, but I did it most of all. They also wanted me to read because I stopped on a very exciting piece. I really thought it was a super exciting book. It has now become my favorite book. " 'My nephew of 9 read it in one go. It is fantastic that you pay attention to sustainability in a way that appeals to children more than our 'people-language'. It is important that children learn what sustainability means at a young age so that we no longer have to learn bad behavior when they are older. ' Gé Moonen, Moonen Packaging, Weert Comment from my daughter (9): "I really liked the 2nd part of Diego Zonnestek again! I liked that he was a little fatter because then dad and I could read more about Diego and his friends. It was a very fun, exciting and educational adventure again !! I have learned a lot from it. such as: that you should not use too much terravos / oil but that there is also sun and wind energy. And that that is much better for the environment. And I hope that another part will come. " Joost Ravoo, Haarlem Part III was again devoured in a few days, my daughter really likes your books, super! Martin Haas, Wapenveld Comment from my daughter (11): I thought it was super fun but also exciting and pathetic. Laura van den Bosch My son found him (even) more exciting than part I ... Anneclaar Weijers (2), Kockengen My daughter (11) even did her book review about this book, she liked it so much! Josette Voskuilen, Montfoort We enjoyed Diego2. I read the book and we could not put both books down so exciting. And every time wondering what would happen again. With everything and everyone. Exciting, constructive, good narrative concerns the environment and super cool solutions as an alternative to greener electricity. All in all a big recommendation for both children and parents. Angelique de Winter Oomen and daughter According to my daughter, he was completely great! Maikel van den Corput Comment from my son (9): 'Part 2 is SUPERCOOL, certainly just as fun as part 1. So cool, that my book review must be about it! And once part 3 is there, I want it! Your book was devoured by my oldest of 11 and I enjoy reading it to daughter of 9! Anne van Elsen Comment from my son (11): 'I thought it was a very nice book. It is very useful if you have read the 1st part. There is a lot of fantasy in it and I could also empathize with Diego Zonnesteek in this story. Sometimes I really thought "do not do that!". I thought it was great to be a test reader and I would definitely recommend the book to my classmates. I hope that part three will come! " Dick Boeve, Driebergen Comment from my son (12): I thought it was fun and exciting, there was more action than in the first, I liked that. My compliments for your book! I have read it with a lot of pleasure in a few days. It becomes a bestseller. My son (11) has read the books independently (!). He found it exciting and went through it like a spear. Marc van Grinsven Part I found my daughter (9) too crazy, and about part II she did her book review because she liked it so much! You can not get a bigger compliment. Niels Mulder (2), Amsterdam I have read part II of Diego Zonnestek, just like part I, in one go. Once I started the adventure, I was eagerly looking forward to what Diego and his friends would all come across. The green transition as an exciting adventure for young and old. Not just imaginative adventure, but something that we can all contribute to in our daily lives. Hopefully these books will make many more people aware of the great opportunities that exist for a more sustainable society. On to Part III! Silvia Heijnen, Limburg 'Our 9-year-old son will be talking about his magic spectacles next week. Julian van 11 looks in the morning whether the "Eagle" has already landed in the mailbox ... great books. " Ron van Ommeren Last week I read part I and II in succession. Great books for large (I 48) and small (my kids 10 and 12) and also to give as a gift (fits my function manager environment with a small municipality). Thanks for the exciting reading hours! My eldest son (12) read it: He thought he was even better than part I, and he already thought it was great! Simon Morsink (2), Bussum Maurits, thank you for bringing me back to the reading path. I read both parts in one breath during our holiday in Greece. What appealed to me was the descriptive writing style that caused you to smell the dirty air and hear the water thumping through the village. In addition, the parallels with the now and lines that are to be continued in the near future. This style makes both books timeless. I therefore eagerly look forward to the following parts because it tastes like more. Rob (55 years old), Naarden The first book review about Diego has already been given here in Heemstede! My daughter used part 1 as a basis last week and of course referred to part II. Many enthusiastic reactions in the classroom and everyone wants to read it. Part II is, if possible, even more fun than part I. She sticks to the idea that part I says that it is a series and therefore does not end with only two books. Full of expectations of part III! My 11-year-old son read it again in one go and found it super exciting. A big compliment! That rarely happens to him. Cora Zaaijer-van Muiswinkel (2), Middelburg Comment from my son (12): "Even better than part I." He has read it in two days and a night. John Nouwens (2) Roger Cox, lawyer of Urgenda in the won trial against the Dutch government, the so-called 'climate case.' The gorge of Azu, the last part of the thrilling Diego Zonnestek series. Plenty of new adventures. Will it succeed the young heroes to control Krudon Kragt and his terrace fanatic? Besides Diego and his friends there are also other heroes in the story, namely useful bacteria. These bacteria help to make the world of Rebequin liveable and to keep it: Alcanivorax from the Bobasken salt which feeds oil and cleans up pollutants; Nitrosomonas that sweats the ammonium in sweat and keeps our skin clean and the miraculous Methylomirabilis Oxyfera bacteria that makes its own oxygen to break down the greenhouse gas methane. Maurits van Huijstee shows how we can and should keep our world liveable and depend on micro-organisms that clean water, capture nitrogen, produce oxygen, prepare delicious fermentation products and break down greenhouse gases. The whole family has read it with great pleasure. Very nice end of the whole story. Recommended. Mike Jetten, professor of Microbiology and Spinoza winner 2012 Jan Paul Schutten, two-time winner of the Gouden Griffel Without exaggeration: my sons have fought for it and then devoured him. And that rarely happens to them! Merle Pikkemaat, Vreeland "A chapter every night; to read aloud. Also with the return of the Eagle we are taken back into a special world. We live with the adolescent Diego who is hard to know with his special qualities. Excitement, sensation, and humor with a nice responsible message. All of this time! " Jikke & Matthijs (30-years but sure fan!) I believe that personal development gives meaning to life. With that development you can not start early enough. Maurits contributes with his trilogy about Diego to a positive development of me and my children. How wonderful it is to see during the reading that the children find it very logical that you can generate energy with kites, bacteria and other innovative inventions. It gives me the hope that our children from this natural logic that they are given by Maurits will do what our generation still has so much trouble with. Diego makes adults think about their own role in society and gives children a good example of how you can contribute to a healthy and safe society. Finally: It is a nice exciting children's book that you as an adult (for) reader also enjoy. My daughter of 9 thinks the books are great. I also like them as a parent, both the spelling and the environmental and business policy aspects that are introduced in a playful way. Edwin Roestenburg, Oegstgeest Both my son and daughter loved the book Diego Zonnesteek. Read with pleasure! Claire Reeves, Haarlem My daughter (11) thought it was a nice book, because (as she said) Diego is a special, interesting and funny child. My other daughter (from 9) also, and said that it is also different from other books, as I understood by the variation in emotions in the book! Marc Smals, Utrecht My daughter has read part 1 and liked it so much that she did a book review last week. Part 2 has yet to be started. We had already read in the newspaper about part 3 (bacteria I believe) so are very curious! Sarah Splinter, Utrecht My daughter thought it was a fun and imaginative book. And looks forward to your new book. Afke van der Velden, Maarssen dear Maurits, I think your books are soooooo nice. part 1 I have already uit.some pieces I found quite difficult to understand but eventually I understood it.I read now part 2 I find it very exciting I find Diego Zonnestek a very nice book and I hope that part III will come out soon! Success and pleasure with writing (this is what my mother types). Greetings from the daughter of Sylvia Sylvia Peters, Zeist We are already looking forward to part 3. We, because I read the books about dyslexia of my son. That is not a punishment because I just enjoy it. Johanna Blankensteijn, Oegstgeest I have read the books both. I liked them very much. I can not wait for the third part. Beau (9), Bilthoven Diego really liked it. My son is 12, he is a mishmash of tough and scared. Cool on his waveboard, on a zip cable car, with his friends, on instagram. Afraid of the dark, afraid not to be popular enough, afraid of Ebola and sharks and afraid of shaky boats. Diego is just such a mishmash. With doubts and fears. He also makes mistakes. He is also tempted. And then he is wonderfully brave and independent, thanks to the 'bell'. Personally, I really want a more sustainable earth. You process this in the book without being edifying. You literally show what happens when we want to be rich and powerful when we exploit the earth. Your disasters and your solutions are so fanciful and exaggerated that cause and effect become clear. And therefore linger. And why not eat mosquitoes when you are hungry? At the same time you deal with discrimination, child abuse, the terror of the schoolyard and bullying in your book. And especially 'being different'. Again without being edifying. Without naming it. Just by the adventures that you experience extreme and imaginative characters. The hero becomes anti-hero and vice versa. Your book is exciting, it is very difficult to put it away and not just read a chapter. Very nice that they are sometimes only two pages, then there can be just one. Clara Wagtendonk, Kinshasa I liked my son very much and she liked it very much. If the next part is out, he wants to have them again. Marcel de Wilde, Apeldoorn Last Monday, my son discussed your second book in the classroom. He had made a beautiful presentation and told about it in smells and colors. Result, a class full of curious children and a 9 :). Joy Lodarmasse (2), Beuningen Did you read your 2nd book in 1 jug the day before yesterday? With a wood fire. We enjoyed the story until late at night. Dirk de Jong, Ministry of Economic Affairs, biobased economy, The Hague Hello Maurits when your new book comes from dingo sunstroke Thanks for the audio book. Now I can listen to it when I am on my way. I also thought it was a nice book to read! Mirjam Hooijberg, Edam My son has devoured the books. My daughter is now busy in part three. In November she will hold a book review about Diego part 2. She is also very enthusiastic. That you have been at school with the children, they still like it very much! Esther Zeeuw, Zeist It was quiet here this afternoon. 2 children who were reading your book. So a success the purchase !! Angelique churchyard, Baarn My daughter (10) has proudly defended your books. She made a great impression with the reading and the posters. She got a 9. Thanks again! Freek van Eijk, Bussum With packet evening I got the '' sint '' '' Diego Zonnestek and the return of the eagle ''. 5 minutes ago I started reading. And I wanted to tell you: I like it now! When I'm half reading, I'll send a response with tips and tops. I'm sure: this book will be a top book again! Together you go for a sustainable life. For a long time I have been working on sustainability, and that makes your message in your books very clear. hopefully you leave that in this and see your next books again! Your writing friend My daughter is very happy with your books Helene de Nooijer, Castricum My son (10) enjoys your books enormously! Stephanie Schrama, Bergen Our son is a big fan of your books. Well, it is a coincidence that he has to hold a book review at school (group 5) on 27 November. It would be great if he could take the writer of his book ... so if you happen to be in the neighborhood ;-). Inge Ponte, Ulvenhout Our son read the book with pleasure and last year (he was in group 7) his book review was held. We look forward to part 3. Jeroen Teeling, Naarden My daughter is very enthusiastic about your books. She also wants the next part. Nice for her birthday. Can you give me the title? Yvonne van der Velden, Leersum We recently bought the book at the Jan Hekman school in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel after your visit in group 6B. I had been planning for some time to know how much fun our son enjoyed visiting his class. He immediately started reading that afternoon with enthusiasm, which had not happened before because he had serious dyslexia and reading is therefore a big task (frustration). Very nice to see that you have been able to enthuse him for reading! Karien Verhulst, Ouderkerk aan de Amstel book is already out and received positively Desirée Jansen, Amsterdam Part 1 is my daughter liked, just like part 2. We have bought part 3 this week and will also be nice. Astrid van Alst, Zeist My son (10) is very happy with your book! Michel Leenders, Breda My daughter has read part I full of enthusiasm and has now started on part II. Can I order part III and pre-register for part IV? Hidde van Kersen, Huizen My son reads your book with pleasure, we would also like to purchase the other one. Theresa Werner, Rotterdam My daughter (10) is reading wonderfully in your books (1st is already from 😉) Marieke van Otterloo, Amsterdam Both my sons also love your books, just like me! Joost Paques, Balk My daughter (11) is very enthusiastic about the books. Fleur Nollen, The Hague Thanks for the nice work my daughter enjoys a lot. Alexander Muntjewerf, Lochem According to my daughter "Really great fun!". Honor of your work! Henk Goede, Volendam My son found your book "super cool" and at the end of May he had his book review at school about you. Of course we want to have part III. 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Alice Knol - Rispens, Heerenveen Let's all get on Diego's side! Bill McKibben, Environmental Journalist of the Year according to Time Magazine, founder of 350.org We have received the book 'Diego Zonnestreek & De Magische Bril' from you for our sons. They thought it was a beautiful book! My wife is now reading it by chance, and I have to tell her that it must absolutely be filmed. What my daughter of 10 writes: Hi Maurits, I have kept my reading circle about your book. I got a z / g (very good). that is the highest you can get. I found your book fantastic, and especially those ideas from the house of Amita. The best idea was that when you went to the bath, when you were done, all the hot water went to the heating. If you think up more of that kind of ideas, the world will look a lot more sustainable in a few years! In short: a great, exciting, fun, humorous, ingenious book! Caroline van Lankveld, Zeist Very satisfied. We thought you had a very nice low voice and that you read nicely. 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Arnoud Oltmans, Bentveld My son (11) and me and my husband loved it, both part 1 and 2 and part 3. My son did a book review about it! Compliments. Brigitte Mohede, Naarden Anita Zijlstra, De Telegraaf My daughter thought it was a super fun, exciting and a bit funny book! It was very fun. The children are all reading in your book, and bragging about each other at which chapter they are. And in the break your audio book will be listened to. Totally top, thank you! Joliek de Boer, Montessorischool Zuid in Hilversum The kids were so impressed by your reading. Silently they were listening with open mouth, so nice! Leonie van Diemen primary school de Scheper, Laren Comment from my son of 9: When is the book diego sunstroke and the magic glasses 2 ready? Quirine Heuzeveldt, Bussum Self-written Comment from my son (9): A beautiful book and also exciting. It was pathetic somewhere in the end. "The sour twist" sounded nice to go often. It will be nice if a movie by Diego Zonnestek & the magical glasses would come. and it was a nice book. When we went to the book presentation on the Malelande (primary school of our daughter) we made a joke that it was a smart salesman to sell your books. But after the presentation and especially after the reading of the first chapters of the book we were completely up. When our daughter was sleeping we took the book and secretly read it in a jerk. Next day confessed and now she reads the book herself. She is almost at the end and we can not wait for the next part ... Arwen Isis Perlot, Amersfoort My daughter (11) read them in one go! Read in 1 jerk. Nice exciting hopeful story, look forward to the next part full of anticipation. Pim de Bokx, Boskoop My daughter and I just finished Diego. She thought it was a great book. Very exciting, not only for her but also for me and my girlfriend. Cees ten Thije, Amsterdam My daughter has read all book five times ... Peter Loomans, Roermond My 9-year-old daughter loved it and has read all three books at once with me. She asked with big questioning eyes when a follow-up book came! Freek van Eijk, Bussum Am reading the book with my daughter: fun, exciting and instructive (My daughter thinks it is: 'heeeeeeeeeeeleel leuk') Joost Ravoo, Haarlem A wonderful book. I read it in one evening! My 7-year-old son is now working on it. It appeals to the imagination, with a message. Can not be more beautiful! Feike van der Zandt-Bergsma, Eemnes It was top and very successful! Jeffrey Swerissen, The Bosberg School in Hollandsche Rading I read it in quick speed. That happens when a book grabs you. Wonderful book! Gerard Verweij, Alderman, Bussum My 12-year-old son got the book Sunday and it's already gone. When will your next book be ready? Manon Stok, Leiden We finally started reading. The children love it - and so do I. Let that Eagle return. Cosmas Blaauw, Driebergen I would not be surprised if this became the new Harry Potter! Bert Homan, Alderman Utrechtse Heuvelrug Our son read the book with pleasure and last year (he was in group 7) his book review was held. We look forward to part 3. Jeroen Teeling, Naarden Just read .. Congratulations! That's something to be proud of. If you do not want to save the world here, then I do not know. Florian Andriessen, Terre des Hommes, Gouda We liked it so much here. Entirely right! Ariadne Biessels, Leersum Thank you again very much for reading. Despite the snowballs against the window, the group has sustained it for more than half an hour! Compliments for you. At the end of the afternoon we talked about the magic glasses. It lives very much with the children. Fun! Ria Schut, teacher at the OBB Blaricum My daughter thought it was a very nice book. She enjoyed it! Ineke de Jong At the end of the day, I asked the children what they had liked most that day and your presence was at the top. Also my guest, Sara from group 5, came back in the classroom with a smile! So all in all, I would say so very successfully. We are looking forward to part III! Jenny Medema, teacher group 5, primary school de Bolster Amersfoort My nephew has enjoyed your book! When he finished it I got it on loan and I immediately read it. Very nice, I also enjoyed! I'm curious about the next part! Emiel Schoonhoven, Amsterdam It was very inspiring. Very enthusiastic, on behalf of all pupils and teachers! Thank you Maurits. Els de Zoete, primary school Kaleidoscope in Almere A few key words: Enthusiastic, humorous, empathic, excitingly read out and creatively concluded with a quiz. M.a.w ............... .. We really liked your input! We will continue to follow you. Erik Moens, director primary school de Acaciahof in Middelburg I hope you can look back with pleasure on your visit to the Maleland this afternoon. We certainly do! The children were enthusiastic and the parents thought it was a successful afternoon. And we as teachers see a lot of children fanatically diving into the bookcase and of course we are always happy with that. Muriel van Burgsteden- Delahaye, teacher group 7 at De Malelande, Amersfoort My daughter of 11 made a list at school with things to take to a desert island. And guess what books she takes with her? Indeed… I thought it was great too! Idgar from Kippersluis I think it's a very nice book. I hope that many people find that with me. Noud te Riele, The Hague We look back with great pleasure to the day when you managed to bring the Wiekslag to higher spheres. By the way: the colleagues who read the book (or read it) found the book very good and look forward to the following parts. Good luck with writing. Henk Blikman, director of primary school De Wiekslag, Tubbergen Book my son really liked. Robbert Jan Voogt, Somewhere in Malaysia Enjoyed your book. Delightful (compelling) fantasy with also a serious message. My son has read it in 2 days, was completely in it. We are waiting for the next part! Alexis Fischer, Leeuwarden A good book. And Maurits also did an excellent job as chairman of the day at our seminar! Rob Schram, Director Cleaning Company Midden Nederland, Soest Diego Zonnesteek is a great children's book, fascinating and catchy written with a sustainable message that also captures young children and encourages fun conversations. Recommended! Teimen de Jong, Somewhere in Australia I heartily recommend Maurits. He is very relaxed and calm in front of the class. The book is also very well received at school and is widely read. Even my son (no reader) from this group is still looking for a way to smuggle the book home to read it. Good luck Maurits! Give us a call when the next part is ready! Ellen Huysmans, elementary school De Weidevogel, Amsterdam-Noord I wanted to let you know how happy my daughter was with the book, she immediately took it to school to use it as a reading book in between! And what is very nice, the big font! Especially for children like my daughter, who are dyslexic, that is very nice reading! So my compliments. Coen Middelweerd, Haarlem I do not know Maurits personally, but I would like to recommend him as a children's book author. The book about Diego Zonnestek & de Magische Bril is, in my opinion, a fun and fascinating story about a sustainable world. His way of writing will invite more children from 8 to 88 years to read the story at once, just like me. Recommended! Harry Denis, Budel P.S. a first reaction of a nephew of 11 years. He read the book in the same breath and asked when the second part came. He loved it. Lonneke Oosterwijk, Huizen Maurits succeeds in letting us fully enter the fictional world of "Diego Zonnestek", which shows that courage and innovation are essential to make the world a little better. The story cleverly uses tension and curiosity to introduce children to a playing field in which existing and new forces confront each other. A must for children, but also for anyone who wants to get inspired about the attractive presentation of a green world without falling into pleas. Niels Bartels, Amsterdam I really thought it was a good book. A lot of fantasy, exciting, fun. I can not say anything else. Herman van der Werf, Naarden We (my son of 10 and I) read it with pleasure! In fact, he told me the end .. (He could not wait until the next reading evening and he quickly read the secret himself). May it be clear that he too is very curious about the sequel! Bob Roessink, Tilburg Swanny is completely enthusiastic about your book, he is now reading on the couch: "exciting, fun, something for adults and children, very good story, no words." Wim Salters, Haarlem My daughter thought part I was super cute and exciting at the age of six! Now she enjoys even more part II and III! Petra de Hamer, Rotterdam I think Maurits has delivered a good piece of work. The book is cleverly cast in the form of an adventure story. Very nice! Erik Schroën, Weert I can wholeheartedly recommend Maurits! He has read to us 120 children, and that was a big party. At 't Noorderlicht in Eemnes it was just such a success. Jaap ter Steege, director primary school Rehoboth in Naarden-Vesting and the Noorderlicht in Eemnes and educational manager at Proceon Foundation Message from my daughter (9): 'I found it a very nice book, very fanatical, funny and fun and exciting. interesting because you can write a whole book about a not so long story. And learned that if you do not take good care of the environment, it will not be good for the world. ' I really have nothing to whisper about. Nice to hear this again. Jaap Logge, Doorn My daughter (8) really devoured your book! Out in 2 days. Harmen Scholten, Naarden Fortress Maurits is an excellent writer or books that combines fantasy, reality and ambition for a more sustainable world. His series of books on Diego Heatstroke are both entertaining and showing the undiscovered and infant technologies in bioenergy and other sustainable technologies. His books are targeted at children; however adults, including myself, read it with a lot of fun. I can not wait for his next book in the series! Erik Groen, Diemen Diego's book has fallen well here. Dirk Jan Emond, Purmerend We are soooo enthusiastic about it. Great fun written books with a lot of imagination. Sylvia van den Barselaar, Zwolle Hi Maurits, have your book read out in a joke today. Brilliant!! I will definitely pass em to my cousins !! Thanks for this beautiful story! I look forward to part 2 ... Vera Kamphorst, Dreumel The books are a great success! My daughter of 10 reads them in no time. She wants to know when part IV comes out. Michiel von Meyenfeldt, Vleuten Comment from my daughter of 8: 'I thought it was exciting, funny, fun, everything at the same time! I've read it out in five days. " Niels Mulder, Amsterdam I have read the book during my holiday in Italy in 3 days. Totally awesome. I read my last book at school because it had to. Then never again! (Now more than 30 years ago). I am not a reader at all, but this story really appealed to me. My wife is reading the book now. Ed Alting Siberg, Eemnes Comment from a friend's daughter (10): "I liked the book so much that I read it in 5 hours in a row I'm already curious about the next book!" Hugo Karelse, East Kapelle My daughter (9) likes it so much, she is reading it now for the second time! Esther Kruyswijk, Bussum Beautiful books. A great achievement! At the open day at De Meerlanden, Maurits handed out plenty of books, and that was a great success. Angeline Kierkels, Director of the Meerlanden, Aalsmeer Comment from my 11-year-old daughter: 'I found the book very exciting, too bad I had to sleep in between otherwise I would have read the book in a jerk!' Mickey Bosman, Bussum Comment from my son (13): 'You have very funny and fun characters. You think that if you write that book I also think it's a child because the book is written well in children's language and I really like that. I think it's exciting right from the start and the tension stays on all the time and that's why I read 30 pages every night. I especially like the end. " Mischa Mirck - Meiland, Breda Really nice to read. Good luck with finishing your next parts! Floris Mokveld, Roermond Comment from my son (11): 'I hardly ever read, but I really enjoyed this book! I saw it completely for me. It went deeper and deeper. I always wanted to read. Especially the end was very exciting. ' Personally, I found it very good too! Joep Verboeket, Bussum Magnificent! The story reads like a train. Wait for part 4 with tension. Chris Bogaers, Laren NH A story with a long shelf life which applies both to the age of the reader and to the story. Fun and imaginatively written. A topper in the category 'every night a chapter before bedtime.' Matthijs van der Kaaij, Emmen Exciting, funny, full of imagination. Diego is going for a beautiful green world, just like all of us. Pieter Winsemius, former Minister of VROM (Environment) Very nice. Also for adults! Esther Schmidt, Amsterdam ... as if fate asked for it, the little ones came up with your book yesterday. I read for an hour - they did not want to stop! - and my daughter (9) then went on reading. She loved it! Houdijn Beekhuis, Blaricum Last weekend your book Diego Zonnestek gave to my cousin Suzanne - her parents read aloud - she is completely in the story and especially the magic and magic aspect works super! Aheum, also with me! Continue to make these beautiful things. Tara Dik, Rijswijk Exciting and educational. For children, but certainly not childish. The writer succeeds in avoiding "The Mine Field of Boring, Cursing and Mock." He succeeds in tempting children into a speedy race - because they all want to know as quickly as possible how it goes and ends. Compliments! Maurits Groen, Founder Waka Waka, number 1 in the sustainable top 100 of Trouw My two sons read it ... they were completely taken by the story! The oldest (10) has read a lot, so he knows a lot of books, but he really liked this! Awesome! For young and old. More up-to-date and more important than ever. Ruud Koornstra, founder Tendris My 7-year-old son read it in one go and found it super exciting. A big compliment! That rarely happens to him. Cora Zaaijer-van Muiswinkel, Middelburg Comment from my son (11): 'I think you deserve a silver granger with this!' Philippe Dony, Naarden Comment from my son (11): 'Very nice ... a lot of fantasy. I read it in two days (on the ipad). ' What I did not know about my daughter (9): "Every night my mother came and called out" Light! You have to sleep. "As soon as she left ... light on, read on!" My other 11-year-old daughter read it from my laptop and thought it was great! She read every night until late, unstoppable. Wendela van Asbeck, somewhere in England Comment from my daughter (12): 'I thought it was beautifully written and very nice. Especially Diego, and his whole development and that he discovers that he is actually very special, and what he is going through is really great to read. I also thought it was very funny. I am very curious about part II. ' My daughter (11) said this morning about the book: "It's like pieces of a puzzle, that's great to read." Frank Serraarens, Rotterdam I have read Diego Heatstroke & The Magic Glasses; It gave me the wonderful feeling of being a child again and forgot the 'mature' worries. Congratulations on this beautiful result. Look forward to the sequel. And then the movie ?! Eldon van Rooijen, Heemstede Comment from my daughter (9): "Wonderful book, really nice. I want to do a book review about this! " Really really nice. I normally read the gray hunter and I do not like Harry Potter and things like that and all that, but this was very funny and full of imagination and exciting and read nicely. Comment from my daughter (9): 'I thought it was super fun, funny, full of imagination, and sometimes very exciting. I read every night, and I really wanted to read. " Comment from my son (12): "Super good. Really very good. "And my daughter (9) did a book review about it. What else do you want? 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Syaq Koyok's art speaks volumes about his heritage. By MURGAN GOVINDASAMY for Lensa Seni Art is more than just pretty paintings or magnificent sculptures. Though it can be just that, often, the aesthetic of a piece is but a junior partner in its relationship with the message or the story that piece is built around. It is just a fact of life, even outside of art: our stories and how we choose to tell them are what defines us and our world. In the case of Shahar “Shaq” Koyok, there are very few stories that are as important as the one he aims to tell: that of the Orang Asli people. Hailing from the Temuan tribe, an Orang Asli ethnic group native to the western parts of Peninsular Malaysia, Shaq Koyok uses various mediums of visual art to showcase his culture and highlight social issues faced by Orang Asli communities. In order to speak about his works, it is important to establish what these issues are to begin with. The Orang Asli have for a very long time had a delicate way of life rooted in tradition, communal ties and balance with nature. In the modern day, however, with deforestation, climate change and the displacement of their communities, the Orang Asli find themselves facing difficulties in sustaining that traditional way of life. Unfortunately, as our country heads into the modern world with full steam, the Orang Asli may not be able to resist the force of development but face the lack of the avenues necessary to fully integrate with modern society. Shaq Koyok uses his art as a form of activism to fight for land rights and culture, among other things. From the outside looking in, the career of Shaq Koyok also explores important questions, such as what place will the Orang Asli have in this new world, at what cost does this development come with, and how can they, without their traditional way of life and dwindling numbers, retain their culture, heritage, and identity. Shaq Koyok uses a multitude of media, fusing old and new in his works. He uses traditional Temuan woven baskets and mats as well as oil and acrylic paints. In his earlier works, he utilised acrylic on canvas media in a kind of stylized realist way to symbolise the dilemma the Orang Asli find themselves in. The common theme in many of these works is that they normally present tribesmen, painted in a rainbow of colours set against a backdrop of the threats to their community painted in bleak and realistic colours. Such works include “Still Life: the Fall” where a rainbow coloured tribesman is seen in free fall into a table with alcohol and oil palm seeds spread on top, and “Confession of Palm Oil” where tribesmen stand facing a field of palm oil saplings. The contrasting colours of the subject and the backdrop here are deliberate, with the rainbow colours representing the purity and spirit of the tribesmen and the bleak backdrop representing the ills that modernity brings to the Orang Asli, often just for the sake of palm oil profits. These works, though presenting powerful messages, seem somewhat generic and the symbolisms used seem a little too over the top from a purely artistic sense. His later works, however, show much greater artistic maturity and distinctive style. In his exhibition “Land of a Thousand Guilts” held in March 2021, Shaq Koyok presented numerous pieces painted on Temuan woven baskets and mats besides just canvas works. The weavings were done by his own family members and friends. This added another dimension to the artwork, as it was a subtle nod to the communal and self-sufficient way of life the Temuan would have led in their villages, where people bonded strongly and relied on each other. These tapestries were used as a canvas by Shaq to provide a painted depiction of everyday life in the Orang Asli village. The focus seems to be on the people themselves, more than the surroundings, with subjects including men and women, of all ages. These works focus more on the purity and the innocence of life in the villages with pride, and act more as a reminder of what could be lost. Almost poetically, this not only applies to the culture and livelihood of the Orang Asli in the paintings themselves, but also the very material that the mats on which Shaq Koyok paints on, the pandanus leaves, which are becoming increasingly scarce. The progression of Shaq Koyok as an artist is a remarkable one. Besides sticking to one medium, he is willing to use a multitude of methods to further his fight for Orang Asli identity and rights. However, the rise of Shaq Koyok is also an important one in highlighting the problems his people face as they are often left as an afterthought in public discourse. In a country where many Orang Asli are living in extreme poverty, their children have high school dropout rates, and they are constantly displaced from their ancestral lands, Shaq Koyok stands defiantly proud, not against the modern world, but within it as a success story. The knowledge, customs, stories and ideas of the Orang Asli are traditionally passed on from times unknown to present day through oral tradition generation after generation within their tribes. This is why their way of life is so fragile. In order to maintain the succession of knowledge, strong communal bonds and a sacred relationship with the land are necessary. When they are thrust into the modern world they are separated from their ancestral land, and their communities risk being broken down. Consequently, their stories stop being passed down and ultimately may never get heard. Activist art like Shaq Koyok’s is key, as it serves to break this silence by combining old and new, contemporary art with traditional inspiration to perpetuate the passing of these stories and ensuring these issues become central in public discourse. From a community whose fate has often been decided for them by outsiders, Shaq Koyok stands not only to bring attention to their issues, but he is also a symbol of hope and self determination, using his own skill and talents to make the most of his life in the modern world while not only retaining, but actively promoting his heritage. Murgan Govindasamy is a participant in the CENDANA ARTS WRITING MASTERCLASS & MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME 2021 The views and opinions expressed in this article are strictly the author’s own and do not reflect those of CENDANA. 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We are searching data for your request: Upon completion, a link will appear to access the found materials. Archaeologists have discovered a tomb belonging to a powerful pre-Hispanic priestess in Peru, the eighth in more than two decades, confirming that women ruled the region approximately 1,200 years ago. The burial chamber was found in the Cao religious compound belonging to the Moche civilisation, close to the city of Trujillo, Peru. The highly decorated tomb is made of clay and covered with copper plates in the form of waves and birds. Inside the tomb were the remains of the priestess surrounded by ceramic offerings, a mast and a knife, as well as the bodies of five children and two adults all of whom were sacrificed. So far, the excavations within the cemetery of the Mochica elite have only turned up tombs with women, indicating the important role that women played in the Moche society. "This find makes it clear that women didn't just run rituals in this area but governed here and were queens of Mochica society," said project director Luis Jaime Castillo. The Moche was a mysterious civilization who ruled the northern coast of Peru approximately two thousand years ago. They built huge pyramids made of millions of mud bricks and created an extensive network of aqueducts which enabled them to irrigate crops in their dry desert location. They were also pioneers of metal working techniques like gilding and soldering, which enabled them to created extraordinarily intricate jewellery and artefacts. Little was known about the Moche civilization because they left no written texts to help explain their beliefs and customs. However, the discovery of detailed paintings and murals on pottery work and on temple walls has helped to provide insights into their culture and beliefs. The artwork, as well as archaeological findings, has indicated that women were held with high esteem. It was the Moche priestesses who used to carry out the gruesome sacrifices. Adorned in gold, they would slit the throats of their victims and catch the blood in a golden goblet for the high priestess to drink. Excavated tombs revealing women buried with weapons and armour also indicate that they were fighting warriors. Still, much knowledge about the structure of Moche society remains to be discovered and understood. Ancient Tomb Of Wari Women Found In Peru Archaeologists have unearthed a massive royal tomb full of mummified women in Peru, providing clues about an enigmatic empire. Researchers say the discovery will help piece together life of the Wari, who were in the Andes centuries before the rise of the Incan empire. The Incans are much better known as they were written about in detail by the conquering Spaniards. "For the first time in the history of archeology in Peru we have found an imperial tomb that belongs to the Wari empire and culture," lead archeologist Milosz Giersz said. The mausoleum was unearthed a few months ago at a coastal pyramid site called El Castillo de Huarmey 185 miles (299km) north of Lima. It contains gold pieces, ceramics and 63 skeletons that are about 1,300 years old. Archaeologists told National Geographic that they kept their work quiet for fear grave robbers would pick the site clean. More from World 'The cracks are just getting worse every day': In Ireland, thousands of homes are crumbling Joe Biden-Vladimir Putin summit: US president says 'genuine prospect to significantly improve relations' with Russia after talks Biden-Putin summit: Why it's no bad thing that the meeting was a little dull Airstrikes launched against Hamas after incendiary devices are sent into Israel Israel-Gaza violence: First flare-up since ceasefire is a reminder of its fragility Nora Quoirin: Malaysia court overturns coroner's verdict that teen's death was misadventure Researchers said most of the bodies found in the burial chamber were mummified women sitting upright. The sitting position of the mummies indicates royalty and suggests Wari women held more power than previously thought. "The women were buried with finely engraved ear pieces made of precious metals that once were believed to be used only by men," archaeologist Patrycja Przadk said. Historians believe the Wari, who ruled between 600 and 1100 AD, were the first people to unite diverse tribes into a sophisticated network across most of today's Peruvian Andes. Bioarchaeologist Wieslaw Wieckowski said six skeletons were not wrapped in textiles and appear to have been human sacrifices for the mummified elite. "They were people thrown into the grave before the grave was sealed," he said. "They were lying on their bellies, in an extended position and their limbs went in different directions." Ancient Priestess Unearthed In Peru Tomb Suggests Women Ruled Mysterious, Brutal Culture (PHOTO) Archaeologists working in Peru have uncovered the skeleton of a woman believed to have been a high priestess of a mysterious culture that existed around 1,200 years ago. The pre-Hispanic remains were found in late July in an impressive burial chamber located in the country's northern Chepén province, according to the Agence France-Presse. (Story continues below.) The priestess seems to have been a leader of an ancient culture known as the Moche, or Mochia. Around 2,000 years ago, the Moche dominated the cultural landscape of what is now northern Peru, building large pyramids from mud bricks before disappearing without explanation. The name Moche comes from the site of Moche, an ancient capital city. Researchers have spent years attempting to unravel the riddles of a society which left no written record. According to the BBC, illustrations show the Moche engaged in brutal bouts of ritualized combat that ended with the losers being sacrificed. The priestess discovered in Chepén was buried with child and adult human sacrifices, AFP reports. She joins the list of several other priestesses who have been found in northern Peru in the past few years. "This find makes it clear that women didn't just run rituals in this area but governed here and were queens of Mochica society," project director Luis Jaime Castillo told AFP. "It is the eighth priestess to be discovered. Our excavations have only turned up tombs with women, never men." Arguably the most important of these was an elaborately-tattooed female mummy discovered in a burial chamber filled with treasure and weapons. Announced to the public in 2006, the Moche mummy was later dubbed the "Lady of Cao" and is believed to have been a leader of the civilization between 1,700 and 1,600 years ago before dying in childbirth, according to the site Living in Peru. At the time, archaeologists said the discovery of the Lady of Cao was similar in significance to the discovery of King Tut's tomb in Egypt, according to National Geographic. Archaeology student makes an unusual find at a Peruvian dig Credit: Harvard Gazette Caroline Coolidge was stunned. The rising second-year was digging at the archaeology field school in San José de Moro, Peru, and there in the dusty dirt a small face stared up at her. She thought her eyes were playing tricks on her. "I honestly at first just thought I was imagining it because I just wanted to find something so bad," said Coolidge, a Leverett House resident who is taking part in the summer archaeology program run by Pontifícia Universidad Católica del Perú in collaboration with the Harvard Summer School Study Abroad Program. "I thought, "This can't be this intact piece of pottery." But I just kept brushing away. I was honestly speechless when I saw what it was." It turned out to be truly special. Earlier in the week students had unearthed fragments of ceramic vessels, a typical find at one of the oldest ceremonial burial grounds for the Moche, a pre-Columbian civilization that flourished along Peru's northern coast between the first and eighth century A.D. But Coolidge had come up empty. "I hadn't really found anything where I had been working," she said. "I was excited but feeling a little bit discouraged because I wondered if I was doing this wrong."Caroline Coolidge displays the figurine she unearthed at the archeology site in Peru. Credit: Harvard Gazette Determined, she kept at it, using her trowel to methodically clear away dirt in the site's northwest corner. Then, as she brushed the dried soil from what she thought was a rock, she slowly uncovered a fully intact figurine, likely from the transitional period between the Moche and Lambayeque cultures and approximately 1,000 years old. In addition to its pristine condition, what made Coolidge's discovery so unusual was the absence of other objects nearby. "Typically, this type of artifact would be included in a burial," she said, "but there were no burials found near it." Studying the cultural heritage of some of Peru's earliest civilizations is at the heart of the field school run by Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, a visiting professor at Harvard in 2016 and professor of archaeology at Pontifícia Universidad Católica, who was recently named Peru's minister of culture, and by Gary Urton, Harvard's Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies. During the five-week program participants visit Peruvian archaeological sites and museums and learn the fundamentals of archaeological documentation and analysis. They also learn how to excavate, uncovering funerary relics and other items that point to how groups such as the Moche celebrated life and death, and how and why they flourished or failed. "We are trying to understand another culture by looking at their material remains," said Urton, whose research focuses on pre-Columbian and early colonial Andean cultural and intellectual history. "All of these Peruvian civilizations did not have writing so we don't have their own words … what we do have is what they lived with, what they made, what they used in their day-to-day lives. So what we try to do then with the students is have this balance between the real physical excitement of working in the field and the intellectual challenge of thinking about what it all means." Coolidge is eager to find out more about what her figurine might mean—archaeologists at the site suspect it may have been used as a fertility offering. Urton called it "an extraordinary piece" and "one of the most complete and beautiful figurines we have brought up from here in several years." Coolidge plans to write about the artifact for her final class project and will study its composition and compare it with similar finds at the site in recent years, she said, to determine "its cultural significance and where it fits within the region's chronology." On a Skype call after a long day of digging, Coolidge said the experience had helped her hone her academic focus. She said she intends to either concentrate in archaeology or make it a secondary field of study during her time at Harvard. "I knew it was going to be amazing," she said. "But I didn't realize it was going to be this amazing." Cleopatra, Last Queen of Egypt Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh, tried to keep her kingdom independent of Rome. After the death of Julius Caesar, she teamed up with Marc Antony (who was also her lover and father of three of her children) to keep Octavian, Caesar’s nephew and heir, from expanding his rule into Egypt. Quite the soap opera, yes? In the end, she was unsuccessful. When Octavian prevailed, Antony committed suicide. Shortly after, whether in grief over the loss of her lover (the more romantic version) or to avoid the humiliation of defeat and the ensuing slavery (the more likely version) Cleopatra killed herself — by the bite of an asp, according to Plutarch. Roman historian Cassius Dio tells us that Octavian (who would soon become Augustus Caesar), with the graciousness of a victor, ordered Cleopatra buried beside her lover. But where? Alexandria, presumably, but therein lies a problem of which you are already aware. A tsunami, earthquakes and rising sea levels have devastated the Alexandrian coastline over the years. The area where the queen and her consort were most likely buried is now under water. A team of archaeologists working in Taposiris Magna, a city about 30 miles west of Alexandria, have suggested that the queen’s mausoleum might be found there. But there’s little evidence to support the claim. Glenn Godenho, an egyptologist at the University of Liverpool, says the evidence linking Cleopatra to the site is limited to coins imprinted with her image. This only confirms that the place was used during her reign, not that she had any personal connection with the location. The tomb of Egypt’s tragic queen is likely to remain a mystery. Inside the untouched tomb of Peru’s ancient Wari royals For archeologists, the unlooted Wari tomb at El Castillo de Huarmey in Peru was truly full of buried treasure. The untouched mausoleum contained not only gold jewelry and copper-alloy axes, but also mummified women believed to have been queens and a painted flask that tells of a Wari lord traveling by raft. The June issue of National Geographic offers a peek into the chambers and artifacts that are helping scholars and archeologists pieces together the history of the mysterious people who established an empire in the Andes centuries before the Incas. A team of Polish and Peruvian archeologists lead by Milosz Giersz announced the discovery of the royal tomb in June 2013. They had actually found it a few months earlier but kept their revolutionary find under wraps out of fear that modern day looters would descend upon the at-least-1,000-year-old temple. El Castillo de Huarmey, which is located about 185 miles north of Lima, had already been hit by grave robbers who tunneled into the hillside. However, they missed the regal burial chambers that were filled with the remains of well-to-do Wari women and their attendants, as well as those of human sacrifices. Little is known about the ancient Wari civilization. Archeologists believe they started their rise to power in the seventh century A.D., and built the first Andean empire between 700 and 1000 A.D. They had no known writing system and left no records, so the discoveries at El Castillo are helping paint a clearer picture of the way the Wari expanded and ruled their empire. Giersz told National Geographic that he believes the Wari built the temple and tombs at El Castillo because they had conquered this northern region — which was about 500 miles away from the empire's capital city of Huari — and were planning on staying. 'Women were categorised as priestesses to lower their status - not as a person who had power to participate in their people's political, economic and social activities, able to decide and make alliances with Moche rulers,' she told AFP. 'There is a discriminatory interpretation by researchers regarding women in ancient Peru which obscures the power of these women. 'Women were invisible in history, and what my book does is propose restoring the memory of the real life of these women. That's why this is more than just a claim.' The book, published by San Martin de Porres University in Lima, is the result of 10 years of research into the clothing, body art and burial rituals of ancient Peruvians. The Lady of Cao (pictured) who governed a part of northern Peru in the 4th century during the Moche culture, was originally labelled a priestess despite being buried with a sceptre similar to that found at the tomb of Peru's best known male leader the Lord of Sipan Traditional books of Peruvian history have said that women were absent when governing decisions were made, but her research shows the opposite, she said. Ms Villavicencio said lineage was a principal criterion for assuming power. There were also four areas in which power was attributed to individuals: Miracle-working, reproduction, textile-making, and supplying food. WHAT WAS THE MOCHE CIVILISATION? The Moche Civilisation lived on the Northern coast of what is now Peru between 50 AD and 700 AD. The name comes from a site in a valley of the same name which was the central city for the Moche people. The Moche are known for their elaborate pottery and jewellery as well as for pioneering early metal working skills. Until the discovery of the Lord of Sipán's tomb in 1979, the best known remains of the Moche civilisation were two large structures - the Temple of the Sun (pictured) and the Temple of the Moon - near Trujillo What's more, they built numerous large pyramids, some of which still dominate Peru's landscape. Evidence suggests that the Moche people engaged in a form of ritual combat, followed by human sacrifice. Until the discovery of the Lord of Sipán's tomb in 1979, the best known remains of the civilisation were two large structures - the Temple of the Sun (Huaca del Sol) and the Temple of the Moon (Huaca de la Luna) - near Trujillo. The reasons for the collapse of the Moche culture are unknown, but experts have suggested prolonged drought, earthquakes, or extreme flooding from the El Niño phenomenon may have been to blame. Some experts suggest a civil war may have been the cause of their downfall. Women's 'power to heal, to summon the weather through knowledge, to show the path of life and death made them leaders,' she said. An important symbol was the tattoo. 'For example, the Lady of Cao had serpents tattooed on her arm, which signified she able to summon water from the rivers and possibly predict the weather,' she said. The village of San Jose de Moro, where the female remains pictured were found, is a cemetery of the Mochica elite, with the most impressive tombs belonging to women. Historian Maritza Villavicencio suggests sexist attitudes mean female rulers don't get the credit they deserve There are also sanctuaries in which the remains of elite women have been discovered, such as at a site in the Lima neighborhood of Miraflores called Pucllana, or a nearby site in San Isidro. The San Isidro site, Huallamarca, in 1958 yielded funeral remains of around 100 people, 73 of whom were elite-level women, among the Lady of the Long Hair - or la Dama de los Cabellos Largos. The buried remains of men were also found, but they were of lower rank. Archaeologists have also dug up much evidence of textile making. Ms Villavicencio said that cloth mantles were believed to confer power to women in ancient Peru. In 1987, archaeologists discovered what came to be known as the Lord of Sipan (pictured), near the modern day city of Trujillo. The man was buried with golden eye and teeth coverings Peru's powerful female monarchs have largely been written off by historians as minor players within their tribal hierarchy despite evidence to the contrary, she said. The first Peruvian mummy of a high-status woman was discovered in 1992 at an archaeological site in San Jose del Moro, home to the people of the Late Sican period who lived there between the 12th and 14th centuries. The figure had long been considered a high priestess, though she was buried wearing the clothes of a ruler. From 2013, experts began to call the woman - who was buried alongside eight other elite noblewomen - the 'Senora (Lady) of Chornancap', Ms Villavicencio said. According to Ms Villavicencio, nobody called the Lord of Sipan (reconstruction pictured) a 'priest' when he was discovered. She said: 'Everybody called him a great lord, the Moche monarch, and a museum was built for him' In 1987, archaeologists discovered what came to be known as the Lord of Sipan, near the modern day city of Trujillo. 'Nobody called him a "priest." Everybody called him a great lord, the Moche monarch, and a museum was built for him,' Ms Villavicencio said. A separate Peruvian find, a woman known as the Lady of Cao who governed in the 4th century during the Moche culture, was also originally labelled a priestess despite being buried with a sceptre similar to that found at the Lord of Sipan's tomb. After further study, the Lady of Cao was considered a ruler, and today she has a museum in her honour. 'There is a biased view when it comes to women, a male-centric vision that puts men at the center of everything in Peru's history,' Ms Villavicencio said. Tomb of Maya Queen Found—"Lady Snake Lord" Ruled Centipede Kingdom Body buried with offerings that point to powerful seventh-century ruler. The suspected tomb and remains of a great Maya warrior queen have been discovered in Guatemala, archaeologists say. Uncovered at the site of the ancient city of El Perú-Waka', the tomb has been identified as likely belonging to Lady K'abel, military ruler of the Wak, or "Centipede," kingdom between A.D. 672 and 692. The tomb was found this year in the ruins of the city's main pyramid temple during excavations led by archaeologist David Freidel of Washington University in St. Louis. The body inside was buried with various offerings, including ceramic vessels, jade jewelry, stone figurines, and, crucially, a small alabaster jar carved in the shape of a conch shell, out of which the carved head and arms of an old woman emerge. Maya hieroglyphs on the back of the jar include the names "Lady Water Lily Hand" and "Lady Snake Lord," according to the study team. Both names are thought to refer to Lady K'abel, who governed the Wak kingdom for her family, the empire-building Kan, or "Snake," dynasty, based in the Maya capital Calakmul in what's now Mexico. While Lady K'abel ruled with her husband, K'inich Bahlam, her title of Kaloomte, or "supreme warrior," gave her higher authority than the king. "Fair Chance" It's Maya Queen Though the skeleton's poor condition has made the individual's age and gender difficult to determine, the skull's robust facial features fit with ancient carved portraits of the stern-looking Maya queen, the study team said. A red spiny oyster shell placed on the body's lower torso also points to the tomb being hers: The queens of El Perú-Waka' typically wore such shells as girdle ornaments, the team noted. David Stuart, a professor of Mesoamerican art and writing at the University of Texas at Austin, said it's difficult to identify "who's who in royal tombs, unless they literally write it on the wall or something." Nevertheless, "for this find, I think there's a fair chance it's her," added Stuart, who wasn't involved in the study. While it's possible that the alabaster jar was a gift from Lady K'abel that ended up in another's tomb, the interpretation of its hieroglyphs are "spot on," Stuart said. Matching the names given to the queen in other Maya inscriptions, the hieroglyphs leave "no question it's the same woman" being referred to, he said. Warrior Queen's Tomb Revered by Maya The Snake dynasty had a policy of marrying off its princesses and noblewomen to kings of vassal states like the Wak kingdom, Stuart explained. Women such as Lady K'abel were "the family connection to the great city to the north"—Calakmul, he added. (Explore an interactive map of key Maya sites.) "They would show them on the monuments, and it would be part of the political symbolism of these local subject states." El Perú-Waka', which covered about 1 square kilometer (0.4 square mile), was made up of temple pyramids, public plazas, palaces, and homes. Hidden today beneath tropical rain forest, the once impressive buildings have been reduced to rubble mounds over the centuries. (Read about another Maya royal tomb found in Guatemala in 2006.) The newfound royal tomb could explain why the Maya city remained a focus of reverence and ritual attention long after the collapse of the Wak kingdom. The study team writes: "It is now clear to us that the golden age of the city, and the great queen and her husband who presided over it, were remembered and celebrated by ordinary people with their humble offerings and hopes for renewal of the future." Archaeologists Discover Mummified Women, Human Sacrifices In Peruvian Royal Tomb In this undated photo released by the National Geographic Society, remains of those interred in a mausoleum at El Castillo funerary complex lay exactly where Wari attendants left them some 1,200 years ago, in Huarmey, Peru. Archaeologist Krzysztof Makowski Hanula, the projectâs scientific adviser, believes the newly discovered imperial tomb is where all the Wari nobles of the region were buried. The Wari forged South Americaâs earliest empire between A.D. 700 and 1000. (AP Photo/National Geographic Society, Milosz Giersz, ) (AP2012) This undated photo released by the National Geographic Society shows a pair of gold-and-silver ear ornaments that archaeologists believe a high-ranking Wari woman wore to her grave, the imperial tomb at El Castillo funerary complex, where they also discovered the remains of 63 individuals, including three Wari queens in Huarmey, Peru. A team of Polish and Peruvian archaeologists lifted more than 30 tons of crushed stone to find a pre-Inca royal tomb containing 63 mummies belonging to the ancient Wari culture, accompanied by an impressive wardrobe of 1,200 gold ornamental pieces, silver and ceramics. The Wari forged South Americas earliest empire between A.D. 700 and 1000. (AP Photo/National Geographic Society, Daniel Giannoni) (AP2013) In this undated photo released by the National Geographic Society, a Wari lord painted with eyes wide open, stares out from the side of a 1,200-year-old ceramic flask found in a newly discovered tomb at El Castillo funerary complex, Huarmey, Peru. A team of Polish and Peruvian archaeologists lifted more than 30 tons of crushed stone to find a pre-Inca royal tomb containing 63 mummies belonging to the ancient Wari culture, accompanied by an impressive wardrobe of 1,200 gold ornamental pieces, silver and ceramics. The Wari forged South Americas earliest empire between A.D. 700 and 1000. (AP Photo/National Geographic Society, Daniel Giannoni) Archaeologists digging in Peru unearthed a royal tomb containing an impressive treasure trove and mummified women dating back to about 1,200 years ago. The discovery was made at a dig site north of Lima and is believed to be the location of what was once part of the Wari empire, the society that ruled the Andes before the eventual rise of the better known Inca civilization. “We have found for the first time in Peruvian archaeological history, an imperial tomb of the Wari culture," co-director of the project Milosz Giersz said, according to the BBC. "The contents of the chamber consisted of 63 human bodies, most of them women, wrapped in funerary bundles buried in the typical seated position, a native Wari pattern." The Wari ruled much of what is today Peru’s central highlands from around 600AD to 1100AD. Not much is known about the society that was eventually taken over by the Incan empire and there is heated debate over whether or not the Wari actually can be considered an empire. Some scholars claim that the people were just a loose economic network of Wari centers, while others claim the Wari had a complex empire, noting its construction of an extensive network of roadways linking provincial cities and the construction of complex, characteristic architecture in its major centers as proof. Archaeologists at the site in Peru found more than 60 skeletons inside the royal chamber, including three purported Wari queens bedecked in gold and silver jewelry and surrounded by ceramics. Some of the mummies were discovered sitting upright, which indicates royalty. Six other bodies were found in odd positions that scientists said indicate that they were human sacrifices. "They were people thrown into the grave before the grave was sealed," bioarchaeologist Wieslaw Wieckowski said, according to Reuters. "They were lying on their bellies, in an extended position and their limbs went in different directions." The archaeologists also indicated that they had kept their work quiet because they feared theft or damage of the site from grave robbers and treasure hunters.
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Time to get excited, everyone: There’s a freshly leaked document from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in town, courtesy of the Peruvian website Redge.org. The mega-secretive, three-years-in-the-making international trade deal that would create a NAFTA-style agreement among the U.S., Australia, Brunei, Chile, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam (and maybe, just maybe, China …) has only had three other documents leaked over the past four years. The previous leaks have been enough to send an eclectic range of Americans into apoplexy — civil liberties folks, workers rights folks, farmers, Tea Partiers, and public health advocates. Mostly this is because of the treaty’s investments chapter — which, like NAFTA, would allow any company based in one member country that has an investment in another member country to sue that country in a secret tribunal if its rules covering things like civil liberties, workers’ rights, environmental standards, or public health mess with the litigant’s profitability. But the agreement also has an environmental chapter, which was leaked this January. The chapter was supposed to establish a pragmatic set of standards among the trade partners as to what constituted acceptable environmental regulations and what kinds of things they should work together to make sure they don’t run out of: fish; the air; the planet; rare and endangered animals; trees. Instead, the leaked draft was a collection of vague, unenforceable statements, asking that its signatories do things like “make best efforts to refrain” from overfishing. Missing from it were any penalties or sanctions — all a country found to be violating these principles would have to do is promise to work toward changing its ways.
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Immediately outstanding is its sleek aluminium façade made up of orthogonal pin-striped fins. Occasionally peeping out from it are pockets of sky terraces and communal spaces, marked by curves, at various elevations across its 280m height. The total landscaped area is equivalent to 140 percent of its site area or larger than six Olympic-size swimming pools. They include the Green Oasis from Levels 17 to 20, Sky Garden on Level 51 and a landscaped deck on Level 9 belonging to the serviced apartment Citadines Raffles Place Singapore. The Green Oasis is the main highlight with its 35m-high atrium that contains a contiguous and connected botanical promenade interspersed with open-air, landscaped and technology-enabled shared amenities. The spiralling walkway spans 312m and weaves around voids where sunlight and fresh air flood in to feed the abundance of tropical plants. There are over 38,000 of them across more than 70 plant species, of which more than half are native, resulting in less pesticides and water needed. Together, these form a foreground of the view from the Green Oasis, with the Singapore cityscape laid out in the back. COEN Design International was responsible for the landscape architecture and its Managing Director Hannah Ann Teo describes the brief. “It centred on creating gardens that would be highly usable, to offer a sheltered yet voluminous green experience for the building users. “This meant designing and curating the planting palette in line with CapitaSpring’s overall architecture that is guided by sustainability, ease of maintenance and safety for skyrise greenery.” Teo explains that this was translated into reality using the following techniques: 1. Green Oasis: The response of the architecture to the conditions required for a garden to thrive culminated in the union of architecture and landscape, where the sinuous curves and voids in the landscape deck are placed with precision to allow a calculated amount of sunlight to reach the plants. The selection of plants is guided by how plants respond to sun and shade. Sun-loving plants are placed towards the perimeter of the building’s edges, while shade-tolerant plants are planted towards the inner core of the building. The selection of trees is also guided by their need for sunlight as well as their leaf architecture. Trees with porous crowns, which allow wind to swiftly filter through, were selected over dense trees to reduce the sail effect. The trees complement the various heights within the Green Oasis and bring an instant visual effect of gardens to the Green Oasis, while still humanising the scale for the comfort for users. 2. Sky Garden: The Sky Garden offers panoramic views framed by indigenous trees and the amphitheatre, Sky Cube, complemented by cascading floral planters. 3. Citadines Raffles Place Singapore: The landscape deck is open to the sky and a plethora of plant species are used at the pool area. Palms line the lap pool and floral displays of edibles as well as free-flowering plant species add to the lushness and vibrancy of the deck. 4. City Room and public park: The new pedestrianised area created at the end of the junction of Malacca Street and Market Street, and the street scape along Market Street, echo the plant palette used at the City Room and the Green Oasis, harmonising the external greens with the interior green scape for a seamless experience. CapitaSpring’s landscape architecture is a response to a bigger issue of lack of usable green and naturally ventilated spaces within the central business district that its developer CapitaLand identified five years ago when the project was conceptualised. It therefore included in the brief the importance of dedicating parts of the development for nature to be brought indoors and green spaces that can be activated and utilised at any time of the day, under any weather condition. “Our vision, since day one, is for CapitaSpring to stand tall as a biophilic skyscraper that brings to life the possibilities of the future of work,” says Chris Chong, CEO of Retail and Workspace (Singapore and Malaysia), CapitaLand Investment, which developed the project and is the landlord. “The biophilic design and sustainability features of CapitaSpring have always been an integral part of this.” He adds that in their bid to focus on employee attraction and retention, tenants are starting to place a higher importance on how the building’s amenities support their employees’ wellbeing and engagement beyond building specifications. They now prioritise a wide range of flexible amenities, community spaces and work-from-anywhere functionalities across the development. “Having greenery and social spaces contribute to the overall quality of an office product and will become increasingly important as tenants place more emphasis on employee wellness and sustainability,” Chong explains. It does not end here – CapitaSpring’s tenants and the wider community have more to look forward to when the Sky Garden comes fully online. As Singapore’s tallest observatory deck, it is also open to the public to enjoy the breath-taking 360-degree panoramic views on offer. The space contains Sky Cube, suitable for community activities, lifestyle events and live band performances. Tenanted out to the 1-Group are sections for two food and beverage concepts and an urban farm with five different themed gardens, including one centric on wellness. These are slated to open soon. “All these various unique experiences encourage community building and enhance human connections through placemaking activities, which are rare for typical office buildings that may have recreational spaces exclusively for tenant access only,” points out Chong.
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Part II: Healing the body On this episode of our season chronicling the refugee experience, we’re focusing on bodily harm. What kinds of injuries do displaced people suffer, and what does it take to tend to those injuries — not just the ones that can be seen, but the invisible ones that might take longer to heal? This episode features a first-hand account from an internally displaced Afghan dealing with a long-term foot injury. If you want to help those who have suffered from physical ailments while being displaced, you can learn more at the following links: During this season of Course Correction, we’re challenging you to reflect on different aspects of the refugee experience and share your thoughts with us. For today’s episode: Tell us about a time when you made a difference for someone with a health problem, disability or chronic pain or illness, and what the outcome was. Note: We encourage you to listen to the audio if you are able, as it includes emotion not captured by the transcript. Please check the corresponding audio before using any quotes. NELUFAR HEDAYAT, HOST: All throughout March, the news from Ukraine has been devastating as Russian forces advance from multiple sides. [SOUND OF AIR RAID SIRENS] NEWS CLIP WITH BRITISH MAN SPEAKING: The dawn chorus that no one wants to hear. Air raid sirens in Kiev, signaling that the full-scale invasion of a European country in the year 2022 was well underway. NELUFAR: And caught in the middle are civilians. [WOMAN SPEAKING IN UKRAINIAN] We sat in the basement of the apartment building for four days. Despite the firing and it being dangerous, I decided to make our move. We just couldn’t take it anymore. The kids started coughing. I started feeling bad, but we had no choice. What are we going to do? Go try and get a doctor in Kiev now? There are some pharmacies still open, but there are no medications available. And then there was the fear of living on the ninth floor in my apartment building. So we made the decision to get out while we still could. NELUFAR: And while attempts have been made for a cease-fire to allow civilians to flee, Russia has broken those repeatedly. NEWS CLIP WITH BRITISH WOMAN SPEAKING: This morning, the Russians agreed to a temporary cease-fire to allow those desperate to flee to do so. But far from stopping, the deputy mayor of the city told us, shelling has continued and the evacuation has been postponed. NELUFAR: This means when refugees do make it across the border, they are in desperate need of both emergency care and long-term help. For women and girls, special attention needs to be paid to their safety, as displacement makes them more vulnerable to predators. From Doha Debates, this is Course Correction, the podcast where we challenge ourselves to change the world. I’m Nelufar Hedayat. Today is part two of our special season. We’ve partnered with UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency, to look at the refugee experience from a variety of angles. Today we’re focusing on bodily harm — not just what causes it, but how it can be treated, and what’s needed to address the injuries that can be seen and the invisible ones that take longer to heal. When people think about refugees, they imagine people fleeing with few possessions, maybe trying to escape direct violence or a surrounding conflict zone. I know from firsthand experience, fleeing the civil war in my birth land of Afghanistan. The moment we left our home for the last time, every step we took was perilous. Because once a disruption happens, the goal for refugees becomes basic: Find food, shelter, safety. Get the essentials, and try to find more later. But to get there often means passing through violence, danger and the unknown, as refugees fleeing from Ukraine told us. Yet refugees often see their journey as one with no options, and so they’re forced to take unfathomable risks. So says Shabia Mantoo, a spokesperson with the UNHCR based in Geneva. So their situation is very precarious. They can’t return home, because it’s too dangerous for them to do so. And they need sanctuary. They need safety somewhere else, so they cross borders. NELUFAR: While the hardships for refugees can be great, crossing a border can mean getting out of the line of fire. For internally displaced people, they may have the additional burden of living under the threat of conflict. So even if an aid agency is within their country, the agency’s capacity to help may be diminished. SHABIA: We have a strictly humanitarian mandate, so we do negotiate with national authorities, but it’s on humanitarian issues. So it’s to make sure, for instance, refugees can access safety, that they can move across to neighboring countries, that they can receive assistance. So we don’t deal with the political dynamics. But the biggest cause of displacement in many situations is conflict, so that does require political resolution. NELUFAR: One of the many challenges for the internally displaced is getting proper medical care to both treat any physical injuries and help with long term rehabilitation. Ramin — that’s the name we’re giving him to protect his identity — Ramin is from the Dushi district of Baghlan Province, which is about 120 miles north of Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, where I was born. [RAMIN SPEAKING IN DARI] I was a police officer in the previous government, and one day the Taliban embedded an explosive in our vehicle, and my foot was injured. After the fallout from the fighting, we didn’t receive any salary, and I was borrowing money from every neighbor to spend on my foot. Now all the people from whom I borrowed call me for the payment. [RAMIN SPEAKING IN DARI] NELUFAR: Desperate, Ramin decided his best chance was to move him, his wife and two children to Kabul. There, he and his family crammed into a small space in his uncle’s home, since he was unable to rent a place of his own. Though there is relative calm on the streets, he told me how the situation there is dire for many. [RAMIN SPEAKING IN DARI] MALE TRANSLATOR: In the past, there were explosions, suicide bombers, and the casualties were high. But it’s not like that now. There is no war, but people are dying from hunger. People sold their children. People sell their kidneys, and people sell their blood just so they can live. [RAMIN SPEAKING IN DARI] NELUFAR: I asked Ramin where he’s living and what his life is like now. [NELUFAR SPEAKING IN DARI] NELUFAR: He told me how his injury has made each day a struggle. [RAMIN SPEAKING IN DARI] MALE TRANSLATOR: My foot is injured. So every night I can’t sleep, and this injury hurts me. On these winter nights, I can’t fall asleep due to pain. The situation is tough, and there is no work, and I can’t even work because I have nine plates of steel in my foot. The explosion destroyed our car, and now we are in a bad condition. [RAMIN SPEAKING IN DARI] NELUFAR: Ramin hopes to leave for another country, but until that time, he can only dream of a better life for himself and his family. But what he might not know is that it will take him thousands of miles away from the person he is and would have been. When you become a refugee, you almost have to annex a bit of yourself. I remember clearly realizing that I was no longer Afghan, but a British Afghan, which held promise and problems that were all very new to me and my family. But Ramin says he’s prepared to make whatever sacrifices are needed to start a new life, even if he winds up living in a place that bears little resemblance to his homeland. [RAMIN SPEAKING IN DARI] MALE TRANSLATOR: It doesn’t matter where I live. If someone asks me where I’m from, I will say I’m from Afghanistan. I am a Muslim. Everywhere I live, I will say I’m from Afghanistan. It’s my land, and unfortunately, it’s unsafe. But I will always be from Afghanistan. [RAMIN SPEAKING IN DARI] NELUFAR: Speaking with Ramin was heartbreaking for me. He’s struggling to survive an already perilous circumstance with the added burden of chronic pain. But from a medical perspective, his case is also more straightforward in terms of treatment. The physical pain is actually the easiest bit to deal with because in a sense, you can plot what’s going to happen with that. NELUFAR: This is Dr. Suresh Sundram. SURESH SUNDRAM: I’m the chair and head of department of psychiatry at the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. And I’ve been working with asylum-seekers from a variety of backgrounds for the last 15-plus years. The way I think about it is that people will obviously have been in good health, or they’ll have some health problems. And those health problems, if they do have them, will persist. So these are issues such as the chronic conditions that people experience, whether they’ve got access to medications that they can take with them, whether they’re able to access the sorts of treatments that are required, for example, heart disease or diabetes or thyroid disease. But of course, over the last two years with COVID, we’ve seen awful exacerbation of these conditions. And if they can’t access those services, then those conditions are going to deteriorate and cause concern for people. Then, of course, there’s a whole set of new conditions that people might develop, which would be — whether they were refugees or in a migration journey or not, they would still develop. So these would be things like, for example, cancer or other such illnesses, which would just develop, if you like, in the normal life cycle. NELUFAR: But apart from having a harder time accessing proper medical care, refugees and other displaced people have additional stresses put on their bodies. SURESH: They might be subjected to deprivation of food, for example. So we have malnutrition or inadequate nutrition for people. People might be housed or forced to be in close proximity to other people, so the transmission of infectious diseases becomes much higher. People may have limited access to sanitation and clean water, so all those diseases which are transmissible through poor water quality or poor sanitation, refugees and asylum seekers have much higher rates of. And these sorts of conditions and diseases might then be transmitted with them when they come to host countries or transit countries. NELUFAR: Dr. Sundram notes that these stresses are particularly tough on children. SURESH: If they’re subjected to poor nutrition or other adverse health consequences early in life, that can well have long-lasting consequences. NELUFAR: One other aspect of medical care that often gets overlooked is simply access to medical supplies and medicines. This can mean prescription drugs, but even over-the-counter items that we in the global north sometimes take for granted can be hard to find. SURESH: Glasses and dentures and walking sticks and those sorts of pieces of equipment which really are essential for quality of life — and may, in fact, be essential for life — but which may be lost or misplaced or not be able to be replaced if people happen to lose them in the whole pandemonium of fleeing their country of origin or their home. CANADIAN PALESTINIAN MAN: When we speak about women in this world — women, they pay the major price. They face the major challenges, and they bear the heavy burden of conflict. NELUFAR: This is Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Palestinian doctor focusing on women’s health. He says providing access to things like menstruation products or birth control is essential. IZZELDIN ABUELAISH: We need to speak about women and women’s health, to think of women in their reproductive period. We need to think, “What are your needs at that time? As an adult, with all of the challenges women are facing. So it’s time to face it. NELUFAR: Sadly, women also face the threat of sexual violence, even after they’ve accessed resources from aid providers. SHABIA: This is a really horrible issue that women and girls may often have to contend with. NELUFAR: Again, this is UNHCR’s Shabia Mantoo. According to the UN, a staggering one in five refugees or internally displaced women experience sexual violence. SHABIA: When you’re displaced, you are in a precarious situation. When you’re forced to flee your home, you don’t have the same social protections often that you might have in your home and your local communities. Many also who are on the move, they are quite vulnerable to predators who might try to exploit them or harm them. So there are difficulties within their journey to safety. And then also on arrival, when they end up in another country, they may be strangers to that community, to the society. And then also, you’ve got situations when you are displaced and affected by poverty, by difficult circumstances, trying to establish a life in exile. NELUFAR: This is something that Leena Al-Mujahed has seen firsthand. She fled violence in her home country in Yemen to live in Malaysia. Thousands like her fled to Malaysia, since it was one of the few countries that offer Yemeni people visa-free entry. But when she arrived, she saw how women were often in danger. Women and kids, they are under a real dangerous situation, because they — sometimes, they become surrounded by people who know that their situation is not good, so they abuse them. So for the woman, because she is a refugee, she hasn’t the opportunity to work, or legally she cannot work. So they become abused many times from people around them, because they know that she cannot tell anyone, because they know that there is no country to protect them. There is no place they can go to. There is no family here to support them. NELUFAR: Additionally, these desperate situations can sometimes force women into awful positions, says UNHCR’s Mantoo. SHABIA: You’ve got situations when you are displaced and affected by poverty, by difficult circumstances, trying to, to establish a life in exile. There are also a myriad of other factors that might force you to resort to what we would call harmful coping mechanisms, but — things like being forced to sell your savings. To be put in a position of vulnerability where people might take advantage of that. So there are really heightened risks. NELUFAR: The UNHCR considers sexual violence against women to be amongst the gravest of human rights violations, and stamping it out requires a multifaceted approach. This starts with partnering with local groups to help with reporting, protection and prosecution. SHABIA: We also have hotlines established, and we would support those as well, as communication channels for survivors, for people to report or also maybe receive support in case management. And then it’s also critical to work with refugee- or displaced-women–and-girl-led organizations who are at the frontline in preventing and responding to these violations as well. NELUFAR: One of these organizations is the Yemeni Refugee Women Association, founded by Leena Al-Mujahed. LEENA: I started my work on 2019. I started when I was working with a lawyer here in Malaysia, and I was receiving many cases of women being abused. So I felt that time that they had haven’t the platform to share their stories, and they haven’t someone, anyone to hear them and to understand what they are going through. NELUFAR: She says her main goal is to be a voice to advocate for women, many of whom have a limited education. LEENA: We focus on the education and livelihood empowerment, and we support sexual violence cases, of course. So hopefully we can spread awarenesses, how many challenges they are facing to survive as women, as mothers and sisters, as daughters. NELUFAR: All of this becomes a frightening situation when you consider that the United Nations says that more than half of all displaced people are women and children needing extra care and getting much less. It’s true enough that no matter where you come from, women have a tougher time accessing resources and face higher levels of systemic oppression. When a person becomes a refugee, if they’re women, the threats they face, the lack of resources they have access to and the ways that they are disadvantaged because of their gender — well, it all rises sharply. It’s no wonder, then, that our partners in making this season of Course Correction wanted us to highlight the issues with women and refugees. Next time, on Course Correction: [WOMAN SPEAKING IN DARI; SOUND OF COUGHING IN BACKGROUND] There are all kinds of people here that live inside apartments, and I live on the street inside a container. NELUFAR: [SPEAKS IN DARI] It sounds like there is somebody coughing in the background, a child. Are they OK? [WOMAN SPEAKING IN DARI] FEMALE TRANSLATOR: Yes, that is my child. It’s cold and snowing. Now we set fire to some plastics to heat our child. We gather around, but the smoke makes them cough and sick. Only Allah knows our situation. NELUFAR: We’ll be exploring trauma and other mental health burdens in part three of our series next week. A little breather here, then. I know some of those stories are hard to hear, but we’re sharing them with you because we believe hearing directly from refugees is vital to understanding the gravity of their circumstances. Oftentimes, we can feel powerless when we hear about struggles happening thousands of miles away. This is a good time to remind everyone that there are many aid agencies like the International Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders that are there on the frontlines helping refugees every day. Look for links to them, as well as other aid organizations, in the notes section of this podcast as well as our website DohaDebates.com. Another way to get involved is to use your voice. Tell others about the situation, and push leaders and decision-makers to take action, not only to help refugees, but also to address the factors that are causing conflict. As a first step, something you can do is participate in our listener challenge. Each week, we’ve been asking our listeners and those following UNHCR and Doha Debates to try and put themselves in the shoes of a refugee and report back to us on what they’ve learned. This week, we’re going to focus on access to health care. Tell us about a time when you were able to make a difference for someone with a health care problem, disability, or chronic pain or illness, and what the outcome of it was. We’d love to hear from you on our social channels, on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. We are @DohaDebates. Or you can reach out to me directly. I’m @Nelufar. We’re also featuring our list of challenges on the UNHCR and Doha Debates Facebook pages. So join the conversation there as well. That is our show today. Course Correction is hosted by me, Nelufar Hedayat. This season we’re partnering with UNHCR, the UN refugee agency. Production assistance comes from Foreign Policy, with producers Manveena Suri, Anisa Pezeshki and Claudia Teti. The managing director of FP Studios is Rob Sachs. My thanks to Ramin for speaking to me, UNHCR for arranging the interview and to Abdul Basir for providing an English transcription. Our show is brought to you by Doha Debates, which is a production of Qatar Foundation. Our executive producers are Japhet Weeks, Amjad Atallah and Jigar Mehta. Join us for the next episode of Course Correction wherever you get your podcasts.
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Many of you may not know that in the early years of our married life my husband, John, and I spent several years living outside the United States. First it was Sarawak (a part of the Federation of Malaysia) on the island of Borneo, then Colombia in South America, next Nepal and finally India. When we left India to return back to the U.S., we decided to take a side trip to Kenya to see some of the game reserves and visit that beautiful country. By then we had three children, ages 8, 6 and 2. This was in 1972 and there were not a lot of restrictions when traveling to the game parks. Back then we rented a Volkswagen Beetle, loaded it with our family of five, and toured the game parks on our own. We saw incredible wildlife, were chased by a rogue elephant, stayed in humble accommodations, and had quite some adventures. I’m so excited that I will return to Kenya in February for the first time since 1972. I will be going on another Sew Many Places Adventure with Jim West. This time there will be luxury accommodations along with trips to the parks very well supervised by an expert guide for every four-person safari vehicle. In addition to all the wildlife we will see, other highlights of the trip include a visit to the Kazuri Bead factory, Karen Blixen’s home from Out of Africa fame, an elephant orphanage, a Samburu village and a giraffe sanctuary. It will be fun to revisit my first trip and share new experiences with people on the tour. One of my favorite YouTube videos is this one. Watch the whole thing…..it is pretty amazing and has a surprise (and happy) ending. We may not quite experience this kind of sight……but you never know. There are still a few places left on the expedition. Jim West always does a wonderful job with his tours and I feel comfortable knowing I am safe with everything is taken care of from start to finish. I hope some of you will be inspired to join me and Jim on this once in a lifetime experience (fortunately for me, I get two chances.) Thank you to Jim West for allowing us to use his beautiful photographs.
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[ PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 314, October 20, 1973 ] INCREASING THE SPECIFIC TAX ON GASOLINE, LUBRICATING OIL AND AUTOMOTIVE DIESEL OIL BY AMENDING SECTIONS 142 AND 145 OF THE NATIONAL INTERNAL REVENUE CODE, AS AMENDED[*] WHEREAS, the estimated amounts that are expected to accrue to the Highway Special Fund in the next fiscal years are grossly inadequate to pursue the current program of highway improvement and development; WHEREAS, the tax on gasoline in the Philippines is one of the lowest in the world, as revealed in a comparative study of the gasoline tax in fifteen (15) countries/cities, as revealed by the following statistics (based on April 1972 estimates): The Cost of Gasoline in Several Countries/Cities Product Cost in Equipment Showing the Tax Component and Centavos Per Liter Among Non-Asian Countries/Cities Tax Element Product Cost Adelaide, Australia 24.5 43.4 Dallas, U.S.A. 15.5 42.7 Naples, Italy 123.6 34.3 New York, U.S.A. 18.9 51.3 New Zealand 34.0 38.1 Oslo, Norway 95.1 39.0 Rotterdam, Netherlands 82.1 36.0 United Kingdom 77.3 37.8 Vienna, Austria 54.9 33.5 Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 18.9 44.5 Among Asian Countries Bangkok 27.8 31.8 Hong Kong 42.4 37.8 Kuala Lumpur 60.8 36.4 Singapore 60.8 35.0 Tokyo 51.9 43.9 Manila 8.0 (14 WHEREAS, the current gasoline price in Manila, as compared with those in progressive Asian cities, is also the lowest, as shown below: Price, Equivalent Centavos per Liter (as of October 1973, except for Jakarta which is as of March 1973) Cities Premium Regular Calcutta, India 133.5 c 128.9 c Hong Kong 117.8 107.5 Jakarta, Indonesia 64.8 57.3 Sabah, Malaysia 144.5 130.2 Saigon, Vietnam 142.8 115.6 Sarawak 122.0 107.7 Singapore 145.2 135.6 Tokyo, Japan 166.6 143.5 Manila 39.0 33.0 WHEREAS, the tax on automotive diesel is very low compared to the tax on gasoline and should be increased to make its tax nearer that on gasoline since automotive diesel is also used for motor purposes; and WHEREAS, the increase in tax on gasoline, lubricating oil and automotive diesel oil is consistent with the present policy to conserve fuel; NOW, THEREFORE, in order to effect the desired changes and reforms in the economic, social and political structure of our society, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution as Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and pursuant to Proclamation 1081, dated September 21, 1972, and General Order No. 1, dated September 22, 1972, do hereby order and decree the following: SECTION 1. Section 142, subparagraphs (b) and (c) and Section 145 of the National Internal Revenue Code, as amended, are hereby further amended to read as follows: "SEC. 142. Specific tax on manufactured oils and fuels. — On refined and manufactured mineral oils and motor fuels, there shall be collected the following taxes: x x x "(b) Lubricating oils, per liter of volume capacity, TEN [seven] centavos; "(c) Naphtha, gasoline and all other similar products of distillation, per liter of volume capacity, FOURTEEN [eight] centavos; and "SEC. 145. Specific tax on diesel fuel oil. — On fuel oil, commercially known as diesel fuel oil, and on similar fuel oils, having more or less the same generating power, with specific gravity of .820 to .920 at 60 degrees Fahrenheit, there shall be collected, [per metric ton, one peso], per liter, two centavos: Provided, That on diesel oil used for automotive purposes, the tax Shall be six centavos per liter." SEC. 2. This Decree shall take effect immediately. Done in the City of Manila, this 20th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-three. (Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS Republic of the Philippines |By the President:| |(Sgd.) ROBERTO V. REYES| |Assistant Executive Secretary| [*] Amended by Presidential Decree No. 392.
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In countries where public health restrictions were in place, they were half-baked or have been lifted too soon. Where they are imposing them now, it’s too late; the Delta variant of the coronavirus is surging around the world. A recent preliminary study by David Fisman and Ashleigh Tuite, from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health in Canada, estimates that, compared with the original coronavirus strain coming out of Wuhan, China, Delta could increase the risk of hospitalisation by 120 percent, the risk of intensive care admission by more than 280 percent and the risk of death by more than 130 percent. Yet many governments are willingly letting the variant circulate. In many places, the justification is that vaccine rollouts have protected the most vulnerable. Real world evidence, at least as it relates to the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines, suggests that the efficacy of full inoculation against symptomatic COVID is 60 percent and more than 80 percent, respectively. Against hospitalisation and death, the efficacy of both is more than 90 percent. Other vaccines provide similar protection; some are not as good. But the problem is that little more than 25 percent of the world’s population is protected. In only thirteen of nearly 200 countries are more than 50 percent of people fully vaccinated. There are just five with a population greater than 9 million: the United Arab Emirates (67 percent fully vaccinated), Chile (60 percent), Israel (58 percent) Hungary (53 percent) and the United Kingdom (52 percent). Those rates are nowhere near high enough. About one-third of adults in the United Kingdom are still unvaccinated, according to the BBC. In the capital, the situation is worse still. The Greater London Authority reports that just 55 percent of adults are fully vaccinated—a figure that, by definition, excludes more than 2 million of the city’s residents under the age of eighteen, who make up more than 20 percent of the population. That’s important, because the Delta variant reportedly is more dangerous than previous coronavirus strains for young, unvaccinated people. Despite the Delta onslaught, public health measures have been weak, evidenced by the packed Wimbledon tennis and European Football Championship crowds recently. The result is that infections are rapidly rising. At the end of May, new daily coronavirus cases in the UK hovered around 2,500, down from the January peak of 60,000. Deaths were down from more than 1,200 per day to fewer than ten. Now, infections have climbed to more than 40,000 per day, and Health Secretary Sajid Javid says the number could reach more than 100,000 per day. The number of deaths is also rising. There will be thousands of deaths in the coming months, which could have, should have been prevented. Yet the government is set to lift the remaining public health restrictions. In Israel too, as the vaccination rate increased, the government relaxed restrictions. Daily case numbers are now up by more than 160 percent in a fortnight, although the number of serious cases remains low. In the three other larger countries with a full vaccination rate of more than 50 percent, the situation is different, for now. Hungary recorded fewer than 200 cases of any coronavirus strain in the week ending 12 July—down by more than 20 percent in a fortnight and the lowest since August last year. But the Delta variant was detected only recently (late May), the vaccine rollout has slowed significantly and the government recently eased mask-waring requirements, according to news site Hungary Today. So the situation there could quickly deteriorate like it has in other places. Chile’s infections are down by more than 40 percent in a fortnight, to around 2,000 new cases per day, after public health restrictions were imposed early last month due to a surge. But the second case of the Delta variant was registered only in late June, and the capital, Santiago, is now opening—another case of a government gambling with people’s lives to satisfy business interests. In the United Arab Emirates, new infections are down nearly 30 percent to around 1,500 per day and deaths are running at about five per day. The government there is at least maintaining mask mandates and gathering limits. Spain, which has a full vaccination level close to 50 percent, is in the grip of a third wave of infections, driven by the Delta variant, after public health restrictions were scrapped in May. At this point the number of deaths continues to fall. Is that likely to remain the case now that the country has the highest number of daily infections in Europe? The United States had been a success story of sorts in recent months. In June, new daily case numbers hit their lowest point since the beginning of the outbreak in March last year. It was the same story with hospitalisations and deaths. And the Centres for Disease Control says that more than 160 million people are fully vaccinated. It also says that just 5,000 patients with vaccine breakthrough infection—that is, people who were fully vaccinated but nevertheless contracted COVID-19—had been hospitalised. Of those, nearly 1,000 had died by 6 July. That’s just 0.003 percent of the vaccinated population being hospitalised with, and 0.0006 percent of the vaccinated population dying from, COVID-19—a huge breakthrough. (Unfortunately, one that has been denied to most of the world’s population because protecting the profits of the pharmaceutical companies has been deemed more important than protecting lives.) Still, more than half the U.S. population is not fully vaccinated, and the Delta variant now accounts for close to 60 percent of new cases, its proportion of new infections doubling roughly every two weeks. So Delta’s impact is only just being felt. Case numbers are up by more than 100 percent in a fortnight to more than 40,000 per day. Average daily deaths never dropped below 170 in the US, and they are now at nearly 300 per day and climbing. Yet public health restrictions have been lifted across the entire country. Many of the people getting infected will develop “long COVID”, which reportedly affects more than 20 percent of people who contract the disease. Medical experts can’t say exactly what the illness is. But some 13 percent of people still present symptoms more than 13 weeks after first contracting the disease. It can be debilitating—perhaps analogous to chronic fatigue syndrome. Whether long COVID will be a problem among vaccinated people who get breakthrough infections is not yet clear, but probably will be by the end of the year. If it turns out to be good news on that front, it will be cold comfort to the masses of newly infected people, who overwhelmingly are unvaccinated. While the situation is deteriorating in many countries with only modest vaccination rates, parts of the less developed world—those with poorer public health systems and without access to adequate supplies of vaccines—are in dire straits. Indonesia now has the highest number of new daily cases of any country, and only 6 percent of the population is fully vaccinated. Official case numbers and deaths have quadrupled in a month, to 60,000 and nearly 1,000 respectively. As with India several months ago, there is a high likelihood of undercounting. More than 17 percent of all tests are coming back positive, according to Oxford’s Our World in Data website. Emergency suppression measure introduced early this month in Java, the most populous island, seem not to have had much effect. Cases are also growing or surging in Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Thailand. In fact, in almost every region of the world—North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific—case numbers are rising. “The idea that everyone is protected and it’s ‘kumbaya’, and everything goes back to normal is a very dangerous assumption anywhere in the world. We’d ask governments to be really careful at this moment not to lose the gains that we’ve made”, Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization Health Emergencies Programme said on 9 July. The gains were most visible in the headline figures: global daily new infections dropped by more than 50 percent between April and June; daily deaths dropped by almost half. But infections are now up by 25 percent in two weeks, to almost half a million per day. While this continues, new mutations, such as Delta plus, which first appeared in March, will keep emerging. It’s as clear now as it has been for more than a year that governments are interested in doing only as much in the interests of public health as will allow them to keep businesses open or get them operating again after taking brief emergency action against the virus. It’s a huge gamble. Like almost every gamble during this pandemic, the result will be ongoing mass casualties around the world.
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UML Diagram E-Learning Application: A Pilot Study Keywords:E-Learning, Object-oriented programming, UML diagram Unified Modelling Language diagrams is a topic in Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia’s Diploma in Information Technology’s Object-Oriented Programming course, used to graphically present system entities and or flow, for better understanding of a system during its design. Students were found to have trouble differentiating the purpose of and how to draw the diagrams. This paper proposed a learning application for self-regulated learning of the topic. The application designed using the ADDIE model, developed using Adobe Flash and tested by 10 Diploma in Information Technology students in Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. Results of usability survey are generally positive, with rooms for improvement in terms of design and navigation.
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Perbandingan Penggunaan Tenaga bagi Bangunan Hijau ‘Diamond Building’ dengan Bangunan Pejabat Konvensional di Malaysia Keywords:BEI, Diamond building, Conventional Building, Energy consumption The headquarters of the Malaysian Energy Commission in Putrajaya is one of the most accredited buildings in the Green Building Index (GBI). One of the novelity of Diamond buildings is their lower BEI performance compared to other office buildings. This study was conducted to look at the comparative use of Diamond building energy and conventional office buildings. The question from this study is how energy consumption is used in Diamond building and conventional office building and what are the steps taken by both buildings to save energy. The objectives of the study were to identify energy consumption in the diamond building and conventional office buildings and to identify energy saving measures in both office buildings. Therefore, this study examines the use of qualitative methods as the primary source for data acquisition. Respondents consisted of 2 experienced and knowledgeable people in the the building being studied. The results of this study found that generally the energy consumption for these two buildings are from the use of air conditioning, electrical and electronic equipment and mechanical equipment and what distinguishes these two buildings is the system used to operate the equipment. The energy management involves monitoring energy consumption, consumer discretion in selecting appropriate equipment, the knowledge of clients, architects, engineers and contractors on architecture and sustainable construction and cooperation of building occupants. This study can provide inspiration and benchmarks for other buildings in the management of energy consumption in the building and measures to reduce energy consumption. The data and information collected may be used by facility managers, building supervisors, technicians and related members as reference.
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I know you've always wanted to be a roller derby badass so here's your chance!! Everything you need to get started. Now go live your dream life, Lumber Jane ###129304. Riedell R3 Cayman Black Roller Derby Quad Speed Skate Size 8. I believe them to be a men's 8 because I'm a woman's 9 and they fit perfect, see photos for measurements of the insert.Comes with lots of extras! Two sets of extra wheels. Everything you'd need to get started in roller derby! Please let me know if you have any questions.The item "Riedell R3 Cayman Black Roller Derby Quad Speed Skate Sz 8 Complete Starter Set" is in sale since Sunday, August 1, 2021. This item is in the category "Sporting Goods\Outdoor Sports\Inline & Roller Skating\Roller Skates\Men". The seller is "englands88" and is located in Bangor, Maine. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Dominican republic, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, El salvador, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint kitts and nevis, Saint lucia, Montserrat, Turks and caicos islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Egypt, French guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman islands, Liechtenstein, Sri lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macao, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Uruguay, Russian federation.
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By Richard E. Feinberg A presentation on November 26, Florida International University Cuban Research Institute School of International & Public Affairs Florida International University By Richard E. Feinberg A presentation on November 26, Florida International University Cuban Research Institute School of International & Public Affairs Florida International University December 17, 2018 Richard Feinberg, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution. Original Article: Brookings Institution, Letter from Havana As the Castro brothers fade into history, green shoots of civil society are visibly emerging in Cuba. Make no mistake: The Cuban Communist Party retains its authoritarian hegemony. Nevertheless, and largely unnoticed in the U.S. media, various interest groups are flexing their youthful muscles—and with some remarkable albeit very partial policy successes. These unanticipated stirrings of civil society present a serious challenge to the cautious new president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, who assumed office this April. In recent weeks, three significant interest groups have pushed back against newly restrictive government regulations issued in the usual way: by government fiat, with few if any opportunities for public input. The new regulations aim to reduce profit margins of independent entrepreneurs, driving some out of business altogether, and to impose new censorship rules on cultural expression. In response to these threats, the emerging private sector—some 600,000 employers and workers, over 10 percent of the workforce by official count—pressed the authorities to retract proposed limitations on individual capital accumulation. To everyone’s great surprise, the authorities suddenly offered significant concessions. Entrepreneurs will be able to own more than one business, the government agreed, and restaurant and bar owners will no longer face occupancy ceilings of 50 customers each. Nevertheless, other restrictive anti-business clauses remain on the books. Apprehensive entrepreneurs are waiting to see whether government bureaucrats and inspectors apply their new discretionary powers with a light or heavy hand. For their part, Cuba’s large army of cultural workers, in music, film, theater, and the visual arts, vigorously pushed back against draft regulations requiring prior approval of public performances and threatening censorship of “unpatriotic” content. At the last minute, again the government stepped back, agreeing to consult with representatives of the arts community prior to implementation. In yet another challenge to government authority, Havana taxi owners and drivers staged an informal strike against a complex set of new rules. The government is seeking to impose burdensome reporting of all revenues and expenditures, higher effective taxes, more rigorous safety requirements for certain vehicles, and on some routes a lower ceiling on taxi fares. In protest and despair, many taxi drivers have turned in their licenses. Moreover, public buses are running less frequently, apparently due to scarcities of gasoline and spare parts. The result: a daily transportation headache for Havana’s work force. The government has promised to import more buses. Meanwhile, the authorities seem incapable of foreseeing the practical outcomes on daily life of bureaucratic innovations. Intent upon raising tax revenues and imposing order over Havana’s unruly transportation grid, the authorities failed to anticipate the market-driven reactions of the regulated taxi owners and drivers. In all three cases—the disgruntled business owners, the alarmed artistic community, and the frustrated taxi drivers—the civil protests took similar forms. Brave citizens signed carefully crafted letters, respectful but firm, addressed to ministers and President Díaz-Canel. (Some signatories reported subsequent government harassment, including menacing phone calls.) Spreading social media (on-island and offshore) buzzed with sharp criticisms of government policies. In a few notable cases, intrepid protesters gathered in public spaces, provoking brief police arrests. One prominent state TV program, “Mesa Redonda” (Roundtable), gave voice to some of the popular complaints, politely challenging official guests. To access social media, most Cubans have had to locate scattered Wi-Fi hotspots. But this month the government has enabled 3G technology throughout the island. This belated entrance into the world of modern telephony may be another game changer. Cuban citizens who sport cell phones will now be empowered to upload immediately content to Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter. These struggles over economic and cultural freedoms between the authorities and civil society come in the midst of a major re-write of the nation’s constitution. The Communist Party submitted a draft document for public comment in innumerable meetings convened throughout the island. Initial skepticism has given way to anticipation that the authorities may prove responsive to citizen suggestions and significantly amend the final draft, even as one-party rule and socialist planning will persist. A popular referendum on the new constitution is scheduled for late February. Overall, the heated conversations over constitutional reform and the government’s responsiveness to civil society voices, however belated and partial, have raised hopes: Maybe post-Castro Cuba will gradually evolve toward a more responsive governance. Emboldened by cracks in government stone-walling, Cubans may seek to widen the space for civil society expression. At the same time, while many welcome the young administration’s relative responsiveness to independent voices, some party stalwarts and ordinary Cubans accustomed to authoritarian rulers see only weakness and improvisation. Backsliding is certainly a feasible scenario. Already some anti-government skeptics see only one half-step forward, two steps backward. Nevertheless, some Cubans harbor this aspiration: That President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who so far has championed continuity over change, will eventually gain the authority and confidence to tackle the other elephant in the room—the long-stagnant economy. For only comprehensive economic reforms could lift the economy from its deepening recession, the root cause of the government’s anxieties and the popular discontent. Cuba’s Stalled Revolution: Can New Leadership Unfreeze Cuban Politics After the Castros? By Richard E. Feinberg and Ted Piccone Foreign Affairs, September 2018 For Cuba, 2018 marks the end of an era. For the first time in almost six decades, the country’s president is no longer a Castro—neither the late guerilla fighter, revolutionary caudillo, and international icon Fidel, nor his lower-profile brother Raúl, who succeeded Fidel as president in 2008. This April, the mantle was instead passed to former vice-president Miguel Díaz-Canel, a younger post-revolutionary politician who raised paradoxical hopes of both continuity and change. Yet for those who imagined that the post-Castro era would quickly bring major reforms, Díaz-Canel’s tenure so far has been sorely disappointing. Five months in, progress in the country has come either slowly or not at all. The island’s economy continues to decline, just as it has since the collapse of the Soviet Union nearly 30 years ago, and this despite the carefully calibrated reforms Raul Castro instituted in 2011. Investment rates are alarmingly low, foreign exchange scarce, and shortages of consumer goods widespread. Many discontented Cubans, especially educated youth, continue to emigrate in search of higher living standards and better career choices, depleting the current and future workforce. Reformers and hardliners continue to do battle within the Cuban Communist Party. A new draft constitution promises progress, notably on gender and gay rights, but it also reaffirms the hegemony of the Cuban Communist Party and institutionalizes outdated economic thinking. Recent government initiatives further restrict individual freedoms in business, the arts, and media. The Trump administration, meanwhile, has largely returned to the pre-Obama rhetoric of regime change and posture of hostility and isolation. Díaz-Canel has inherited an economy in a state of transition. During his decade-long rule, Raúl Castro broke through once-forbidding ideological barriers on economic policy. He actively inserted Cuba into global commerce, opened the island to foreign investment, and promoted a burgeoning domestic private sector. Raúl also relaxed barriers to travel abroad, allowed private markets for real estate and automobiles, and gradually expanded access to mobile technology and social media. The private sector took off. By 2017, it provided jobs and income to as many as four out of ten Cubans of working age. Tourist traffic rose more than 80 percent during Raul’s tenure. Even though U.S. travelers became less common on the streets of Havana over the course of 2017, as the Obama bump gave way to a Trump dip, tourism is once again the brightest feature of the Cuban economy. The government has not laid out a new economic policy agenda, much less a strategic vision for long-term development. And yet, the Cuban economy has performed poorly overall. During the decade of Raúl Castro’s rule, Cuba’s GDP grew an average 2.4 percent per year—at least according to government statistics. At times, GDP growth stagnated at below two percent per year. Five percent would be the minimum necessary for Cuba’s growth to be considered sustainable. The government has failed to create a truly receptive business climate, and outside the flourishing tourism sector, foreign investors remain skeptical. The precipitous drop in Cuba’s merchandise exports bodes particularly ill, signaling that the country’s state-owned enterprises are failing to compete in global markets. In 2016, these exports shrunk to less than $3 billion, their lowest level in more than ten years. In response, authorities slashed imports, from a peak of nearly $15 billion in 2013 to $10.4 billion in 2016. The loss of these imports has left Cuban stores empty of the most basic consumer items, from beer and paper products to spare parts for household appliances. All the while, restrictions on bringing capital goods into the country continue to exacerbate the already serious lack of factory machinery and farm equipment. Change is unlikely to materialize soon. The Díaz-Canel administration, occupied with managing austerity policies, has not yet laid out a new economic policy agenda, much less a strategic vision for long-term development. In July, the government issued tough new regulations for the island’s emerging private enterprises. Aimed at preventing private companies and citizens from accumulating wealth—and nipping in the bud any potential challenge to the state’s monopoly on economic and political power—the new rules show that Cuban leaders are still extremely wary of, if not outright hostile to, private enterprise. OLD RUM IN NEW BOTTLES? Cuban politics are similarly resistant to change. Raúl Castro is still very present—as head of the Cuban Communist Party until 2021 and as leader of the government’s current efforts to revise the constitution. Every step of the relatively smooth succession process seemed designed to signal continuity with the measured pace of change that had marked Raúl Castro’s tenure, encapsulated by his maxim “sin prisa, pero sin pausa”—without haste, but without pause. It’s no wonder, then, that Díaz-Canel told the national assembly upon donning the presidential sash that “comrade Raúl will head the decisions for the present and future of the nation.” Díaz-Canel has a lighter touch and is less camera-shy than his predecessor, but when it comes to policymaking, he has so far failed to deliver change. He retains a largely inherited team of senior bureaucrats, and his public remarks have been less about programmatic innovation than about maintaining party unity. Granted, this could be a temporary posture meant to reassure the old party apparatchiks while he builds a more autonomous governing class of technocrats. By this interpretation, the 58-year old is cautiously cultivating a power base of his own to set forward in the later portion of his five-year term, especially after Raúl steps down as party chief in 2021. On the institutional side, recent changes are a mixed bag. The National Assembly chosen in March includes a mix of old and new faces. More than half of the deputies are new, 53 percent are women, and 41 percent are black or of mixed race. Likewise, the council of state, which is headed by Díaz-Canel and effectively governs the country year-round, has three new vice presidents between the ages of 48 and 52—young leadership for a country long ruled by former revolutionaries in their seventies and older. New rules mandate that deputies serve no more than two five-year terms and enter office at an age no older than 60. Taken together, the changes suggest that party leaders understand the importance of making the benefits of public office accessible to younger cadres and of diversifying the ranks of the governing elite. A proposed constitutional reform, meanwhile, promises a modest but potentially meaningful political opening. The draft constitution divides power between a president serving as head of state and a prime minister who manages the government’s day-to-day functions. It devolves more autonomy over local affairs to provincial authorities, even though governors would still be appointed by the president. Other provisions suggest greater separation between state and party, even though the overlap in personnel would probably remain high. A new national electoral council would improve the image of the country’s elections, if not their actual integrity. Citizens who gather at least 10,000 signatures can propose legislation. Those who gather 50,000 or more will be able to initiate constitutional revisions. Even if reformers manage to wedge open some cracks in the state’s monolithic apparatus, Cuba will remain a strictly one-party system. The draft constitution explicitly grants important civil and due process rights, including habeas corpus, the presumption of innocence, the right to seek restitution for violations committed by state agents, non-discrimination regardless of sexual orientation, and religious liberty. But it makes such fundamental rights conditional upon “collective security, general well-being, respect for public order, the Constitution and laws.” The draft document is rife with such contradictory loopholes that ultimately confirm the state’s supreme power to override fundamental human rights. Make no mistake: even if reformers manage to wedge open some cracks in the state’s monolithic apparatus, Cuba will remain a strictly one-party system. The draft constitution re-inscribes the Cuban Communist Party as the “superior leading force of [Cuban] society and the state.” Cuban socialism and its political and social system remain “irrevocable.” In the economy, the draft charter complements state planning and ownership with some space for domestic and foreign private capital, but these changes stop well short of formally embracing a more genuinely balanced, hybrid regime, such as the market socialist models of China or Vietnam. At the moment, the Communist Party is holding forums to debate the draft constitution across the island. These forums are generating discussions among interested elites, but they are expected to yield only modest fixes to the issues outlined above. Once ratified by the legislature and by public referendum—likely easy hurdles—the new constitution will mainly cement the Castro legacy in constitutional, legal and de facto terms, while also bestowing some political legitimacy upon the post-revolutionary cohort Díaz-Canel now leads. For the many Cubans yearning for higher wages and more consumer goods, there is little relief in sight. Havana’s economic and political inertia has left Washington with little room to elicit more progressive reforms. Either the United States can accept Cuba’s reality and find ways of getting along in order to protect its national interests, or it can maintain and perhaps even step up its efforts to pursue regime change through punitive measures. The latter policy, in place for nearly six decades, has demonstrably failed, but it is unfortunately entrenched in U.S. law, thanks to Congress’ codification of the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba in 1996. U.S. President Donald Trump, who has rolled back many of the openings granted by President Obama, has important pro-embargo constituencies in Florida and is unlikely to shift direction any time soon. In effect, the Miami hardliners have won back the initiative from the diverse anti-embargo constituencies of the Obama era. This is probably fine and well with hardliners in Cuba, as it gives them some breathing space to seek better relations with Europe, Russia and China without Washington in the picture. The new administration will likely split the country along generational lines. The United States and Cuba still cooperate in some areas, but such exchanges face significant challenges. U.S. tourism to the island, especially cruise ship travel, is showing signs of recovery, after a sharp decrease in 2017 and in the first half of 2018. Bilateral cooperation in the areas of law enforcement, migration, and environmental affairs continues quietly, but depleted staffing at both U.S. and Cuban embassies, in part due to a wave of mysterious health concerns reported by U.S. diplomats in Cuba last year, has hampered basic diplomatic and consular functions. U.S. congressional activity has stalled, with the exception of efforts to lift financial restrictions on agricultural trade. All told, neither the punishing embargo nor anemic U.S. diplomacy is likely to prod Havana towards more ambitious reforms. Domestically, the Díaz-Canel administration will likely split the country along generational lines. For many older Cubans, the new government’s commitment to the principles that guided the Castro era is reassuring. Many middle-aged Cubans will welcome the renewed guarantees of state-sponsored economic security and welfare. Some may also perceive glimmers of a more normal, open and, accessible polity, and will take heart in Díaz-Canel’s support for gradual, carefully monitored openings to foreign investment, the internet, and controlled private enterprise. Cuba’s restless youth, on the other hand, are likely to see only more missed opportunities, whether in a constitutional reform that prioritizes continuity over change or in a president who so far has proven more cheerleader for the status quo than agent of reform. Tragically, Cubans of all stripes, including too many of the best and the brightest, will continue to seek opportunities elsewhere. Brookings, Friday, July 13, 2018 In a leap backwards, the Cuban government has published a massive compendium of tough new regulations governing the island’s struggling private enterprises. The new regulations—the first major policy pronouncement during the administration of President Miguel Díaz-Canel—appear more focused on controlling and restricting the emerging private sector than on stimulating investment and job creation, more concerned with capping wealth accumulation than in poverty alleviation. Many small businesses that cater to foreign visitors are already suffering from Trump-era restrictions and travel warnings that have decimated the U.S. tourist trade in Havana. But the new regulations are more a product of domestic Cuban politics than foreign pressures. On a positive note, the Cuban government promises to renew the granting of licenses for many categories of private businesses by year-end, repealing the extended suspension announced last summer. But the new regulations greatly empower government rule-makers and intrusive inspectors, casting a gray cloud over the island’s business climate. Many existing businesses are likely to retrench if not close altogether. The private sector grew dramatically in recent years, to include nearly 600,000 owners and employees by official figures, with many more enterprising Cubans working informally; in contrast, the state sector stagnated and further decapitalized. Indeed, many thriving private businesses began to compete successfully against state entities, notably in restaurants, bars and night clubs, guest houses, construction, and transportation. The healthy wages paid by profitable private firms often eclipsed the meager salaries paid to disgruntled government officials and factory workers. The extensive, highly detailed regulations, which go into effect in December, read like “the revenge of the jealous bureaucrat.” Drawing on a multitude of ministries and operating at all levels—national, provincial, and municipal—interagency committees will now be empowered to authorize, inspect, and regularly report upon private businesses under their jurisdictions. The regulations are replete with astoundingly specific performance requirements and innumerable legal breaches that seem crafted to allow government officials wide discrimination to impose heavy fines (or extort bribes), suspend licenses, and even seize properties. To cite but a few such regulations: Private restaurants and guest houses must cook food at a minimum of 70 degrees Celsius for the time required for each food; day care centers must allocate at least two square meters per child, have no more than six children per attendant, and be outfitted with pristine bathroom facilities described in exquisite detail (private schools and academies are strictly prohibited); and private taxi drivers must document that they are purchasing fuel at government gas stations, rather than buying on the black market. Further, local officials can deny new licenses based on “previous analyses,” even if the proposed business plan meets all the other specifications, and can fix prices “when conditions warrant.” The regulations could help shield state enterprises from unwanted private competition. The very ministries that stand to lose market shares are in charge of approving licenses in their sector. For example, the ministry of tourism has the lead in judging licenses for private guest houses. Appeals are possible, but to administrative authorities, not to judicial courts. Government agencies are also seeking to reassert control over the island’s vibrant artistic communities. The regulations prohibit artists from contracting directly with private restaurants and bars; rather they must be represented by public-sector entities that charge commissions up to 24 percent of revenues. Moreover, performers must not use “sexist, vulgar or obscene language,” which if enforced could imply the banning of popular hip-hop and reggaeton songs and videos. Perhaps most telling are the restrictive rules squarely aimed at inhibiting private capital accumulation. In a sharp turn from past practice, Cubans will now only be allowed one license for one business, effectively outlawing franchising and diversification. Capacity at restaurants and bars is capped at 50 guests. Most biting, the new regulations establish an upward-sloping wage scale (whereby wages rise as more workers are hired); hiring more than 20 workers becomes prohibitively expensive (six times the average wage). Unlike in the past, employers will now have to pay taxes on the first five workers hired as well. Many private businesses must also record their transactions (revenues and expenditures) in an account at a government financial institution and keep three months of prospective taxes on deposit. Intended to reduce under-reporting of income, this measure will significantly raise the effective rates of taxation. Investors must also explain their sources of funds. In a country where political authority is unchecked, these financial impositions alone will discourage many potential entrepreneurs. The Cuban authorities have repeatedly asserted their interest in attracting foreign investment, to compensate for weak domestic savings. However, foreign investors are likely to view these new regulations, even though they apply to domestically-owned firms, as indicative of an official wariness if not hostility toward private enterprise in general. Risk-averse foreign investors will also note that the Cuban government is quite capable of precipitously altering the rules of the game. The new regulations are the first major policy initiative promulgated during the administration of President Miguel Díaz-Canel. Many of the resolutions were approved by the Council of State under Raúl Castro, prior to Díaz-Canel’s inauguration in April, but nevertheless were issued during his young tenure. Not a good sign for those hoping that Díaz-Canel, 58 years old and ostensibly representing a younger generation, might quickly place his own imprimatur over the extensive state apparatus. The new regulations make one thing abundantly clear: The Cuban government, state-owned enterprises and the ruling Cuban Communist Party do not want to risk major competition to their own interests—economic, commercial, and political—from a potentially capital-rich, diversified emerging private sector. Apparently, perceived interests in security and stability have overruled Cuba’s own declared economic development goals. Brookings, December 4, 2017 Original Article: Order from Chaos In many ways, Raúl Castro’s 10-year presidential rule, ending in February 2018, has been utterly disappointing. Cuba’s economy is stagnant and economic reform has stalled. Political power remains highly centralized and secluded. The island’s educated youth are fleeing in droves for better opportunities abroad. And the Trump administration is renewing U.S. hostility. Nevertheless, during his decade in power Raúl Castro oversaw historic shifts in Cuban foreign and domestic policies. Raúl initiated some policy innovations, deepened and consolidated others, and merely watched while forces beyond his control drove other changes. Regardless, these changes have paved the way for the successor generation of leaders—if they dare—to push Cuba forward into the 21st century. Fidel’s younger brother, now 86, can be especially pleased with his achievements in foreign affairs. Cuba had been a colony of Spain, a dominion of U.S. capital, a cog within the Soviet-dominated Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) system. Now, for the first time in its 500-year history, Cuba has escaped the grip of a single world power. Today, Cuban traders circumnavigate the globe, engaging both state-directed and free-market economies. The top trading 10 partners in goods in 2016 were (in rank order): China, Venezuela, Spain, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, Argentina, Germany, and Vietnam. The next tier of merchandise trading partners (between $275 million and $100 million) includes the United States, France, Algeria, the Netherlands, Russia, and Trinidad and Tobago. No single country accounts for more than 20 percent of total merchandise trade. This trade diversification began in the 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union, but Raúl’s economic team extended and consolidated it. Under Raúl, Cuba also expanded the number of countries that purchase its main service export—the labor of educated professionals, especially in the medical field. While Fidel initiated large-scale service exports to Venezuela, Raúl followed suit with Brazil and dozens of other developing countries. In the last 10 years, Cuba has also diversified the sources of foreign investment. For example, in the economy’s bright spot, international tourism, investors hail from Spain, France, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, China, and Malaysia, among other locations. A small island economy cannot hope to be fully autonomous; it must adapt to global constraints. But by diversifying its economic partners, Cuba has minimized its vulnerability to external dictates, and maximized its own margin for maneuver. This diversification of economic partnerships has paid handsome diplomatic dividends. Cuba has become an accepted participant in various Latin American forums and diplomatic initiatives; overcame its exclusion from the Summit of the Americas leaders’ meetings; gained membership in the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI); and gained access to resources at the multilateral Andean Development Corporation (CAF). President Donald Trump is alone in his efforts to damage the Cuban economy through comprehensive economic sanctions. BREAKING IDEOLOGICAL BARRIERS The slow, halting pace of economic reform has discouraged many Cubans, especially recent university graduates. Conservative forces resisting change remain strong within the Cuban Communist Party. Nevertheless, Raúl leaves a legacy that could greatly facilitate the work of reformers in the future. (I will further evaluate the economic reforms and pathways forward in a February 2018 Brookings policy brief.) Raúl’s legacy lies not in standard measures of economic performance, such as per capita GDP growth, labor productivity, or investment rates, where results have varied from disappointing to disastrous. Rather, Raúl’s legacy in economic policy lies in breaking once forbidding ideological barriers. True, Raúl’s public statements often have been contradictory and shifting, as he apparently sought to balance conflicting tendencies within the Cuban Communist Party. But in key areas, Raúl demolished or at least cracked these obstacles to change: rejection of globalization (a favorite Fidel bugaboo), fear of foreign investment, and hostility to private business and markets. He also transformed relations with the United States. In daily life, Cubans have left behind the comfort of social uniformity and relative economic equality for the more tumultuous worlds of greater social heterogeneity and income inequalities. Raúl is no cheerleader for globalization. But he set aside his brother’s heated denunciations of multinational corporations and “exploitative” markets. Instead, he went about the practical business of building economic relations with a multitude of governments and foreign corporations. Without much pomp and circumstance (although there was the occasional ribbon-cutting), Raúl advanced the process of normalizing Cuba’s integration into global markets. Raúl’s decision to normalize diplomatic relations with “the historic enemy,” the United States, dramatically revised his regime’s foreign policy doctrine. The hegemon just across the Florida Straits was no longer an imminent, existential threat, readily justifying economic deprivations and tight political restrictions. Notwithstanding the altered attitude in Washington today, so far a number of the concrete gains from the Obama era détente remain in place, notably the facilitation of travel (commercial airline flights and cruise ships) and the generous flows of remittances to many Cuban families, whether for household consumption or business start-ups. Of the reforms most directly attributable to Raúl, the suppression of the special (and expensive) permit to travel abroad was among the most important to many Cubans. As a result, most Cubans can freely leave the island (provided they can acquire an entry visa elsewhere), to be enriched by their contact with foreign lands and ideas. Greater access to mobile technology and rapidly expanding social media, permission to sell homes and cars, and more freedom to stay in once-forbidden tourist hotels have also improved life for many Cubans during his tenure. De facto, by building commercial partnerships worldwide, and by accepting the freedom to travel, Cuba has now embraced core components of globalization. OPENING TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT To stave off complete economic collapse in the early 1990s, Fidel had invited in limited foreign investment. El Comandante en Jefe made these concessions holding his sensitive ideological nose and again closed Cuba’s borders once he felt politically secure. In sharp contrast, Raúl has publicly chastised his ministers for not accelerating foreign capital inflows (although he hesitated to fire them). Periodically, the government releases a “Portfolio of Opportunities for Foreign Investment.” Each edition is fatter and glossier; the 300-page 2017-2018 version features 456 projects with a cumulative price tag of $11 billion. Yes, most projects have remained on paper, victims of bureaucratic foot-dragging and red tape; but these documents are products of an inter-agency process whereby many ministries and state enterprises join in a collective waving of hands to the international commercial community. In a 2011 official document outlining proposed reforms, foreign investment was derided as “complementary,” a secondary afterthought. In contrast, when addressing Havana’s annual international trade fair in 2017, Raúl’s minister for foreign trade and investment sang a very different tune: “Today foreign investment ceases to be a complement and has become an essential issue for the country.” Mariel, the new economic development zone facing the Straits of Florida, has gotten off to a slow start, having approved over three years only 26 projects worth about $1 billion. However, 15 of these projects have broken through another ideological barrier: allowing 100 percent foreign ownership. LEGITIMIZING PRIVATE PROPERTY Fidel disliked and distrusted private property. In 1968, for example, he nationalized remaining mom-and-pop businesses. In contrast, over the last decade the government has issued hundreds of thousands of licenses to small-scale private businesses. Raúl has also encouraged some 200,000 Cuban families to farm as homesteaders (although not all survived). In addition to these authorized private businesses, many Cubans augment their income in more-or-less tolerated gray-market activities. Altogether, as much as 40 percent of the Cuban workforce have at least one foot in the private sector. Recently, Raúl criticized private business for illicit activities, and the government halted the granting of new business licenses. Nevertheless, these concessions to anxious Communist Party stalwarts appear to be a temporary pause. The ideological foundations, and public constituency, for the acceptance and eventual expansion of a market-driven private sector have most likely been set too deep for a full-blown counter-revolution to succeed. This increase in economic pluralism has unleashed public debates on economic policy. Criticism of government performance is widely voiced with less fear, even if journalists and academics are still careful not to directly confront senior authority. Another major shift that accelerated during the last decade: the evolution of Cuban society from socialist uniformity toward a more heterogeneous mix of property relations, income levels, and social styles. While legal statutes remain to be written, property can now be private (often in partnership with diaspora capital), cooperative (in numerous variations) and foreign-owned, as well as state controlled. Income inequalities have become more visible, even if less jarring than in other Latin American and Caribbean nations. Many Cubans still honor social solidarity. But the transition toward a more normal, relaxed, and individualistic society is unmistakable. On Havana’s streets, Cuban youth—increasingly exposed to international tourists, travel opportunities and the worldwide web—sport the variety of hairstyles, tattoos, music, and other signatures of global youth. These ideological adaptations do not guarantee speedy policy changes, much less their faithful implementation. The Cuban government is grappling with a severe foreign exchange crisis, and the sudden, unanticipated chill in bilateral relations imposed by the United States. All the more reasons for the next generation of Cuban leaders to build upon the diversity of international economic associations and the new ideological currents unleashed during the reign of the second and last Castro brother—and to launch their island state into deeper phases of global integration and economic transformation. William LeoGrande, Guest Co-editor; Arien Mack, Journal Editor William M. Leogrande, Introduction: Cuba Looks to the Future 235 PART I: UPDATING THE ECONOMY Ricardo Torres Pérez, Updating the Cuban Economy: The First 10 Years 255 Archibald R.M. Ritter, Private and Cooperative Enterprise in Cuba’s Economic Future 277 Richard E. Feinberg, Bienvenida—Maybe: Cuba’s Gradual Opening to World Markets 305 Katrin Hansing, Race and Inequality in the New Cuba: Reasons, Dynamics, and Manifestations 331 PART II: FACING POLITICAL CHALLENGES William M. Leogrande, Updating Cuban Socialism: The Politics of Economic Renovation 353 Margaret E. Crahan, Cuba: Religion and Civil Society 383 Rafael Hernández, Intellectuals, Civil Society, and Political Power in Cuban Socialism 407 Ted A. Henken, Cuba’s Digital Millennials: Independent Digital Media and Civil Society on the Island of the Disconnected 429 PART III: ENGAGING THE WORLD Philip Brenner And Teresa Garcia Castro, A Long Legacy of Distrust and the Future of Cuban-US Relations 459 Carlos Oliva Campos And Gary Prevost, Cuba’s Relations with Latin America 487 Mervyn J. Bain, Havana, Moscow, and Beijing: Looking to the Future in the Shadow of the Past 507 Carmelo Mesa-Lago, University of Pittsburgh, Latin American Research Review, July 2017 https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.2 This essay reviews the following works: Open for Business: Building the New Cuban Economy. By Richard E. Feinberg. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2016. Pp. vii + 264. $22.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780815727675. Miradas a la economía cubana: Análisis del sector no estatal. Edited by Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva and Ricardo Torres. La Habana: Editorial Caminos, 2015. Pp. 163. $5, paper. ISBN: 9789593031080. Entrepreneurial Cuba: The Changing Policy Landscape. By Archibald R. M. Ritter and Ted A. Henken. Boulder, CO: First Forum Press, 2015. Pp. xiv + 374. $79.95 cloth. ISBN: 9781626371637. Retos para la equidad social en el proceso de actualización del modelo económico cubano. Edited by María del Carmen Zavala et al. La Habana: Editorial Ciencias Sociales, 2015. Pp. vi + 362. $20 paper. ISBN: 9789590616105. Soon after current president of the State Council Raúl Castro took over power in Cuba from his brother Fidel in 2006, he started structural reforms to cope with the serious socioeconomic problems accumulated in the previous forty-five years. Some authors, including a few in this review, argue that Cuba is in transition to a mixed economy. Despite the importance of these changes, however, the official view is that central planning will predominate over the market, and state property over private property.1 A main reform goal was to fire 1.8 million unneeded workers in the state sector, which demanded an expansion of the “non-state sector” (NSS) to provide jobs to those dismissed. The four books I review are commendable additions to the growing literature on the NSS (inside and outside Cuba), as they fill some of its existing gaps, to be identified below.2 A few authors rely on surveys to gather data, but surveys are not easy to take in Cuba; hence the majority used interviews of different size and representativeness, as well as in-depth conversations. Within the NSS, the most dynamic four groups are self-employed workers (507,342), usufruct farmers (312,296), and members of new nonagricultural and service co-ops, NASCs (only 7,700 so far). Altogether these make up 17 percent of the labor force, out of a total 29 percent in the entire NSS.3 Except for the most recent NASCs, the other three forms were legalized during the severe crisis of the 1990s but did not take off until much later. Selling and buying of private dwellings, banned in 1960 and reauthorized in 2011, involve at least 200,000 transactions but still only 5 percent of the total housing stock. The books reviewed in this essay mainly concentrate on self-employment and to a much lesser extent on NASCs. The main gaps treated by the books are the NSS’s history; size and personal profiles; relations with the state; progress achieved and obstacles faced; the role of variables—age, gender (most treated), race, education, and location—on growing inequalities; particular issues such as access to raw materials, capital and credit, competition, and taxes; and NSS perspectives. This review discusses the data, method, and evidence that each researcher uses and the major issues and findings, arguing that the size of the NSS remains questionable. In Entrepreneurial Cuba, Archibald Ritter and Ted Henken combine their economic and sociological expertise to produce an encyclopedic, balanced, and laudable volume on the development of the NSS in Cuba. Targeted on self-employment and, to a lesser extent, on NASCs, the book also tackles broader topics like the “underground” economy. It starts with an examination of small enterprises in general, internationally, and its lessons for Cuba. Based on historical and comparative approaches, Ritter and Henken discuss the evolution of self-employment throughout Cuban contemporary history. In the socialist period, they compare Cuban policies with those of the USSR and Eastern Europe; furthermore they contrast Fidel’s hostility to the NSS (except for reluctant support in times of economic crisis) with Raúl’s more pragmatic and positive style, which does not exempt the sector from tight controls, restrictions, and taxes. Largely based on my cycles approach,4 the history of self-employment under socialism is divided in three periods (each one covered in a chapter): 1959–1990, trajectories and strategic shifts; 1990–2006, the “Special Period”; and 2006–2014, Raúl’s reforms. Ritter and Henken conclude that the NSS has grown and achieved substantial progress: for instance, increase in authorized activities and licenses, broadened legal markets, deduction of part of the expenses for tax purposes, micro credits and banking facilities, and rental of state facilities. Conversely they identify limitations, like narrow definition of legal activities, exclusion of most professional and high-tech occupations, multiple taxes and taxation at a high level, lack of wholesale markets, bureaucratic resistance, obstacles to hiring employees, and discrimination in favor of foreign firms. They provide suggestions to overcome these problems. Lack of space impedes a more profound treatment of this book, the most comprehensive and profound on self-employment so far. The structure of the book, combining historical stages and current analysis of self-employment and NASC, however, is somewhat complex and leads to a certain overlapping. Ritter and Henken rely on three series of interviews conducted in Cuba with sixty self-employed workers in 1999–2001, half of them re-interviewed in follow-up visits in 2002 and 2009 and, finally, some revisited in April 2011 to evaluate the impact of Raúl’s reforms. The authors select the three most dynamic, lucrative, and sizeable private activities: small restaurants (paladares), taxis, and lodging. They asked their informants about three issues: (1) ambitions and expectations for the future (whether they expected to become true small- and medium-sized enterprises—SME—in the long run); (2) survival strategies in negotiating with the state (how they responded to the government regulations, licenses, and taxes); and (3) distinctions between licensed and clandestine self-employed workers. Accompanying abundant evidence, deep analysis, statistical tables, synoptic charts, figures, and useful appendices (including a list of the 201 authorized activities for the self-employed and a timetable of the evolution of NSS in 1959–2014), the authors intersperse vignettes that allow the reader to better understand the daily life of the self-employed. Occasional jewels in the book brighten our knowledge, such as uncovering in fascinating detail the bureaucratic shutdown of El Cabildo, which was the most prosperous private, medium-sized business in Cuba. Miradas a la economía cubana, a collection edited by well-known Cuban economists Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva and Ricardo Torres, includes twelve essays that offer a first-rate sample of scholarship on the NSS at the Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy, the best economic think tank in Cuba. The anthology, an excellent complement to the Ritter and Henken book, includes self-employment and NASCs. In the prologue, Juan Valdés Pérez notes that “the new economic model in Cuba is moving [transita] toward a mixed economy, based on a public sector, a mix-capital sector, and a private sector, mostly SME” (14). Most contributors to the volume propose reasonable policies to help the consolidation and further expansion of the NSS. In the opening chapter, Torres discusses the role of the private sector in a centrally planned economy such as Cuba, which generates an intrinsic conflict. Despite NSS advances, the government still sees it as a supplement to the state sector and imposes clear limits. Hence the NSS role is and will continue to be very minor, if currents trends hold. An important point, among many discussed by Torres, is that its productivity is low, despite the very highly educated labor force (ranked at the top of Latin America), and shows a declining trend due to the low skills of the activities approved. He ends by suggesting, “In a scenario [Cuba] where public enterprises are predominant and mostly inefficient, wealth is not socialized and man is not liberated from alienation, just the opposite” (25). Torres believes that the solution to all existing problems is neither privatization of all public assets nor to insist on old formulas overcome by time, and urges a serious national social debate on these issues. Pérez Villanueva analyzes and defines self-employment and SME, tracing their evolution and identifying needs such as autonomy, a wholesale market with competitive prices, facilitation of payments through the national banks, and use of highly skilled personnel; he also notes adverse effects like social inequalities (see Zavala et al., below). At the end of his chapter, he asserts that “the Cuban SME would be more viable than the actualization of our economic model and contribute more positive results, providing that the government understands its role and potential” (35). Camila Piñeiro provides the most comprehensive and deep analysis of NASCs so far. These cooperatives grew 74 percent, from 198 to 345, in 2013–2014, but their tempo slowed to 6 percent in 2015.5 Based on diagnosis and audits done on sixty NASCs in 2014, Piñeiro identifies their achievements (increase in income and motivation, improvement in the locale and working conditions) and problems (complex and delayed creation, insufficient training, and lack of a wholesale market). The most successful NASCs are those created by the voluntary initiative of a group of persons that share the same goals and values (23 percent of all NASCs), and the least successful are those coming from former state enterprises, without negotiating with their workers so that they accept what is decided from above (77 percent). Mariuska Sarduy, Saira Pons, and Maday Traba analyze tax evasion and underdeclaration of income among self-employed owners. They report that evasion was 12 percent of total fiscal revenue and 60 percent of registered self-employed contributors in 2013–2014. They carried out 300 interviews with self-employed workers in Havana in 2014 and found that 55 percent omitted income in their declaration for the following reasons: 95 percent due to very high taxes; 77 percent blamed the complex procedure to pay taxes; 80 percent knew that evasion or underdeclaration are toughly penalized crimes, but half believed that they were necessary to survive, and 20 percent thought that it was improbable that fiscal authorities would catch them. Expanding her substantial work on geographic inequalities, Luisa Íñiguez uses the 2012 population census to explore the distribution of NSS enterprises in Cuban provinces and municipalities and shows their differences and contribution to social inequalities. She develops various maps of the island, displaying the location of total NSS enterprises, as well as key components such as the self-employed, usufruct farmers, and small private farmers. In addition, she calculates percentages of components of the NSS relative to the employed labor force. The NSS developed much further after 2012, but her work remains valuable and sets a solid foundation for future study. The role of women in microenterprises is examined by Ileana Díaz and Dayma Echevarría, relying on data from the 2012 population census and Ministry of Labor and Social Security in 2013, and a survey of thirty-five self-employed owners in Havana circa 2014 (63 percent women and 37 percent men). Among other gender inequalities, they find that women are more hurt than men by the lack of a state policy to foster microenterprises, and by poor access to credit as well as to legal and accounting advice. Interviewees answered key questions with a fair consensus: 50 percent noted unfair competition from state and mixed enterprises; most preferred to work as self-employed instead of for the state; public or private financing was judged insufficient; elementary-secondary school didn’t help in their activity but university did; and they noted poor access to wholesale markets, telecommunications, and vanguard technology. Virtually all interviewees, but a sizably lower percentage of women than men, said that their success was more than expected. Both genders agreed on the major obstacles: limited demand, excessive state bureaucracy and regulations, too much competition, absence of a wholesale market, and difficulties to get inputs. Retos para la equidad social, edited by Maria del Carmen Zavala et al., contains twenty contributions, all but one authored by women, focused on socioeconomic inequality under Raúl’s structural reforms. Three chapters of the book deal with expanding inequalities among the self-employed by age, gender, race, education, and location, and also with their motivation, satisfaction, competition, capital access, obstacles faced, and views of the future. The best chapter in the collection, by Daybel Pañellas, Jorge Torralbas, and Claudia Caballero, relies on a survey taken between October 2013 and March 2014 among 419 persons self-employed in fifty-seven activities and located in three districts of Old Havana. They find that age, gender, education, and location are important factors in the quality of occupation, access to capital, and earnings of the self-employed. In the sample, 76 percent worked by themselves, without employees; 13 percent were employers and 11 percent employees; 64 percent were men and 36 percent women; 48 percent were white and 52 percent nonwhite; 54 percent were middle-aged adults, 30 percent young people, and 15 percent elderly; 54 percent had precollege or university education, 31 percent had a low level of education, and 15 percent had a technical education (a highly trained labor force and NSS, also noted by Torres). Not only are women underrepresented, but their activities reproduced their roles in domestic life, such as work in cafeterias, food preparation, manicure, makeup, and as seamstresses. While women rented rooms mostly in national pesos (CUP), men rented rooms in the more advantageous convertible pesos (CUC = 24 CUP). Combining education, race, and gender, the best-educated white males had better occupations than the lowest trained nonwhite females (e.g., computer programing vis-à-vis seamstress). The self-employed were mainly attracted by these features of self-employment (not exclusive categories): better income (80 percent), easier labor journey (20 percent), and being their own bosses (15 percent). Their level of satisfaction ranged from so-so (53 percent), to good/very good (38 percent), to bad/very bad (9 percent)—the higher the educational level the more occupational satisfaction.6 Success in competition was attributed to the quality of product or service (56 percent), business location (24 percent), and low prices (14 percent). Access to capital was mostly by employers that receive remittances, are white, and have higher or middle education, ample social networks, and good locations; conversely, investment is minimal among low-educated nonwhites. Obstacles encountered by the self-employed were lack of access to raw materials (49 percent), heavy taxes (44 percent), lack of financing (35 percent), state control and inspections (33 percent), and legal procedures (23 percent). These proportions varied in the three districts and were influenced by gender, race, and type of activity; for example, controls and inspections were mostly mentioned by workers with low education, nonwhites, and women. On their perceptions for the future, 81 percent believed that the self-employed would prosper—especially if the mentality of the state and the self-employed changes— and 10 percent didn’t think so. Geydis Fundora expands on the growing inequalities enumerated above, based on a study of fifty-two self-employed residents of Havana Province in 2010–2013, reaching similar conclusions. Out of the 201 activities approved, 65 percent have a male profile; paladar owners mostly hire women because of their sex appeal to clients and because the work is similar to that done at home; other activities are in practice barred to the “weak sex.” Men tend to be employers and women employees, thus resulting in lower decision making and income for women. The elderly are disadvantaged because most activities require physical strength; most young people are hired as employees and in less specialized activities. There is no political will to gather statistics on race, but whites predominate over blacks and mulattoes, opposite to what Pañellas, Torralbas, and Caballero found; nonwhites have less access to capital and hence to success and higher earnings. Those that have a high initial capital—coming from savings, remittances, or hidden foreign investment—enjoy an advantage over the rest not only to establish the business but also to buy inputs, pay taxes, and bribe inspectors. Location in more attractive and populous zones are keys to success. Magela Romero targets self-employed women engaged on infant care, a most-needed occupation to increase female participation in the employed labor force, which was 37 percent of the total in 2015;7 the low proportion is an outcome of resilient traditional gender roles at home and work. Based on eighteen cases in the town of Cojímar (in Havana) in 2013, the study found that all those self-employed in infant care were women, and half of them had previously been informal domestic employees. All said that their main attraction was a higher income, but all also complained of exhausting work and high responsibility with a monthly salary of 200 CUP per infant, with a maximum of five infants, equal to US$40, still three times the mean average salary in the state sector. Open for Business by Richard E. Feinberg deals mainly with the economic events following the process of normalization between the United States and Cuba that started at the end of 2014, preceded by a summary of the previous state of the Cuban economy and Raúl’s reforms. Feinberg believes that the emerging NSS “offers the best hope for a more dynamic and efficient Cuban economy, especially if it is permitted to partner with foreign investment and with more efficient state-owned enterprises” (132). One chapter on emerging entrepreneurs is based on a monograph he published in 2013, which at that time provided substantial data and analysis on self-employment, preceding the other three books reviewed herein.8 One graph and one table are updated to mid-2015, but most of the text remains unchanged. The author and an assistant had in-depth conversations with twenty-five microentrepreneurs between March 2012 and April 2013, emphasizing financial issues (averages of time open, number of employees, starting capital, and use of domestic and foreign capital). Interesting profiles of self-employed activities are given on paladares, cafeterias and catering, bed and breakfasts, accounting, a shop selling handicrafts to tourists, building construction and house remodeling, electronic repairs, and renting of 1950s cars; from such profiles he extracts useful lessons.9 A stimulating innovation is the selection of twelve young Cuban “millennials” (aged 20–35), one of them the owner of a cafeteria, for appealing interviews based on ten questions. Feinberg envisages four stages of capital accumulation of microbusinesses: primitive household accumulation, early-mover super-profits, growth and diversification, and strategic alliances with state enterprises and with foreign investors (not yet authorized). Like the other authors whose books I review here, he stresses the progress and achievements of self-employment, perhaps more so than other authors. But he also pinpoints the many constraints the self-employed face: poor banking and meager credit, serious scarcity of inputs of all sorts (as a visible exception he gives the wholesale market “El Trigal,” temporarily closed in May 2016), shortage of commercial rental space, a very challenging business climate, and government restrictions including persecution by government inspectors and heavy fines, as well as constraints on capital accumulation and business growth. He provides his own recommendations to alleviate these problems. One fundamental question left unanswered is the size of the NSS. Unfortunately, there are no official data on the NSS, complete and disaggregated by components. Neither Ritter and Henken nor most Cuban authors provide such a figure (Torres estimates it as 27 percent of the labor force; p. 21). The only elaborated calculation in the four books is Feinberg’s, who states that “altogether, as many as 2 million enterprising Cubans—40 percent of total employment—and possibly even more can be counted within the private sector” and predicts that “in the next three to five years, total private employment could reach 45 to 50 percent of the active labor force” (Feinberg, 132, 139; emphasis added); this exceeds by 10 percentage points Torres’s middle-term estimate of 35 to 40 percent (24). Feinberg overestimates the NSS’s size. First, an important semantic and substantive issue is that not all NSS participants are private, only most self-employed workers and their employees as well as small private farmers are. Usufruct farmers, NASCs, and other cooperatives’ members do not own their land or buildings; these belong to the state, which leases them to the workers. Second, several figures in Feinberg’s estimates are either questionable or not supported by specific sources; the main query is what he labels “other private activities (estimated),” such as full-time unregistered self-employment and partial self-employment done by state-sector employees, which add up to between 185,000 and 1,185,000, based on guesstimates (while it is true that some government employees work part-time as self-employed workers, it is impossible to know for how many hours, which makes it difficult to estimate average full days of work). Third is the inclusion of 353,000 members of credit and service cooperatives (CCS), because that number exceeds by 65 percent the total number of all co-op members in 2015, including agricultural production (UBPCs, Basic Units of Agricultural Production, and CPAs, Agricultural Production Co-ops), CCSs (Credit and Services Co-ops) and NASCs.10 Furthermore, many private and usufruct farmers are also members of CCSs, thus they are counted twice. Fourth, the category of “land lease farmers” (172,000) is confusing; on the one hand Feinberg does not specifically include usufruct farmers (312,296), and on the other hand the official data on land leasers (arrendatarios) is only 2,843.11 Fifth, employees of self-employed workers are counted since 2011 in the total number of the self-employed, mixed with owners, and we have shown that there is a double counting in the overall figure. In any case, the official statistics on the total NSS share in the employed labor force expanded from 17 percent in 2008, when Raúl officially became president, to 29 percent in 2015.12 In conclusion, there is no doubt that the NSS is important and growing, but certainly not as much as Feinberg estimates. In summary, the most studied NSS group is the self-employed; NASCs are briefly discussed by Ritter and Henkel and in Piñeiro’s chapter in Zavala et al. Largely excluded from the discussion are usufruct farmers, and totally omitted is the selling/buying of private homes. The historical approach is followed most intensively by Ritter and Henken, although several Cuban authors provide summaries of the evolution in their respective topics. The preferred methodology is interviews or conversations combined with research. There is a consensus that the NSS (mostly self-employment) has been successful despite considerable obstacles. We lack a reliable estimate of the NSS’s size. Missing in the four volumes is an evaluation of the NSS’s macroeconomic effects.13 Ritter and Henken refer to some results of self-employment, such as job creation, noting the nonfulfillment of the official target of dismissing more than one million unneeded state employees. None of the books discuss the impact of usufruct farming on agricultural output, where NASC members are still minute and their impact is even more difficult to assess. It is true that the scarcity of available data hinder the task, but still some estimation could have been done on the NSS’s effect on produce sales, fiscal revenue, and GDP.14 Feinberg and Ritter and Henken are the only authors who explore the future of the NSS. Feinberg provides three broad overall scenarios, which are thought-provoking but touch little on the NSS: (1) “inertia” with little change, without citing potential precedents and projecting self-employment to 750,000, 48 percent higher than the March 2016 official figure of 507,342; (2) “botched transition and decay,” the most pessimistic, similar to former states of the USSR, but with self-employment expanding to 1 million, twice its 2016 size, as some restraints are removed; and (3) “soft landing” in 2030, the most optimistic, under market socialism as in Vietnam, where self-employment really takes off and reaches 2 million employees and 40 percent of the labor force—this is somewhat confusing because he refers to the private sector and had previously predicted, for the entire NSS, 45 to 50 percent in 2019–2021 (203–222). Ritter and Henken offer three possible alternative routes for the NSS, without predicting its size: (1) reversal to Fidel’s hostile approach, which they judge very improbable because it is totally unfeasible and discredited (“unlikely to be reversed” for Feinberg, 131); (2) stabilization of Raúl’s current (2014) and cautious reform package to self-employment and NASCs, which would remain in place for the rest of his presidency, but with a significant expansion of both and the potential of creating a “mixed cooperative market economy”; and (3) acceleration of the reform and rebalancing among public, private, and cooperative sectors, with medium and large private enterprises advancing at the expense of co-ops and smaller private enterprises; the viability of this scenario, they say, could be helped by a “serious relaxation of US policy toward Cuba” that could “encourage the Cuban government pro-market openings” (311). Cuba is always unpredictable, and none of the three scenarios by the above authors completely fit the situation in August 31, 2016, when this review essay was finished. Ritter and Henken’s book was concluded in October 2014, thus this reviewer has the unfair advantage of almost two years that have brought significant changes, such as the evolution of US-Cuba rapprochement in 2014–2016 and the Seventh Congress of the Communist Party held in April 2016.15 In light of those events, their first and third alternatives are implausible, at least in the medium and long run; the second might be conceivable if the emphasis is placed on “stability” instead of significant expansion. By August 2016, however, rapprochement, rather than helping the reforms, appeared to have the opposite effect due to dread in the leadership caused by Obama’s visit and it effects, reflected in the results of the Seventh Party Congress. The number of self-employed workers peaked at 504,613 in May 2015, declined to 496,400 in December, and climbed again to 507,342 in March 2016, an increase of 0.7 percent in ten months, substantially lower that the expansion rate in 2014 and 2015 (14 and 3 percent, respectively). Furthermore, at the Congress, Raúl warned that although NSS forms are not antisocialist, “powerful external forces” try to “empower” them as agents of change, and could risk further “concentration of wealth and property” (the latter was not among the agreements of the Sixth Congress in 2011), making it necessary to impose “well-defined limits” on them.16 The Seventh Congress also recommended to halt the creation of new NASCs because of their deficiencies, and to concentrate on the existing ones instead.17 Finally, the only existing wholesale market was temporarily closed in May 2016. Feinberg’s book ended in early 2016, much later than Ritter and Henken’s, but his scenarios and predictions don’t correlate well with the facts explained above: “inertia” looks optimistic and even more so “decay”—both appear to be short- or middle-term effects—whereas the 2030 “soft landing” would require the drastic changes detailed by him, which are difficult to visualize now. 1 These basic principles of the reforms were set in the Sixth Communist Party Congress of 2011 and ratified in the Seventh Congress of 2016. 2 The pioneer book in the field is Jorge F. Pérez-López, Cuba’s Second Economy: From Behind the Scenes to Center Stage (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1995). 3 Oficina Nacional de Estadística e Información (ONEI), Anuario Estadístico de Cuba 2015 (La Habana, 2016). 4 Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Market, Socialist, and Mixed Economies: Comparative Policy and Performance; Chile, Cuba, and Costa Rica (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2000). 5 ONEI, Anuario Estadístico de Cuba 2015. 6 A series of interviews conducted by five authors in 2014–2015, in a much wider part of Havana City, agreed with the predominance of men over women, the highest participation of middle-aged adults, and the important role of education, but found a prevalence of whites and a higher level of satisfaction. Carmelo Mesa-Lago et al., Voces de cambio en el sector no estatal cubano: Cuentapropistas, usufructuarios, socios de cooperativas y compraventa de viviendas (Madrid: Editorial Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2016). 7 ONEI, Anuario Estadístico de Cuba 2015. 8 Richard E. Feinberg, Soft Landing in Cuba? Emerging Entrepreneurs and Middle Classes (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2013). 9 These cases are more varied than those discussed by Ritter and Henken, but the latter provided the most comprehensive and profound analysis of paladares. 10 ONEI, Anuario Estadístico de Cuba 2015. 11 ONEI, Anuario Estadístico de Cuba 2014 (La Habana, 2015). 12 Mesa-Lago et al., Voces de cambio en el sector no estatal cubano; ONEI, Anuario Estadístico de Cuba 2015. 13 Valdés notes in the prologue to Pérez Villanueva and Torres’s book the absence of a macroeconomic essay to place all NSS forms in the proper context. 14 The percentage of GDP generated only by self-employment has been estimated as 5 percent by Saira Pons, Tax Law Dilemmas for Self-Employed Workers (La Habana, CEEE), but by 12 percent by Torres (in Pérez Villanueva and Torres, p. 24), a significant gap. For an assessment of some NSS effects see Mesa-Lago et al., Voces de cambio en el sector no estatal cubano. 15 After this essay was finished, the guidelines (lineamientos) for 2016–2021 were published; a rapid browse indicates no significant changes from the guidelines of 2011. 16 Raúl Castro Ruz, “Informe central al Séptimo Congreso del Partido Comunista de Cuba,” Granma, April 17, 2016 (emphasis added), 1–3. Mauricio Murillo mentioned, as examples of the limits to be imposed, the establishment of limits on the number of hectares that somebody may have (“Intervención en el VII Período Ordinario de la Asamblea Nacional,” Granma, July 9, 2016). 17 Carmelo Mesa-Lago, “El lento avance de la reforma en Cuba,” Política Exterior 30, no. 171 (2016): 94–104.155 By Ted Henken. Complete review is available here: http://cubacounterpoints.com/archives/3832 A review of Open for Business: Building The New Cuban Economy by Richard E. Feinberg, August 30, 2016, Washington, D.C.Brookings Institution Press, 264 pages, $22.00; ISBN-10: 0815727674’; ISBN-13: 978-0815727675 A few years ago I ran into a fellow watcher of Cuba’s economy in my favorite local New York coffee shop. It was just after the publication of my own recent book on the emergent Cuban private sector, which I co-wrote with the Canadian economist Archibald Ritter. Keen on announcing my good fortune (and great timing!) to my colleague, I whipped the book out and proudly presented it to her. However, when she saw the title, Entrepreneurial Cuba, she looked up at me with a skeptical grin and said: “Well, aren’t you the optimistic one?!” I laughed, quickly assuring her that while the title was indeed up-beat, the contents of the book were a decidedly more complex, critical, and ambivalent affair, filled with equal parts new opportunities, old obstacles, significant reforms, and frightful omens. Similarly, the title of Richard Feinberg’s own eminently readable and richly informative new book, Open for Business: Building the New Cuban Economy, slyly posits a reality of economic “openness” that is aspirational. The author himself admits that this position is still as much a government slogan for the future as it is an achieved present-day reality. While Feinberg tells his readers that Cuba is indeed “open for business” on the book’s eye-catching cover, the actual contents of the book’s wide-ranging eight chapters highlight aspects of Cuba’s new post-Fidel economy that place an emphatic and well deserved question mark (?) after this claim. Far from falling prey to the “irrational exuberance” of facile boosterism or blatant apologetics that tend to characterize much business-oriented writing about Cuba these days, Feinberg’s book is a critical-minded and deeply informed evaluation of the pro-market experiments undertaken by the Cuban government over the past two decades with a special emphasis on Raúl Castro’s economic reforms between 2010-2016. Thankfully, Feinberg goes beyond an exclusive focus on the top-down administrative efforts on the part of the government to solve its chronic economic problems (chapter 2). Feinberg does consider the so-called “update” of Cuba’s state socialist economic model that is often in league with sympathetic foreign governments like China, Brazil, and Venezuela (Chapter 3) and pioneering foreign firms including Sherritt, Meliá, and Unilever (chapters 4-5). Notably, chapter 6 on entrepreneurial Cuba tells the fascinating story of Cuba’s emerging private entrepreneurs and middle classes. According to Feinberg, now this new economic class includes as many as two million people and makes up 40% of the island’s workforce (a well-sourced if questionable claim). This is followed by a wonderfully original chapter that profiles a dozen Cuban “millennial voices”; youthful, and quite hopeful, pioneers in fields as diverse as business, art, media, academics, and technology. These innovative sections of the book allow the author to offer his readers a refreshingly rich and diverse portrait of the grass-roots efforts of everyday citizens to “open Cuba for business” from the inside and for the benefit of Cubans themselves. Not a typical academic monograph focused on a single aspect of the Cuban economy, Feinberg’s “Open for Business” is instead a globally-informed analysis of what are arguably the three most important and dynamic aspects of Cuba’s new economy: International trade, foreign investment, and the island’s emerging domestic entrepreneurs. His wide-ranging yet richly detailed focus – enhanced by multiple foreign investor case studies and vivid profiles of Cuba’s emerging entrepreneurs and pioneering millennials – makes this book required reading not just for professional economists and other academics, but also – and perhaps especially – for the growing ranks of potential foreign investors looking for independent, hard-nosed, and practical advice about Cuba’s unique business environment as they contemplate their own entreé into the Cuban market. It will also be useful and revelatory tool for U.S. policymakers as they gauge how best to “engage” the Cuban government over questions of trade and investment and “empower” the Cuban people, especially the emerging Cuban entrepreneurial middle classes. Richard Feinberg, December 2015, Brookings Institute In their opening meetings, the U.S. and Cuba will present their conflicting claims. One possible outcome is protracted and contentious negotiations. But there is a much more promising alternative approach: to take advantage of the very size and complexity of the conflicting claims and to make their resolution the centerpiece of a grand bargain that would resolve some of the other remaining points of tension between the two nations, and embrace an ambitious, forward-looking development strategy for Cuba. There are precedents for such a grand bargain, in such cases as the Soviet Union, Vietnam, and China. The Roosevelt-Litvinov agreements—negotiated in the White House directly between the U.S. president and Soviet foreign minister—laid the foundations for renewing diplomatic relations, and one might argue for the World War II alliance that defeated the axis powers. Similarly, the claims settlement with Vietnam was one piece of a much broader normalization process between the two once bitter adversaries—two nations that now label themselves strategic allies. Pointedly, at the August 14, 2015 flag-raising ceremony at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Secretary of State John Kerry remarked: “And last week, I was in Hanoi to mark the twentieth anniversary of normalization of relations between the United States and Vietnam. Think about that. A long and terrible war that inflicted indelible scars on body and mind, followed by two decades of mutual healing, followed by another two decades of diplomatic and commercial engagement. In this period, Vietnam evolved from a country torn apart by violence into a dynamic society with one of the world’s fastest growing economies.” In recent U.S.-Cuban relations, there is also the precedent of the December 17, 2014 announcements, when the return of Alan Gross and a CIA asset for three Cuba spies was wrapped in the larger story of normalizing diplomatic relations, and on the U.S. side, the relaxing of certain travel and economic restrictions. The two-tiered settlement strategy outlined above allows for U.S. firms to re-engage in Cuba. At the same time, some individual claimants and their families harbor deep affections for Cuba and would probably be willing to contribute to its future development. Cuba could consider special incentives to regain this legacy of the island’s past, and for interested claimants to match their awards with re-investments in new projects. With the right incentives, Cuba could also attract the capital and talents of many of the two million Cuban-Americans resident in the United States. With their separate legal issues and emotional charges, and the vastness of their numbers, the property claims of Cuban-Americans will require their own treatment (more on this in a subsequent paper). But the settlement of U.S. property claims might include a general framework for the future consideration of issues of concern to Cuban-Americans – with the overarching goal being reconciliation of the diaspora with the homeland. The settlement of U.S. claims could be wrapped in a package of economic opportunities for Cuba. Importantly, the United States could further relax its economic sanctions (amending or repealing Helms-Burton), providing more trade and investment opportunities – and the capacity for Cuba to earn the foreign exchange needed to service debt obligations. In turn, Cuba will have to accelerate and deepen its economic reforms, to offer a more attractive business environment for investors and exporters. Politically, the Cuban government could present a significant softening of the U.S. embargo as a victory, offsetting any concessions made in the claims negotiations. A comprehensive package might also be more attractive to the U.S. Congress; formal Congressional consent would enhance the measures’ legitimacy and durability and help to close off any court challenges, should some claimants be unsatisfied with the final settlement. It is time for Cuba to enter the international financial institutions and the United States should no longer stand in the way. The IFIs can play a vital role, in providing capital and connections to the global marketplace. The IMF and World Bank are also deep repository of knowledge on transitions from central planning to more market-driven economic systems. The claims settlement agreement between the United States and Hungary contained an annex where it was agreed, inter alia, that the Hungarian Government intended to settle outstanding dollar bonds through direct talks with bondholders; and that the United States would seek authority from its legislature to accord Most-Favored Nation (MFN) treatment to Hungary, subject to separate negotiations. 75 In a grand bargain, the United States could offer to work with Cuba and other creditors to renegotiate Cuba’s outstanding official (Paris Club) and commercial (London Club) debts on terms that take into account Cuba’s capacity to pay.76 The U.S. government continues to carry on its books $36.3 million of Cuban obligations to the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank), which could be addressed within the Paris Club framework.77 The United States could also agree to reconsider remaining trade and investment restrictions. At this stage, it would be too much to expect agreement on a detailed development strategy for Cuba. But a process could be put in place whereby Cuba would work with its many international partners, including the United States, to forge a twenty-first century development model that preserves the social gains of the revolution but that also raises labor productivity and living standards. Under President Raúl Castro, Cuba has initiated economic reform and the international community can accompany it by adding its expertise and resources. It would not be too much for the claims ettlement talks, if they agree on a two-tiered strategy, to include a discussion of the business climate, and what additional steps Cuba needs to take to attract badly needed foreign investment. As strict socialist property relations are gradually replaced by a more hybrid economic system, Cuba will need to design and implement new property regimes that promote individual initiative but that also encompass land-use, housing, natural resources and other regulatory oversight protective of the public interest and consistent with sustainable and equitable growth. The strategic goals in a massive claims resolution process must be political: to heal the deep wounds of past conflicts, to lay foundations for peaceful coexistence and the non-violent resolution of disputes, to avoid jeopardizing fiscal balances and crippling debt burdens, to build investor confidence and international reputation, and to help render the Cuban economy more open and competitive. These vital goals will not always be fully convergent with the more traditional, legal objective focused narrowly on the rights of property claimants. In designing and implementing solutions, as claimants bang on doors and demand attention, policy makers should not lose sight of their overriding purposes. In the interests of both Cuba and the United States, the twentieth-century trauma of massive property seizures should be transformed into a twenty-first century economic development opportunity. Richard Feinberg is a nonresident senior fellow with the Latin America Initiative at the Brookings Institution. He is a professor of international political economy at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego. His four decades of engagement with inter-American relations spans government service (in the White House, Department of State, and U.S. Treasury), numerous Washington, D.C.-based public policy institutes, the Peace Corps (Chile), and now in academia. He is also the book reviewer for the Western Hemisphere section of Foreign Affairs magazine. Financial Times, June 16, 2015 John Paul Rathbone, Latin America Editor; Geoff Dyer, US diplomatic correspondent; Richard Feinberg, Professor, UCLA San Diego; Marc Frank, Journalist based in Cuba; Cardiff Garcia, FT Alphaville reporter NEW CONNECTION DIVIDES OPINION; President Obama’s overtures play better than expected at home — although not with everyone STRAITS DEALING BRIDGES MANY GAPS; Retailers in Florida cash in on items needed by customers across the water GLIMMERS OF GLASNOST BEGIN TO WARM ISLAND; Government retains a firm grip, but there are signs it is loosening a little NEW PORT ZONE HARBOURS BIG AMBITIONS; A would-be capitalist enclave in a socialist state, the Mariel project is emblematic of change STATE EXPERIMENTS WITH CO-OPERATIVE THINKING; From garages and restaurants to dealers in exotic birds, co-ops are expanding CUBA’S NASCENT KNOWLEGE ECONOMY; The island could capitalise on a wealth of expertise in science US COMPANIES STILL FACE INVESTMENT HURDLES; Bureaucracy, eroded infrastructure and regulatory risk are among hurdles GOVERNMENT LIKELY TO END TO DUAL CURRENCY; Change would be part of reforms to remove price distortins COMPENSATION IS KEY TO FUTURE RELATIONS; What now for legal claims by those who lost property in the revolution? OPINION: WHAT CUBA CAN LEARN FROM VIETNAM; The island has the resources and location to create a balanced economy There is a new entry among Cuba’s roll of important dates. Alongside Fidel Castro’s 26th of July movement and the January 1 1959 “triumph of the revolution”, there is now December 17 2014. That was the day when Barack Obama and Raúl Castro, the US and Cuban presidents, announced that they wanted to normalise bilateral relations and end more than 50 years of cold war enmity. To be sure, communist Cuba was already changing. After formally becoming president in 2008, Mr Castro began a tentative economic liberalisation process to boost the country’s flagging economy — especially urgent now that Venezuela’s growing crisis jeopardises the $1.5bn of aid it sends every year. But the December 17 announcement lit a bonfire of expectations among US businesses — even if Cuba’s $80bn economy, for all its exotic allure, is much the same size as the Dominican Republic’s. “There is a new sense of excitement, of US companies coming to look and thinking of starting seed businesses,” says one long-established European investor in Havana. “It makes sense. Start small, learn how the system works and then see how it all goes.” So, how might it all go? Continue reading: Financial Times SPECIAL REPORT on CUBA June 16 2015
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Doesn’t that look nice? I would love to be sticking my toes in that warm, white sand.. but instead of sand I’m stuck with white snow. Anyways.. welcome to Seychelles! You can find this African country in the Indian Ocean north of Madagascar. Seychelles is an archipelago made up of 115 islands with 8 being having the majority of inhabitants. Interestingly there were no inhabitants until the late 1700s when the French discovered the islands. These are the only islands in the world that are formed from granite versus typical volcanic or coral elements. The worlds largest seed, Coco de Mer, can weigh up to 40lbs and can be found on two of the 115 islands making it heavily (pun intended) protected due to its variety. The cuisine of the island is like many other neighboring islands. Local produce and seafood dominate the main course which includes shark chutneys and fish curries. You can eat the cherished Coco de Mer seeds however due to their size and harvesting rules many do not. Breadfruit is very popular here and according to legend if you eat breadfruit here you will return some day. I used this recipe which was actually created by Chef Daniel Louis on the island of Mahe, Seychelles. The recipe is for traditional shrimp creole curry. Creole cuisine ) is a mix of African, French, Spanish, and Caribbean influences that involve a lot of spice and heat using simple cooking methods. Cooking and preparation was simple using basic cooking techniques. I liked that this recipe used a whole cinnamon stick to give a deeper flavor. Good thing I still have 50+ from a previous order..🙃 As you know we love shrimp dishes and this one didn’t disappoint! We enjoyed the warmth from the ginger and curry, however it did remind us of some dishes we have made before. The shrimp pairs well with these flavors and the coconut rice is just a given at this point (it is the only way to eat rice with curry flavors). We though it was deserving of a 7.25/10. Side not still not a huge fan of eggplant- think I will pass in the future🍆 Oh do I wish I was someplace warm right now! I feel Maine’s winter has been pretty mild so far but that tropical climate seems to be calling my name. Today we explore Fiji, a country of the South Pacific Ocean composed of more than 300 islands (110 of which are inhabited). This archipelago nation became independent from Great Britain in October of 1970 and is well known in the tourist industry. Walking across a hot bed of stones originated in Fiji around 500 years ago by the Sawau tribe. Fiji is also the “soft coral” capital of the world and has over 4,000 square miles across its nation with several popular places to snorkel. Additionally “Fiji Water” is one of the main exports of the country and is drank world wide. The cuisine of Fiji is made up mostly of local ingredients whether if be foraged, hunted, farmed, or caught. With colonization teas, rice, grains, and flour are other staples in their diet. Seasonal produce is usually highlighted in their cooking. Coconut, taro, cassava, and bele (native vegetable) are especially popular here. The meal I made today tries to embody the nation using (or substituting) local ingredients. This chili coconut prawn (shrimp) recipe can be found here. The execution was easy and used known ingredients. I added some peppers to give the dish more color and substance. I opted to make coconut rice to really bring out those sweet flavors (and because I’m obsessed). Another awesome shrimp dish! The shrimp was super savory and paired well with the coconut rice (winning rice flavor in my opinion). The spice was enjoyable and complimented the dish. This one was worthy of 8/10. Hey guys, we are in Singapore! This beautiful country borders Western Malaysia and is guarded by the mythical merlion (seen above). This figure came to life from the combination of its previous name Singapura (lion city in Malay) and honoring the the past, modest fishing village that the country started as (hence lion head and fish body). Singapore is known for its ban on chewing gum, affordable street food, and its summer-like weather year round (it is situated near the equator). For a smaller country Singapore is well-known for its incredible cuisine, especially seafood. Rice, noodles, and other meats are also found in many of its dishes, but today we pay tribute to seafood. I was originally going to make the very popular chili crab, but I couldn’t buy any crab locally.. only crab meat for crab cakes and that wasn’t going to cover it. So the next best thing was chili prawns (or shrimp). The dish consists of a sweet and spicy chili sauce that simmers prior to the addition of the seafood of choice. At the end a beaten egg is mixed in briefly and the dish is removed from heat to serve over rice or noodles. Luckily I had some leftover coconut rice which paired wonderfully! This dish is so good that it’s mentioned in the top 50 best dishes on CNN. The recipe can be found here. So we loved it, obviously. It was sweet with a mild heat, the ginger and garlic coming through well. The egg made the sauce creamy and delightful, just make sure not to let it sit too long so the egg doesn’t fry. Our only suggestion would have been some vegetables added to the mix to complete the meal. We absolutely loved it and will be making it in the future! It was rated 8.5/10. For our third day in Greece Ian made another recipe from Kokkari: Contemporary Greek Flavors. He has great understanding of Greek food from his experience as a line cook in a Greek-Italian restaurant and is part Greek himself. For those reasons that is why we decided to spend a week here – what a rough decision! With Greece’s vast coastline and numerous islands it makes sense why seafood is a staple of their cuisine. Garides tou fournou roughly translates to baked shrimp and honors the delicious crustacean. Other common seafood that is used widely in Greek cuisine include sardines, squid, anchovies, smelt, mackerel, and bogue. It is not uncommon to find other varieties of seafood on the plate since this country is all about fresh ingredients. In this dish you will find shrimp that are topped with a flavorful shell-infused stock/tomato sauce and a healthy amount of feta. Yum yum! The additional of dill to the sauce took me by surprise at first, but remembering our track record of dill and seafood pairing I knew it was going to be good. Thinking back to Libya as well we discovered the beautiful combination of dill, cinnamon, and tomatoes. You never know what unique pairings you are going to find by traveling by taste bud! All aspects of the preparation and cooking was straightforward and easy to follow. The ingredients can easily be found in most grocery stores and it did not take long to finish. Making your own seafood stock is simple and a great way to save a little moolah. I don’t know why I had never thought to do that before.. We really enjoyed this meal and thought the addition of orzo was a must. Cooking the shrimp at a higher temperature allowed for a wonderful crust to form and give the dish a nice contrasting texture. Feta being incorporated in the sauce and garnished on top gave the sweet sauce a punch of saltiness (don’t go overboard adding salt to the dish!). We loved this elevated shrimp dish and rated it 8.5/10. We give props to the orzo as well since this dish would be incomplete without it. If you don’t like shrimp you might be able to get away with scallops- let us know how that goes of course! If you still feel it needs more try pairing it with a fresh salad and a glass of your favorite white wine. Onto the last meal in Greece! G-day mate! The third dish I will be preparing is prawns on the barbie. Unfortunately, it being winter in Maine, I will be unable to use my grill. Grilling is a preferred way in Australia to prepare meals, especially when the weather is warm. In Maine we too love to grill, but with an apartment set up grilling in the winter doesn’t work out. I will try my best to bring a grill essence to the meal. But first a little vocabulary.. Barbie is Australian slang for grill and prawn is referring to shrimp. Prawns are popular around Christmas time, however Americans on average eat more than Aussies! Fun fact: The phrase “put another shrimp on the barbie” originally came from a commercial made by the Australian Tourism Commission in 1984. Paul Hogan starred in this ad and first said this line. Come to find out the phrase isn’t all that accurate as you now know shrimp is referred to as prawns! Also a little side note- you all need Camp Mix in your life. I put it on EVERYTHING, it’s very versatile! I used it for my salt & pepper seasoning for this dish. It can be found occasionally at Reny’s, but if not you can find it here. I sautéed the veggies and shrimp to give them a grilled vibe for this dish. I saved the marinade to cook the veggies in to bring it all together. We thought it was a nice, refreshing dish that I could see Ian BBQing in the near future. Another good rating of 7/10.. The last meal we will be bringing to you this week is the Aussie Burger🍔 I hope you are ready for a hefty burger with everything, but the kitchen sink.
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Students at SMK Selising are divided by test scores, with the top scorers going to “A” classes, and lower scorers going to “B,” “C,” and “D” classes. I teach the A, B, C, and D classes for forms 1 and 2, or the equivalent of 8th and 9th grade. That means I teach the youngest and lowest scoring students in the school, the 1D class. Most of the students in “Satu-D” are not literate in their mother-tongue, Bahasa Melayu. Most of their parents are truck drivers, soldiers, or sell food at the night market. This is their seventh year taking BM class, and at least their third or fourth year taking English, but they still cannot read or write proficiently in either language. The combination of poverty, an exceptionally hierarchical culture, and teacher shortages means that these students have had little to no resources and guidance throughout their education. They sit in a dirty, bare, cement classroom with a couple of anemic fans. They wear ratty shoes and their notebooks are falling apart. Their lack of nutrition, health care, and education makes them come across as much younger than thirteen. They look about 9 or 10. For the first few weeks it was nearly impossible to get them to speak at all. They couldn’t respond to “How are you?” or “What is your name?” They would cover their faces in their hands, turn away in embarrassment, laugh uncontrollably, or just stare like a statue. This is understandable because even if they knew some English, they would be too shy to use it with me because I’m the first foreigner they’ve ever met. How was I supposed to teach this class? I didn’t speak BM and they didn’t speak English, and even when I wrote on the board they couldn’t sound out the letters. We started from the very beginning. I decided to focus on spoken English and useful basics, rather than try to teach them a topic from the Form 1 national curriculum that would be over their heads and irrelevant. I have a small whiteboard eraser that I started tossing to students when it was their turn to talk. The physicality of throwing the “duster” and the silliness of missed throws and catches broke the ice. After a few weeks they could say “Hello, my name is___. I am from Malaysia. I live in Kampong____. I am thirteen-years-old.” I realized that they did not know the days of the week or months of the year, so we worked on that next. I started every class having them tell me the day, date, and year. Every class we worked on a simple sentence structure they could memorize, because they could not read the words I wrote on the whiteboard. Then they would use the vocabulary they had learned to practice in sentences like “My favorite____is_____” and “Do you have a___?” They learned colors, animals, fruits, vegetables, classroom objects, emotions, etc. I have a policy that speaking English should never be used as a punishment because students will then associate it with punishment and won’t want to speak voluntarily. That’s why I give students a few chances to skip their turn until they are ready and have heard other students answer successfully. When the students realized they’d get more attention and reinforcement from volunteering, they started clamoring to raise their hands first. At assembly every week I present an English word to the school. I give students imported Tootsie Rolls for being brave enough to come on stage to spell the words and use them in a sentence. Then I start every class by asking students how they feel that day, and they have to use one of the many words of the week they’ve accumulated. After a couple months, the 1D students could be heard saying “Miss Christy, today I feel phenomenal,” “morose,” “euphoric,” “zany,” “invincible” and “jubilant.” I keep the Tootsie Rolls in my office to lure the students in. To get candy (gula), they have to make a sentence using the word of the week. Groups of students come in all the time, speak some English, and are pleased to have tricked Miss Christy into giving them gula. Now that I’ve arrived at the end of the year, I’ve noticed remarkable progress in this group of students, much more so than the higher-scoring classes I teach. The students who would not speak at the beginning of the year are now regulars at my office hours. They come whenever their teachers miss class. They pick up the English books I have sitting on my desk and read aloud every word they know. Now when I start class they fluently blurt out “Today is Monday, twenty-four October, two-thousand-sixteen.” I can throw the duster around out-of-the-blue and ask “Where are you from?” “How old are you?” “What is your ambition?” “What is your favorite animal?” “What is your favorite fruit?” “What is __ color called?” “What is __ number called?” “Say the days of the week backwards.” They can give me directions to go right, left, ahead, behind, etc. I can name a person, object, time, or place and they can tell me if its best to use “Who,” “What,” “When,” or “Where.” They can use past, present, and future tense. Now when a group of 1D students walks by, they confidently say “How are you today, Miss Christy?” When I ask them the same, they proclaim “I feel invincible today.”
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October 21, 2011 at 4:46 PM These days I love toting my fiddle through life, and I'm happy to be a bit "different" because I'm a musician. But it wasn't always so. My violin playing has always been a source of deep satisfaction, but when I was an adolescent, I struggled with a nagging embarrassment over carrying around my violin case, admitting how much time I spent practicing and also being unable to make people understand why I found playing the violin to be much more "cool" to me than any other activity on the planet. They just didn't get it. A few times it amounted to downright bullying. Of course, some people did understand, but it took time to find them. When I did, it was like drinking fresh water after a long run. I still remember a bus ride with about 50 kids in my youth orchestra, when we were all coming home from an retreat in the mountains. One of the cellists had brought a big boom box -- you know how teenagers like to blast their music. We unanimously decided to blast Beethoven's 7th Symphony over the boom box -- it was a piece we had all played together. We spent the rest of the ride winding through the Rocky Mountains, with everyone singing their parts to Beethoven 7. I felt so…understood! So I've created a vote on this subject, has anyone ever made fun of you for playing the violin? And you might want to comment on how you got through it. I also wanted to share this video, made by the musicians in Time For Three: violinists Zach De Pue and Nick Kendall and double bassist Ranaan Meyer. They describe it as "the story of so many kids who every day face challenges to who they are and who they want to be: their dreams, their ambitions, their identity. This video is for you guys. Be strong. Stick with it. We did, and we are stronger for it." I didn't play violin in jr high, I played tommy gun :-) Although I wish I had begun studying violin when I was a kid, when you start an endeavor like this at 60 years old the chorus of "Atta girl!!" is pretty uplifting. I can't say that the support is for the quality of my playing -- I suspect it's more of a salute to being this spunky at my age!! :) I don't think I would have been teased about it in my youth. There was a very close-knit musical community in my school -- I believe even some of the jocks secretly wished they could join the "music nerds". I know a varsity hockey captain who plays 1st chair. Athletics and orchestra are far from mutually exclusive these days. I can relate to the tf3 video. I too performed in my school talent show and received the only standing ovation, but remember being teased for carrying the violin. Times might be different now, as there is a major emphasis on anti-bullying at my kids' schools, and my middle-school-age son has never expressed the desire to quit the violin. Individualist that I am, I, too, was "happy to be a bit 'different.'" But I don't recall any times when other kids actually made fun of me for playing violin. The nearest incidents I can think of: True, there were a few who found my practicing in such unorthodox venues downright comical. And -- you guessed it -- one or two others did express mild derision at such nonconformity. Again, not a problem -- no disruption. I just went on doing what I loved doing. If I could go back, I wouldn't change a thing. " singing the opening measures of Kreutzer 2" Haha that's definitely more praise than picking for sure! I wonder if Jim is a little older than me. Or not. But basically anything older than the Rolling Stones was Ancient Music in my generation... Topic aside, I just wanted to say that that is a pretty awesome video!!! Well, I'm pretty young, and yeah, a lot. Less now but typically I've always been teased a lot for playing violin. I suppose some part of it has to do with me being black. I was the only violinist in my first high school, and therefore different to everyone else. I think in some respects, teasing over playing the violin could be worse for boys, but nevertheless, I went to an all-girls school and felt teased by particular groups of other girls over my passion. When I was 12, one girl stood up whilst the whole class was watching and told me I'd never make it in the world of music and that I was useless at playing the violin. I snapped at that moment and told her that one day I'd have the last laugh because I'd make it far when she wouldn't. Let's just say, I am now having the last laugh because I am currently in a world class music school getting where I want to be in life. :) My 25 year long sabbatical started when I started High School, so I avoided much of the problem. However, when I was playing, I had a double whammy being a violist. I got picked on by the orchestra as well. However, when I started again in Malaysia, there were many-o-weekend nights when I plugged the viola into an amp and effects box and introduced a band to the world of Bach. The drummer and bass guitarist fell in love with Bach. Only one spoke English, but the music made up for it. In return, I learned some really cool lead guitar licks (played on viola). Now, I'm in demand... go figure! I've never really had any mean teasing, but I have had a lot of "sawing wood" and other type jokes from people that don't know what they're talking about. And also the fact that where I live soccer is king for most people, and classical music is pretty much a nerdy profession to be looked at with great curiosity; not to mention that if you are obsessive about it (as I am), you are treated as someone who is quite close to the looney bin. So I haven't really had any mean teasing, just a lot of ignorance. But soon I'm going to be auditioning for an awesome music school, and then the sawing wood jokes will greatly decrease, I hope. :) In the school I went to in england music was always regarded as an achievement and not a nerd thing at all - the musicians were even singled out for special status. So I was very fortunate on that count. However, I can still relate as I was teased mercilessly for being a 'smart kid' so the video stirs some painful memories. By the way the music and playing were fantastic - I'd like to explore some of this.... That is an interesting hypothesis. I have three names for you to be aware of (to help curve the trajectory of "common knowledge" back to knowledge rather than absurdly narrow current pop culture): Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. Not blues. Not jazz. Not Country. But all of those things! www.youtube.com/watch Ray Nance. Trumpet, vocals, violin, with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. youtu.be/qDQpZT3GhDg and last but not least, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. (Rachel Barton-Pine has recorded a bunch of his work fairly recently, worth a listen in my opinion). Apparently, Frederick Douglass also played the violin. Interesting list and short biographies of lots of other "black" violinists here: www.jazzbows.com/blackviolinlinks.html And finally, in the current "hip-hop" (in quotes because real hip-hop came and went long before the big-money "hip-hop" business of today) generation, we have some rather amazing stuff going on. Fellow v-commer Jasmine Reese interviewed a really crazy-good hip-hop violinist a few years back, Daniel Bernard Roumain : (The cool techniques he does: my son found a lot of those same sounds in his country fiddling, and you will hear them in lots of other non-classical contemporary string-band stuff, Darol Anger etc. Seems that every genre other than classical explores the percussive, noisy, and distorted sounds a lot more) . You can find tons of stuff on youtube: Personally, I think "blackness" in America is a social construct rather than a race, but it is nevertheless something which is hard to escape dealing with in one way or another, from time to time. p.s. I just went and read your bio. I suppose you already know all of this. But I'll leave it up anyway in case someone finds it useful:-) I'm in the "no" category. The high school I went to had around 1600 kids, and at least 300 were involved in orchestra, band, jazz band, or chorus. I guess maybe there were just too many of us to pick on. The quality of the programs was top-notch, we got to take out-of-state trips each year, the kids in the music department usually had good grades. This was the mid-'70's, though, when working hard at something and doing well wasn't as desperately uncool as it is now. It would be interesting to divide out the yes and no responses on this survey by age and by whether or not the respondant was in a school music program. I was never teased for playing violin, but I fortunate enough to attend a Dork/Nerd Hippie-Style Magnet School, and the local performing arts school. Some of my students are teased at school for playing the violin. The worst of this, like everything else in life, seems to occur in middle school... If I had been more part of the hip crowd, I would have been teased. Growing up, I was teased quite mercilessly for playing the cello. The lucky ones now flip burgers back in the old country... VERY sweet revenge. I was teased more for being younger than everyone else (I was ahead two years in school) and for being a nerdy girl, than for playing the violin. I did have some people ask me whether I had a machine gun in my violin case, but they were kidding (I think!). I'm so glad that you ran this poll, Laurie. For years, I've believed that I was the only one who was teased. I went to an all-girl public high school that today would be called a magnet school. This was in the 60s, and the crowd I hung out with was the liberal intellectual and bohemian type. You wouldn't expect to be teased about playing the violin in this environment. However, one of my friends told me, in all seriousness, that I looked like I played the violin. I was devastated. I felt that I had been marked as a weirdo and an outsider. For years I tried to hide the fact that I played the violin. I would say "my music teacher" instead of "my violin teacher." Looking back, I don't understand why I was so upset. If you're a teenager that goes to a school big on sports, you're gonna get made fun of for the violin. Join an orchestra. Its great to meet people just like you who won't tease you. "If you're a teenager that goes to a school big on sports, you're gonna get made fun of for the violin." Not necessarily true. Se my post above. In South Texas kids made fun of anything and everything. Nothing was sacred! :) This entry has been archived and is no longer accepting comments. Violinist.com is made possible by... Discover the best of Violinist.com in these collections of editor Laurie Niles' exclusive interviews.
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Jean-Pierre Smadja (Smadj) Tunisian born, Parisian musician, Jean-Pierre Smadja (Smadj) grew up listening to Oriental, Brazilian, funk, soul, and folk music. Entering a jazz school at age 15 due to his intense interest in the guitar, Smadj’s musical development came to be characterized by transforming traditional jazz styles into eclectic sounds. This interest in the mechanics of making music led Smadj to pursue a degree in sound engineering, which led to a fruitful career as a recording & sound engineer for famous classical and folk musicians. Releasing his first album in 1994, Smadj became quickly recognized on an international scale for his signature blending of acoustic and electronic sounds on “Equilibriste”, which would ascend on the European World Music Charts to the number 4 position. In 2002, Smadj joined fellow oud magician, Mehdi Haddab to create DuOuD, a duo transporting thevoud to the 21st century. In 2003, Smadj joined master percussionist Burhan Öçal for Burhan Öçal & The Trakya All Stars and in 2005 he stepped behind the scenes to serve as artistic director for Burhan Öçals “New Dream”, re-arranging Gypsies music. Meanwhile, Smadj was recording his own projects with other Turkish virtuosos Savas Zurnaci and Orhan Osman and DuOud. (“Sakat” with the yemeni player Abdulatif Yagoub recorded and “Ping Pong”). More? A solo project “Selin” with Erik Truffaz and Talvin Singh as special guests ; a soundtrack with Cem Yildiz for the film “Muro”, some tremendous work with a “Hü” band, focusing on Alevi traditional music, and a huge project “the oud after Smadj” with Natacha Atlas, Ibrahim Maalouf, Mehdi Haddab, Cem Yildiz…..command for Saint Denis Festival (France). Some knows better Smadj for his album “Fuck the DJ”, relased in 2012, a musical journey where music is having an orgy with disco, dubsteps and oriental flavor. But there is the “Spleen” side of him (released in 2015). Smadj is East meets West, often severely borderline. And it’s a real pleasure. Mehdi Haddab is famous for the creation of the band EKOVA with Dierdre Dubois & Arash Khalatbari (first album signed by Sony Music : “Heaven’s Dust” 1998 + Remix album (featuring DJ Cam, Doctor L, Da Lata , Smadj … ). First album… first world tour through Europe, the USA, Canada… EKOVA will open all the shows in France for The CURE, before to release a second album : “Space lullabies and other Fantasmagore” (2001), ranked 11 in the Top World Music Albums. The band is starting a second World Tour in the USA, Canada, Europe, Russia, Turkey… In the 2000’s, Mehdi Haddab start collaborating with SMADJ with the DuOud project. First album signed on Label Bleu , a famous Jazz label “Wild serenade ” (2002) – album BBC awards nominated. Second album on World Village / Harmonia Mundi. And…. As always a long world tour : the USA , Canada, Europe , Russia , Turkey , Yemen , Oman , Tunisia, Morocco , Japan, Singapore, Morocco, Yemen, Algeria , Malaysia , Australia … They open shows in the US for the diva Natacha Atlas. In 2009, Mehddi Haddab creates the band SPEED CARAVAN as a leader. First album “Kalashnik love ” (Real World Records ) – Song lines music awards nominated, and again a World Tour : Europe , Canada , Australia , New Zealand , Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia , Lebanon , Jordan , Egypt , Mexico , AEU, Dubai , Abu Dhabi , The Azores… Second Album : “Big Blue Desert” 2016 (World Village/PIAS Records) Mehdi Haddab is a real crossover artist, multiplicating movies collaboration : Imuhar / music Philippe Eidel ; Mortel Transfert / music Reinhart Wagner directed by JJ BENEIX, ; with Ekova : track (Temoine) in Wayne WANG’s movie “the center of the world ” 2001 ; with Duoud : Track (Johnny Guitar) in Rachida BRAKNI’s movie « De Sas En Sas » ; with Speed Caravan : Track (Diamond Belly Button) in Oliver STONE’s movie “Wall street 2” 2010). He is also creating for television : main theme with Al Jazeera music show (AL JAZEERA english/Moonbeam Films ) Track : Kalashnik love ; main theme TV talk show prime time Ness Nesma (NESMA TV ) Track : Galvanize ; original Score in Salem Brahimi’s documentary « Emir Abd El Kader ». Mehdi was seen on theater in Othello, with Denis Lavant & Disiz la Peste. He also create the original music score with Sapho. Plus, he appeared as stage performer with Rachid TAHA , Brian ENO , Steve HILLAGE (Russian Tour 2005) and on the project Damon ALBARN’s AFRICA EXPRESS. He played with : Rachid TAHA, HARD-FI, Mick JONES (the Clash), John Paul JONES (Led Zeppelin), Amadou & Mariam, Damon ALBARN (BLUR),GORILLAZ ,Chek TIDIANE ,Baba MAAL, Tinariwen, Natacha ATLAS, Talvin SINGH, Rodolphe BURGER, Nedim NALBANTOGLU, Erik MARCHAND, Viorel TAJKUNA, Angelika NIESCER, Lotfi ATTAR, Julien LOURAU, Cyril ATEF, Mino CINELU, Mathieu CHEDID, Eric TRUFFAZ, Ibrahim MAALOUF,Tony ALLEN…
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Head of youth & students department of FIOE candidate in Milan elections The next local elections in Milan, particularly the lists of the Left, could be considered as a paradigmatic example of the schizophrenia reigning in parties and institutions when it comes to choosing “Muslims” candidates. In Milan two names stand out, namely Maryan Ismail and Sumaya Abdel Qader, who represent two worlds apart: the former is a staunch Muslim activist against all forms of radical Islam, the latter represents political and social activism in the name of the ideology and strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe. Maryan is not veiled, Sumaya is. However, Abdel Qader’s veil goes far beyond her colourful head cover. The official biography of Abdel Qader highlights that she was born in Perugia, Italy, on 16/06/1978 from Jordanian-Palestinian parents, that she earned a degree in biology and another one in foreign languages and cultures. She also has a master’s degree in sociology. She collaborates with Italian universities and schools giving talks, lectures and courses on Islam, the Arab-Islamic world, European Muslims, that she is one of the founders of GMI (Giovani Musulmani d’Italia, Young Muslims of Italy), where she has held the post of Secretary General and Vice President. In September 2008 she published an autobiographical book I wear the veil and love the Queen. Since 2011 she has been cooperating with the City of Milan at the table for new citizenship of the Department for social policies. She is also in charge of the cultural section of CAIM (Coordination of Islamic Organizations in Milan and Monza and Brianza), led by Davide Piccardo who is, among other things, one of the Italian members of the European Muslim Network in Brussels headed by Tariq Ramadan. As CAIM member she has recently launched in Milan the campaign AISHA against violence on women. Strangely enough, but not so much, Abdel Qader avoids to indicate in her official biography and presentations her most prestigious appointment: Head of FIOE (Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe) Youth and Student Department. FIOE is the main umbrella organisation of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe. Besides this, she is also a member of the Board of Trustees of FEMYSO (Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organizations) based in Brussels, which is the junior counterpart of FIOE. Giovani Musulmani d’Italia is a member of FEMYSO. In September 2015, at the 19th General Assembly of FEMYSO – that took place at the headquarters of the controversial Turkish organization Milli Gorus in Cologne – Abdel Qader was honoured with an award for her activities. She is also member of the board of the European Forum of Muslim Women (EFOMW) in Brussels together with her mother-in-law. In order to follow the international activities of FIOE Sumaya recently went to Finland, Turkey, Malaysia showing that Milan and Italy are just a small part of a microcosm of a much larger project. Last, but not least she is the daughter of Mohammed Abdel Qader, Palestinian co-founder of Unione degli studenti musulmani in Italia (Union of Muslim Students in Italy, USMI) and the Unione delle Comunità e delle Organizzazioni Islamiche in Italia (Union of Islamic Communities and Organizations in Italy, UCOII) and Imam of Perugia, central Italy. She is married with Abdallah Kabakebbji, former President of GMI) and son of MB leader Maher Kabakebbji. But the main question that should be answered is the following: why is she casting a veil on her European appointments at the highest levels of the European Brotherhood and trying to hide her ties with the European spinoffs of the Muslim Brotherhood?
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Personalized Bamboo Plaque is the best way to have your photo permanently engraved on wood! Boring with normal printed photos and traditional frame? This is the time to amaze your love with a personalized photo gift! - Available in 2 sizes - Small: 21.5cm x 16.5cm - Big: 25cm x 19cm - Thickness: 2cm - Made by Bamboo - Undergo special treatment to prevent decay - Resist to water splash - Freebies: Stand holder - Free beautiful ribbon-tied gift box - Keep away from high temperature or direct sunlight and spotlight because it may cause heat. The plaque is not suitable for outdoor. - NSJ products are with NSJ logo and packed in NSJ packaging boxes - Engraving will be made on one side of each product only. - We don't provide artwork preview and accept modifications toward design for free as please understand that this process will cost a lot. If you like to have the privilege to view and ask for the amendment, you may add on 'Preview and amendment service'. - You can definitely request us to engrave your design, you may upload your design file or do a draft to let us know how you want it to be and we will follow your request exactly. Or else, just give us the pic and wording, we will help to do the design. - If you have any requirements for the design, such as font size, font, text, and image placement, you can leave a message in the order note (in the shopping cart) or email it to us at [email protected]. - Humans/Animals photo provided will be converted into a black and white sketch version for engraving, please understand that it will be a little different from the original photo. You can also upload the black and white sketch directly. If you want to insert a photo, please follow the guideline below. - Please understand the result may look bad if you insert too much wording because the more you put it, the smaller size it will be engraved, which makes the wording not looking obvious. Refer to our sample to get the best result. - For customers who choose to add on 'Preview and amendment service', the artwork will be sent to your email within 3 working days. After that, it depends on how fast you can provide feedback. The estimated shipping date will be extended due to this. Peninsular Malaysia in 7 working days Sabah & Sarawak in 10 working days Other countries take around 1-2 weeks
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Lot of 10+ German Beer Steins Oktoberfest Mugs all in very good condition. 8" Pewter lidded Ceramic Handarbeit hand-painted Stein from Germany has a picture of a castle and the words "Perked" "Reidelberg" and "Eass. There are many buildings in the city with a bridge in the foreground and trees in the background. On the other side is a man (Perked) standing on a pedestal in traditional German clothing. 8 Ceramic Hofbrauhaus Mug holds over 1 Litre! 8 Glass Mug made in Germany from the Weeping Radish in Manteo NC and Corolla NC holds well over 1 Litre! 5.5 Ceramic Mug Spaten Munchen from the Waldhorn restaurant. 6.5 Ceramic Mug from Ulster County 1977 Oktoberfest has a German couple dancing in colorful traditional garb. 5 Ceramic Mug by Lowenbrau in Munich. 5.5 handmade Ceramic Mug with Salzburg and Osterreich from Austria and is beautifully hand-painted. 7 Glass mug by Dinkel Acker (imported). 7 Ceramic Mug by D. Mini Ceramic mugs by Lowenbrau, Frankfurt, Nurnberg (made in W Germany). And 2 bonus mugs will be included! This item is in the category "Collectibles\Breweriana, Beer\Drinkware, Steins\Lidded Steins\Germany". The seller is "foot-care" and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, Korea, South, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Republic of, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French Guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macau, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Vietnam, Uruguay, Dominican Republic, El Salvador.
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The Luckiest Buildings: 88 Floors and Beyond Most of the tallest buildings in China have between 80 and 88 stories or a height dimension that ends with the number 8. Before technology permitted construction of buildings that high, many skyscrapers in China had floor plans that looked like the Chinese character for the number 8. If you aren’t already familiar, this is because the Chinese believe that the number 8 bestows powerful luck and 88, happiness and prosperity. Two IFC is the second building in a pair that make up the International Finance Centre in Hong Kong. It has 88 floors and has 1,999,988 square feet. The International Commerce Centre is 1,588 feet tall and has 118 stories. It is also located across the Victoria Harbor from the international Finance Centre. The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur are 88 stories, partially because Malaysia has a very large Chinese minority. The Jin Mao Tower aka "The Golden Prosperity Building" is an 88-story skyscraper in Shanghai, China.
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MATEC Web of Conferences Volume 47, 2016The 3rd International Conference on Civil and Environmental Engineering for Sustainability (IConCEES 2015) |Number of page(s)||7| |Section||Cementitious, Concrete and Sustainable Materials| |Published online||01 April 2016| Physical and Mechanical Properties of Compressed Earth Brick (CEB) Containing Sugarcane Bagasse Ash Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Parit Raja, Johor, Malaysia a Corresponding author : [email protected] The use of brick in construction is commonly used, especially in the construction of buildings and infrastructure. Various studies have been conducted to produce methods that can increase the strength of brick at the same time can reduce the cost of manufacturing bricks. In order to reduce cost of manufacturing, one of the solution applied was by using waste as part of bricks production materials. In this study, sugarcane bagasse (SuCaB) ash was used as a part of compressed earth brick (CEB) by replacing the quantity of cement for SuCaB ash. The study focused on the physical and mechanical properties of CEB containing SuCaB and the optimum percentage of SuCaB ash as partial cement replacement in CEB. There are 4 types of percentages used; 0%, 20%, 25% and 30% from cement content. All mixed use the same water content of 30% of cement content by weight and the ratio for cement: laterite soil used was 1: 6. A total of 72 specimen with size of 100mm × 50mm × 40mm was produced. The test conducted were Initial Rate Absorption Test (IRA), Density Test, Dimensions Test, Compression Test and Water Absorption Test. From the experimental results, the optimum SuCaB ash percentage as cement replacement in CEB was 20%. It recorded the highest compressive strength of 16.23 MPa at 28 days while for the Initial Rate Absorption test, it lies within the range specified. The density of CEB containing 20% of SuCaB shows slightly lower value where it decreased for about 0.4% from the control specimen. From this study, it can be concluded that waste materials such as sugarcane bagasse can be used as part of construction materials. However, further study needs to be conducted such as on the energy consumption, chemical properties and others to enhance the knowledge on this area before it can be applied into the brick production. © Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2016 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform. Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days. Initial download of the metrics may take a while.
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Pay special attention to the reviews that talk about the problems faced during cashouts. The reality is bleak with the plastic litter contaminating marine life with the death of over 100,000 marine animals per year. And it is this contaminated water that remains the cause for over 250 million documented cases of diseases, and the reason for 80% of pollution in the ocean is contributed by the land. Have these numbers startled you then let me make you aware this is just three out of the gazillions of data available on pollution, and these numbers are perturbing? Therefore green-thinking should be our way of life at our homes, workspace, and even when we indulge on a fun weekend – our thoughts and perspectives should be fashioned the greenway! Several casinos have embraced this truth on whom the awareness of environmental impact has dawned. This has contributed to numerous casinos being conscious of their part in aesthetically shaping a green environment. 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You also receive a luxurious gambling experience with a high-stakes poker room and 2000 slot machines with an enormous jackpot of up to $2 million. The splendid resort was erected at the cost of $88 million and has also been featured in several Hollywood movies like Oceans 11. To make this escapade exuberant, they are among the greenest casinos that save electricity, water, recyclable materials, and a five-star green rating. Melco Resorts and Entertainment, Hong Kong They ensure a qualified recycling plan that sorts out all the materials into three major categories. The first category comprises compostable material; the second category is for reusable materials, and the final one for non-reusable material. The usage of plastics is thoroughly forbidden in this casino. It is evolving this Asian giant’s experience into a green and memorable one. 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My family were invited to a talk about home-schooling at an event organised by KAM, ‘Sembang Santai Home-Schooling’ in Shah Alam yesterday. Apart from my parents, my elder sisters Aiman Amani and Aeshah Adlina, I was also called to talk on the stage. Nobody told me that I was going to give a speech, so when I was called to the stage, I was rather surprised. But as it was my second public speech, I was not that nervous except for the fact that my heart was thumping. I gave a speech about something that really matters to me, the true definition of Freedom of Speech in Malaysia as written in Article 10 of the Federal Constitution, the four sensitive issues and the Sedition Act. To my surprise, during the Question and Answer Session, there are lots of questions that were directed to me. Most of the questions were a bit hard to be answered since I was half nervous because I never thought that the participants would address their questions to me and that I’ve never thought of some of the things that were asked. However, I tried my best to answer all of them. It was a proud moment for me when someone who stood up to ask me two questions told the audience that he has been reading my blog. Abang Mohd Hanif, who has actually been following my blog is also a blogger and I’m glad to get to know another wonderful and more experienced blogger. During the program, I really enjoyed the wonderful Qasidah that was performed by the delegates from Terengganu. My sisters and I also performed two songs, Alhamdulillah by Dawud Wharnsby Ali and Khalifah Song, which we only had a day to practice. I really wished that my father had told us earlier about it so that we can have more time to practice. Right after the program was over, a lot of people started to crowd around me to take pictures with me 🙂 I really enjoyed the program and the chance to meet so many wonderful people and I hope that I can meet them again. I want to thank KAM for giving me a chance to share my ideas. It is a good way to for me to learn on how to express my ideas in front of other people and to answer unexpected questions spontaneously which are very important to me in pursuing my ambition to become a lawyer and a politician. Please click the photos for larger images: I was very excited to read a post entitled, ‘Yes, he is 10 years old‘ on Aunty Helen Ang’s blog today. Thank you, Aunty Helen, you made my day 😉 Actually after I suscribed to her blog, Aunty Helen wrote a post entitled, ‘Announcement’, advising her readers not to use bad language because a 10-year-old boy reads her blog. I guess some people do not really like the idea and some thought that Aunty Helen was joking and so they sent her all kinds of comments. There are people who said that politic is not suitable for kids and the weird part is when some of them don’t even believe that I or my blog really exist 😆 And my big sisterAeshah Adlina wrote this post to prove that I’m a real person. My big sisters and I like writing and we write a lot, last year we took part in a U.S. writing challenge called National Writing Month or NaNoWriMo where we need to complete a story with a given minimum words in just one month. I need to work very hard and at last I was able to complete a 20,000 words novella on November 22, 2013 which was 8 days before the dateline. I begged my father to let me start my own blog when I was 5 years old; and I promised him that I’ll work hard and that I’ll always write new posts. Now, blogging is something like a schoolwork for me, and I need to write properly, sometimes I have to rewrite the posts and I can only publish my post after my mother says it is okay 🙂 I write mostly about things that I like, for example politics, news, nature, art and others but sometimes I was given a topic to write such as to write a post using one of the idioms and phrases that I learned as the title, so I wrote, Bersih 3.0 Violence – The End Justifies The Means? By the way, I also write poems, stories and political comics. I’m very lucky to have the chance to meet and speak to lots of wonderful people including politicians and I learned a lot from them. Some PR supporters sent me rude comments using words that I’ve never heard and could not understand. Last night I received the below comment on one of my post, ‘Selangor’s MB Must Obey The Sultan Or Resign – Naser Disa‘- I guess some people just like to blame others because the article has nothing to do with PERKASA and Uncle Naser Disa is and was not a member of PERKASA. It is very funny how PR leaders and supporters really hate PERKASA and blamed PERKASA for everything. My parents are not members of PERKASA but I always meet and talk to Uncle Zul of PERKASA during talks and seminars 🙂 And I also have photos with Datuk Ibrahim Ali, this photo was taken by Uncle Jinggo at the Istana Kehakiman Putrajaya. Tan Sri Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah is my grandfather’s old friend, they met in England long, long time ago. And last but not least … I was a big fan of Anwar Ibrahim (please click for more photos 🙂 )years ago but after what happened during BERSIH 3, I changed my mind. My big sister’s, Aeshah Adlina Weblog received an ‘interesting’ comment from ‘PKR 4 the win’ on her post, “Pakatan’s new Malaysia flag: Not a copycat? Turning Malaysia to a Republic?” ‘PKR 4 the win’ submitted this comment at 10:53 pm on 2013/04/25: “President Soekarno was right when he said that malaysia is a country without ideology and identity. There was no revolution and no struggle for independence in malaysia. The country was not created by the people, it was created by a deal between britain and sultans. Malaysia does not have a state ideology and no real constitution. This country exclusively consists of deals and compromises. (just like that american style flag) This injust corrupt monarchist regime can not survive if the people get a certain level of education and access to independent information. It is just a matter of time until malaysia becomes a democratic republic, because even the brain of the most stupid conservative racist religious idiot will at some point develop if the general level of education rises. weapon of BN: fear, racism and stupidity weapon of PKR: education, information and justice” “President Soekarno was right when he said that malaysia is a country without ideology and identity.” First Soekarno was a leftist that supported socialist and communism ideologies. Wikipedia says that: “The early 1960s saw Sukarno veering Indonesia to the left by providing support and protection to the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) at the expense of the military and Islamists. He also embarked on a series of aggressive foreign policies under the rubric of anti-imperialism, with aid from Soviet Union and China.” It is wrong for Soekarno to say that Malaysian has no ideology and identity. I think Soekarno said that just because he did not agree with Malaysia’s political systems because Malaysia never and until today does not believe in socialism and communism. “Malaysia does not have a state ideology and no real constitution. This country exclusively consists of deals and compromises. (just like that american style flag)” Uncle Naser Disa taught me that Malaysia is an Islamic country and Malaysia has a very strong Federal Constitution that protects the people and the rights of the King and Sultans to protect Islam as the religion of the country. I wonder if the commenter ever study our Federal Constitution before commenting. Regarding, “just like that american style flag”; does it means that the commenter is against the Malaysian flag, ‘Jalur Gemilang’? And does that means that the commenter is admitting that PKR and its allies want to change the Malaysian flag to a new flag which they called ‘Sang Saka Malaya’? Those people accused that ‘Jalur Gemilang’ is similar to the flag of the United States but can’t they see that their ‘Sang Saka Malaya’ is almost the same as the Singaporean and the Indonesian flag? The design of Sang Saka Malaya is also similar to the design and colours of socialist and the communist flags. The commenter also complained and not happy about the monarch. Complaining about the monarch means that the commenter wants Malaysia to be a republic country because without the king, Malaysia will become a republic country, and even a secular country which Malaysia is not and never has been. According to a very senior lawyer, Hj Mahamad Naser bin Disa, the word secular doesn’t exist in the Federal Constitution of Malaysia; and the Article 3 (1) says that: “Islam is the religion of the Federation; but other religions may be practised in peace and harmony in any part of the Federation.” In fact judge Tun Salleh Abbas said that Malaysia only uses secular rules and not a secular country so that means the commenter is against the Federal Constitution of Malaysia. “It is just a matter of time until malaysia becomes a democratic republic”. Time for Malaysia to become a democratic and republic country? Thank you to the commenter for showing the true colours of PKR. Now the cat is out of the bag, the commenter has revealed PKR’s big secret that is PKR does not want the king and is after a revolution or ‘Malaysian Spring’ to turn Malaysia into a left wings, secular, republic country that supports the same ideas as Soekarno. Pecah tembelang PKR, dah terbongkarlah rahsia PKR. The commenter also wrote: “weapon of PKR: education, information and justice” If PKR is fair, how can CheguBard said that he was tricked by PKR leader, Dato’ Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim as was recorded in a video? Please click here for the video And how can a person speaks about justice in PKR when PKR leaders lied about their dreams to change our Federal Constitution and to turn Malaysia into a secular and a republic country? Can a cheater or liar talks about JUSTICE? And I also wonder why this commenter and PKR’s leaders, members and supporters love revolutions, wars and violence that they think all countries need revolutions and bloodsheds to be a great country?
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Exactly how much are jeepney drivers losing because of the unabated oil price hikes? The pump price of diesel has already increased by ₱18.45 per liter (including the latest adjustments on Oct. 26) this year. That is equivalent to two passengers paying the minimum fare of ₱9. Considering that jeepneys are only allowed a maximum of 50% passenger capacity, the impact on a driver’s income is tremendous. A 20-passenger jeepney can carry only ten passengers. With the rise in diesel prices this year, jeepneys practically take a maximum of just eight passengers paying the minimum fare. A month’s worth of rice Let us look at the UP Diliman to SM North Edsa route, for instance. This entire route is about 13.25 kilometers roundtrip. Based on one study, a jeepney consumes around one liter of diesel per seven kilometers. So, the UP-SM roundtrip uses up about two liters of diesel. Meaning, a driver loses ₱36.90 per roundtrip due to the price hikes. That amount is almost equivalent to the lowest rice price per kilo (₱38) in NCR. A 20-passenger jeepney usually has a full tank capacity of 60 liters, which means that the driver is spending ₱1,107 more to fill up his tank. That is equivalent to about 29 kilos of rice – or two weeks’ worth of the regular consumption of a 5-6-member household. For the UP-SM driver, his full tank will last for around 30 roundtrips. Assuming he makes ten roundtrips per day, it means that he must refill every three days – or twice in one week. He thus spends ₱2,214 more on diesel due to the price hikes. That is equivalent to a month’s worth of his household’s rice consumption. However, raising the minimum fare will only shift the burden of the oil price increases from the drivers to the commuters. Like the jeepney drivers, commuters are also working-class people whom the pandemic severely battered and barely make a living. What about the proposal to revive the Gloria Arroyo-era Pantawid Pasada program? For one, the cash aid like during Arroyo’s time will likely be too small to make a dent in runaway oil prices. The proposed subsidy cited in media reports, for instance, is between ₱1,700 to 2,000 per month. As mentioned, the UP-SM driver is already spending an additional ₱2,214 per week. But the amount of cash subsidy is a secondary issue. The primary point is that the Pantawid Pasada merely shifts the burden of the oil price hikes to the taxpayers, including the drivers themselves. Making oil firms, government accountable Meanwhile, the oil companies that profit immensely from high prices and unreasonable price hikes are left off the hook. Policy interventions should primarily target them. One is through effective price regulation to stop their profiteering when they adjust prices every week. Like the oil companies, we must hold the government accountable as well. The people should press the policymakers to abolish the regressive and exorbitant fuel taxes, such as the 12% value-added tax (VAT). This move can immediately bring down pump prices and provide much-needed relief for the jeepney drivers and the public. At 12%, the Philippines charges the highest rate in Southeast Asia for VAT or VAT-like impositions. Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam charge 10%, while Singapore charges 7%. We also charge a higher rate than some of the most prosperous countries in the Asia Pacific like Australia, Japan, and South Korea that all charge 10%, and Taiwan, which charges just 5 percent. While it is not the Philippine government that sets the price or the price adjustments in the global oil market, it should nonetheless drop its defeatist attitude and cries of imagined helplessness as Filipinos suffer from rising prices. The government can directly and immediately reform its tax policy on petroleum products and reduce the cost not just for jeepney drivers and their households but for the entire economy. Regulation and nationalization Beyond abolishing oppressive fuel taxes, the government can and must repeal Republic Act (RA) 8479 or the Oil Deregulation Law to protect the public and the country from excessive prices and unreasonable price increases. In its place, policymakers must develop and implement a comprehensive program for regulating the downstream oil industry. This program, which Congress can legislate, should contain the following essential components: (1) Centralized procurement of imported crude oil and refined petroleum products; (2) Buffer fund, which can be financed through the operations of the centralized procurement to cushion the impacts of sudden surges in global prices; (3) Transparent determination of pump prices, including through full public disclosure of pricing scheme and inventory of the oil firms; (4) Democratic public consultations or hearings to justify oil price adjustments; and (5) State participation in refining and distribution of petroleum products. Seldom discussed is that the issue of high oil prices and allegations of price manipulation is just a consequence of the fundamental problem of the Philippine oil industry, which is foreign monopoly control through their direct investments and strategic partnerships with the local compradors. The country must seriously pursue a long-term nationalization program that would end the domination of transnational companies and their local agents. The initial reforms cited earlier to regulate the downstream activities of the oil companies are a positive step towards nationalization. Nationalization requires the reorientation and restructuring of the oil industry to uphold the people’s welfare and advance the national interest. For example, with a nationalized oil industry, the people and economy would genuinely benefit from undertakings like the Malampaya instead of foreign capital and local cronies and oligarchs exploiting such projects for their narrow private interests.It is hard to nationalize the oil industry if the government would not shift from its current neoliberal development paradigm, which permits the unbridled operation of so-called market forces and relies too much on imported commodities and foreign capital. The nationalization of the oil industry can only be successful within a national industrialization program where internal sources of growth are promoted and protected. ###
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Newsletter #10: The Fugitive World Like the chemical fouling of its aquifers, the enriching of its long-buried defense-related minerals, and the “surveillance”—but we should understand all those fingerprint scanners and census-takers as part of a far more bloated, pervading gnosis—of its citizens, the enclosure of peripheries and hinterlands has always been an inalienable right of nations. Once they are sufficiently kitted out with the technological and financial jackhammers of development, states can finally achieve the long-held dream of assimilating high-friction hills, mountains, islands, and waterways into a single smoothly paved regime. This tends to involve the tidy classification of perceived minorities into politically neutered ethnic groups; the orderly naming of streets, towns, and gods; the sedenterizing of nomads and drifters; and the grinding down of all the pre-state pluralistic spurs over which anthropologists like to fawn—cultural practices, languages, and subsistence (as well as all other illegibly private) lifestyles—into the pulplessness of national identity. All this to erect a political economy so worshipful of growth and the consumption of nature it could be called Bunyanism, in thrall to a global market system that has carried our planet to the maw of hell. It almost seems like the point. Why bother cultivating one’s rights as the legitimate purveyor of violence within an orbit of other likeminded tyrants if not for a smash apocalyptic show? The spread of majoritarian culture, law, and language from a state’s core to the distant hem of sovereignty’s skirt has long ago homogenized the lives, if not the minds, of most of the potential readers of this sentence. Outside the English-speaking world, there are still pockets of local autonomy: autarchic and fugitive in some cases, parasitic and conciliatory in others, and defeated and mercenary in still other, sadder enclaves. They tend to persist where a state is weak or poor, or else too newly independent to have availed itself of colonial-era genocide-type modernization schemes, such that now, even in the midst of the lucrative process of self-bureaucratization, leaders must gesture meekly—with one eye on UN conventions and the other on extractive industry tenders—toward the rights of the indigenous or tribal, in other words the non-participant, the Other. So Narendra Modi writes an encomium to Gandhi on the op-ed pages of the New York Times while stripping Assam’s poorest of their citizenship and then employing them in the construction of their own concentration camps—or locking down and brutalizing Kashmir yet again. So the People’s Republic of China cheerfully claims it will extract the virus of backward and Islamic thought from 13 million minority citizens in Xinjiang through a program of torture, forced labor, and the eradication of local languages. World leaders nod along while collecting their bilateral goodies. I first came across the phrase “internal colonialism” in reference to Thailand, which alone among Southeast Asian countries can boast—and does, endlessly—that it was never formally colonized. Yet the monarchy drew on the lessons of its French- and British-administered neighbors. Thus, in 1976, during popular national uprisings and regional tumult—the Khmer Rouge had taken power in Cambodia, the Burmese military regime was gunning down wildcat strikers and university students—the Thai general Saiyut Koetphon admitted that “avoiding colonization by Europe simply meant that we colonized our own people.” He went on: This internal colonialism, in which officials appointed from the metropolis rule and drain the countryside like conquered provinces, has led to obvious differences among the Thai. Differences, indeed. Today, in southern Thailand, zones of historically unfettered complexity bring into contact Malay-speaking Muslims, Chinese or Sino-Thai merchants and businessfolk, Thai Muslims working tin mines and rubber plantations in Phuket, Trang, and Phang-Nga, communities of Sakais—a state-constructed and (condescendingly) -celebrated tribal minority—and Friendship Villages of Communists both reformed and unrepentant. A school is occasionally burned in these regions to protest the forced state education of Muslim children, but there has been no united swell of violence here, only the steady erosion of difference and the extraction of local wealth. The process is repeated across the region’s palm oil plantations and mines, which have all but engulfed the forests and jungles that once cultivated a peaceable variety of cultures. Internal colonialism is the phenomenon of our age, less obvious and less loudly condemned than the external, globetrotting variety, now slowly becoming defunct because it was expensive and less clever than the varieties of economic imperialism states now have at their disposal. Yes, the U.S. is still bombing pine nut farmers in Afghanistan and fueling the massacre of children in Yemen. But when it comes to the lay of the land and the boots on the ground in much of the world, internal colonialism is how the machinery of development gets oiled. At some point, I realized it was the subject of all my recent writing, the idea that connects the catastrophe of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation with the denaturalization of Vietnamese boat people in Cambodia, and that links the struggle for indigenous liberation in the Caucasus with a dubious dry port on the edge of Kazakhstan. Accelerated by the adoption of paranoid nationalism among downwardly mobile majorities, internal colonialism is the problem of all the world’s stateless—like the Rohingya, who can’t even say their own name in Myanmar and must go by Bangladeshi, while in Bangladesh they are refugees without rights—as well as those who are not even stateless: the Khmer Krom in Vietnam, the Bajau Laut in Malaysia, groups recognized and counted by no one, not even by the UN. These are people who, on paper, simply do not exist. For more than a year, I’ve been working these ideas toward a book-length project about people living on the margins of the administrative state, in shatter zones and mountain refuges, the objects of the leviathan’s global pursuit. Written classification being a product of the priest and tax-collector classes, there’s no easy way to collectively describe such opt-outers. They are Eric Wolf’s “people without history,” James C. Scott’s “self-governing peoples,” “hill people,” “boat people,” inhabitants of “tribal zones” or of Manuel and Posluns’s “fourth world,” and they are usually invoked by civilization’s standard-bearers as some combination of barbarian, primitive, and savage. Left to their devices, many of these groups are—not universally, but with abnormal frequency—practitioners of egalitarian, sharing-based political economies and marked by a peaceable ethos and a powerful aversion to hierarchy or physical coercion. Unsurprising, then, that they are verging on extinction: driven into the most barren and undesirable backwaters or else brought to heel and rendered the newest pledge members at the lowest rung of the global market. Most often, they are trammeled between these two worlds, frozen in eternal catch-22 liminality. Meanwhile their natural world is literally on fire, melting, flooding, or drying out. A year or so later, I’ve sold this book proposal to FSG, house of (my) dreams. The working title is The Fugitive World and it won’t be out for ages but that’s what I’ll be working on going forward, this year, next year, and the following. Watch this space for occasional updates. I’ve also published some magazine work recently: two pieces on the mass internment drive in Xinjiang, China’s largest and westernmost region. In the London Review of Books, I have a personal account of the frightening and secretive efforts to silence activists who are telling the world about China’s crimes against humanity. In The Believer, I’ve published a 24,000-word oral history of Xinjiang’s mass internment drive, a project I started over a year ago in Kazakhstan interviewing former detainees and family members. (The illustrations--including the one at the top of this newsletter--are by Danica Novgorodoff.) In the introduction, I write: In 2018, I began to travel to Kazakhstan to interview the family members of Xinjiang’s imprisoned and disappeared. I also interviewed former detainees who described their own experiences. Most had crossed from China into Kazakhstan in the weeks, months, and years before our meeting, either by applying for residency and citizenship or by escaping across the border. The result is an oral history of life in contemporary Xinjiang. To my knowledge, it is the first document of its kind. Hope you read and share. Going forward, I’m hoping to use this space to work through some of the ideas in the book and I’ll post (very) occasional updates that are hopefully of interest to some of you.
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Welcome to the world of Crosskey Avenue Hello and a warm welcome to our new blog. Here we will aim to share some insights from our start-up journey, the world of perfume, our growing brand and some topical bits and bobs thrown in for good measure. This time I thought I’d briefly introduce myself and share a little about Crosskey Avenue. I’m Howard, the founder and director of Crosskey Avenue, an upstart boutique perfume house based out of south east London. My background is in communications but earlier in the year I found myself at a career crossroads, unsure of what my next move should be, but deep down knowing something needed to change. Cue starting my own business, aka my labour of love! It’s something I’ve always dreamed about, and along came the time and the opportunity, so I’ve jumped at it. Based out of my home and sharing the sofa with my two French Bulldogs I set about making my dream happen. Fast forward a crash course in perfume with a wonderful teacher called Zaga and I was ready to start getting creative. Photo: my new co-workers I’ve always been fascinated by our olfactory senses; it has the power to evoke so many emotions and memories in all of us. Like every time I smell the warm resinous fragrance of the cypress tree, instantly I’m transported back to joyous childhood holidays in Greece spent with my family. Fragrance can play a key role in bringing us comfort and joy through its ability to evoke memories and emotions. Through my Crosskey Avenue brand I want to create pathways for our lost memories and joyful occasions through perfume, celebrating its innate ability to trigger human emotions. Photo: making holiday memories in Greece Given this last year travel hasn’t been an option for most of us, I decided my launch collection would be inspired by memories of past travels around the world. Launched earlier this month our three new soy blend candles, each highly fragranced with a sophisticated perfume that include essential oils, have been inspired by global holiday destinations favoured by the discerning traveller. They’ve been almost a year in the making… let’s meet your new favourite candles shall we? Photo: The first Crosskey Avenue candles coming off the line - Uplifting yet floral Ischia – Italian lemons combined with the sweet perfume of freshly cut red roses in this luxurious fragrance full of abundance. Inspired by summer getaways to the fertile volcanic Italian island of Ischia, this zesty yet floral fragrance mixes with notes of tomato leaf and Mediterranean cypress. - Zen like heavenly Langkawi - Inspired by the relaxing scents of Malaysia’s tropical island paradise. Heavenly frangipani combines with milky coconut and fresh lemongrass to create this irresistibly luxurious fragrance. Breathe in and let us take you on a soothing walk along white sandy beaches as the warm waves gently lap at your feet. - Cosy evening bliss Haputale – the delicate scent of blue water lily, bergamot and chamomile help evoke the wonderous tea growing Hill Country region of Sri Lanka. This rich spicy fragrance has hints of pink pepper and reminds us of cosy nights sipping warm tea on the terrace looking out over well-tended tea fields. Photo: The Crosskey Avenue launch collection All my Crosskey Avenue candles are made in England by professional Chandlers with over 130 years of experience. A soy blend wax is used with a cotton wick to ensure the highest quality burn and maximum perfume throw. Thanks for reading my first blog and taking an interest in Crosskey Avenue. I aim to update this page regularly so keep an eye out for future updates. If you’ve any suggestions for future posts just drop them into the comments below. Love and candlelight, Howard 🕯
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If you’re a guy searching for a collagen drink, then you’ll be very happy to know that there is one which is made especially for you – Kinohimitsu Collagen Men Drink. Similar to the previous Kinohimitsu drink, it contains 5300mg of collagen peptides in every bottle for a substantial boost of collagen for your body. However, Kinohimitsu has changed its formula in some ways to suit the needs of men better. It still retains a 100% natural ingredient list with no additives, preservatives or artificial colouring. The main difference in ingredients is the inclusion of aloe vera, rice bran ceramide, caramel and cactus extract. Within just a few days of drinking this collagen drink, you will see a difference in your skin condition. Your skin will be less oily but more hydrated. Your blackheads, whiteheads, acne and scars will start to lighten. It’ll be like you just went for an intense facial package! Guys, you can now treat your skin well with this Kinohimitsu Collagen Men Drink. 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If you want youthful and white skin, this Lennox FirmUp+ Bright Collagen Drink is the one you should get! It is a genius move to mix a collagen supplement with pomegranate. You can enjoy both the benefits of collagen and also pomegranate in one convenient drink with the BEAUXLIM Collagen Mix with Pomegranate. So why is it smart to mix both of them? Both pomegranate and collagen have excellent benefits for your skin with encompasses all you need for healthier and beautiful skin. Pomegranate has antioxidant properties and is especially effective in protecting your skin against sun damage from UV rays. While pomegranate protects your skin from further damage, the collagen can work its magic of rejuvenating your skin. Another side benefit is that this collagen drink is fruity and delicious with the natural taste of the pomegranate extract. Yum! The Total Image Collagen Drink combines both the supplements of the new and old together for the best anti-aging effects. 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Collagen is a protein which is found in almost every part of our body. Collagen is a key component in our skin, bone, tendon, cartilage and cells. It is made up of amino acids which combine together in a triple helix structure. In simple terms, you can think of collagen as a “glue” which holds our body together and allows it to function optimally. There are 16 different types of collagen. Out of these 16, there are 4 main types which are extremely important for our body’s health. Type I collagen is the most plentiful and consists of around 90% of our body’s total collagen. This Type I collagen is dense and can be found in our skin, bones, tissues and teeth. Benefits of collagen drink The benefits that a collagen drink or supplement brings is closely linked to the benefits of collagen in general. The main benefits of a collagen drink are related to health and beauty aspects. A collagen drink can help to improve your skin. 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If the most convenient time for you is early in the morning, then it is the best time. If you prefer drinking it at night, its a great time too! Honestly, there are many different schools of thoughts on when is the best time. Some say it is best to take it on an empty stomach like at the start of the day as your stomach acids at its strongest which helps to break down the collagen. Others say nighttime is the best because it provides your body with the collagen boost right as your skin repairs itself. Personally, we take our collagen supplements at the start of the day because it is simply the most convenient time for our schedule. In conclusion, the best time is any time you have – just remember to take it! Is collagen fattening? No, collagen is not fattening. If you keep within the recommended dosage for collagen drinks, it will not lead to any weight gain. In fact, there are some studies which show that collagen can actually lead to weight loss. Collagen is a protein form which can help keep you full. As such, you may not feel hungry as often, which would mean lesser calorie intake. Can you drink collagen when pregnant? Yes, you can consume collagen drinks even when you are pregnant or breastfeeding. Collagen is simply a form of protein which your body produces naturally. A collagen drink serves to supplement your natural collagen for additional health benefits. Before taking a collagen drink, you can double-check the label and ingredient list to make sure it is safe. For further clarification, you can also consult your doctor to get a peace of mind. How to store a collagen drink? You can either keep your collagen drink in a cool, dry place or you can choose to refrigerate it if you prefer to drink it cold. Generally, collagen drink can be stored anywhere as long as it isn’t too hot and there is no direct sunlight that shines onto it. Personally, we prefer the fridge as we feel an ice-cold collagen drink is tastier.
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© 2022 GOBI PARTNERS | SITE BY AG Newsletter | March 2022 March 31, 2022 Gobi Partners Leads US$6 M Series A Round for Kicks Crew Los Angeles and Hong Kong-based sneaker and apparel platform, Kicks Crew sees potential in expanding into the untapped Southeast Asian athletic footwear markets. Amber Group Raises US$200 M in Temasek-Led Round at US$3 B Valuation The Singapore-based liquidity provider and trading infrastructure firm’s valuation has tripled in less than a year. COLABS Raises US$3 M Seed Funding to Power Expansion Across Pakistan The round was led by Indus Valley Capital, Zayn Capital, and Fatima Gobi Ventures, making it the first time that these three leading Pakistan-focused VCs are investing together in a startup. Juliet Zhu is now both CFO and President at Carsome Southeast Asia’s largest car e-commerce platform, Carsome appointed Juliet Zhu as Group President while retaining her current role as the Group Chief Financial Officer. Carsome Partners With Public Bank to Strengthen Financing Capabilities This partnership brings Carsome closer to its goal of creating an end-to-end integrated online used vehicle ecosystem. Gobi Partners Bullish on China’s AI, Metaverse, FinTech and Sustainability Segments Gobi Managing Partner Chibo Tang sees a future in digital space where people will work and play. Malaysia’s MRANTI Calls for Tighter Collaboration Within the Innovation Ecosystem Malaysian Research Accelerator for Technology and Innovation (MRANTI) recommends a ‘bridge’ between research and commercialization for Malaysia to realize its ambition to be an innovative nation by 2030. Challenges and Opportunities of Self-driving Robotaxis in China Techwire Asia speaks to AutoX’s founder and chief executive, Xiao Jianxiong on the hurdles of getting Robotaxis running in cities across China. Technode Global: Banking on Fintech in Southeast Asia Large, youthful consumer markets with low traditional banking penetration such as Indonesia and the Philippines are the hottest markets when it comes to fintech. Gobi’s Thomas G. Tsao Speaks on the Silver Linings of a Global Pandemic A global pandemic might just be the start of a golden age of impact investing which changes the course of human history for the better. Gobi-Core Team Recognized by Esquire as Most Influential People in Startup Ecosystem Co-founders and partners Jason Gaisano, Carlo Delantar, Ken Ngo featured in Esquire Magazine’s list of Most Influential People in the Philippine Startup Scene. Podcaster Chris Yeh gets up close and personal with Thomas G. Tsao Tom speaks candidly on growing up as a first-generation American and how that experience helps shapes his views and direction as a VC now. 12 April 2022 FoundersHK is hosting a fireside chat with Managing Partner Chibo Tang and Edith Yeung (Race Capital) to advise on fundraising, pitching, and company building for founders. For more latest news and updates, follow us via or stop by our for more information.
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A man with intellectual disabilities was executed in Singapore on Wednesday, April 27 in Singapore, for drug trafficking offences, after a long campaign by local and international organizations for his clemency failed. Police from Singapore, known for its zero-tolerance drug laws, arrested Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam, a 34-year-old Malaysian citizen, in 2009 for bringing 42.7 grams (1.5 ounces) of heroin into Singapore. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2010. A psychologist assessed his IQ to be 69 leading his lawyer to file multiple appeals to overturn the execution, arguing that Dharmalingam should not have been sentenced to death under Singaporean law because he was incapable of understanding his actions due to his mental ability. Even the United Nations and international celebrities joined in the fight and public outcry against his execution. Malaysia’s Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and British billionaire Richard Branson also decried the court’s proceeding despite his intellectual disability but a Singapore court rejected a final appeal from Dharmalingam’s lawyer in March, saying there was “no admissible evidence showing any decline in the appellant’s mental condition after the commission of the offense.” On Tuesday, a Singapore court turned down a legal challenge by Dharmalingam’s mother, clearing the way for the execution. At the end of the court hearing, Dharmalingam and his family wept as they grasped each others’ hands through a gap in a glass screen, according to reports by Reuters. The report added that Dharmalingam’s cries of “ma” — which means “mother” — could be heard in the courtroom. Dharmalingam’s brother was told by a prison official that the execution had been completed on Wednesday, his family’s lawyer, N. Surendran, has revealed “His brother is waiting to collect his body and take it back to their hometown, Ipoh in Malaysia,” Surendran said to CNN. Reacting to the killing, BAnti-death penalty group Reprieve said Dharmalingam’s “name will go down in history as the victim of a tragic miscarriage of justice.” “Hanging an intellectually disabled, mentally unwell man because he was coerced into carrying less than three tablespoons of diamorphine is unjustifiable and a flagrant violation of international laws that Singapore has chosen to sign up to,” Reprieve director Maya Foa said in a statement. “Nagen’s last days were spent, like much of the last decade, in the torturous isolation of solitary confinement. He had to seek the court’s permission to hold his family’s hands one final time yesterday. Our thoughts are with Nagen’s family, who never stopped fighting for him; their pain is unimaginable.” Dharmalingam spent a decade on death row and during that time his condition further deteriorated, according to his lawyer. About 300 people held a candlelight vigil in a Singapore park on Monday to protest against Dharmalingam’s impending execution, according to Reuters. Singapore is known for having the strictest drug laws in the world. Trafficking as little as 15 grams (0.5 ounces) of heroin results in a mandatory death sentence under the Misuse of Drugs Act.
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MUMBAI: Hindi continues to be the most widely spoken Indian language in the US, followed by Gujarati and Telugu. However, in terms of percentage increase, if the data of 2010 is compared with the most recent figures for 2017, the number of Telugu speaking individuals has risen the most — by 86%. American Community Survey (ACS) data, recently released by the US Census Bureau for 2017 — it measures the US population as of July 1, 2017 — shows that nearly 21.8% of residents in US aged over five (including nativeborn, legal and illegal immigrants) spoke a language other than English at home. Of the total populace of 30.5 crore, 6.7 crore spoke a foreign language at home. In FY 2016, with 6.5 crore out of a total populace of 30.3 crore speaking a foreign language at home, the percentage was slightly lower at 20.6%. Hindi had 8.63 lakh speakers in the US, followed by Gujarati (4.34 lakh) and Telugu (4.15 lakh). The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), which is viewed as an anti-immigration thinktank, has analysed this data, specifically comparing the statistics of 2017 with 2010. As per its report, over a seven-year period from 2010, the number of Telugu speakers has risen exponentially by 86%. The corresponding rise as regards Hindi and Gujarati speakers was just 42% and 22% respectively. TOI in its edition dated September 17, had reported that 26.10 lakh of the US population were born in India (this figure did not include those having Indian parents but born in the US). In the backdrop of this statistic, at least 33% of the Indians in the US speak Hindi, nearly 17% speak Gujarati and Telugu. CIS reports that the total figure of those who speak a foreign language has more than doubled since 1990 and almost tripled since 1980. According to CIS, in America’s five largest cities, 48% of the residents speak a language other than English at home. For instance, in Los Angeles it is 59%, in New York and Houston it stands at 49%. TOI for the purpose of its analysis has primarily relied on the data available on the US Census Bureau-American Fact Finder website. However, for 2010, this website did not show some Indian languages, which didn’t then have a large speaking populace — like Telugu, Bengali and Tamil but clubbed them as ‘other Indic languages’. For this breakup, TOI has relied on the CIS report. ACS is the largest survey undertaken by the US government each year and includes over 20 lakh households. While Bengali and Tamil in numeric terms were not the top-three Indian languages spoken in the US, the number of individuals speaking this language has risen by 57% and 55% to stand at 2.23 lakh and 1.84 lakh speakers respectively. However, it should be noted that individuals from countries other than India also speak these two languages (Such as primarily those from Bangladesh for Bengali. Tamil is also widely spoken in Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia). The US Census Board does not provide a linguistic cum country-wise breakup. As Urdu and Punjabi speaking populace in the US is anecdotally said to hail primarily from Pakistan, TOI has ignored these statistics in its analysis. According to a few Immigration experts, one of the possible reasons for the significant rise in the Telugu speaking population is that many employees in the technology sector, which is a major employer of H-1B visa holders, hail from Andhra Pradesh.
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The Shanghai Composite sank 5.1% Monday, fell another 1.4% Tuesday, rallied 2.5% Wednesday, increased 0.6% Thursday, and then rose 2.4% Friday – with the wild week’s 1.3% decline boosting y-t-d losses to 16.3%. If that wasn’t enough volatility, China’s growth-oriented ChiNext Index sank 5.6%, declined 0.9%, rallied 5.5%, fell 1.8%, and jumped 4.1% (up 1% for the week). Beijing to the rescue. And Friday from Bloomberg’s April Ma: “The Politburo readout comes right in the nick of time, and is itself a meaningful signal of market support. The statement came during the market mid-day break, just as rumors of more support for tech and the economy started to brew. This was an exception to the norm of the release after market hours, closer to 6pm or 7pm. It wouldn’t have taken much for authorities to hold the statement for the evening. But then that would be missing the opportunity to spur afternoon gains just ahead of a five-day break from trading.” Beijing’s prodding may have reversed much of the week’s equities market pain, though I doubt positive sentiment will return anytime soon. Crisis steps were less impactful elsewhere – notably with bank CDS and the renminbi. Things are “breaking” in China – deflating Bubbles, “Covid zero,” faith, confidence and even mental health. China Construction Bank CDS surged 12 this week to 92.5 bps, approaching the 2020 spike level (began 2022 at 57 bps). China Development Bank CDS jumped 12.5 to 91.5 bps, surpassing the March 2020 crisis spike to a five-year high (began the year at 55bps). Industrial & Commercial Bank of China CDS rose 12 to 94 bps, almost matching the March 2020 spike high (began the year at 57bps). And Bank of China CDS closed Thursday’s session at 91 bps, up 12 w-t-d to surpass March 2020 highs (began 2022 at 56bps). China Bank Assets have surpassed $55 TN this year, having doubled in only seven years. Bank Assets have inflated five-fold since the 2008 crisis. One would have to be a wild optimist to assume even satisfactory asset quality. At more than 300%, China dwarfs the U.S. Bank Assets ratio of just over 100% of GDP. It’s rational for markets to begin pricing in massive stimulus and bank recapitalizations. China sovereign CDS traded to 81.9 bps during Wednesday’s session, up nine for the week to the high since the March 2020 spike to 90 bps. April 28 – Financial Times (Hudson Lockett): “The renminbi is set to close out its steepest monthly fall on record as China’s economy reels from severe Covid-19 lockdowns and the US Federal Reserve prepares to raise interest rates, driving global investors to ditch Chinese assets. The Chinese currency has fallen 4.2% this month to about Rmb6.6 per dollar, the biggest drop since the end of its US dollar peg, which was in place from 1994 to 2005. The fall is greater than a one-off devaluation by the Chinese central bank in 2015 that rattled global markets and a tumble in 2018 during the US-China trade war under the Trump administration. The pace of selling intensified after Chinese president Xi Jinping announced an ‘all out’ infrastructure spending package intended to help mitigate the damage from lockdowns in Shanghai and other cities.” The renminbi declined 1.62% this week (offshore renminbi down 1.76%), with a stunning two-week drop of 3.59% (offshore renminbi down 3.94%) – trading this week to the low since November 2020. Beijing is on a Collision Course. “Covid zero” is significantly accelerating the deflation of its historic Bubble. Meanwhile, global inflation continues to surge. Global central banks have commenced what is expected to be aggressive tightening cycles, with the market now expecting a 50 bps hike at next Wednesday’s FOMC meeting. April 28 – Bloomberg (Daniel Moss and Gearoid Reidy): “Any doubt that the Bank of Japan is comfortable with a weak yen should now be eliminated. The central bank is effectively doubling down on the trademark super-easy monetary stance it began developing decades ago — just as the Federal Reserve and its peers become more aggressive in raising rates. In a statement after its policy meeting Thursday, the BOJ defended its efforts to keep the yield on 10-year government bonds near zero, and said it will buy a limitless amount of debt at fixed rates every business day to hold the line. The bank kept its guidance that rates will stay low or go south… Anyone looking for even a hint that Japan was prepared to crab-walk away from emergency settings would have been sorely disappointed. Traders, justifiably, hammered the yen.” The yen declined another 0.9% this week, boosting April losses to 6.13% – and the 2022 drop to 11.22% – trading this week to the low versus the dollar back to 2002. Yen weakness places Chinese manufactures at a competitive disadvantage, only emboldening Beijing to play the currency devaluation card in an attempt to mitigate mounting economic woes. International investors have already been dumping Chinese assets. Higher-yielding Chinese debt securities are losing their relative appeal (in a rising yield world), and now even the perceived stability of the Chinese currency is in question. I have suspected that speculative leverage has expanded tremendously in China over recent years. Enticing yields and a perceived stable (and appreciating) currency only ensured massive “carry trade” leverage. There has been a proliferation of hedge funds in China and throughout Asia more generally. Singapore, in particular, has become a major hub for leveraged speculation. Now the region has become a hotbed of currency instability, raising the specter of de-risking/deleveraging-related market discontinuity. Asian currencies were again under pressure this week, capping a dismal month. April declines included the Japanese yen down 6.2%, the South Korean won 3.5%, the Malaysian ringgit 3.5%, the Thai baht 2.9%, the Taiwanese dollar 2.9% and the Singapore dollar 2.1%. Asia Credit default swap (CDS) prices increased notably this week and during April. For the month, Philippines CDS rose 32 bps (to 111bps), Vietnam 25 bps (137bps), Malaysia 25 bps (92 bps), India 22 bps (127bps), Indonesia 21 bps (106bps), and South Korea 12 bps (41bps). Also factor in that Asia is the epicenter of technology manufacturing – with the global “tech” Bubble in grave jeopardy. The confluence of China’s bursting Bubble, Japan’s foolhardy monetary policy gambit, and highly levered systems puts Asia today on a Collision Course with rapidly deteriorating macro and micro fundamentals. I’ll assume mounting hedge fund and derivative issues. “Amazon’s Biggest Drop Since 2006 Caps Miserable Month for Tech.” “Top Five U.S. Stocks Lose $1.2 Trillion in Value in April.” “Tech Stocks Sink Again, Nasdaq Has Worst Month Since 2008.” The Nasdaq100 dropped 3.8% this week, boosting 2022 losses to 21.2%. Technology dynamics are alarmingly reminiscent of the 2000 bursting Bubble episode. Importantly, the seemingly irrepressible massive flow of speculative finance has now reversed, triggering a destabilizing tightening of financial conditions for an inflated industry that has for years wallowed in extreme monetary overkill. “Amazon.com Inc. acknowledged that a hiring and warehouse building binge during the pandemic is catching up with the company…” Industry heavyweights such as Amazon and Netflix are only the most obvious companies that spent egregiously in industry Arms Race Dynamics (with little concern for profits). Hiring and building excess are part of the story. Yet the overshadowing risk to the industry today is a drained money spigot forcing a 2000-2002-style slashing of technology infrastructure and advertising spending. The vulnerable technology/media/telecom (TMT) super-industry is today on a Collision Course with bursting speculative Bubbles and rapidly tightening financial conditions. A dreadful amount of uneconomic chaff will be exposed. Investment-grade CDS gained four this week to 84 bps, the high since May 2020 (began 2022 at 50bps). It was curious to see a number of “TMT” companies high on the week’s CDS leaderboard – Dell (up 13bps), AMD (up 9bps), Disney (up 9bps), Verizon (up 7bps), Comcast (up 7bps), Cox Communications (up 6bps), HP (up 6bps), AT&T (up 6bps) and Oracle (up 6bps), to name a few. High-yield CDS surged 27 bps this week to a 21-month high 467 bps (began the year at 292bps). April 29 – Bloomberg (Michael Gambale): “No companies are looking to issue fresh debt on Friday, according to an informal survey of debt underwriters, after a bunch of issuers shelved bond sale plans this week amid financial markets volatility. Weekly volume is likely to finish at $8.6 billion, well below consensus estimates calling for as much as $25 billion. This was the second biggest miss this year…” The resilience of investment-grade bond issuance appeared to have finally succumbed this week. Bank stocks were hammered 5.2%, and the Broker/Dealers sank 4.7%. Also supporting the Destabilizing Financial Conditions Tightening Thesis, Bank CDS prices jumped to at least 2022 highs. JPMorgan CDS rose seven this week to 87.5 bps – the high since April 2020. Citigroup CDS jumped nine to 110.5 bps, and BofA CDS rose seven to 92 bps – both highs since April 2020. Morgan Stanley CDS jumped nine to 105.5 bps (high since April 2020), and Goldman Sachs gained five to 107 bps (high since May 2020). Market consensus has the FOMC hiking rates 50 bps next week, as “Traders Price Near-Even Odds of 75-Basis-Point Fed Hike in June.” Breaking with the consensus, I see next week’s 50 bps hike as likely one and done with aggressive (50bps or higher) rate increases. The Fed, after all, is on a Collision Course with a market De-risking/Deleveraging Dynamic and precarious market liquidity crisis. Personal Spending jumped a stronger-than-expected 1.1% in March. Rising 0.9% in March, the PCE Deflator was up 6.6% y-o-y – with the (Fed’s favored inflation indicator) Core PCE Deflator up 0.3% for the month and 5.2% y-o-y. The Q1 GDP Price Index was revised up to 8.0% annualized. The March Goods Trade Balance was reported at $125.3 billion – about 18% ahead of January’s record level. The S&P CoreLogic 20-City Home Price Index had prices up a blistering 2.39% for February, boosting y-o-y housing inflation to 20.2%. Everything points to powerful inflationary dynamics and a Federal Reserve hopelessly “behind the curve.” The market is now pricing in a 2.86% Fed funds rate at the FOMC’s December 14th meeting. Moreover, the Fed is expected to soon commence its $95 billion monthly balance sheet reduction (“QT”). Aggressive tightening measures are now on a Collision Course with market faith in the hallowed “Fed put.” This is a huge unfolding issue. The Fed is embarking on the first real tightening campaign since 1994, with securities markets already at the brink of illiquidity and dislocation. Markets could soon be clamoring for assurances of the Fed’s “buyer of last resort” liquidity backstop, while our central bank is prepared to begin withdrawing liquidity by selling Treasuries and MBS. Amazingly, the ECB is even further behind the curve than the Fed. Annual euro zone consumer inflation reached a record 7.5% in April, with German inflation at a multi-decade high 7.8%. European periphery bond markets (and the bank/bond “doom loop”) are on a Collision Course with “risk off” and tightened conditions. The most vulnerable are showing the effects. Greek 10-year yields surged 35 bps this week (up 201bps y-t-d) to the high since the March 2020 crisis spike. Italian yields rose 10 bps (up 160bps y-t-d) to the high (2.77%) since February 2019. European bank stocks dropped 3.6%, as bank CDS surged. Credit Suisse CDS jumped 15 to 135 bps (began ’22 at 57bps) – the high since the pandemic spike. Deutsche Bank CDS rose 10 to an almost one-year high 94.5 bps, and SocGen gained 9 to 67 bps. European high-yield (“Crossover”) CDS surged 40 this week (up 56 in seven sessions) to 428 bps – the high since May 2020. And while on the subject of Collision Courses… April 25 – Bloomberg: “Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned there’s a ‘serious’ risk of nuclear war over Ukraine in a statement the U.S. blasted as the ‘height of irresponsibility.’ ‘The danger is serious, real. It can’t be underestimated,’ Lavrov said in a state TV interview broadcast… Invoking the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, when the U.S. and the Soviet Union came close to nuclear war, he said that Moscow and Washington had understood the rules of conduct between the superpowers but ‘now there are few rules left…’ U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said Lavrov’s comments were part of a ‘pattern of bellicose statements’ from Russia, which he branded ‘irresponsible’ and ‘a clear attempt to distract from its failure in Ukraine.’ ‘Loose talk of nuclear weapons, nuclear escalation is especially irresponsible, it is the height of irresponsibility,’ Price told reporters…” April 28 – The Hill (Maureen Breslin): “Russian President Vladimir Putin… warned of a ‘lightning fast’ response if any nation interferes in its war in Ukraine, according to multiple reports. Putin made the threat against any country that creates ‘strategic threats for Russia,’ CNBC reports. ‘If someone intends to intervene on what is happening from the outside and creates unacceptable strategic threats for us, then they should know that our response to oncoming strikes will be swift, lightning fast,’ Putin added… ‘We have all the tools for this, ones that no one can brag about, and we won’t brag — we will use them if needed — and I want everyone to know this. All the decisions have been made in this regard,’ said Putin. A mention in his remarks of ‘instruments [to respond] that no one can brag about’ is reportedly speculated to be a reference to the Russia’s supply of intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons.” Powerful and sophisticated munitions now flood in to support Ukraine’s Herculean war effort. The Ukrainians say Russia is suffering “colossal” losses in fierce fighting on multiple fronts. Russia appears resolved to wreak only more horrific destruction. The U.S. and NATO are determined to see a defeated Putin, with the conflict now having all the elements of a high-stakes “proxy war.” And I understand that the West cannot be blackmailed or even appear intimidated by Russia’s references to nuclear war. Each passing threat becomes only easier to dismiss, though risks are of such an extreme nature that they cannot be ignored. This has developed into the most perilous geopolitical flashpoint since the Cuban missile crisis. April 28 – Wall Street Journal (Peggy Noonan): “Sometimes a thing keeps nagging around your brain and though you’ve said it before you have to say it again. We factor in but do not sufficiently appreciate the real possibility of nuclear-weapon use by Russia in Ukraine. This is the key and crucial historic possibility in the drama, and it really could come to pass. And once it starts, it doesn’t stop. Once the taboo that has held since 1945 is broken, it’s broken. The door has been pushed open and we step through to the new age. We don’t want to step into that age.” Original Post 30 April 2022 TSP Smart & Vanguard Smart Investor serves serious and reluctant investors Categories: Doug Noland
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Half-hearted measures blamed in new pandemic epicentres . . . The World Health Organization today urged Indonesia, the country with the highest daily COVID-19 infections, to implement “stringent” restrictions. Current restrictions exempt large sectors of the economy and are set to expire on Tuesday. While President Joko Widodo has cited declining case counts, high rates of positive tests indicate that the picture is likely worse than official numbers depict. Widodo’s approval rating is taking a hit, with reports suggesting he was persuaded by business elites to refrain from implementing a full lockdown. Meanwhile, Malaysia’s daily cases reached their second-highest peak. The Malaysian government has also been accused of taking half-hearted measures, with large outbreaks in the industrial sector and a lack of testing driving the upward trend. Allegations of “empty syringe” vaccinations circulating on social media may also be fueling vaccine hesitancy. White flags, poverty lay bare economic toll . . . The economic toll of even the current partial lockdown measures has been devastating. This month, a Malaysian social media campaign asking those struggling under lockdown to raise a white flag revealed thousands in need of food or other essential goods. Some of the white flags have been accompanied by black flags, which signal discontent with the government’s handling of the pandemic. Indonesia has lost its upper-middle income country status and now has a poverty rate over 10 per cent. Civil society groups claim that corruption and other factors have prevented government aid from reaching most of those in need. Lessons from the region . . . Before the full impact of the current wave materialized, Indonesian and Malaysian leaders cited India’s COVID-19 struggles as a precautionary tale. However, experts say that Indonesia and Malaysia failed to grasp the importance of stricter lockdowns from India’s experience, with a recent study now revealing India’s uncounted COVID-19 deaths to be up to as high as 4.7 million. Another underappreciated lesson from India’s experience is the need for sufficient economic relief. The Indian government recently confirmed that the urban unemployment rate reached 20.8 per cent during the country’s strict nationwide lockdown in early 2020. Providing adequate support while still taking strong public health measures will be the key challenge as governments try to ride out the current wave.
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No 2 Jalan Fatimah, Batu Pahat, Malaysia This destination can have additional per person taxes which are excluded in the prices below The Silver Inn is located in Batu Pahat and provides guests with free Wi-Fi. It also offers a safe, laundry facilities and a 24-hour reception. The hotel provides a dry cleaning service and a... Distance to city centre Policies vary by room type and provider. +60 7431 5122 You can reach the front desk of The Silver Inn at +60 7431 5122. Yes, The Silver Inn has Wi-Fi available to hotel guests. Yes, there is a hotel laundry service for guests at The Silver Inn.
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Anthony Jude, Chair of Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Energy Committee, and senior advisor (Energy) in the Regional and Sustainable Development Department, spoke to Hill Choi Lee about recent energy developments in the Asia Pacific region How did you start getting involved with the energy sector and how have things changed in the industry since? It was during my undergraduate and postgraduate days in the early 1980s that I got involved with both power systems and renewable energy (solar, wind and biomass). It was an era when oil was cheap and you could not get anyone to invest in utility-based demand side management, energy efficiency, and renewable energy even though they were cleaner and economical to implement and not to mention that it also improved the country’s energy security. It was also when I got exposed to acid rain and climate change issues as parts of People’s Republic of China, Western Europe and the United States were affected by acid rain due to high sulphur content in the coal that was being used for power generation. There were less stringent rules then on having environment mitigation measures and air pollution controls in power plants but these have now all changed. Today, the regulations for environmental controls in power plants have become more stringent in most countries. The issue is how these regulations are enforced in some of the developing countries in the Asia and Pacific region. Their practices in how resettlement and compensation associated with large power projects have also improved, which is good for many of the affected communities. Now livelihood programs are attached and people are trained in new skills. There is now greater consultation with the public but also the public is more aware of their rights and question decisions of government surrounding large power projects. There have been cases where large projects have been delayed or cancelled due to lack of transparency in the manner in which consultants were handled or how compensation for resettlement, land and loss of revenue have been computed. Overall, I see that governments are now paying greater attention to these issues than they did in the past but more can be done. The costs of renewable energy has come down to grid parity and in some countries like the Philippines, it is even lower than the grid price. However, the challenge with renewable energy is that it is an intermittent energy resource and storage systems will be required. As research and development continues on battery storage, it is expected that storage costs will come down over the next 5-6 years. We are already seeing this in the context of Lithium Ion batteries where two years ago prices were at $2000 for a 3KWh battery now it is around $800 to $1000 depending on the manufacturer and the prices are expected to come down to $500 in 2014 as more of these batteries are used in electric vehicles. The power sector has also changed quite dramatically within the Asia and Pacific Region. There is now greater private sector participation in power generation now than 25-30 years ago when all power was generated by government owned utilities. In some countries the power sector has been partly or complexly unbundled with government regulating the sector, while generation, transmission and distribution are by the private sector. In some countries, the power sector is still under government monopoly but the private sector has been allowed to participate in competitive bidding of generation plants with government owned utilities being the off-takers of the electricity. What are your main responsibilities at ADB, and how important is its role when it comes to energy and/or infrastructure projects? What is ADB’s main source of funding? As chair of ADB’s energy committee, and senior advisor (energy) in the regional and sustainable development department, one of my responsibilities is to ensure that all energy projects being considered conform to ADB’s energy policy. We promote use of cleaner energy technologies such as renewable energy, i.e. solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass. In the context of power generation, we ensure cleaner technologies such as supercritical and ultra-supercritical boilers are adopted for coal power projects and high efficiency gas turbine technology is adopted in the context of gas power project proposals. Current key tasks aside from the above include sharing knowledge on clean energy namely energy efficiency, renewable energy, including biomass-based projects, solar, wind and geothermal; leading work on the Asia Solar Energy Fund; working with International Energy Agency (IEA) on regional energy training programs and policy formulation; World Bank, World Energy Congress, International Hydropower Association and UN organisations on sustainable energy use for all; low carbon technology transfer market projects; and supporting energy policy and institutional strengthening including power sector reforms as well as supporting regional power cooperation. ADB’s lending in 2013 was $11.848 billion and leverage co-financing in the amount of $3.5 billion; infrastructure financing accounts for more than 50% of this amount. ADB financing is raised from the capital markets through bond issuance. ADB has both market based financing through our Ordinary Capital Resources (OCR) and concessional financing through our Asia Development Fund (ADF). Funds for ADF are contributed by developed and some developing countries. When it comes to the Asia-Pacific, what are the main regional developments in recent times? The overarching energy trend in our region is the growth in primary energy demand. The energy demand in Asia and the Pacific specifically is growing faster than the rest of the world – at an annual rate of 2.4% until at least 2030. This is higher than the average growth in primary energy demand of the rest of the world, which is 1.5%, and driven by Asia’s developing economies. To sum up the direction of Asia’s energy sector – it has grown remarkably over a very short period of time. ADB’s tracking of energy statistics show that over a relatively brief span of 16 years – from 1994 to 2009 – the region’s energy consumption almost doubled from 2.3 million ktoe (equivalent to thousand tons of oil) to 4.5 million ktoe. This rising energy consumption, driven by enormous demand from growing Asian economies, will lead to two major effects. First, the growth in energy consumption implies an increasingly larger claim on global energy resources and increases the region’s dependency on imported energy – especially oil. ADB is particularly concerned by this trend, as if it continues; Asia could be 90% dependent on imported oil by 2050. Hence, the region will need to diversify its energy current mix to utilisation of more renewable energy (solar, biomass, wind and geothermal), hydropower and increasing use of natural gas, where feasible. We are also encouraging countries to cooperate in electricity trading, taking advantage of the difference in time when peak load occurs in some countries or where a country has surplus energy like Lao PDR and Sarawak Malaysia (from their hydropower resources) to export electricity to neighbouring countries. This will help to reduce GHG emissions. Looking forward – the region’s primary energy demand is expected to increase faster than anywhere else in the world from the present up to 2035. ADB’s outlook on the region’s energy sector predicts fossil fuels will continue to dominate the energy mix. Coal does seem to be the primary source of energy, given its abundance in the region and it is cheap. However, countries will need to switch to using even cleaner coal technologies like super-critical and ultra-supercritical boilers in their new coal power plant. In addition, these plants should adopt use of flue gas desulphurisation and DeNOx equipment to reduce SOx and NOx emissions. Alongside energy use, the region’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will grow – by the 2030s Asia will be responsible for almost half the world’s emissions if there is no change within Asia’s energy mix. However, these predictions discount much of the potential of sustainable, low-carbon approaches to energy, energy savings that can be had through greater efficiency and the deployment of renewable power systems. Asia and the Pacific is rapidly becoming the global hub for clean energy, having recorded nine straight years of growth in clean energy investments (2003-2012). In 2012, Asia attracted record investment of $101 billion, or 42% of total global clean energy investment. ADB is a big promoter of sustainable energy and the next 20 years will see significant changes to its position in Asia Pacific. Where will nuclear energy fit into the picture? It is worth noting that one of the most pressing problems facing Asia in terms of energy is energy access, or widespread energy poverty. More than 600 million Asians have no access to electricity, and around 1.8 billion have no access to modern fuels. These numbers are still high despite widespread economic success in Asia, suggesting that they remain un-served by national electric grids. Major investments in national grid level energy infrastructure will likely not reach these millions, simply due to the fact that many of them are in those areas cannot be reached due to geographic constraints such as mountainous terrain, or being inhabitants of islands, or in areas where extension of the grid is financially unfeasible. For these off-grid communities, off-grid and mini-grid solutions that use small and household-scale renewable energy systems are a workable solution. ADB has already supported a number of projects, such as a variety of home solar power system models in India and Bhutan, household biogas systems in Vietnam and prospective mini-grid systems that combine solar, wind and micro hydro in various countries. ADB is also working on similar off-grid solutions in Cambodia and Myanmar as well. Prior to Fukushima incident, many ASEAN countries were seriously looking at nuclear energy as an option to meet their growing electricity needs. However, after the incident most of them have shelved their programs with the exception of Vietnam. PRC, India, Korea and Vietnam will continue with their nuclear power programs for electricity generation but it is not clear if Japan will resume operation of its nuclear plants after the safety checks have been completed. There is also strong opposition to nuclear in Taiwan and China. ADB is not in a position to finance any nuclear power projects due to limitation on procurement and non-proliferation of nuclear technology. Which jurisdictions in the APAC region are drawing attention from investors at the moment? Currently, China is the dominant clean energy “power” in the region and even in the world. Other Asian countries that have attracted solid levels of clean energy investment include Japan, India, South Korea and Indonesia. However the PRC surpasses them all – in 2012, it attracted $65.1 billion in clean energy investment, 20% more than in 2011, higher than any other country including the United States. Solar investment in PRC in 2012 was $31.2 billion and wind investment was $27.2 billion. The remainder was invested in technologies such as small hydro and biomass. In terms of developing Asian countries, which is the focus of ADB, India and Indonesia have drawn large amounts of clean investment as well. India attracted almost $7 billion in clean energy investment in 2012, while Indonesia continues to attract significant investment in its geothermal resources. Uzbekistan recently launched its 4000MW solar energy roadmap and ADB approved a $110 million loan to support a 100MW solar photovoltaic project in Samarkand in November 2013. Are there any changes in legislation or policies you would like to see taking place? What are the real issues? It is not so much to do with changes in legislation or policies; it is how these policies are actually implemented and whether it happens in a transparent manner. The steam resources sector for example – under the old rule in Indonesia – belonged to the government. If private sector investors invest in the steam resources business, they would want to be the sole owner for the next 25 years in a power purchases agreement (PPA), since they bring in the funds. This rule prevents them from investing. This is one of the issues. The government has to be responsible and take serious issues with the social responsible agenda. Just as it has happened in Myanmar before the liberalisation, most of the hydro projects are done by Chinese contractors and corners were being cut. When the new government came into power there was strong opposition from the local people on hydro projects that brought environmental and social issues. Thus all the contracts and licenses that were given to the Chinese were eventually cancelled, except for two projects that have already been commissioned. This is a setback for Myanmar and a setback for this particular sector, because hydropower is a clean energy source and when done properly will benefit the country. What is ADB doing to help Myanmar in this case? ADB is helping Myanmar build capacity, to help them build the electricity law. We’re helping them in putting up a legal regulatory framework for the power sector. We are also assisting them in building a safeguard for environmental and resettlement plans for Myanmar. ADB has worked with Japan to draft a master plan for transmission lines and distribution. We just approved a $60 million loan for distribution last year in Yangon and three other cities. Electricity is scarcely accessible to people in the rural and remote areas but diesel is heavily used. In those cases we look at other alternative resources such as a micro-hydropower project or even solar projects like rooftop programs. We are looking at some of those off-grid solutions at the moment. A recently liberalised market without a proper legal framework for the energy sector is a challenging environment for investors. What do you think the Government should prioritise to create a sustainable legal platform? The government didn’t only come to us for assistance with the electricity law, but also to improve the institutional capacity within the Ministry of Energy. We provided an institutional strengthening program where we funded $1 million technical assistance to help. We’re also helping them with the utility billing accounting system, which is currently a system that dates back to 1947 during British colonial times. The government also asked for help with the oil and gas sector regulations. We have several partners helping them in different areas. We also put in power sector advisors to sit in with the Ministry in assisting the Minister. The electricity law has been approved and should be in place this year. We are waiting for the implementing guidelines to be up and running. The environmental laws have been approved last year. We are also helping the government with their implementation guidelines, rules and regulations. The environmental laws aren’t great but I believe some of the deficits in the law can be addressed in the implementation rules and regulations. In most areas, it will take another year or two before a decent framework is in place. Chair of the energy committee and senior advisor (Energy) in the regional and sustainable development department Asian Development Bank Anthony Jude is chair of the Asian Development Bank’s Energy Committee, and is also senior advisor as well as practice leader for energy in the regional and sustainable development department. Jude has over 30 years of experience of which 23 years are with ADB in the capacity of director of various units pertaining to energy, transport and water. He is also involved with ADB’s Asia Solar Energy Fund. Jude works with the United Nations and the World Bank on sustainable energy and regional power cooperation. Together with the International Energy Agency (IEA), Jude has worked on energy training programs and policy formulation in the region.
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The U-LI Group had its humble beginnings back in 1978 when it was founded under the name U-Lee Trading Company. Initially, it engaged mostly in engineering works and the trading of cable support system. U-Lee Trading Company later began manufacturing cable support systems, albeit on a modest scale. In 1983, a private limited company known as United U-LI (M) Sdn Bhd (ULSB) was incorporated to better serve the growing demands of the Malaysian cable support systems market. In March 1997 and January 1998, United U-LI Steel Service Centre Sdn Bhd (ULSS) and Cable-Tray Industries (M) Sdn Bhd (CTSB) commenced operations to complement the principal activities of ULSB. ULSB benefitted from the economic boom in the 1990s and expanded its business portfolio. In 1999, ULSB ventured into manufacturing of integrated ceiling systems to capitalise on the growing demand for integrated ceiling systems. On 20 February 2002, the completion of the acquisition of ULSB, ULSS, CTSB and Gabung Mekar Sdn Bhd (GMSB) by U-LI marked the birth of the U-LI Group. This was closely followed by the incorporation of United U-LI Building Material Sdn Bhd (ULBM) on 6 January 2003. ULICORP was successfully listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange on 23 April 2002. In 2005, the Group ventured into the lighting market and established United U-Li Goodlite Sdn Bhd (ULGSB), which manufactures light fitting systems. To further complement the Group’s venture into the lighting sector, U-LI partnered with the OPPLE group from China in 2013 and since then has remained as the sole distributor of its LED product range in Malaysia. Currently, the Group operates 5 manufacturing sites in Malaysia and employs close to 1,000 employees. The U-LI Group has traversed many roads throughout its 25 years of operations, and today is proud to be recognized as one of the established suppliers of quality cable support systems and integrated ceiling systems in the Malaysian market. The products and services supplied by the U-LI Group are used extensively in the telecommunication, oil and gas, transportation, power generation, water-works and construction sectors while the integrated ceiling systems are used during construction and renovation of commercial buildings. At present, approximately 25% of the raw materials used in manufacturing are imported while the balance is purchased from local suppliers. Local market makes up 85% of the U-LI Group’s clientele while export market, mainly other Asean countries and the Middle East constitutes the remaining 15%.
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RECENTLY, there was an uproar in the news about rice production woes faced by local farmers. Two rice varieties, named MR220 CL1 and MR220 CL2, were introduced about seven years ago to control the menace of weedy rice or padi angin. The two varieties are unique because they have genes which confer tolerance to herbicide. When sprayed on the rice crop, a special herbicide named “OnDuty” will kill the padi angin, but, will spare the rice plants from being affected. “OnDuty” is bundled and sold with the rice varieties in the Clearfield production system. The emergence of weedy rice is a phenomenon essentially triggered by the recent rise of direct seeding — the uniform scattering of seeds across fields. In the past, rice farmers grew rice by transplanting — a method of weed control for wet or puddled fields. Transplanting requires less seed, but much more labour then direct seeding. Also, transplanted rice takes longer to mature due to transplanting shock. Farmers started to practise direct seeding in early 1990s and it is now widespread in all our 10 rice granary areas — which feature major irrigation schemes (more than 4,000ha) and are recognised by the government as the country’s main rice producing areas. Due to heavy infestations, padi angin has now put our rice productivity under siege. There are several hypotheses which suggest how padi angin originated. However, there is strong evidence to support the hypothesis that weedy rice varieties are actually progenies of hybrids formed naturally between cultivated rice and a species of wild rice which is prevalent where rice is usually grown. Weedy rice resembles cultivated rice. Farmers call them padi angin because the seeds are easily shattered by wind before or during crop harvest, and fall on to the soils. Because the seeds have a strong dormancy, they quickly build up into a potent weed seed bank in the soils, which provides the reserve of viable weed seeds from season to season. They compete for sunlight, water and nutrients, and quickly dominate the field. They take up most of the fertilisers applied to the rice crop, and the yield loss can reach between 60 and 90 per cent, or, may even result in complete crop failure. In 2004, the production loss due to padi angin was estimated at RM90 million. Now, widespread infestations have drastically reduced farmers’ rice yields and incomes. Previously, farmers removed padi angin manually or killed them by spot spraying with herbicides. Such practices were time consuming, and are no longer practical and effective. When Clearfield varieties were introduced, they quickly gained popularity. Farmers, who previously had yields of less than three tonnes per hectare, began enjoying harvests three times greater. Now, those farmers are seeing an ugly side of the new technology. The same herbicide used before no longer kill padi angin effectively. Padi angin has become kebal or herbicide resistant and yields have plummeted back to between and three and four tonnes per ha. The Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI) and the multi-national Germany-based chemical company BASF developed the Clearfield special purpose varieties. They are scientifically proven to be a good solution to weedy rice, but farmers must strictly follow a set of do’s and don’ts for the system to work. For example, seven days after direct-seeding, the herbicide must be applied when the soil is saturated (wet but not flooded). The varieties were recommended only as a stop-gap measure to combat weedy rice. Farmers were supposed to grow them in only two successive planting seasons in a year, leaving an interval of one planting season. Once the weedy rice is no longer a problem farmers then have the option to grow any other varieties. Attracted by the high yields, farmers grew the Clearfield varieties more often than prescribed. And, large numbers of farmers also had easy access to uncertified seeds, planting them without using the required herbicide. Population of weedy rice in the fields increased drastically. It became prone to cross breed with rice and evolved into hybrids. The process resulted in the transfer of the herbicide-tolerance gene, thus, turning the progenies of the hybrids into super weeds. Padi angin is not a unique problem to Malaysia. Worldwide, weedy rice affects about 10 per cent of total rice production. The super weeds have emerged as another new devastating menace to our rice production. Undoubtedly, farmers’ incomes, rice prices, crop yield levels, and our global food security index status will be at stake, sooner rather than later. Therefore, we urgently need to get our act together and review current approaches and come out with new strategies to achieve sustainable solutions for our weedy rice management. In the final analysis, one thing is for sure: to be progressive, we need to support new technologies such as the Clearfield rice system and others that improve yields and help crops adapt to changing conditions. The point seems to be that the importance of using these technologies properly is as great as the importance of these technologies to our long term ability to feed a growing world population. The writer is science adviser to the prime minister and founding president of the Genetics Society of Malaysia (1994-2000).News Straits Times. Retrieved from https://www.nst.com.my/opinion/columnists/2018/02/332147/rice-crops-under-siege
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Techie Monkey from SMK Bintulu emerged state winner of Shell’s Sarawak #MyGeek-a-thon at SCAT fair 2019 Mar 16, 2019 Shell’s STEM Initiative Aims To Develop Sarawak’s Future Innovators Kuching – ‘Techie Monkey’ from SMK Bintulu emerged state champion of Shell’s #MyGeekMovement in a competition known as the Sarawak #MyGeek-a-thon by showcasing their ‘Sustainable Living Systems’ inventions. The competition was held at Sarawak Career and Training (SCaT) Fair 2019. ‘Static’ from SMK Lutong came in second in this competition. The winners received their awards from Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg, Chief Minister of Sarawak. Both these schools will represent Sarawak at the national #MyGeek-a-thon competition which will take place at Make The Future Live Malaysia 2019 at Sepang International Circuit, Kuala Lumpur on the 1st of May 2019. Shell Malaysia selected five schools from Sarawak to compete in its STEM initiative as part of its drive to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) amongst secondary school students in Malaysia. This year’s participating schools were SMK Bintulu and SMK Kidurong of Bintulu; SMK Merbau and SMK Lutong of Miri; and SMK St. Joseph of Kuching. ‘Techie Monkey’ which comprises Darren Lee Hua Ee, Isaac Yong Wei Onn and Wendy Lim Yii Ann created an app through their project, iRecycle that encourages users to recycle by making the process simple and rewarding. The app enables users to connect with recycling centres to arrange for pick-up while earning points. “We are very happy, but we also believe that we need to further improve and innovate our invention based on the feedback given by the judges to prepare ourselves for the national championship. We believe our win today is because of our teamwork. No matter how good an invention or idea, if there is no co-operation and effort between team members, then it would not end in success, “shared the ‘Techie Monkey’ teammates who stood tall together when asked about being the state champion. The first runner up, Static from SMK Lutong is an all-girls team comprising Anisha Praveen Karunakaran, Daphne Binti Douglas and Liew Jia Wen. Their invention, Fridget is an automated fan cleaning system that is programmed to clean dust on condenser coils at the back of refrigerators to reduce energy consumption of household fridges. “Science and engineering is at the heart of our business and is critical to economic and social progress. Our aim is to contribute to the number of STEM graduates who will go on to lead discoveries in STEM on a global level. We are focused in influencing school students to take an early interest in fields of engineering, information technology and automation. This will help uplift the number of STEM graduates, which will help meet national targets and aspirations,” shared Jill Chieng, General Manager of Sarawak Shell Berhad. In August 2017, Shell Malaysia introduced its STEM immersion programme called the #MyGeekMovement. With the support of the Ministry of Education, #MyGeekMovement selected about 225 secondary one students from fifteen schools across Malaysia. These students were given the opportunity to gain hands-on STEM learning, with a focus on technology. In Sarawak, 75 students were selected, while peer to peer coaching was also implemented to share the knowledge with the larger student community of about 10,000 students from all participating schools in Sarawak. #MyGeekMovement provides learning content that complements the existing school co-curricular structure with a long-term goal to increase the number of students opting for science stream, while boosting interest in science and technology amongst the younger generation. Students are able to continue to grow their technological, critical, creative and innovative skill sets while challenging themselves to design and innovate solutions to real-world problems. “Through our STEM-related programmes, we aim to spark an interest in students to pursue STEM related subjects and develop them to become future engineers and innovators who will contribute to the future pipeline of talents and capabilities,” she shared. Besides the Sarawak #MyGeek-a-thon Championship, Shell Malaysia’s presence in SCaT Fair 2019 was seen through the showcase of its operations in the Upstream, Downstream and Integrated Gas spheres. There was also a showcase on the company’s strategic social investment flagship programmes and its recruitment arm. These displays clearly demonstrate Shell’s drive to help build capacity in Sarawak and give back to the community, through its global and local knowledge, innovation and experience as an industry leader. For further information on Shell’s #MyGeekMovement, log on to www.shell.com.my Static from SMK Lutong receiving their award from the Chief Minister Sarawak #MyGeek-A-Thon champions, 'Techie SMK Bintulu receiving their award from the Chief Minister. Note to Editor: Judges for the Sarawak #MyGeek-a-thon finals; Wong Chong Kung – Director, STEM, MESTR Dr Chew Yen Seng– Principal Consultant, Chumbaka Sdn Bhd Alex Pega Mahda – Senior Territory Manager, Shell Malaysia Trading For further Media Enquiries, please contact: Senior Manager, Media Relations and Issue Management, Shell Malaysia About Shell – www.shell.com.my Shell is a global leader in power, energy, and gas technology and is working to meet increasing energy demand and supply challenges by delivering smarter products and cleaner energy, infrastructure, and by developing new energy sources while addressing the impact on the environment. Malaysia is one of Shell’s heartlands. The history of Royal Dutch Shell in Malaysia started more than 125 years ago in Miri, Sarawak. Shell currently has a strong market presence in the upstream and downstream sector in Malaysia.
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Guests can now reply in ALL forum topics (No registration required!) In the Name of God بسم الله Search the Community Showing results for tags 'sharia law'. Aoa, I saw an interesting comment on an Instagram post today. The post is about Raffia Arshad, the first female judge in the UK who also wears a head scarf/covering/ hijab. The comment was: "Isn't ruling by something other than the law of Allah haram and constitutes kufr?" I dont want to get into the nitty grittys of the question, so lets take an example of something very common in the UK and publicly accepted: Zina. In the UK, the judge cannot punish any 2 people for committing Zina, however it is punishable in Islamic Law. Also, I am well aware that Muslim countries don't follow Sharia down to the dot. There are loopholes, and many of the laws are not publicly followed as well, such as in Pakistan, Malaysia, and others we dont have a law about hijab/head covering of any kind. However, Iran and Saudi Arabia does. But, then Iran and Saudi Arabia has loopholes and shisha lounges are very common there, mixed gatherings are allowed, etc. Not stating my opinion on it, not saying I'm pious and free of all sins, just saying these are things The Prophet SAW and therefore Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى) would never approve of. Henceforth, being a judge here is also the same as the West since it doesnt follow Sharia down the dot. But then, the world wouldn't work like that. I understand that atleast officially Iran and Saudi are following Sharia and it might be better than there, but since theres always loopholes, and the powerful/bribery gets away with it even in these countries, then is it okay to do the same in the UK? One last thing, I also know Prophet SAW during his time didn't put non Muslims under sharia Law, they were judged by their religious leaders and punished by their law (atleast what ive read) so if this is true, then Im asking about Muslims committing such sins and their families bringing them to court, if for example they came to her and she still can't pass the judgement by Sharia Law, then what? Is there no expense on her part on the Day of Judgement or is there? I thought of it like this too, if i work in the grocery store, and sell pork/wine, etc. to non muslims and muslims, will i be held accountable? this is how i relate it to my own life and why I want to know the answers. Just a few thoughts. All advice and guidance is welcomed! Alsalamu alaykum Allah (swt) has created the universe in accordance with natural disposition (fitrah). Due to have inappropriate influence for human being and lead him to be astonished and perplexed, every action which is against of natural disposition (fitrah) is forbidden in Islam. Homosexuality, as one of acts which is against of natural disposition (fitrah), is prohibited in Islam. Homosexuality in men is called ‘Lavwāt’ and in women is called ‘Musāhaqah’. To know more about sharia laws concerning to these two immoral acts, some problems shall be expressed; 1- Sodomy (Lavwāt) is the sexual intercourse between two males by penetration etc. of the male organ. It is not established except by the confession made four times by the person committing sodomy or the person with whom it has been committed, or the evidence of four men, of ocular demonstration. If a man commits sodomy resulting in penetration, the punishment by death shall be established in his case as well as the person with whom sodomy is committed, when each of them is an adult, sane and having free will. As for the features of the doer person or the person with whom sodomy is committed, sharia laws in this regard are different. Being every one of them as a married person, minor boy, lunatic, dhimmi infidel and so on can be expressed as some of these features. The laws also are different in accordance with happening of penetration or not. Hadd, in some of them shall be established and Taʼzīr in some other one. 2- Lesbianism (Musāhaqah) means sexual act of a woman with another woman of her own sex. It is established with what establishes Lavwāt or sodomy. Its Hadd is one hundred lashes [to each of the women] provided they are adult, sane and have free will, no matter whether they are married or not. There is no difference between the active and passive, or an infidel and a Muslim. As for it, Islam recognizes the sexual needs of human beings and believes that the natural instincts should be nurtured, not suppressed. Islam says that the biological parts of our body have a purpose; they have not been created uselessly. No text in Islam can be found to equate sex with inherent evil or sin; whatever has been taught by the Qur'an, Prophet Muhammad and his Ahlu'l-bayt points in the opposite direction. In this regard, Islam has blamed celibacy and highly recommended marriage as a good deed to resolve these immoral acts. Allah says, "Marry the spouseless among you...if they are poor, God will enrich them of His bounty." The Prophet and the Imams of Ahlu'l Bayt also encouraged their followers to marry and to fulfill their sexual urges in lawful ways. The Prophet said, 'Whosoever likes to follow my tradition, then he should know that marriage is from my tradition. Imam Riza said, "Three things are from the traditions of the messengers of God: using perfume, removing the [excessive] hair and frequently visiting one's wife. Read more in; http://islamportal.net/book/marriage-and-morals-islam ----------------------------------------------- 1. Mousavi Khumeini, sayyed rouhollah, Tahrir Al-wasilah, vol. 2, p. 489 2. The Qur'an 24:32 3. Al-Hurr al-Aamili, Wasā'il al-Shīʿa, vol. 14, p. 3-4, 6. 4. Al-Hurr al-Aamili, Wasā'il al-Shīʿa, Vol. 14, p. 4. Prophet Mohammad & Islamic Sharia`h By Imam Sayed Mustafa Alqazwini At California State University,Chico This letcture aims to distinguish between misconceptions and the true essence of Islam through the example of Prophet Mohammad (pbuh). .:BEYOND|Events:report and interviwes: http://bit.ly/14B7rBs Please follow us to see the most resent update of our events and activities Recently Browsing 0 members - No registered users viewing this page.
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INDIA TODAY CONCLAVE 2007 “The World: End of History or Brave New Future?” Topic : The World : End of History or Brave New Future? Speaker : Dr. Francis Fukuyama Thank you very much Dr. Mehta, I am really delighted to be invited here to India by India Today. This is one of the most exciting countries in the world and it is really a great privilege for me to be able to speak here and to be able to witness the changes that are going on. The theme for the talk is the “End of History or Brave New Future”. What I am going to suggest you is that these are not necessarily alternative choices. But let me simply outline what I would like to do in my talk today. First, I would simply like to represent the thesis that I laid out in the End of History because it has been somewhat misunderstood over the past almost twenty years since it was first articulated and then it was a question, as Dr. Mehta said, it was not an assertion and I want to talk about four important ways in which the thesis may either be challenged or may have to be modified by developments that have happened since it was initially articulated at the end of the 1980s. The first has to do with the challenge in a sense of Islamic ideology; the second has to do with the problem of democracy at an International level; the third has to do with the problem of weak states, governance and poverty; and the final issue has to deal with the question of technology and the way the technology itself can be a challenge to the concept of End of History. So let me go through all of those in a sequence. What was the original thesis of the End of History that was stated in 1989. Well, first of all it was a thesis about modernization. Prior to that point, for the 150 years through the end of the cold war, I think most progressive intellectuals around the world actually believed that there would be an End of History. They believed that history was progressive; it had a meaning over time. But the end point of history would be some form of a Communist or Socialist utopia. And my argument back in the 1980s was that given the way that events were shaping up in the world, it didn’t look like that was going to happen. But the end point of history would not be Communism, it would be some form of what the Marxist called ‘Bourgeois Liberal Democracy’, and some form of market economy. And that really seemed to be the goal towards which the development of institutions was heading and actually that is one of the reasons that – it was actually the Marxists that understood the thesis the best, they didn’t like the conclusion, but they didn’t get hung-up on misinterpretation of what was meant by this concept of the End of History. Now, I think that in general it is undeniable that modernization is a coherent process and that virtually everybody around the world wants to live in a modernized society. You don’t have to take my word for it. I think you simply look at the behaviour of states that want development and you look at the way that people vote with their feet. Every year there are millions of people living in less developed countries that are desperate to get into more developed countries – to Europe; to Japan; to the United States, because they want better healthcare, they want opportunities; they want the kind of individual freedom that comes from life in a developed country. So I think any kind of nostalgia for more traditional ways of life, although there is a clear spiritual gap that exists in modern liberal democracies. Without a doubt, I think that very few people on a balance would trade for life in countries that are corrupt or poor, have bad institutions and do not offer their citizens opportunities. So that is the basic reality. And infact if you look at the world, as a whole, I think the modernization story is still very much the dominant one in global politics today. We focus on troubled areas like the Middle East, but the reality is that the two largest countries in the world – China and India, are also among the worlds fastest growing and the most rapidly modernizing, as has been referred to earlier today. This process of globalization has pulled millions – hundreds of millions of people out of poverty as those two economies and others in East Asia and other parts of the world develop. And in fact this process of modernization is happening on a much faster scale in the late modernizers than it did in the early ones. What took Britain and the United States a 100 to 150 years to accomplish, in East Asia has been accomplished in the space of 40 or just 50 years and so it is actually a remarkable repetition of the pattern of development that is spreading outside of the West where it first took place. Now, there are number of important questions to be asked. Obviously China posses a different authoritarian model of modernization and the question is whether liberal democracy will eventually emerge as China becomes richer; develops a more complex civil society; develops a middle-class with property and with interest in a stake in the way that they are governed? I don’t know the answer to this, but I think that there is a certain amount of evidence that suggests that as you develop materially, you also develop demands for political participation for good Government, which only can be guaranteed, I would say in the long run, by a system that permits some degree of accountability to the citizens that the Government is trying to serve. There is an inherent problem in authoritarian Government, no matter how technocratically competent, that in the long run there is no guarantee that that Government would ultimately stay uncorrupt or will meet the real needs, the changing needs, of the society that it serves. And, therefore, I think that there is a functional importance to democracy, to democratic accountability, that China, as well as other fast developing countries, will ultimately face. Now, the problem obviously is that the world is now bifurcated between a part that is developing rapidly and successfully and a part that is stuck in a certain sense and that includes, although all of the world has been growing fortunately in the last few years Sub Saharan Africa, many parts of the Middle East, many parts of Latin America have been either stuck or have moved backwards in terms of economic and social development over the past generation and the question is as a whole is the world going to – is this simply a transitional arrangement or does this reflect in some sense a permanent reflection of the cultural capabilities of different parts of the world to modernize. This is in a sense the thesis of my former teacher ‘Samuel Huntington’ in his thesis about the clash of civilizations. He has argued that the fundamental differences between countries will remain despite the level of modernization that takes place and that culture will remain the ultimate barrier and source of conflict between these different parts of the world. And I, I guess, would argue that this is not the case because there are in fact powerful unifying forces that precede as a result of the modernization process itself and that certain institutions respect for individual rights, democracy, accountable political systems, the notion of equality including woman’s equality – these are simply not the cultural projections of Western values that came out of the Western enlightenment, but are in fact universal values that may have been uncovered in the West first, but will spread to the rest of the world because they actually have relevance to the lives of people that live there. An example would be Modern Natural Science. The technique of Modern Natural Science was developed by Baken and Dakehart in the West at a certain period in the early modern history of Europe but is now a universal possession and my argument would be that democracy and other institutions, the respect, the equal respect for human rights is very much the same, is the same kind of phenomenon. And I would say that India – your country- is perhaps the best illustration of that. If you look at the cultural conditions that many people have argued were necessary for democracy to take off or this includes – India meets almost none of them. It is a very, in a way, divided country ethnically, linguistically, religiously, in social caste terms and yet democracy has functioned in this country in a way that I can scarcely imagine Indian development taking place without the kind of democratic institutions that you have developed here. And so, although, Indian modern democracy was not invented in India, it seems to me it has taken extremely deep roots in this country because it works. It is a system that can accommodate the kind of ethnic and social diversity that modern societies inevitably generate. Now, let me run through the problems quickly. First has to do with Islam and the Muslim world in general which has been an exception to the general pattern of modernization. There are Muslim democracies – Indonesia and Turkey have developed democratic institutions, but in the Arab world particularly there has been a democratic deficit. None of these countries, with the exception of those living off of oil rents and those in South East Asia have moved on to a sustained high growth economic development path and in certain parts of the Muslim world there has been the development of a radical Islamist ideology and I want to be careful. This is not, in my view, a projection of the religion Islam. This is a very specific ideology that grows out of very specific circumstances. But this ideology is profoundly anti-modern and illiberal and is the source of a lot of Jehadist terrorism that both India and other countries have suffered from. So the question is, is this a permanent exception to the overall pattern of modernization or is this explained by shorter term factors and will this part of the world eventually get with the larger programme that has been occurring in Asia and Europe and North America? I would say that first of all I doubt the problem in the Muslim world really is a cultural one at heart or is one due to the religion Islam. I think that in fact radical Islamism is understood best as in a sense a disease or a problem that is engendered by the modernization problem or process itself. That is to say traditional Islam is one that establishes identities – it describes identities in a very traditional way. But that is not the source of terrorism or the kind of violent ideology that we have seen grow in parts of the Middle East. It is actually those people that have been transported either through living in migrant communities in Western Europe or those that have undergone a rapid transition to urban life where they are connected to the global world, where modernization comes to visit them in the form of satellite television or the Internet or connection to the global media. It is those people that are the most susceptible to recruitment into violent Jehadist terrorist circles. And in a sense we are dealing, I think, with a problem that is quite familiar from the history of Europe and the development of extremist ideologies in Europe in the Twentieth century. That transition from a traditional to a modern world, especially when it is extremely rapid as it has been for many people in Muslim countries over the past generation, generates alienation and loss of identity and I believe that in many ways modern Islamism is an answer to that basic question – Who am I, that connects people, that are separated by geography and distance to a global Umber that explains to them as extremist nationalism did to Germans and Italians in the Twentieth century, who they are in a rapidly changing world. And therefore, it does not mean that this is a safe phenomenon. Obviously in the twentieth century in Europe it led to war and destruction and it is a dangerous ideology now, but it is not an unfamiliar one and it is one that is in a way thrown up by the modernization process itself. I ultimately believe that this challenge is not as serious as the one that was posed by Communism because among other things it is not an ideology that appeals to people that are not culturally Muslims to begin with. And I think the contradictions of living in a society dominated by clerical hierarchy, it is simply not compatible with the kinds of institutions that are needed to live well and to develop in a globalised world. And so I think that the challenge is ultimately one that will be overcome, but it is obviously one we will have to watch closely. Second issue has to do with the democratic deficit at an International level. We know very well how to create democratic institutions in the stove pipes that we call nation states. We have had a couple of hundred years of experience in developing institutions and mechanisms of accountability. What we do not have is an adequate set of institutions at an international level that provide both effective collective action and effective accountability and therefore, legitimacy when countries need to work together as is absolutely necessary in the contemporary world. Now, this has become a particular problem given the position of the United States in the global stage. United States today spends as much on its military as the entire rest of the World combined and it has a kind of global reach that is political, military, economic and cultural that engenders I think an inherent push back and resentment because of the lack, the fundamental lack of reciprocity in its relations with the rest of the world. And this is, I think, one of the fundamental cleavage points in global politics today. The feeling that there is no accountability for a hegemonic power that often makes mistakes, exercises poor judgment even if its intentions are justifiable. And the institutions that we have at a global level are not adequate to deal with this problem. The United Nations is a noble effort, but it was designed as ultimately a weak institution that gives veto power to the five, essentially the five victors of World War II. And I think all of the proposals for U.N. reforms that are on the table, increase its legitimacy at the expense of its ability to make decisive action for collective security purpose. And I think one of the great challenges that really exist in the world today is to construct a new set of institutions, not displacing the United Nations, but adding to what the United Nations provides already, that are able to deliver both effective and legitimate cooperation between countries in a way that simply does not exist at the present moment. And in a sense it is, you know we were told a lot in the 1990s about the death of sovereignty, the death of the nation state. I am afraid that that death was announced a little bit prematurely because there is one thing that nation states can do that no other regional or supranational or international organization can provide. And that is the ability to provide legitimate monopoly of power that is able to enforce rules and until such time that international organizations can do that we are going to be living in a world that ultimately will rest of nation states, despite the Internet and despite globalization. And so we somehow have to reconcile the need for national power with the need for legitimate international cooperation. The third issue has to do with governance and development. There is a nice story that you can tell about how increasing per capita GDP will create pressure for democracy. I suggested that that may be case in China’s future. The problem is that in some sense there is a chicken that comes before the egg that comes before the chicken. You need good institutions to get to rapid economic development. And I would say that if you look for the single reason why countries in Sub Saharan Africa or in Latin America or in other parts of the developing world remain poor, it is primarily because of the lack of good, strong, capable public institutions that can provide public goods and services to their citizens. That is the cause of poverty; that is the cause of lack of development; that is the cause, ultimately of institutions. Before you have development, you have to have an effective state. One of the great advantages, I think that East Asia as a region had, was that they began their modernization process with strong nation states and good bureaucracies. I think that India and China had been able to take off as a result of policy changes again because they both were blessed with strong state institutions. Perhaps a little bit too strong and too intrusive in some cases, but none the less states that were able to maintain order and produce basic public goods. But this is something that we cannot take for granted in many other parts of the developing world. And the ability to help countries that have highly corrupt or incompetent state services, is something is a challenge that we are not very good at meeting. It is something that the World Bank and other donors in the international scene have been trying to wrestle with, I think with only very mixed success and that realm of failed and weak states is really in a sense the defining characteristics of life in this arc of instability that stretches from North Africa, through Sub Saharan Africa, through the Middle East, into Central Asia and parts of South Asia. I would draw the boundary line at the Indian border for this region. But that is a region that is characterized by state weakness, transnational actors, militias-cum-political parties and in that part of the world, international relations and the character of international relations, is profoundly different. Final issue has to do with technology. Now in the past the growth of the modern world has been completely dependent on technology. And there are many technologies that in fact, I believe, have supported the spread of democracy, the greater flow of information that is brought about by the I.T. revolution, I think, has profoundly democratizing impacts. But there is no guarantee that technology per se or the development of technology will serve human purposes, will be used for moral purposes or the like. We have been fortunate uptill now that technological advance has been able to solve a lot of the problems that technology itself produces. But, it is not guaranteed to do that in the future. The chief issue that many people today worry about – global warming, is a good example of that. It is not clear if there are technological solutions if some of the more dire predictions about global warming are correct. Weapons of mass destruction is another case where you have had this profound democratization. The means to inflict tremendous violence on other people and it is not clear that the control mechanisms that the global community can muster to prevent the spread of this kind of technology will be sufficient to prevent their use. Bio-technology is a complicated threat because the good things and the bad things are profoundly mixed and so it is very hard to say that you don’t want new genetic medicines that may help us to live longer, to cure disease and the like. But it also raises very profound ethical questions about social control and the possibility of social engineering using a kind of technology that is incomparably more sophisticated than the techniques for social engineering that we experienced in the past. So these, I think, are the broad areas of challenge and I will tell you right now that I don’t have answer to any of them. I think that in many respects if we do not……… …Not audible…………. …Then the modernization story may well end in a global disaster. And I wish I could confidently predict to you that this will not happen. But, I am afraid I can’t because I may be a Historicist, but I am not a Marxist. I don’t believe that there is inevitable unfolding of a historical mechanism. There is a lot of contingency, choice, you need statesmanship, you need participation by democratic public, and you need a globe in which individuals feel empowered to actually take control of the development of their own lives through politics. And that is the world, I hope, will emerge, but is one that, I think, is a challenge. So, thank you very much for your attention today. Speaker : Chandran Nair, Founder and CEO, Global Institute for Tomorrow See, I witnessed the end of history when I watched the Asian Games and the Indian hockey team lost to China. I mean, I was devastated, when did the Chinese learnt to play hockey and India lost. So let us do something about this. Very quickly, I am delighted to be here, I mean India Today invites me, I am here nobody, that’s kind and gives you a privilege to be bit honest, I can upset a few people and no one can take any retribution. I can say a few things, hopefully, politely, but I am nobody and I am very pleased to be here. I am going to keep this quite straightforward; I am not going to use the sort of parlance of academic jargon to give credibility to simple thoughts. So, far too many simplistic notions of the world have been cautioned academic terms and given credibility. We are all guilty of giving this credibility. Much of what I am going to say is based on my little experience of life, having travelled the world, at least 4-5 continents, different many countries and shared experiences with many people, Muslims included. I like to think, I am a bit of internationalist and my life is included many years in business, now I am doing social work and play lot of sport, bit of music, etc. so bit of everything, I would like to share some of those ideas with you. I am not going to mention the ‘T’ word, I am not going to mention the ‘W’ word and I am not going to mention the date in 2001, as that changed every thing. I am certainly not going to bash Muslims. So who am I? Very quickly, I am citizen of the world, I was born in Malaysia and the Indians would know that my parents came from Kerala. They migrated to Malaysia, not looking for democracy or modernization, they just went looking for work. My mother was a 9 year old followed her brothers and my father was a 20 years old, who knew her brothers. I had a multi-cultural background; I am not worried about men with beards and turbans when I see them in Airports worrying about things. I was brought up in a Hindu home, the Hindus here will know that means we lit the lamps at 7 O’clock, we said our prayers, I don’t know what we are saying. We are all saying Sanskrit, I didn’t understand. Then went to school and the brothers said how fathers who are in heaven and all of that I was completely confused. When I was going home at about 12 O’clock we sneaked into the mosque because the Mullah there has very good sweets and we all had sweets and we thought, hey these guys are good and then we go home and in evenings we go to the Chinese shops and eat pork buns – steamed buns. So we were multi-cultural and that is the story that I think I want to tell you and my view of the world. So what is history really? I think we can all have various definitions of what history is and argue about it. My favourite is to take two bits of definitions. I think Voltaire said its fables agreed and I think Winston Churchill said something about it’s the Victors story. My definition is the victor’s fables all agreed. It is not our version that is why it is called His Story. This version and mine. I hope you do not think it is trivial because it is actually quiet important. But history is always been written by others. How many history books about India that are standard texts in the Universities worldwide actually written by Indians. I am trying to do bit of research to find out but I was with the General Council, the Consulate General of India in Hong Kong and he was over dinner and he said you know there is no such book. How many Indians actually know or people internationally know of Chandra Bose. How many know that he said “Give me blood and I will give you freedom”. So history is always been written by others not by us and Indian history is interestingly one that I am fascinated, all the best books are primarily written by foreigners, with their own version of what took place here - atrocities, slightly you know muddled over, things like that. How many Indians even know amount of Indians who died serving the Raj in the Second World War? Every time that they commemorate the Second World War in Europe, I am astonished that none of the Indians say, hey we paid a heavy price too. So there are many examples of distortions of this history. I mean, we have Vietnamese version of what happened in Vietnam is not been written by the Vietnamese yet. What happened in Algeria is not be written by the Algerians and what has happened in Iran in 1953 when democracy was hijacked by all interests happening again today was not written and no body has told indigenous Australians how to write their history. So when we talk about the end of history it really boils down to who you are? What are the ideological pursuits you follow and who your masters are? Academic solutions cooked up in the isolation of Washington, London, Rome do not make foreign policy. They are not the policies for the rest of the world. Op-ads in the financial times should not turn into foreign policy. So a lot of what is been said about the end of history etc ……not just challenging Dr. Fukuyama here, who I respect him enormously but in the interest of some intellectual provocation really have defined some narrow views of the world. Which direction your telescope is pointed is what I view, how people interpret these things and what ideologies you seek to further depending on who your masters are and what academic credentials you feel seek to burnish. It also depends on how arrogant you are in terms of not acknowledging what you don’t know. I would always be fascinated by how people who speak one language, who never had a passport who are just 60 years old travel around the world and tell us who is free and who is not free. I would always be fascinated by those who talk about Islam but don’t have many Muslim friends. So the basic principle in my view is one of fundamentalism on all sides. One that seeks to divide people into simplistic notions of good and evil. We all know these are new things of people riddled with intolerance, poor understanding and steeped in lacking wisdom and a severe lack of generosity spirit. It shows its intellectually dishonest and intellectually lazy the scripture of extremism has been written and too many find it easier to follow than to think. So the end of the history will mean very different things to different people. I was brought up as a kid in Malaysia where we were told that John Wayne was going to save us because they were going to fight the VietCom and win. Some black guys in the United States called Mohd. Ali appeared in a TV, my first image - I have got nothing against this yellow man, I said, hey what’s wrong with this guy. So we began to think differently. You know, in terms of end of history if you were Vietnamese in the 1980s you saw things very different. In terms of what is history what is future what was going to promise. If you were Indian, things looked very hopeless in the 70s and 80s. If you are Iraqi today, it is the end of the history. Similarly in South Africa, where I lived in southern Africa, in the mid 80s things looked very bleak. If you are black African you thought, hey the white men always going to be in charge. So our views of the world is tampered by our experiences and ideological rings we draw around us. And the world did not revolve around the US struggles with USSR. And as per the end of the history ideology seems to suggest that once war came down in the USSR was broken up then we have won. None of them recognized the non-alignment movement, the heroes of that and some of my heroes, Nasser, Nehru, Kenyatta, Nkrumah all of those people Ho Chi Minh. None of them even recognized that 1.5 billion Indians and Chinese in the year 2005 might want to join the world equals and say hey we are coming. None of the world recognized what that would mean. But the question is- had it allowed naïve notion about the world gain intellectual respectability and inference policy among those who saw them as the guardians of all these important in the world. There are many reasons for these. First we, I mean those who are either colonized, silent, under developed- we kept silent. Reasons for that - colonialism, backwardness, lack of education, lack of access to the corridors of powers, we did not have the confidence, or the financial resources to have a place at the table. This still is the very much case despite our efforts to buy up steel plants and things like that. We felt inferior. We didn’t build institutions that were needed. And I totally agree Francis there. We do not have strong institutions. We need to build those. We don’t have access to publishing houses that would take up our serious thoughts and put them out there. We have no access to the media… still the same. Our priorities were different though and priorities in India continue be that. Our priorities were how do we feed the billion people. Our best and brightest sought intellectual legitimacy in Western institutions. You went to Harvard and you are king. But if you went to the University of Rawalpindi or Trivandrum- who cared? Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard were the place to go and we were subservient and thought that is where we needed to go. I never heard of Harvard, I was 30. In the great scheme of things these institutions of the west, which have clearly provided lot of provocation and thought for us are, actually, quite meaningless. But, we continue to give them the place that I don’t believe they deserve. That does not mean that they don’t do good work. We continue to pay homage. We have dared not questioned their legitimacy in trying to shape our world. We, therefore, continue to neglect our own needs with inferior sentiments. And then there is all important tyranny of English. We don’t speak English we don’t have a platform. How many Japanese business leaders do you know who can stand up in a forum like this and speak to all of you. How many Chinese do you know …. Indians I know are many but if you speak in strong Indian accent, nobody is going to take you seriously. So I put it on to ….. I can get down to speak very Indian, go to Malaysia and speak Malaysian English go to Singapore and speak Singlish, go to Africa and be their brothers and a bit of African. When I come here I have to speak a bit posh because if I don’t - no one takes me seriously. So the tuning of English is also very important. This is much being a case now very few of us are prepare to challenge this because we need acceptance in the international arena. Very few of us are bold enough. As I started up my little think tank I have been to some of the tycoons of Hong Kong who privately say to me ‘Chandran this is good. Do what you are doing. We all support you.’ I say hey can you stand up and say this. …. Sorry I might not get support for this in the business arena. Why are you supporting these sort of more independent voices? So, we the internationalist have failed. I mean by the internationalists those of us who understand our Paan from our Naan, our dhobi from our wala, our miso soup from our sushini, our ravioli from our pasta…. Those who travel, those who have lived in different culture, we have failed and my view is when you stand for it you stand up. We need to contribute, we have to have thoughts, we need to articulate what we believe, we have passports and we have travelled. I have always fascinated in Hong Kong where I have lived for the past 20 years but travelled and worked in many parts of the world. Every year we have a ritual when at the Heritage Foundation if I am impolite I say bunch of red banks. You turn up in Hong Kong and tell us who is free. These are guys who know so little about the world but they speak one language, they never lived outside the USA and they come and tell us who is free. We never challenge them. We, those of us in Asia, the developing world, who have lived and experienced the world, who come at long histories, who have the wind of our past blowing in our ears and we have been asleep at the wheels. Let us be frank, because of our colonial history many of us feel that we are been still being treated as such even in the global economy. After all didn’t every one in India here feel a sense of great pride and feel a sense of payback when Ratan Tata and his group bought an Anglo-Dutch company. The Indian media was flushed with this sort of nationalism. How many of us noticed the disproportionate publicity given when more than 250 Indians died one week after the anniversary of the London bombings. How many noticed that the BBC, the CNN who have five days of coverage but when the Indians died there was one day of vague reporting on it. Why? Because don’t they all die all the time just like the Iraqis. And how many of us do not feel and I travelled the world all the time that the war in Iraq has huge undertones of racism in it. But it has never featured any serious intellectual discussion about the war. So, we still hold this resentment and I believe it is time that many of our business leaders find the vocabulary, the courage and the intellectual strength to talk about these things. So they are not dismissed as leftists. No one can claim that I am a leftist. I have fairly good business record. I love money. And I am not here seeking revolution. But we have ourselves to blame. We have ceded intellectual thought leadership to the west and this is dangerous. We have copped out, slipped out, sleep at the wheels and gone home. Bullied, we have confidently slipped into just wanting to fit into the economic models established by the post Second War era. I know the World Economic Forum is the place where the Indian I T Gurus and the wealthy are all invited. Ten years ago- we don’t want Indians. Today they have all, Bollywood and every thing and we just play by the rules. Good. But we need to create something more than this. We have been seduced but it is time that we start doing gays. But the world needs us, needs us to engage. Even America needs us, despite its exceptionalism. America needs us more than it needs our foreign reserves. America needs us to help itself. Because we don’t speak up. Those who live in the ivory towers of Washington, who have such a distorted view of the world which they have not seen cannot be helped. We can help them by telling them that the world is much more a complex place and some of us live in that world and some of us have experienced that world. And we can save America from its exceptionalism. And I would not bash Muslims because if I do then I will have to go and bash the Evangelists in the USA and I don’t want to go there. But if any of you have seen the Borate movie the scariest sequence in the movie was when Borate didn’t have to do any thing. He went into one of those auditoriums there we 60000 Evangelist, it was scary. Go and watch that sequence. So the world needs a wider perspective. It needs our understanding; our aspirations and we need to feed into that melting pot with really nice good masala. We don’t need to be told that the world is flat because Thomas Friedman came here for a week, met his IT friends and ate some flat Dosas. Would his worldview be different if he had some Idlies for breakfast…..but what happens you know, the guys in the White House say, ‘Hey Thomas Friedman has got it right’. And all these Indians might say, ’Oh my God what’s this crap?’ and I will say, ‘Where is your book?’ Why are you talking about these things? So, where are our viewpoint of contributing to this global discourse? If we remain silent then the ideology is right. This is a Western Imperial viewpoint; I am not anti western by the way. Well, they have hijacked our world. We need to fight back with ideas. I am not even using the ‘J’ word. Our knowledge, our experience, our internationalism …be our backwardness some of our knowledge and an engage and stop feeling inferior. So what’s the new world can to look very quickly. The bold new world in my view would need to take care of six problems. First, and as point raised this morning Historical injustices. Historical injustices continue to haunt us. We need to draw a line around some of these things. Many new players to resolve. When I see twenty blacks going around the middle-east saying peace, it is like asking the arsonist to put the fire around. You cann’t. Many new players. But things are happening. The south east are brokering some peace, the Chinese are beginning to get involved and I wish that United States stays out of the middle-east. The other one historical injustices would include the Iraq war. Until a line is drawn and someone says something wrong happened here. I am staggered by the amount of people say it is a misadventure. Half a million people deadand misadventure ? Foreign Policy misadventure. The Iraq war, unless some one says something wrong here, some crime was committed, we will see generations of conflict arising from this. Second problem and the Japanese Chinese conflict at the moment keeps going on. Second problem unfair trade practices and I know that the Indian Minister of Trade and Commerce who will be speaking later. And Doha I am always interest is never spoken by China. I spent a lot of time in China. You know, you never hear Doha because the Chinese are not interested. The say time out. And the Brazilians and the Indians say sorry new rules. So the second one, the unequal distribution of wealth. A time bomb in our region. I think ADB two months ago said that the seeds of mutual destruction will be sown in China and in India with huge disparity in wealth. Poor governance. I think many of us in Asia, the developing world, can not stand up and say we have instituted a strong governance. Weak institutions. Fifth one. Religious intolerance on all sides. Those of us who are free thinkers, not caught up in this clash or whatever you want to call it I just don’t want to get entrapped into this. Please, my world is not shaped by what Christians do to Christianity and Islam thinks of itself, think of each other. And the last and the most important brave new world thing is humanity to ecological impact. From climate change to the destruction to natural system around the world. This is one of the biggest thing that I feel will change the world. And we are not equipped to do this. O.K. So I would like to finish by just saying that unless we get prepared for the brand new world in which the Indians and the Chinese and now others from Africa are going to join us as equals we have not really understood what is happening at the world. Secondly, dealing with scarcity is going to be one of the greatest geo-political issues of the world and that in my view will define the way the nations work together. And I would like to end by saying that in this business world I would like to see Asian companies become more global but behave responsibly and that would be the test for many of us. I would like to see the investment banks become Asian too. Not the cartel that we have. The accounting firms become more global and Not the cartel that we have. My final point and I will finish off. I was reading the Financial Times yesterday and the Chairman of KPMG said that this great nation of India will be held back in its development because it will not open its doors to the global cartel of accounting firms. How much fugues (term not clear) …. you can take in a day. So I will finish by saying that we need to challenge all of these nonsense. Let us hope in Asia and in this developing world as we create a new world we will strengthen a society will have a think tank in this part of this world that will challenge the nonsense emanating from neo- conservative and others and we will build stronger institutions of learning and governance. And I lie to end by saying that we need media. An Al-Jajira now is in Asia. So before Indian – Chinese companies buy more steel and chemical companies can we just create an Asian Media Group which is powerful so we have great and diversity of opinions and we are not seduced by what CNN and BBC have to say. Thank you.
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The advent of similar biological medicinal products or ‘biosimilars’ in Europe in the 2000s has led to development of a global biosimilars market and regulatory frameworks designed specifically for approval of biosimilars. Like originator biologicals, biosimilars exhibit greater molecular complexity than small-molecule drugs, including generics. Current estimates suggest that biosimilars are more expensive and require longer development times than generics. Regulatory and industry conferences have addressed how to achieve the appropriate level of regulation for biosimilars. Many originator biologicals feature support programmes or additional services that are designed to improve usage by patients, prescribers, and payers; these are not a mandatory part of the regulatory approval process. We refer to these features collectively as the ‘biologicals experience’ as described and discussed in this paper, and suggest that this experience should be an important element of consideration for the development of public policies on biosimilars. Submitted: 22 October 2011; Revised manuscript received: 15 November 2011; Accepted: 16 November 2011 In the history of medicine, biologicals are relatively new products. Biologicals developed in the 1980s produced an impact in nephrology, oncology, and other therapeutic areas. The expiration of intellectual property rights on originator biologicals created the possibility for development of ‘follow-on biologic’ products, based on the originators. The EU in 2005 initiated public discussion on guidelines for approval of such products , which it denominated as ‘similar biological medicinal products’ in the guideline but also referred to as ‘biosimilars’ in subsequent publications . EMA approved its first biosimilar under these guidelines in 2006. Since then, many countries on all continents (besides Antarctica) have adopted similar biosimilar regulatory approval procedures, and the WHO has developed a guideline for development of such regulatory guidelines. Regulatory and industry conferences have addressed how to achieve the appropriate level of regulation for biosimilars . One consulting company recently estimated the combined annual growth rate of the global biosimilars market at 52% for the time period 2010–15 . Special challenges for biologicals and biosimilars Biosimilar manufactures face unique manufacturing, financing and developmental challenges. As with all biologicals, biosimilars are more structurally complex than small-molecule drugs . Biologicals, including biosimilars, are produced through means which will almost always differ by manufacturer: cell lines, mass production and purification processes, and even issues like temperature and availability of light within a manufacturing facility . The average capital cost for development of a biologicals manufacturing facility is US$250 – US$450 million . Many state-of-the-art techniques are evolving to help characterise biologicals, but cannot yet demonstrate biopharmaceutical equivalence . In the EU and WHO guidelines, biosimilar manufacturers have to demonstrate comparable quality to an originator biological and usually also need a non-clinical and clinical research programme that also demonstrate comparability. This will usually include a phase III clinical trial. A biosimilar manufacturer also cannot benefit from regulatory data protection. Even though it must generate its own data to submit to regulators, most regulations preclude the use of a biosimilar as a reference product [9-11]. Overall, these challenges amount to long development timelines (5–8 years) and overall development costs of US$100 – US$200 million . A potential challenge for the future could concern interaction with physicians and the use of sales representatives to provide information on biosimilars . In the EU, some companies have used sales representatives, but this is a cost not normally associated with the generics industry. The Generic Pharmaceutical Association has expressed concern to FDA that manufacturer promotional efforts might result in a ‘detailing war’ . The biologicals experience In addition to the manufacturing, research and development challenges for bringing a biosimilar to market, competitive challenges exist when on the market. Although price can be one area of competition , originator biologicals often provide a number of supplemental services and programmes that support patient comfort, prescriber concerns, and payers’ desires for proper reimbursement procedures. These services, which we call collectively the ‘biologicals experience’, are not mandated by regulators but can be meaningful to patients, prescribers, and others. • Devices: most biologicals come with some kind of delivery device. The mode of delivery has an impact on how patients feel about the medicine and what they can expect . For people with severe rheumatoid arthritis, for instance, auto-injection devices need to be user-friendly for people with limited dexterity . Patients may also need expert training with the devices in order to achieve the right outcomes. • Patient support systems: handling patient concerns is especially important for originator biologicals and biosimilars. Systems need to be in place to sort out potentially important adverse events from administration errors or routine questions. Some manufacturers provide telephone lines with dedicated nurses for patients. Considering general consumer frustration with anonymous call centres , the quality of the patient support system will be integral to supporting patient comfort and confidence. • Replacement systems: for retail products, replacement can be a crucial issue, especially if a needle breaks or another quality deficiency is found. Companies will need to develop mechanisms that can get the right replacement to patients in time to address their needs. • Naming: names of biosimilars will be very important for patients. On the one hand, names will need to be distinct for tracking and tracing purposes, especially when there is a need to distinguish the exact biological product that triggered an adverse event report. On the other hand, they will need to be similar enough to the originator to provide a high level of confidence. Since WHO’s international nonproprietary name (INN) policy does not provide a basis for distinct INN for all biologicals, these issues can be resolved by companies through development of similar but distinct trade names . • Access programmes: some originator programmes ensure that cost will not be an obstacle to biologicals access for patients. This goal can be achieved through direct financial support or support to patients with reimbursement programmes. For prescribers as well, biologicals present a very different experience. Infusion-administered biologicals require dedicated facilities and extra staff time, as well as specialised rooms for administration to patients. The cost for biologicals is quite high and can pose cash flow concerns for smaller practices. • Physician education: originator biologicals companies have been educating physicians for years about their products, and biosimilar companies have only recently started similar efforts in Europe. Research by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network indicates that ‘familiarity with biosimilars is suboptimal and that more clinician education is required’ . Education for nurses has also been identified as an area of need . • Physicians’ need for clinical data: a recent report indicates that the data necessary for marketing authorisation might not suffice for the needs of prescribers. Both payers and prescribers indicated they would want to see additional data on efficacy for biosimilars in order to encourage their uptake . This need is even more pronounced when considering whether a manufacturer can extrapolate from the primary approved indications to others. • Physician reimbursement services: originator biologicals manufacturers often provide support services for physicians and practices to ensure proper reimbursement decisions [23-25]. Reimbursement rules often dictate when patients can receive the biological, and the biological needs to be present in the exact right amount at the right time . A biosimilar manufacturer that failed to offer this kind of support would have extra difficulty in presenting itself as an attractive option for specialty practices or others who rely on such services. Another important stakeholder group for biologicals is the payer community, which has to manage the costs of originator biologicals. Patients’ adherence to biologicals is not well researched and a review of rheumatoid arthritis studies suggest that better methods are needed for tracking patients and prescriptions as well as for devising appropriate interventions . Having said that, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, USA, has set out to improve adherence for biologicals by developing patient-centred interventions . According to Dr Marissa Blum of Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, in many ways, adherence boils down to the individual patient–provider relationship . To the extent that further research identifies elements of the biologicals experience that improve or sustain adherence, those elements could help payers avoid unnecessary costs from non-adherence. It should be noted that the individual factors below also can pertain to some small-molecule drugs, especially structurally-complex ones or those involving devices. Patients’ usage of asthma inhalers, for instance, received attention by The New York Times, when a widespread shift in the inhalation devices impacted patient behaviours . Generic injectables have also been the object of recent attention owing to shortages in the US . We would not argue that each individual factor is specific solely to biologicals, but that biologicals generally possess many of these features in a way that supports the patient and prescriber’s overall experience with the medicine. This list is hardly exhaustive, but gives insight into the manifold elements in the biologicals experience that can support optimal health outcomes for patients. Case study: device improvement The case of Omnitrope (somatropin) illustrates how commercial success can relate to the biologicals experience. Omnitrope, which was the first biosimilar approved in 2006 by the EU, initially experienced minimal uptake. While the fragmented marketplace appears to have been a key factor , much of the blame can also be attributed to the delivery device. In the first Omnitrope delivery system, the multi-step mixing of the Omnitrope and measuring of the dosage were two phases of the process that were much more complex than predicate systems, and discouraged uptake and patient adherence . The manufacturer subsequently initiated a switch from a ‘lyophilised powder form in a vial’ , to injector pens ‘Omnitrope Pen 5 and 10, with liquid cartridges in 5 mg/1.5 mL and 10 mg/1.5 mL strengths’ . These new systems represented increased convenience for patients because ‘the liquid is already dissolved in a ready-to-use cartridge and can be loaded into the pen for injection’ . With the implementation of the new delivery system, the manufacturer experienced increased sales. Executives have claimed that the new device represents a ‘commitment to meeting the needs of patients through providing more convenient delivery systems’ , as well as its commitment to a fundamental business strategy of ‘focus on difficult-to-make products that provide added patient benefits’ . Discussion: policy implications Many meetings of regulators and industry officials have taken place since the first EMA consultations in 2005. Most recently, FDA held a public session in November 2010 and EMA held a consultation on monoclonal antibodies in October 2011 . Numerous other industry conferences have been organised by private-sector vendors . Written comments submitted to FDA after the November 2010 consultation provide insight into a wide variety of issues, based on questions posed by FDA . Many of the regulatory policy issues posed by FDA focused on criteria for regulatory approval of biosimilars: use of foreign reference data, factors to assess similarity, and others. By and large, these issues pertain to the question of how to obtain marketing authorisation. The issue of interchangeability, however, has great relevance for the ‘biologicals experience’. The US Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) of 2009 allows an applicant for a biosimilar marketing authorisation to further seek designation as an interchangeable product, which would facilitate pharmacy-level substitution where allowed by state law. ‘The BPCIA requires the FDA to deem a biosimilar ‘interchangeable’ if the biosimilar ‘can be expected to produce the same clinical result as the reference product in any given patient’ … ‘The question of whether an interchangeable biosimilar should be automatically substituted will remain one of state law’ . In its written comments to FDA, the Generic Pharmaceutical Association in the US argued that ‘FDA needs to understand that interchangeability is the engine that most immediately drives competition and supports access through affordability’ . Likewise, a consultant for the Parexel consulting company has publicly claimed that interchangeability would be a critical factor for a biosimilar’s commercial success: ‘the fact is, you need interchangeability in the label to succeed’ . Outside the US, global regulatory policy offers little guidance on this issue. The EU, WHO, Canada and Japan do not provide an approval pathway for interchangeability as part of the marketing authorisation process . Malaysia proscribes automatic substitution, and Saudi Arabia says it is ‘not encouraged’ [42, 43]. While it is possible that FDA or another regulator will develop a test for interchangeability in the future, FDA itself has expressed concern over the limits of determining it via current scientific methods . As Health Canada has noted, significant clinical trial work would need to be undertaken, but such studies are unlikely in most situations . Policy issues on interchangeability are complicated by the different settings in which biologicals are sold. Many biologicals are administered at specialty practices or at hospitals. In these situations, the issue of substitution by pharmacists is less significant, because the practices or hospitals will likely make joint decisions about ensuring availability of a limited number of biologicals. In this setting, prescribers would be part of the decision-making process and could work with their patients to manage key aspects of the biologicals experience . One area for further discussion, however, should focus on how interchangeability policies would affect the biologicals experience. If the primary beneficiaries of the biologicals experience are indeed patients and prescribers, how will their interests and voices be heard in this process? If a pharmacist can substitute a product with a user-friendly device for one with a less user-friendly device, what recourse does a patient have? What are the risks to eliminating elements of the biologicals experience? We would suggest that a focus on optimal outcomes for patients should be a high priority for policymakers who might encounter this issue. Such an approach would entail consideration of the facets of the biologicals experience that have the most relevant impacts on health outcomes. And we believe that such an approach would ultimately strengthen support for policies that preserve the ability of the physician to choose the best biological for an individual patient—whether that is an originator or a particular biosimilar. To encourage further savings, policymakers can eliminate market access barriers in order to incentivise biosimilar manufacturers to enter markets. Transparency in expectations for health technology assessments (HTA), for instance, could give meaningful guidance to biosimilar manufacturers, since the use of ‘often-inappropriate methodology creates a very real chance that HTA authorities will reject some biosimilars’ . In Europe, many manufacturers face long delays by Member States for reimbursement approval ; in the case of lower-cost biosimilars, such delays would actually postpone potential savings for the Member States. The entry of biosimilars into the European and other markets in the last decade has been facilitated by the development of regulation designed for unique aspects of biologicals. To meet the demands of this regulation, companies must overcome financial and technical challenges that are not present for small-molecule generic drugs. Beyond regulatory approval, however, originator manufacturers’ support services provide a ‘biologicals experience’ that can be important to patients and prescribers. While this experience poses a further challenge for biosimilar manufacturers, it also provides an opportunity to optimise these lower-cost products for patients. Public policies related to interchangeability and pharmacy-level substitution thus need assessment not only of their scientific grounding, but also of the potential impact of such policies on the biologicals experience and thus on outcomes for patients themselves. 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Ducking Restaurant 王帝鴨 in Jaya One, Petaling Jaya. Located next to Starbucks Coffee. Calling all roasted duck lovers! Here to recommend you to add Ducking Restaurant 王帝鴨 at Jaya One, Petaling Jaya into your “KL-Klang Valley Must-visit Roasted Duck” checklist, if you haven’t visited this place before. For those who bumped into any other restaurant with similar name, do note that they are not franchise or outlets of the group. There’s only one Ducking Restaurant 王帝鴨 in Klang Valley, which is Jaya One. For the best and and original Ducking roasted duck, make sure you are in the right location. 北京烤鴨 Beijing Duck Of why we love Ducking Restaurant 王帝鴨 Roasted Duck, because it never failed to impress – Golden brown, glossy, crispy skin set off with thin layer of fat, followed by juicy, chewy but not rubbery meat. What’s more noteworthy, dishes from the restaurant are affirmed with high praises from Chua Lam, Hong Kong famous celebrity food critics. We were there on a Friday evening for pre-weekend dinner, started off with Beijing Duck, the must-have signature dish in Ducking Restaurant 王帝鴨. Place a slice of roasted duck skin and meat, some julienne scallions, and small dollop of sweet bean sauce on warm pancake skin, fold everything together, take a large bite and enjoy the yummy multi-textures. Honestly, we prefer munching on just the roasted duck skin rather than putting it in a wrap, because the skin is really addictive, delicious! 杏香沙律蝦球 Deep Fried Prawn with Mayonaise Apart from Peking Duck, Ducking also offers an extensive selections of Chinese cuisine at reasonable price. 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Definitely worth trying because you never know if you would get to taste them again. 真假豆腐 Steamed Beancurd with Prawn & Brown Sauce Take the Steamed Beancurd with Prawn & Brown Sauce for example, it scores for being memorable in both idea and taste. The dish looks just like steamed egg but as you start scooping through, you’ll find — Japanese tofu within. Double silky smoothness from Japanese beancurd, and the steamed egg. As its Chinese name implies – Real Tofu? Or not? 傳辣茄子金鳳 Stewed Tilapia in Szechuan Style Stewed Tilapia in Szechuan Style, our favourite dish that night. Tilapia was deep fried, then stewed in claypot with aubergine, and Szechuan style sauces. Flavourful, but mild in spiciness. 黃酒菜園雞 Stewed Village Chicken with Chinese Wine Stewed Village Chicken with Chinese Wine – A timeless dish, heaped with nourishing flavours, and taste of home. Grandma used to prepare this for us, especially during Chinese New Year and Winter Solstice. We were still young that time, hence drinking the soup is a rare chance for us to ” taste wine like a boss”. LOL. #youalwayswanttogrowupfasterwhenyouwereyoung 老少平安 Steamed Beancurd with Fish Paste Steamed Beancurd with Fish Paste is something interesting to us, even though it is a common homecook dish for many. Shame to say, we grown up having fish paste stuffed in halved beancurd (aka yong tau fu) more and only know about this dish recently. Fish paste + mashed tofu -> steam together = natural sweetness released from fish + mouthful of bounciness and creamy softness. So good. Will order this again in our next visit in Ducking. 野菌蜜豆牛肉 Sliced Beef with Honey Bean 南乳骨 Deep Fried Pork Rib with Preserved Beancurd Deep Fried Pork Rib with Preserved Beancurd tasted rather pale for us, as we could barely taste the unique saltiness of preserved beancurd (nam yue). Perhaps a longer marination time is a good option to have the distinctive flavour get through deeper into meat. 杏香太式雞 Thai Style Chicken An all-time-favourite that is easily loved by the young and old. Thick cut of meat, deep fried to golden brown to result in crispy exterior, succulent interior. Dressed over with spicy-sweet sauce for an appetizing finish. 干扁四季豆 Baby French Bean with Minced Pork Finally, a plate of Baby French Bean with Minced Pork to round up the meal with some fibres. (Off topic) Was eager to try out their Pork Lard Rice 豬油飯 too but sadly, it was sold out. Suggest to come early or be ready to be disappointed. Comment: Personally, we like their Roasted Duck, Stewed Chicken with Chinese Wine, Stewed Tilapia in Szechuan Style and Steamed Beancurd with Fish Paste. Do visit Ducking Restaurant with friends and families for delicious Chinese homecook lunch or dinner. Ducking Restaurant 王帝鴨 E-79-G, Block E, Jaya One, No.72-A, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. 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Happy Sunday y’all! Today is a super cold and snowy day here in NC, so it’s the perfect day to curl up with a book (or to tell y’all about a book)! Thank you so much to Turn the Page Tours for having me as a part of their tour for Daughter of the Moon Goddess! My stop on the bookstagram portion of the tour took place on the 8th, but today, I’m going to be telling you my favorite things about Daughter of the Moon Goddess. As always, thank you to the publisher, Harper Voyager US, for sponsoring this tour. Now, onto the good stuff! Daughter of the Moon Goddess 4/5 Stars Summary from Goodreads: A captivating debut fantasy inspired by the legend of Chang’e, the Chinese moon goddess, in which a young woman’s quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm. Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the feared Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality. But when Xingyin’s magic flares and her existence is discovered, she is forced to flee her home, leaving her mother behind. Alone, powerless, and afraid, she makes her way to the Celestial Kingdom, a land of wonder and secrets. Disguising her identity, she seizes an opportunity to learn alongside the emperor’s son, mastering archery and magic, even as passion flames between her and the prince. To save her mother, Xingyin embarks on a perilous quest, confronting legendary creatures and vicious enemies across the earth and skies. But when treachery looms and forbidden magic threatens the kingdom, she must challenge the ruthless Celestial Emperor for her dream—striking a dangerous bargain in which she is torn between losing all she loves or plunging the realm into chaos. Daughter of the Moon Goddess begins an enchanting, romantic duology which weaves ancient Chinese mythology into a sweeping adventure of immortals and magic—where love vies with honor, dreams are fraught with betrayal, and hope emerges triumphant. Oh I loved so much about this book you guys! I loved how much Xingyin loved her mom and took on so much in order to try and free her from her imprisonment on the moon. I loved the way she built up her relationships and friendships even when they were hard. And most of all, I loved how much she trusted herself and her instinct even when others were telling her to do something different. But besides those things, here are my favorite part of the book: - The battles: Xingying immediately takes to fighting and loves the classes with the general when she becomes the prince’s companion that it only makes sense for her to become part of the army. And while she’s part of the army, she battles so many cool creatures and other enemies. I love the way that all of the battles were written and how much detail each of them had- your girl loves action, so I mean it only makes sense that those were some of my favorite parts. - The fantasy/world building: Sue Lynn Tan does such an amazing job creating this world and making it come to life. I could picture the Celestial Palace and the army and the emperor and empress because of the way that they were written and I really understood the intricacies of their personalities, the battles being waged, the power struggles- basically everything you’d need to know to understand a new world. Plus the magic within the world was amazing and I loved how that magic system was explained! - The ending: The ending was great- I really loved the last quarter of the book and what I liked the most about the ending was that even thought things felt complete, because I know this is supposed to be a duology, I’m the most excited to see where book two is going to take us because I love the world and the characters. All in all, I really enjoyed Daughter of the Moon Goddess, and since it came out on January 11th, you can go out and grab it now and love it too! About the Author: Sue Lynn Tan writes fantasy inspired by the myths and legends she fell in love with as a child. Born in Malaysia, she studied in London and France, before settling in Hong Kong with her family. Her love for stories began with a gift from her father, her first compilation of fairytales from around the world. After devouring every fable she could find in the library, she discovered fantasy books – spending much of her childhood lost in magical worlds. When not writing or reading, she enjoys exploring the hills and reservoirs of Hong Kong, the temples, beaches and narrow winding streets here. Her debut, Daughter of the Moon Goddess, will be published by Harper Voyager in early 2022, with a sequel to come. It is an enchanting fantasy of love and family, immortals and magic – inspired by the beloved Chinese legend of Chang’e flying to the moon upon taking the elixir of immortality. Sue Lynn can be reached on Instagram @SuelynnTan, or on her website www.suelynntan.com.
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Everyone’s into analytics and statistics right now plus it’s the first step of the growth hacking cycle (another topic I’m obsessed with because I just read Sean Ellis’s Hacking Growth book). So it’s obviously a must-know topic for any marketer. There’s one thing I realised that I’ve been very wrong about – it is to use the term analytics & statistics interchangeably. It’s two different things that look similar but serve very different purposes. Here’s how. What is analytics To find the answer for this I went to the ever-reliable Professor Google to look it up and I found 3 definitions that are nice. Defined by Merriam Webster Defined by towardsdatascience.com (my favourite) If you squint your eyes and put the 3 definitions together, you can see that they all mean to look something up about something that already exists so that you know the answer to your questions. Sounds easy right, why do you need someone’s job dedicated to doing just that? When I read more into the article by Towards data science, it explains that answering a specific question with data is much easier than generating inspiration about which questions are worth asking in the first place. To put it simply I find analytics to be like doing the research review for the reports I did in university and to come up with questions that has not been answered in any of the past research done. What is statistics Definition by Oxford Dictionary Definition by Urban Dictionary Definition by Towards data science When combining all the definitions, it seems that statistics is used to test a guess to see if it would be true when you scale it up. Analytics vs Statistics I found Towards data science’s explanation on analytics vs statistics to be the best and clearest at differentiating the two and how they are complementary to each other. It states that analytics helps you find and improve the quality of the questions to ask. While statistics help to find and improve the quality of the answer. They come hand in hand to solve data problems. I start with analytics, move on to statistics, and go back to analytics to repeat the cycle. Why I want to know and apply both Analytics and statistics to marketing After learning about the definition and purpose of Analytics and statistics, I’m pretty convinced that I need to know and apply both as a marketer in order to truly be a data-driven marketer. As mentioned earlier, analytics form & improves the questions to ask and statistics find and improve the quality of the answers. If I only knew analytics, I would only know how to raise questions but I would know how to answer them or find a quality answer. While only knowing statistics, I would have quality answers to pointless questions. I think knowing one is okay but to be really good at marketing, having knowledge of both analytics and statistics would be necessary. How I’m applying analytics to marketing I’m probably doing the same as the average marketer out there: I use website analytics tools for reports on website traffic performance. I’ve used a bunch of them before, from Google Analytics; Smartlook; Hotjar; Yandex Metrica; and more. Each with their own strengths. What I would usually do is to look at the website traffic performance for the overall numbers like website visits, bounce rate, time spent on the website, and which sources & mediums are they coming from. Should I see anything interesting, I would dive deeper into the data to find out why it is happening. For example, in a situation where I noticed that there’s a relatively high Facebook ad CTR but the form conversion rate of the landing page is relatively low. I then investigate further by looking at the page experience from a technical aspect and copywriting aspect. For this, I usually do check for technical issues first, by checking the loading times of the landing page and the forms. If that is not the problem, I would look at sample of sessions of such users to find out what’s happening and it could be that for some reason, the form button colour blends in with the form background. But to use it for more than just identifying problems, I could also use it to identify things that are working really well. Like for example, I noticed that leads that are coming from Linkedin may be less than those that are coming from Twitter but those leads are of high quality that matches our intended customer profile (ICP) or have high levels of intention. From that finding, I would probably want to test if we double up on Linkedin marketing activities, it would incrementally improve our marketing results. This goes to my next part on how I’m applying statistics. My plan for applying statistics to marketing To be honest, I have not applied any form of statistics in my work. I’m doing a bunch of experiments for marketing but not in a very scientific manner that would require some form of statistics application. Which I realised is a bad practice after reading Sean Ellis’s Hacking Growth book because I need to test for statistical significance to ensure that the result achieved was due to the new variable I introduced during the experiment. I’m still learning my way around applying statistics in marketing but I have a rough idea of how it should be done. Essentially, for any experiment that I do (which should be based on analytics), I need to have a “control” in order to prove that the new idea is worthwhile to implement & scale. The Facebook representatives at the She Loves Data workshop call it to test for incrementality. Incrementality is a way to measure an event that wouldn’t have occurred without a specific interaction, such as an ad view, and that resulted in the desired outcome, such as a conversion. In the context of ads, it can be referred to as the measurement of ad effectiveness.Measuring Impact: The Beginner’s Guide to Incrementality So here’s how I would do it: Step 1: Have a structure to my experiments If I had paid better attention in my market research module in school, I would have learned, applied, and memorised this by heart. So, essentially all my experiments should be made up of a hypothesis, a control, a dependent variable, an independent variable, and an experiment timeline or goal. I also needed to determine my sample size which I based on this article: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/email-a-b-test-sample-size-testing-time Step 2: Run the experiment Set the experiment as mentioned earlier, let it run for a while, and wait for the results. Step 3: Test marketing experiments for incrementality As mentioned earlier, I need to find out if the results of the test were actually caused by the introduction of a new variable and not by something else. To do so, I would take the results of the experiment and apply one of the many tests for statistical significance. After finding out if the results were significant, then I would make a conclusion on this experiment. Good reads on statistical significance: - How to Understand & Calculate Statistical Significance [Example] - A Data-Driven Marketers’ Guide to Calculating Statistical Significance Applying statistics to a Facebook Ads experiment If I read and learn all about this but don’t apply, what’s the point right? So I applied this on a Facebook Ad that I was running. The context is that I had an ad that was performing “okay” but during a call with a Facebook Ad Expert, I was recommended to change the ad optimisation method from doing it based on Landing Page Views to Link Clicks. I was curious to see if this was true by testing it out. I started off by having a hypothesis “changing the Facebook Ads optimisation based on Link Clicks will not improve the CTR of the ad when compared to optimising is based on landing page views”. From the hypothesis, the independent variable is the method of optimisation and the dependent variable is the CTR. To ensure the test is done in a random but controlled manner, I did it using Facebook’s A/B testing tool. And I decided to run it for 14 days to get enough of a sample size. The expected results |Converted?||Link Click Optimisation||Landing Page View Optimisation| The results after 14 days |Converted?||Link Click Optimisation||Landing Page View Optimisation| The statistical significance test results After getting the results, I checked for statistical significance to find out if I repeated the same test, would I still get similar results and that this result did not happen by chance. For this situation, I used the chi-square test (see the formula in the image below) to calculate the significance of the results. The value I received was 19.40. Conclusion of this test In order to determine if the above-mentioned value is good or bad, I needed to take it and compare it to the chi-square table for the confidence level of 0.95 and the level of freedom of 1. When I did so, I found that the value was larger than what was indicated in the table. Hence the results of this experiment are statistically significant and therefore using Link Click Optimisation would be a better option in generating traffic for the website than using Landing Page View Optimisation. Recommended content around analytics & statistics If you’re curious about analytics & statistics and how you can use them in marketing, you can try reading the stuff I read to get the understanding to write this essay. Here’s the list: - Hacking Growth – To convince you why it is important to be data-driven for marketing - Towards data science’s article on Analytics & statistics – to get a clear understanding of what the two are, how they work together, and why you need it for marketing - Technical Marketing Handbook podcast – Useful technical knowledge around marketing, mostly on how to gather the best form of analytics and the challenges of it - Nacho analytics’s blog post titled A data-driven marketer’s guide to calculating statistical significance – How to calculate statistical significance using free tools Ping me if you have any recommended content for me to add or read that is super useful to understand analytics and statistics better. That’s all I can say about analytics & statistics for marketing at the moment, I’m still learning about it. In the meantime, selamat ✌🏽 (peace out in Malay) P.S. Next piece will be a deep dive on analytics, I actually wanted to go into statistics first but it would be dumb of me to do so after finding out the relation between the two.
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News | Industrial Combustion Equipment All the latest News on our company ASEAN economic forecasts, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, for this year 2020 anticipate a slowdown for this exercise caused mainly by the pandemic, which will cause weak growths or falls in GDP expected in Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, according to the FocusEconomics report of May 26, 2020. The expert panel predicts significant growth in all of these countries by 2021. Brunei economic Outlook The oil-dependent economy will have suffered in the first and second quarter of this year, hammered by plunging oil prices, collapsing demand for energy from abroad and the broader economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. Mineral fuels make up nearly 90% of exports and vanishing demand is projected to have crippled the economy and dried up public revenues. That said, data from January and February—before the coronavirus outbreak—showed exports soared on the back of surging foreign sales of oil, gas and chemicals. Meanwhile, as part of efforts to mitigate the economic and social effects of the pandemic and following an economic stimulus package adopted earlier, in early May the government announced a reduction of annual commercial property tax of up to 50% for business landlords. Brunei economic Growth The economy is seen slowing down this year due to Covid-19 battering domestic and external demand. Moreover, depressed oil prices further complicate the already troubled economic panorama. Downside risks to the outlook from low commodity prices remain high. The panel sees GDP expanding 1.4% in 2020, which is down 0.7 percentage points from last month’s forecast, and 3.1% in 2021. Cambodia economic Outlook The economy is currently deteriorating due to the Covid-19 fallout and restrictions to curtail its spread. The all-important apparel industry is reeling from falling demand from key western markets and a lack of imports of raw materials from China amid supply-side disruptions. In addition, the general collapse in international travel is hammering the crucial tourism industry; air passengers were down by more than 90% in April, according to official estimates. The nascent hydrocarbon industry is being hit as well, as the crash in oil prices is prompting delays in the development of the Apsara offshore oil field. Meanwhile, on 12 May, the government hinted that restrictions will be relaxed and small businesses will be allowed to reopen in a bid to support the economy. Cambodia economic Growth Growth will decelerate markedly this year as the pandemic takes its toll. Exports are set to weaken amid falling tourist arrivals, lower demand from the U.S. and the EU, and reduced access to the EU market due to the partial withdrawal of trade preferences. A second wave of infections poses downside risks to the outlook. The panel projects the economy to grow 0.9% in 2020, which is down 0.3 percentage points from last month’s estimate, and 6.2% in 2021. Indonesia economic Outlook Economic growth fell to a nearly two-decade low in the first quarter. Social distancing measures and weak sentiment hit domestic demand, while a softer contraction in imports reduced the contribution from the external sector. Turning to the second quarter, the economy is likely deteriorating further as the full impact of social distancing measures—which include a travel ban until end-May—take their toll. In April, manufacturing conditions deteriorated at a record rate, consumer confidence tumbled to an over one-decade low and exports shrank sharply on weaker demand. In response to the gloomy macroeconomic picture, the government ramped up its fiscal stimulus in mid-May through the USD 43 billion national economic recovery program, which expands on previous stimulus packages. Indonesia economic Growth Economic activity will be tepid ahead on the impact of Covid-19 on domestic and external demand. However, fiscal and monetary stimulus should prop up the economy somewhat. The government’s slow health response and financial volatility pose downside risks, while the potential passage of the omnibus law aimed at improving the business environment is an upside risk. FocusEconomics panelists expect GDP growth of 0.3% in 2020, which is down 1.6 percentage points from last month’s forecast, and 5.7% in 2021. Laos economic Outlook The Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdown will have dealt a notable blow to the economy in H1, hammering the tourism, transport and services sectors. Due to the nationwide lockdown as well as border closures, the industrial and tourism sectors are set to be severely hit in H1. On a more positive note, the state airline announced it will reopen its domestic routes on 22 May, which should help gradually restart activity. Moreover, China’s Chifeng Jilong said it will resume gold production at Sepon mine for the first time in over six years, thanks to the recent spike in gold prices, while the government is pushing ahead with the Mekong River hydropower project. The plant, part of the government’s plan to export electricity to its neighbors, is estimated to cost over USD 2 billion and its construction should start later this year. Laos economic Growth The economy is poised to weaken considerably this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which will weigh heavily on global trade, manufacturing and tourism. That said, strong electricity generation and a rebound in agricultural production should mitigate the slowdown. A precarious fiscal position is a risk to the outlook. FocusEconomics Consensus Forecast panelists project GDP to expand 2.6% in 2020, which is down 0.1 percentage points from last month’s forecast, and 5.6% in 2021. Malaysia economic Outlook The economy expanded at the slowest pace in over a decade in the first quarter, as the country reeled from the Covid-19 fallout. Sharp contractions in exports and fixed investment prompted the deceleration, amid lower Chinese demand and capital outflows. Only resilient household spending growth and a jump in government consumption spared the economy a downturn in Q1. Turning to the second quarter, GDP is set to shrink as lockdown measures hammer consumption, while bleaker economic conditions abroad weigh on trade and investment. A record drop in the manufacturing PMI in April provided a glimpse of the scale of deterioration, as companies cut output at an unprecedented rate amid plummeting demand. In politics, on 18 May, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin managed to postpone a confidence vote until, most likely, July, averting a political crisis amid dwindling parliamentary support for his administration. Malaysia economic Growth The Covid-19 pandemic is set to push the economy into recession this year. Rising unemployment and containment measures will hammer private consumption, while the deteriorated sentiment should hinder fixed investment. Exports should shrink amid plummeting demand for oil and a drop in tourist arrivals. Political risks also cloud the outlook. FocusEconomics panelists see the economy contracting 2.6% in 2020, which is down 1.0 percentage points from last month’s forecast, before rebounding and growing 5.7% in 2021. Myanmar economic Oulook The economy is currently reeling from the Covid-19 fallout. Manufacturing activity deteriorated at the fastest pace on record in April, as output, new orders and employment all sank at record rates, amid suspended business operations as a result of the pandemic. On the external front, agriculture exports are suffering from plummeting foreign demand, while the tourism sector is being rocked by the collapse in air travel. In response, on 27 April, the government launched an economic relief plan, which envisages a credit guarantee scheme, tax deferrals and incentives for foreign investors. Meanwhile, the World Bank announced a three-year partnership with Myanmar on 13 May, on the heels of an emergency USD 50 million loan delivered by the Bank in April to support the healthcare system. Myanmar economic Growth Growth is set to slow markedly this year as weaker external demand hurts the agriculture and manufacturing sectors. Moreover, foreign investment inflows will likely dwindle owing to the global nature of the health crisis. This could end up delaying investment projects and harming the government’s ability to act as it has limited fiscal space. The FocusEconomics Consensus Forecast panel projects economic growth of 2.8% in FY 2020, which is down 0.7 percentage points from last month, and 6.0% in FY 2021. Philippines economic Outlook GDP contracted for the first time since 1998 in the first quarter, hit by disruptions from the Taal Volcano eruption in January, the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown put in place in March. Moreover, the economy is expected to have worsened further at the start of the second quarter due to the lockdown and a sudden downturn in the global economy. The manufacturing PMI hit a new record low in April on plummeting production, new orders and exports, while tourism plunged over 50% in January–April. In addition, the government stated in May that around 42,000 overseas Filipino workers are set to return in May and June, joining the over 27,000 who have already returned as economic fallout from Covid-19 disrupts jobs overseas. The migration will likely see remittances—an economic lifeline for the country—plunge in the second quarter and possibly beyond. Philippines economic Growth After eight years of above 6.0% growth, the economy is seen contracting this year. Disruptions from Covid-19 containment measures, evaporated tourism and plunging remittances will all pummel GDP. While higher government spending and investment should provide some relief, private investment is seen falling on soft demand and high uncertainty. FocusEconomics panelists see GDP falling 2.3% in 2020, which is down 3.7 percentage points from last month’s forecast. Next year, GDP is seen growing 7.5% in 2021. Singapore economic Outlook The economy is expected to be sinking deeper into recession in the second quarter, after contracting at the sharpest rate in over a decade in the first quarter. The manufacturing and electronics PMIs dropped to new lows in April, both registering the worst readings seen since the global financial crisis as containment measures and decimated demand curbed production. Moreover, strict lockdown measures are set to continue until 1 June before a gradual reopening, keeping economic activity halted. On a brighter note, exports continued to grow in April, overshooting market expectations. However, the reading was largely due to volatile pharmaceutical shipments, while exports of petrochemicals and electronics contracted. Singapore economic Growth Singapore’s economy is seen languishing in a deep recession this year. Lockdown measures to contain Covid-19 are pummeling consumer and business spending, while export demand shrivels due to fallout from the health crisis abroad. That said, unprecedent fiscal stimulus will help cushion the blow somewhat and government finances remain healthy. FocusEconomics panelists project the economy to contract 5.4% in 2020, which is down 0.9 percentage points from last month, and to grow 5.2% in 2021. Thailand economic Outlook GDP contracted at the sharpest pace in over eight years in the first quarter, as the fallout from Covid-19 and the measures to curtail its spread hammered the economy. Capital spending sank largely due to a drop in construction activity, while exports fell on a collapse in service sales amid plummeting tourist arrivals in Q1. On the upside, resilient private consumption growth cushioned the downturn somewhat. Turning to the second quarter, GDP looks to be shrinking at an even faster rate. Record-low consumer and business sentiment in April suggest that social distancing and business closures dealt a heavy blow to economic activity. Moreover, the loss of trade privileges with the U.S. in April and plummeting tourist arrivals look set to hammer exports in Q2. Amid the collapse in air travel, the government approved a debt-restructuring plan for state-owned Thai Airways in 19 May. Thailand economic Growth The economy will likely shrink this year as the tourism, retail and manufacturing sectors all reel from the impact of Covid-19. Moreover, plummeting external demand should hammer exports, while heightened uncertainties restrain investment. Government fiscal stimulus and monetary policy action will soften the blow. Risks to the outlook center on the length of the pandemic. Our panel projects the economy to contract 5.4% in 2020, which is down 0.8 percentage points from last month’s projection, before growing 4.4% in 2021. Vietnam economic Outlook Early signs from the second quarter are discouraging. In April, the manufacturing PMI fell to an all-time low amid drops in output, new orders and employment; retail sales plunged on social distancing measures; exports were down on lockdowns abroad; and visitor arrivals ground to a halt due to travel restrictions. This comes after growth slowed to an over one-decade low in Q1 due to fallout from Covid-19 and lower oil and gas output. More positively, the government has lifted restrictions on activity in recent weeks due to success in containing coronavirus: Most non-essential businesses are operating, schools are open and domestic flights have resumed. However, the 14-day mandatory quarantine for foreign visitors is still in place. These looser social distancing restrictions, coupled with fiscal and monetary support, should be beginning to aid domestic activity. Vietnam economic Growth According to ASEAN Economic Forecasts, growth in Vietnam is seen slumping this year. Although domestic activity has resumed, the highly-open economy will be hit by the impact of recession abroad on tourism and exports. Risks to the outlook center on the length of the coronavirus pandemic and a potentially weak recovery in external demand. FocusEconomics panelists project the economy will expand 2.6% in 2020, which is down 0.3 percentage points from last month’s forecast, and 7.7% in 2021.
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The Idea in Brief Soaring oil prices are doing a lot more than just hurting consumers’ pocketbooks. Oil-rich countries are using their petrodollars to reshape the entire global economy, maintain authors Abdelal, Khan, and Khanna. Consider: Gulf nations are bailing out the West financially; for example, buying U.S. securities and financing major portions of America’s trade deficit. Even more important, they’re investing aggressively in Middle Eastern and African markets that Western firms are neglecting. And they’re creating world-class industries at home—so they can thrive even after oil reserves run dry. What does all this mean? Potential partners, emerging competitors, and capital infusions will increasingly come from oil-rich states. Top talent will defect from the West to the Gulf Cooperation Council states, lured by high-end management opportunities and salaries. Western companies that ignore these new realities risk missing out on new opportunities, falling prey to new threats—and being muscled off the global economic stage. The Idea in Practice To remain competitive, Western businesses must understand how oil-rich nations are transforming the world. Reshaping the West Oil exporters’ surplus petrodollars are affecting the West in three ways: Financing capital shortfalls. - Oil-rich countries make up an increasing share of the net capital flowing into the United States. Through direct and indirect investment, they’re financing roughly one-quarter of the United States’ current-account deficit. Partnering with and investing in Western companies. - Gulf states are embarking on a wave of M&A deals with Western firms. And they’re buying minority stakes in Western companies operating in industries as diverse as energy, banking, telecommunications, and hospitality. Competing for talent. - To execute on their newly aggressive investment and development strategies, oil-rich countries are pulling leadership talent from an already limited global pool. This strategy includes recruiting new hires from the United States and Europe—as well as from India and Pakistan, key talent sources for the West. Reshaping Emerging Markets Oil exporters are exploiting lower asset prices and mopping up entire market segments in some emerging economies that Western players are hesitant to enter. Western majors in these markets are increasingly being relegated to supporting roles. Example: Zain, a Kuwaiti mobile telecommunications service provider, has acquired 20 companies in the Middle East and Africa, growing from 600,000 to 45 million+ customers, with $5.9 billion in revenues. Expanding steadily, it aspires to join the ranks of the top 10 mobile telecoms worldwide. Western majors like Vodafone have had to sit up and take notice. Reshaping Home Countries The Gulf region is intent on creating a name for itself as a center of innovation through two means. Developing a world-class industrial and service economy. - Abu Dhabi’s government-owned investment vehicle Mubadala Development Company (MDC) has been charged with transforming Abu Dhabi into the hub of the Arabian Gulf region. Through savvy partnering with companies in industries such as financial services, health care, microprocessors, and alternative-energy technologies, MDC has channeled vital resources into the Gulf. It’s attracting low-wage labor from Asia—and high-wage managerial and technical talent from the around the world. Creating a parallel financial market. - Interest in financial instruments that comply with Islamic law (including bans on interest, excessive risk, and investment in “sin sectors”) is surging around the world. Gulf petrodollars are flowing into companies that provide such instruments. Western companies that ignore this trend may miss out on an important opportunity to generate new revenue streams. Petrodollars abound—again. The combination of the gigantic American trade deficit and the price of oil at more than $125 per barrel (at press time) has created a pool of financial liquidity among oil exporters in the Gulf Cooperation Council states. The GCC—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates—experienced similar surpluses, of course, during the 1970s and early 1980s, when oil prices were comparably high. But this era of liquidity is markedly different from the last. Previously, oil-producing nations, unprepared for their sudden riches, generally outsourced the management of their petrodollars to commercial, often American, bankers—stashing much of their wealth in U.S. Treasury bills or Eurodollar deposits at international banks. The GCC states weren’t seeking to alter the nature of global capitalism or their place within it; they were simply following prevailing practices at the time for managing their earnings. As a result, the United States remained a central player in the international financial system. During this latest go-round, however, GCC members are being much more strategic about where they place their petrodollar bets. They have adopted ambitious investment strategies and are spending lavishly on institutional infrastructure at home, creating free-trade zones for manufacturing and developing services and facilities that will attract increasing numbers of businesses, skilled knowledge workers, and tourists. Witness the recent surge in multibillion-dollar infrastructure projects in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, including King Abdullah Economic City and the Saudi Power Network. The GCC states are also making huge financial investments in the developed world: In August 2007, the petrochemical manufacturer Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) spent $11.6 billion to acquire Massachusetts-based GE Plastics. The previous year, SABIC paid $700 million to acquire UK-based Huntsman Petrochemicals. In autumn 2007, the Mubadala Development Company, an investment vehicle of the government of Abu Dhabi, purchased stakes in the private equity firm Carlyle Group and in the California-based chip maker AMD. And in June 2008, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi, invested $7.5 billion in New York–based Citigroup. Meanwhile, GCC investments in China, India, and Africa are occurring on an unprecedented scale. Gulf investors are more comfortable than their Western counterparts with forging deals in emerging economies—partly because of their diasporic links and cultural ties to some of these countries and partly because they have fewer concerns than Westerners about whether these regions embrace democratic norms. As one Middle Eastern telecommunications executive told us, “The big boys have a lot of fear going into the developing world. They don’t know what to expect, and so they stay away. We usually know what to expect—and even if we don’t, we are comfortable enough with uncertainty to take a risk.” In this new era of petrodollar liquidity, it’s the GCC states (not Wall Street, not Main Street U.S.A., not the City of London) that are altering companies’ strategies and even managers’ careers—and those are among the more prosaic consequences. The GCC’s aggressive investment activities, along with the member states’ openness to globalization, are moving the Gulf closer than it has ever been to the center of the international financial system. Wall Street and London remain critical hubs, of course. But more frequently, bankers and financiers from New York and the UK are arriving in, say, Dubai or Jidda, hat in hand, seeking meetings with Gulf investors who can fund their projects, bail out their organizations, or help them seize opportunities in new areas such as Islamic banking. As a result of these efforts, the institutional fabric of the Middle East and Africa is changing. The connections that executives and policy makers in these locations are forging with their counterparts in China, India, and the rest of Asia will engender a broader systemic change in international trade and finance in the decades to come. In the following pages, we’ll describe this transformation, examining how the economic landscape in the West will be affected by the Gulf Cooperation Council over the next decades, how proximate emerging markets will be reshaped, and finally, how the GCC home environment will be reconfigured. Reshaping the West GCC activities are affecting the West in three important ways. First, oil-rich countries are financing huge deficits, particularly those of the United States. Second, the Arab states are increasingly buying corporate assets, embarking on a wave of M&A deals, and injecting more and more capital into Western organizations. And third, as they execute on their aggressive development and investment strategies, the GCC states are pulling leadership talent from an already limited global pool. An important source of capital. With a current-account deficit of $738 billion in 2007, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the United States has become the greatest debtor nation in the history of modern capitalism. The exact reasons behind this massive shortfall are up for debate; but it’s clear that to ensure economic stability, the trade deficit needs to be financed by an equivalent surplus of capital inflows. Foreign countries—most notably Japan and China—have demonstrated a healthy appetite for buying large amounts of U.S. securities. These countries have very little to gain (and a lot to lose) when the U.S. dollar weakens, so it seems reasonable to assume that their interests would be aligned with those of the U.S. economy. The same holds true for Gulf countries: It makes plenty of sense for them to finance the U.S. current-account deficit. Strategically, the United States still provides the security umbrella that helps to protect the region’s regimes. Economically, a strong U.S. dollar is important for maximizing the buying power of Gulf oil revenues. Those escalating revenues are being used to purchase goods and services from China and Japan, whose imports have grown rapidly as a share of total imports into the GCC states. They’re also being spent on goods from the European Union, which is currently the largest trading partner of the GCC. Paradoxically, proportionately less is being purchased from the United States. Asia continues to finance nearly half of the American current-account deficit, but oil-exporting countries make up an increasing share of the net capital flowing into the United States (see the exhibit “Current-Account Balances”). Between 2002 and 2006, the GCC countries’ oil export earnings were well over $1.5 trillion, and in 2007 the financial surplus for the member states was around $249 billion—which has allowed the GCC to directly or indirectly finance roughly one-quarter of the United States’ current-account deficit. Current-Account Balances (US$ billions) The significance of the Gulf’s energy resources is unlikely to decline: The United States, and indeed the rest of the world, will continue buying expensive fossil fuels for the foreseeable future, regardless of the vagaries of U.S. interest rates, housing prices, and credit card balances. And despite increased emphasis on alternative energies, the predominant sources of energy worldwide for decades to come will continue to be oil, natural gas, and coal. Crude oil prices have tripled since 2002 and show no signs of reverting to earlier levels (from the last oil boom to the early 2000s, prices remained below $30 per barrel). Global demand for oil remains strong and will increase even more to accommodate rapid growth in China, India, and other emerging markets. A partner and investor in Western companies. Historically, foreign investors have struggled when they’ve invested in U.S. firms; that was true of the GCC states in the previous era of petrodollar liquidity. In the past, when the U.S. economy was awash with liquidity, foreign investors had to compete with local private equity and venture capital firms for the best deals. As such, foreign investors often did not earn sizeable returns from their U.S. investments. Today, with the Gulf awash in liquidity again, and the American economy lacking it, the situation is very different. Heavy M&A and investment activity has in many cases led to GCC organizations holding minority stakes in Western companies. Consider Abu Dhabi Investment Authority’s recent strategy: At 30-odd years, ADIA is one of the oldest sovereign wealth funds in existence, with investments worth, by some estimates, $900 billion. As an arm of the government, its mandate is to create a portfolio of predominantly foreign holdings to ensure the financial security of the emirate. Until very recently, ADIA had kept a low profile, restricting its stakes in publicly listed companies to 4.9% or below to avoid disclosure obligations. Then it purchased a highly publicized stake in Citigroup for $7.5 billion in November 2007, as the Wall Street giant floundered under the weight of mounting losses from investments in mortgage-backed securities. That deal, which marked ADIA’s new and decidedly more active investment approach, ended up putting the world’s largest institutional investor on the front pages of newspapers around the globe. Other investors from GCC countries have demonstrated a similarly voracious appetite for acquiring highly visible foreign assets (see the exhibit “Major Gulf Investments Since 2004”). Some of the more well-known deals have been in the petrochemical sector, but others have also involved cultural institutions (Tussauds Group), banks (Citigroup, HSBC), telecommunications companies (Celtel Africa, Mobitel) and hotel chains (Fairmont Hotels, Travelodge). Major Gulf Investments Since 2004 It’s true that the United States has certainly lost some of its allure as a place to park oil wealth, partly because of restrictions imposed in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. As exemplified by the massive political fallout over the Dubai Ports deal in February 2006—the sale of port management businesses in six major U.S. seaports to a company based in the UAE was scotched over concerns about whether it would pose a security breach—the United States started viewing Gulf money through a stringent lens of suspicion. But others in the West aren’t as wary: Europeans have been falling all over themselves to get a piece of the action. The UK in particular has actively courted Gulf billions and promoted London as the global petrodollar recycling center of choice. Increasingly, Gulf surpluses are being pumped back into the global economy to drive international equity markets and provide a ready source of financial liquidity—via Europe, not the United States. A sign of the greater integration between GCC and European capital markets is the popularity of London-based Global Depository Receipts relative to American Depository Receipts. In the past decade, the former securities have attracted a dozen takers originating from Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. A competitor in the war for talent. The GCC states need trained people to execute their newly aggressive investment and domestic development strategies and will inevitably pull leadership talent from an already limited global pool. This will change the playing field, raising compensation levels for all workers, whether they are based in the Gulf or not. More than one-quarter of the GCC’s 35 million residents are foreign nationals, most of them employed as laborers and domestic workers. Most companies moving to or already based in the region are forced to look abroad for professional workers, as well. These rapidly growing companies are not just recruiting new hires from the United States and Europe; they are aggressively courting talent from neighboring Middle Eastern and North African countries, as well as from India and Pakistan, sources of talent increasingly tapped by the West. Furthermore, as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and other top-tier companies from the West flock to the region, GCC firms are offering hefty petrodollar bounties to attract high-powered Wall Street bankers and consultants. These bonuses have raised the bar even higher, as the multinationals respond so as not to lose their talent in the Gulf. In 2006, average salary levels in the GCC increased by more than 9% compared with the previous year, with most of those increases coming from the more sophisticated sectors of engineering and finance. Reshaping the Near Abroad Another important effect of the petrodollar surpluses is evident in the GCC states’ efforts to transform their business relationships and interests in their near abroad—the Middle East and North Africa region. Nations in this region—such as Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Syria—are presenting attractive investment opportunities for GCC states, as are Pakistan, Turkey, and Southeast Asian economies such as Malaysia. In fact a major trend in recent Gulf investments has been an increasing propensity for executives to look southward and eastward instead of falling back on the westward focus. Middle Eastern companies, while continuing to keep an eye out for attractive investments in the West, are recognizing that they can take advantage of lower asset prices in some emerging markets and, because of other global players’ hesitancy to enter and operate in these regions, can mop up entire market segments. Because of others’ hesitancy to enter the Middle East region, GCC companies can mop up entire market segments. One example is Zain (formerly known as the MTC Group), a Kuwaiti mobile telecommunications service provider established in 1983 as a joint venture between the government and private Kuwaiti investors. Over the past five years, Zain has embarked on an aggressive spending spree, laying out over $15 billion to acquire 20 companies in the Middle East and Africa. Since 2003, it has grown from 600,000 customers to more than 45 million customers, with $5.9 billion in revenues. The company’s growth was most significantly shaped by its May 2005 acquisition of Celtel International, one of the leading mobile telecom providers in sub-Saharan Africa. Zain now has a presence in 15 countries across Africa (and in seven more in the Middle East). It continues to grow and aspires to join the ranks of the top 10 mobile telecoms in the world. The company’s rapid expansion was abetted by its access to cheap credit—the cost of debt for Zain was significantly lower than that for regional competitors such as Orascom Telecom in Egypt and MTN in South Africa. In addition, Kuwait Investment Authority—Kuwait’s sovereign wealth fund, estimated to hold in excess of $225 billion in assets—has a 25% stake in Zain and remains its single biggest shareholder. Most Western mobile operators would be wary of entering a region so fundamentally different from their own, but Middle Eastern executives at Zain now view their company as a global telecom that will become primarily African in the days to come. With the likes of Zain and MTN on the prowl across the African continent, Western majors like Vodafone have had to sit up and take notice. China and India have attracted increasing flows of GCC capital. Recent deals in China—a country that gets more than half of its imported oil and natural gas from the Middle East—include a $5 billion refinery that Kuwait is building in China’s Guangdong province, crude-oil facilities with a capacity of 30 million metric tons that Saudi Arabia is setting up on Hainan Island, and a potential joint venture between Saudi Aramco and the Chinese petrochemical company Sinopec to set up a string of new refineries throughout the region. More and more of the energy industry is falling under the management of state-owned companies around the world—Arab, Chinese, and Russian. As Chinese firms attempt to create the infrastructure to ensure their country’s access to oil, and as a greater percentage of the world’s resources are in state-owned hands, the so-called Western majors (BP, Total, Exxon Mobil) are increasingly being relegated to supporting roles in the industry. The emergence of these new state-owned players, paired with the West’s dependence on oil from a few countries, has placed greater importance on the role of technology as a source of competitive advantage in the energy industry. Western oil companies have, over time, ceded that technological edge to state-owned players: Think of Saudi Aramco’s partnerships with Dow and Sumitomo in refinery-integrated petrochemical complexes. Meanwhile, direct traffic between two capital-surplus regions, the Middle East and China, is now well-established. Investment into and from China is driven by large deals often orchestrated from the top down. By contrast, Indian connections to the Middle East continue to be more grassroots driven, led by the large south Asian diaspora in the Gulf states. (See Tarun Khanna’s most recent book, Billions of Entrepreneurs.) The exact size of expatriate communities in the GCC is difficult to establish, but some estimates suggest there are currently more than 4 million Indians in the Gulf, and in some GCC countries, Indians and Pakistanis make up more than 60% of the population. These workers have primarily held blue-collar and clerical jobs but recently have started moving into more skilled technical and managerial positions. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has reported that Indians living abroad transferred about $25 billion to India in fiscal year 2005–2006; almost one-quarter of those remittances came from the Gulf region. The capital inflows have facilitated the creation of new businesses and the formation of social service organizations such as nursing homes and educational institutions in some Indian states. The southwestern Indian state of Kerala is a notable example: Kerala has a population of around 32 million. Because of high unemployment levels there, one Keralite in six works abroad, and more than 90% of these emigrants are based in the Gulf. In 2007, Keralites sent home remittances that accounted for 20% of the state’s net domestic product and were critical in improving living standards across the state. Strong diasporic links like these are giving the GCC states a powerful position of influence in the region. Perhaps the most fundamental transformations are happening in the GCC countries themselves. Amid the colossal build-up of wealth over just the past few years, you might expect that oil-producing states would be lulled into complacency, tempted to live exclusively—and quite comfortably, in fact—off their abundant surpluses. You would be wrong. The Gulf region is intent on creating a name for itself as a center for innovation. Markets for goods and services coming into and being sold out of GCC countries are booming. A healthy rivalry has emerged among GCC states to be recognized as the destination for world-class logistics, real estate, tourism, health care, alternative energy, and so on. This has led to some aggressive efforts within GCC states to improve their financial institutions and to develop leading-edge sustainable infrastructures. Developing a world-class industrial and service economy. Consider what Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Development Company has achieved in just six years. A March 2007 Fortune article labeled the capital of the United Arab Emirates the “richest city in the world.” Rich? Absolutely. Modern? To be sure, as Abu Dhabi has filled itself with the trappings of early twenty-first century capitalism. But Abu Dhabi is not yet a “developed” economy; it has lagged in development of infrastructure, education, health care, and innovation, and it doesn’t have an indigenous institutional infrastructure to support local economic activity in these areas. (For more on infrastructure development in emerging economies, see Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu’s “Emerging Giants: Building World-Class Companies in Developing Countries,” HBR October 2006.) Of course, it doesn’t help that most of its citizens are used to being supported by the government and, until very recently, were not entirely familiar with the hurly-burly of entrepreneurship and global competition. Having learned hard lessons from the most recent era of inexpensive oil, Abu Dhabi’s leaders want change: a future in which their incomes aren’t tied so inextricably to the volatile price of a commodity. In particular, they want a developed industrial and service economy with meaningful jobs and leadership opportunities for citizens. But they know they can’t mimic the low-wage labor path followed by scores of countries including China and South Korea. That would take far too much time and require far too much change to underlying institutions. Nor can Abu Dhabi follow the Indian example of relying on bottom-up indigenous enterprise development. It lacks the deep pools of highly skilled technical talent and large labor forces that characterize at least some Indian metropolises. With this in mind, the president of the UAE, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, issued a decree in 2002 establishing Mubadala as a government-owned investment vehicle. Unlike ADIA’s mandate to build and manage a financial portfolio, Mubadala was charged with nothing less than remaking Abu Dhabi into the hub of the Gulf, establishing businesses in strategic sectors at home and collaborating with partners abroad. This emphasis on active partnerships as the central basis for Abu Dhabi’s internal development marks a break with the past, in which leaders in the Gulf states delegated investment decisions to Western bankers and executives. Mubadala has already made its mark. In 2005, Mubadala bought 5% of Ferrari for $138 million, and in 2007 a Mubadala affiliate, Aldar Properties, acquired the rights to set up the world’s first Ferrari theme park, Ferrariland, in Abu Dhabi. Mubadala then used its contacts to join, starting in 2009, the Formula One racing circuit. Through planned outposts of the Guggenheim and Louvre in Abu Dhabi, the government is branding the emirate aggressively as a cultural and tourism destination. Even the venerable GE announced in July 2008 a long-term deal with Mubadala that includes an $8 billion joint venture focused on infrastructure development in the region. The investment group’s development work in the financial services sector is still in the making, but one of the first deals it’s made—buying a 7.5% stake in the well-known Carlyle Group in 2007 for $1.35 billion—has established an important relationship for Mubadala. Another focus for Mubadala is health care. Abu Dhabi has traditionally sent its citizens abroad for health care—some 60% of the 1 billion dirhams spent on foreign health care each year has been not for medical services but for patient travel expenses. The emirate now wants to create a world-class health care system at home. Mubadala has again led the way, engaging in joint projects with the Imperial College of London Diabetes Centre and the Cleveland Clinic and establishing the Abu Dhabi Knee and Sports Medicine Centre. While Mubadala’s goal is to treat Abu Dhabi nationals more effectively at home, it also expects the country to attract wealthy neighbors who would usually fly to the United States or Europe for treatment. In terms of industrial services, Mubadala has partnered with Dubai Aluminum to create Emirates Aluminum (EMAL). When EMAL’s gigantic, 720,000-ton-per-annum smelter is complete in 2010, Abu Dhabi will become one of the most important aluminum producers in the world, with nearly 5% of the world’s total capacity. While some of that aluminum will be for export, homegrown industries are set to use much of the production, and Mubadala is looking for partners in Europe to capitalize on its stock. Then high-end aluminum automotive parts, perhaps even vehicle structures, and aircraft components could be manufactured locally. Mubadala’s 17% stake in Dutch Spyker Cars—which are made from aluminum—and its 35% stake in Italian Piaggio Aero are the building blocks for the country’s presence in a number of important industries. Finally, Mubadala executives plan to move even further up the global value chain in a handful of technologically advanced industries. Mubadala’s stake in AMD, the world’s second-largest maker of computer microprocessors, has given it a foothold in the high-tech sector. Mubadala’s Masdar Initiative and its commercial arm, the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, aim to lead the way in developing, ironically enough, alternative energy technologies. The Masdar Initiative, now under way, is a development project that will comprise a research center, a university developed in partnership with MIT, and a special economic zone designed to promote the innovation and commercialization of alternative energy sources. Abu Dhabi’s leaders recognize that one day either the oil will run out or the world will move away from fossil fuels. But even when oil is no longer the world’s most important commodity, Abu Dhabi plans to be a force to reckon with in the world economy. The development model Mubadala is forging is already being emulated across the Gulf region. Creating a parallel financial market. Just as important as the Mubadala-like development funds is the resurgent interest in Islamic finance—a trend whose impact reaches far beyond the GCC’s borders. To understand the significance of this trend, one has to first understand the strictures that Islam places on some kinds of commerce. At its core, Islamic finance is a faith-driven industry with its foundations in the Islamic bans on riba (interest) and gharar (excessive risk). Accordingly, to comply with the body of Islamic religious law—called sharia—observant Muslims need to steer clear of pure risk-based transactions, paying or receiving interest in any form, and investments in prohibited “sin sectors,” such as alcohol, gambling, and pornography. While these restrictions have been in place for all of Islam’s 1,400 years, it was not until the first oil boom in the 1970s that the Muslim market became significant enough and the use of financial instruments widespread enough to incubate a demand for sharia-compliant financial services. A cluster of Islamic financial institutions emerged during this time, including the Islamic Development Bank (1975), the Kuwait Finance House (1977), and the Jordan Islamic Bank (1978). Partly due to a subsequent decline in oil prices, these early Islamic banks remained small and local during the 1980s and 1990s. However, with oil prices surging and the perception of a post–September 11 revival in Islamic finance, these banks are certainly not being passive this time around. Gulf petrodollars are actively supporting the burgeoning regional preference for engaging in transactions that are compliant with Islamic law. The industry has grown at 15% to 20% per year. More than 350 Islamic banks now provide products and services in some 60 countries worldwide. Conservative estimates suggest that Islamic institutions are managing upwards of $500 billion in assets. While that amount represents only around 1% of global banking assets—roughly the size of Wells Fargo, America’s fifth-largest bank in terms of assets—these institutions are growing at the fastest rate in the banking sector, according to the 2007 World Islamic Banking Competitiveness Report. They are expected to have over $1 trillion in assets under management by 2010 as they continue to capture an increasing share of the business of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims. Islamic financial institutions are growing at the fastest rate in the banking sector. To be sure, certain Western organizations such as HSBC, BNP Paribas, Standard Chartered, and Citigroup have been reaping the profits of Islamic banking for almost a decade, running sharia-compliant operations in the Gulf and Asia. But they are now facing competition from a host of new heavyweight entrants such as Morgan Stanley, Barclays Capital, and Deutsche Bank—as well as from smaller players like WestLB and local Middle Eastern banks on an expansion binge. There is a lot of money to be managed in the Gulf—and more is pouring in. Over the next 25 years, according to a recent report by Goldman Sachs, the cumulative oil and natural gas windfall accruing to the GCC region could reach $4 trillion to $5 trillion. As much as one-third of this could be channeled through Islamic financial instruments. In addition, the petrodollar-triggered regional real estate boom has created tremendous opportunities for project and infrastructure financing. At present, the GCC has active construction projects worth over $2.7 trillion, including the multibillion-dollar King Abdullah Economic City, the Saudi Power Network, and the Bawadi tourist and leisure resort project in Dubai. Banks with the right sharia credentials stand to benefit from these and future opportunities. Various countries—not just Muslim ones like Malaysia or Bahrain that have traditionally led in this industry—are jostling to become sharia-compliant investment hubs. Hoping to tap into some of the $200 billion in Arab funds currently being managed by traditional Swiss institutions, Faisal Private Bank, the first European Islamic private bank was launched in Switzerland in 2006. A few months later, in March 2007, the European Islamic Investment Bank was licensed in the UK and became the first dedicated sharia-compliant investment bank in Europe. The UK government also plans to become the first Western government to issue sukuks (Islamic financial certificates similar to bonds) by 2009, further strengthening London’s bid to become the main center for Islamic finance in the West. In the United States, where national efforts to cater to Gulf investors are far from intensive, financial institutions like Chicago-based Devon Bank are recognizing areas of opportunity. Devon is a small bank headquartered in an ethnically diverse neighborhood that includes a large Muslim population (primarily from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan). Managers at Devon heard concerns from some of its Muslim customers that conventional financial products and services being offered weren’t in line with their religious practices. So in 2003, the bank started providing sharia-compliant mortgages to local Muslims. Business took off, news of the program spread through word of mouth, and soon Devon was receiving inquiries from underserved Muslim communities throughout the country. Responding to this demand, Devon expanded its program to cover 36 of the 50 U.S. states and Islamic mortgages now constitute more than 75% of the bank’s total mortgage portfolio. In 2001, the U.S. mortgage giant Freddie Mac also started dipping into the sharia-compliant mortgage market through four local banks, including Devon. The transaction volume has remained very small, however; the company purchased only around $250 million in Islamic mortgages in 2007. Overall, the Islamic finance industry in the United States remains underdeveloped, especially compared with the aggressive, government-supported efforts being made in the financial centers of London and Kuala Lumpur. While this neglect does not signal serious negative consequences for U.S. financial markets in the near term, it may well become a missed opportunity as demand for these services grows in tandem with Gulf petrodollar wealth.• • • To date, the West’s focus on the burgeoning effects of the petrodollar surplus has been quite narrow: For example, the media have restricted coverage to the impact of expensive oil and the costs imposed on and by energy-scarce, fast-growing nations such as China and India. To the extent that any attention has been devoted to the way petrodollars are being spent, the spotlight has been on the activities of increasingly powerful sovereign wealth funds that are acting almost as a purchaser of last resort, taking equity stakes in faltering U.S. banks and investment houses. In our view, this is perhaps the least important of the effects petrodollar surpluses are having on global commerce. The GCC states’ efforts to reshape their business relationships and interests in their near abroad—the Middle East and North Africa region—are more important than their efforts to bail out the West. And the GCC’s initiatives to reconfigure and strengthen infrastructure and institutional development on the home front are even more important. For Western executives, the broader significance of this transformation rests in their collective understanding of global capitalism: Potential partners and emerging competitors will increasingly come from the GCC states, as will capital infusions. Top talent will find its way to these countries, lured by high-end management opportunities and higher-end salaries. The Gulf region is filled with a lot more than just oil. It has the ambition, talent, and capital to be an important hub in the world’s financial system. It cannot—and should not—be ignored.
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Indonesia Needs to be Careful for Environmental Destruction Caused by the BRI Indonesia is a major destination of China’s Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI). Ever since Xi Jinping introduced the initiative in 2013, the Archipelago has been one of the countries where the BRI is being actively implemented. To this date, the government in Jakarta has signed 28 projects worth $91.1 billion under the guise of the BRI. These projects, among others, include the Sei Mangkei Industrial Zone and Kura-Kura Island in Bali. While the BRI is expected to bring forward many benefits to Indonesia, it has also brought worry to the country. Issues such as debt-traps, as well as the sustainability of the projects, have become major debates among policymakers and average citizens. However, one aspect that seems to be neglected in the discussion is the potential negative environmental implications brought along the BRI investments. It is widely known that some recipient countries are beginning to voice concerns over BRI projects for their impacts on the local environment such as in Kenya, where the construction of a Chinese financed coal power project has been halted per judicial order issued in September 2018 amid local environmental activists warning the environmental and public health effects of burning coal. As a country that receives considerable BRI investments, this environmental aspect should be a concern for Indonesia as well. Although there has not yet been notable environmental cases in Indonesia, early preparations are needed to mitigate the likelihood of impacts. BRI and environment In the past several years, there has already been reports on cases of environmental damage brought by the BRI in countries where it is being carried out. For example, Chinese-funded hydropower projects along the Mekong River – which spans Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar – have witnessed dams cause river flow to change and block fish migration. This has resulted in a loss of livelihood for people living off the river. The Fisheries Action Coalition Team (FACT), a group that promotes sustainable resource management, reported that fish stocks have decreased in number in recent years caused by hydropower dams built upstream in Cambodia and surrounding countries. BRI has also caused deforestation. For example, in the Pan Borneo Highway – which spans Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei – which further led to landslides, floods, and other disaster mitigation concerns. Negative environmental impacts of the BRI have also begun to be felt in Indonesia. Indonesia’s Tapanuli orangutan, which is the world’s rarest great ape, is at risk from a $1.6 billion hydroelectric power plant presently being developed in Sumatra Island, a BRI project. Not just losing places to live, native species in ASEAN are also threatened by the increased connectivity the BRI tried to create. A study published earlier this month in the Current Biology journal found that the BRI could potentially introduce more than 800 alien invasive species – including 98 amphibians, 177 reptiles, 391 birds and 150 mammals – into several countries along its many routes and developments, threatening their ecosystems. The facts above, which only a few of the many cases of negative environmental impacts of the BRI, should be a great concern for Indonesia. Some entities in Indonesia have raised concerns over the possible environmental problems brought by the BRI. One example is the Indonesian Forum for Environment (WALHI) which believes that the China-backed construction of coal-fired power plants could destroy important ecosystems in Indonesia. Indonesia needs to be careful Despite the fact that cases of environmental destruction caused by the BRI have not yet been very apparent, Indonesia, as a major destination of the Chinese initiative needs to be prepared. Indonesia is lucky that many BRI projects in the country are still in the beginning stage. In this case, the government in Jakarta needs to have a serious discussion with its counterpart in Beijing concerning making efforts to minimise the environmental implications resulted from the implementation of the BRI before going further. Indonesia can urge China to have clear procedures in mitigating the environmental implications of the projects, without which the BRI will not be allowed to be implemented. Moreover, Indonesia also needs to have the courage to bring relevant stakeholders under scrutiny if cases of environmental negligence are found. Indonesia needs to remember that it has considerable bargaining power with China. If we look at the official map of the initiative, the Chinese plan to reconstruct the ancient Silk Route would not be realised without the roles of Indonesia.
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It is common for Eastern and Western cultures to communicate differently in everyday settings. Between these two cultures, there are different patterns in speech, languages used, articulation techniques and emotional cues expressed. At times stereotypical Eastern societies and Western societies express themselves in conflicting ways. Sometimes this can make doing business or socialising together challenging. When I lived in Malaysia and Singapore, I got along with many of Asian background there. When I moved back to Australia, I realised people here have different mindsets and cultural values. There’s much to be observed and learned from Eastern vs Western communication styles. That way you can understand cultural differences and minimise miscommunication, improving cross-cultural relationships. Here are some key differences between Eastern and Western communication styles. 1. High context vs low context In high context cultures (a term coined by anthropologist Edward T. Hall), communication is often indirect and some things aren’t openly said. Low context cultures involves direct communication and thoughts are clearly articulated. Eastern cultures are often high context cultures. Collectivism and ‘saving face’ is a big part of Asian cultures. Before speaking some Asians might choose their words carefully to avoid pointing out flaws, upsetting or offending others – protecting their image at the same time. On the other hand Western cultures are low context cultures. Westerners tend to be more individualistic, say things upfront and want to succinctly get their point across. This can explain why some Asians are stereotypically seen as quiet and submissive while Westerners loud and assertive. At times there is hidden meaning behind words. For instance in some Asian workplaces, employees usually say ‘Yes’ to tasks they are unsure of and keep quiet, which can lead to miscommunication down the line. Personally I like to say ‘Yes’ to any challenge, then right away ask and annoy others how to get things done – learn as I go along and get things done. 2. Speaking up Westerners are more likely to speak up and say their mind. On the other hand, those in Asian countries are instinctively listen more. When there are people in a team who exhibit both these traits, that can get in the way of teamwork. Some people might dominate over others, carrying the team or showing off. A study by the University of New South Wales on a class of Singapore university students found the class was mainly silent. It also found the students feared being wrong when asking questions but ask targeted questions. Often East-Asian international students often adopt the silent-strategy to deal with the English language barrier in classes, and are eager to learn just like European students. Again, this communicating behaviour can be attributed to ‘saving face’. In Asian cultures listening and letting others speak is a sign of respect. As I wrote in Why are some Asians so quiet all the time, generally Asians listen to learn from others and aren’t always passive. Westerners speak up to generate discussion among everyone and therefore learn through discussing ideas. 3. Non-verbal communication Eastern and Western cultures interpret non-verbal communication differently. Not all emotions are expressed universally across both cultures. Maintaining eye contact means confidence and paying attention in Western cultures. In Asian cultures that is a sign of aggression and rudeness. A study on eye contact perception found Japanese cultures perceive others’ faces as angrier and more unapproachable compared to Finnish cultures. Beckoning with hands is considered friendly in the West. Gesturing with the left hand is considered dirty and offensive in Middle Eastern cultures. Pointing is seen as rude in Malaysia. Smiling at strangers in public is seen as friendly in Australia and the UK. In Asia, it’s strange to smile at strangers and a smile could be a cover-up for negative emotions. Emotions are nuanced. Sometimes silence is consent, but other times silence is also not consent. Spending part of my life in high-crime country Malaysia taught me being silent and sour-faced at strangers is for your own safety. You never know what attention you might invite being friendly with a stranger. I might be seen as impolite avoiding friendly Aussie strangers but to me safety always comes first. Hierarchical structures in Asian workplaces are common and obeying authority is key. In China, guanxi is important for developing good business relationships within various industries. On the other hand there is more of a flatter level-playing field in the western corporate world. Sharing ideas openly is encouraged. Friday after-work drinks with colleagues and bosses is pretty common in Australia. An academic review of Western and Chinese leadership models found over time there is a convergence of workplace styles in both cultures. Education and efficiency is valued across both cultures. Having worked in many different roles and sectors over the years, I find most white Australian managers and executives like planning things out – drawn out months of consulting before projects get started. Sometimes it feels things take forever to get along yet alone get done in these settings. Working with freelance clients from Asia is mostly an opposite experience. Their approach was to pay me right away before I did any work. That was nice but it made drawing up contracts at the start and gauging workload challenging – and later having to put up with changing project priorities. Both Eastern and Western cultures tend to regard punctuality with respect to different degrees. Asian cultures have more of a stickler for things being on time. Showing up on time to work or an appointment is expected in Asia. In 2018 a Japanese railway company made a public apology when a train left its station 25 seconds early. While in Germany things run on clockwork, Spain and France are more relaxed about time where deadlines are more flexible and there is time for nice wine and dine. * * * Not all of us will always get along. Sometimes it can be hard to see past our cultural values and see things from another’s point of view. Sometimes someone’s communication style might rub off you all the time, making you annoyed. While you might not always agree with someone’s cultural values, you can respect these values and different communication styles. You can always try to listen, let others speak and genuinely ask questions. You can avoid raising your voice, attacking opinions and asserting your opinion over others. When managing conflict arising from different communication styles, sometimes you have to agree to disagree to different approaches and opinions and walk away. As Plato said, ‘Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.’ How you communicate leaves an impression on others. More importantly how you communicate is a reflection of yourself. Notably being civil to each other’s views might be easier face-to-face in person compared to online interactions. Research has shown online racial discrimination is increasing and online hate is constantly being directed at Asians on social media especially during the coronavirus pandemic. It can be easy to hide behind a screen and express opinionated thoughts anonymously. When someone gives honest criticism face-to-face, they probably are really honest. One time I was walking in the city and a white guy randomly yelled ‘Hey chink!’ in my face. He looked young, rugged and didn’t look sorry. As he walked away looking at me, I walked away looking ahead. I didn’t see the point in confrontation. Almost all of the time there is no point in engaging with hate speech. Sometimes even the most opinionated people just want to get on with their day. And so do you. And so do I. When you make genuine effort to communicate with someone of a different cultural background, there’s always a chance you’ll both get along. Have you encountered different communication styles?
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In Hasan Minhaj’s Homecoming King, there’s one scene that always strikes me. It’s a dialogue between Hasan and his father, Najme Minhaj, that takes place after their family is targeted after 9/11 by a group of people that called their house, left a death threat, and soon after smashed in the windows of their Camry. To his surprise, Hasan’s father does not react to the incident, instead he calmly sweeps the glass off the driveway. Hasan, shellshocked and frustrated, demands, “Why aren’t you saying something? Say something!” His father coolly responds, “Hasan, these things happen, and these things will continue to happen, and that’s the price we pay for being here.” In the show, Hasan acknowledges that his dad has a mindset like many other immigrants– facing racism is a given. Many come to America with the expectation of an “American Dream Tax,” meaning that immigrants internalize the mentality that they are bound to face some racism. This is their price for living in the U.S. As long as it’s not fatal, it’s fine. He contrasts this mindset with his own, as a person born and raised in the US. Learning about the history of “equality for all” in his honors government class, he has this “audacity of equality,” going through a system of education that repeatedly taught him he’s entitled to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” and that all men are created equal. Yet in reality, these are not rights, but privileges that minorities are not always granted. This scene echoes heated conversations I have had with my own dad about how to deal with racism. My dad grew up in Bangladesh and Malaysia, and immigrated to the United States for school when he was 26. I, on the other hand, have spent the vast majority of my 21 years in Northern California. My family has had their fair share of racism. One time, my mom and aunt, who wears a hijab, were crossing the street when a car stopped for them. They thanked the driver, to which he responded, “Yeah, just don’t bomb us.” My family was a little shocked at first, but then continued as if nothing happened. My cousin and I did not feel the same way. We were furious and annoyed. I thought to myself, “Who was this man with the audacity to treat us like we don’t belong here? As though we’re terrorists solely based on our appearance?” My dad eventually put his foot down and told us that it’s just not practical to get so worked up over something so small. A difference in opinion over what is “practical” and what is “idealistic” is where many of my disagreements with my family stem from. During the Democratic primary election, I voted for Senator Bernie Sanders because I felt that his progressive values would actually lead to change. My dad, on the other hand, supported Vice President Biden or former Mayor Bloomberg–not because he didn’t like Senator Sanders, but because he felt Sanders was too “idealistic.” He held the belief, like many Americans, that it’s naive to vote for Senator Sanders, and assumed that he would not be able to win the general election because of how consevative America really is. To me, these experiences were examples of how factors like age and location impact political socialization and ideology. In a conversation with Vina Sidhu, a third year undergraduate student at UC Davis, she discussed how factors like religion, personal experience, and a feeling of home impacted her and her parents’ views on politics and society. Vina was born in India, but moved to the United States with her parents when she was one years old. She immigrated in a very tumultuous time, as it was soon after 9/11. She explains that because of the environment at the time, “there was a fear instilled in [her] dad, because though [they are] not Muslim, he had features that were being stigmatized like those of the Muslim faith.” Fortunately, her dad’s worries about racism did not match what she experienced. She shares that there were “people spewing racist ideologies, [but they] were nice to him…and, because he had such a good experience, it tainted his lens–like, “Oh, it’s not as racist as people make it out to be.’” Vina’s father’s experience shows that immigrants often have to tolerate racism under the belief that it will always be a part of American society. It parallels the “American Dream Tax” that Hasan Minhaj mentioned in his Netflix special, when immigrants take racism as a given, a price to pay for living in America. “Vina shares that her parents ‘were ten when the Sikh genocide occurred in 1984…It was a political genocide that raised a lot of religious tensions.’ During that time, ‘survival was being obedient, listening, following curfew, and altering their appearance to not get targeted by hate. Because that worked for them, that’s why they adopted the ‘don’t say anything, nothing will happen to your kind of mentality here’.” As minorities in India, Vina’s parents had to deal with racism and trauma in a very specific way. Vina shares that her parents “were ten when the Sikh genocide occured in 1984… It was a political genocide that raised a lot of religious tensions.” During that time “survival was being obedient, listening, following curfew, and altering their appearance to not get targeted by hate. Because that worked for them, that’s why they adopted the ‘don’t say anything, nothing will happen to you’ kind of mentality here. Even when they do face discrimination they kind of filter it as, ‘Oh, that’s nothing; they’re just having a bad day’– and are very dismissive about it. Because that’s how they survived, and that’s how they were able to avoid conflict.” Vina further explains that the Sikh teachings impacted their views of politics and Black Lives Matter. “Our religion teaches us to be tolerant of others in the way they practice and to fight for those who don’t have a voice.” Her parents are supportive of the Black Lives Matter movement and are anti-colorism. Much of her and her father’s similar views stem from religious teachings. Though they are quite divided on their political views, open dialogue has been fruitful in convincing her dad in some of her values. Growing up, rReligious teachings shave he has grown up with has also provided a baseline of common ground off of which to speak. Adopting a passive view on politics is common among immigrant parents. Saket Malhotra, a sophomore at Yale University and the co-communications director of Students Against Hindutva Ideology (SAHI), involved himself with student activism at his campus. “I feel like, because I have this privileged background, I have more of a responsibility to use my voice and my privilege to support those without those same privileges, in whatever way I can.” He explains that privilege allows us to have tools that others don’t, and with those tools we have to help out whichever way we can rather than ignore its existence. He states, “The ways that my family tries to stray away from caste is by ignoring our own caste privilege…which doesn’t work. It’s like white people saying ‘I don’t see color.’” There are many reasons why immigrants don’t feel comfortable engaging in politics; this includes fear of backlash and internalized racism, but also feeling as though there is not much of a need to change the status quo. For many privileged individuals, this can translate into apathy, whereas Saket strives to overturn structural oppression. When asked how to enact change in small ways, Saket replied that, because South Asians as a community tend to have more class privilege, “one avenue is boycotting brands and corporations that engage in anti-Blackness, because we have that economic power.” For example “donating to workers in India. Muslims and Dalit people are disproportionately impacted [by COVID 19], so just giving money to the people that need it the most.” Our response to issues of politics and equality reflect our lived experiences. Feelings of trauma, acceptance of racism, and privilege are connected to older immigrants feeling the need to abstain from politics. But as children of immigrants, we are aware of the sacrifices our parents made to live in this country and experience equality. That knowledge, in combination with the tools we have in the United States, push us to be much more active in the American political sphere. Thus, in contrast to our parents, we’re embedded with this “audacity of equality” that encourages us to use our privilege to push for our ideals.
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Partner with us and help build a greener, more inclusive tomorrow, today! Thank you for your support! What is ALECA? ALECA is a cloud-based practical toolkit for any industry that wants to understand value and sustainability. It is designed and programmed by a team of experienced consultants and provides a series of technical, commercial and carbon footprint modules that enable teams of multidisciplinary professionals to collaborate. Together we find innovative and sustainable ways to deliver projects, in an AGILE and Sustainable way. The system is available via the cloud, securely hosted by Microsoft Azure. Through the system, the ALECA Global Expert Network is also available to provide remote consulting services. ALECA Core Values ALECA will enable us to do the right thing. We all want to spend more time with our loved ones, or pursue activities within our communities and we want to take care of the planet to build a greener tomorrow. These things should not come at a great cost and personal sacrifice. At ALECA, we believe in work-life balance, and working on meaningful ways to improve the quality of life for all including the environment, through ingenuity, time efficiency and collaboration. We also support the United Nations Global Compact in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption. Is to provide a cloud-based, collaborative system and consulting solution that creates more efficient evaluation workflows allowing users to prioritise their work-life balance and implement environmental initiatives to their projects. To be the trusted partner providing investment opportunity evaluation & collaboration bespoke tools to industries who want to weigh sustainability equally with both technical & commercial solutions. CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR CARBON CAPTURE (CCUS) Facilitate Carbon Capture Utilisation & Storage (CCUS) Reduce CO2 emissions Do the right thing The energy industry will spend over US$554B in 2021 according to Rystad Energy. The trend in stakeholder engagement and concerns over environmental impact have been increasing. The industry must become more sustainable and capital efficient to reduce it's carbon footprint across the entire value chain. Despite the many environmental initiatives implemented in today's oil & gas industry more can be done. A 2017 World Economic Forum report estimates that through digitalisation, ~US$1.6 Trillion in capital can be saved in energy projects. This directly translates to a reduction of over a billion tonnes of CO2 saved as well. Companies that use ALECA's modern cloud-based toolkit and AGILE ways of working will lead the way in this transformation. ALECA Sdn Bhd is registered in Malaysia, and was created by a team of energy consultants that recognised the industry needs to adapt. Things have changed, and the team at ALECA is bringing a new way of working to the industry. ALECA was born from a practical need to have a single, simplified, technical, commercial and environmental system, a cloud-based affordable solution, to allow all experts to collaborate remotely. ALECA has been designed to meet this need. Typical projects rely on independent, overly complex, specialised and expensive software packages. This leads to handover issues between experts, communication barriers and inefficiency. Since early 2018, a team of up to 24 industry experts, programmers and project managers at ALECA have been working to bring a new toolkit to market that is AGILE and fit for purpose. In October 2020, we've succeeded. Join us today! Removing Pain Points Traditional energy industry project delivery methods are "Waterfall" based, relying on separate discipline-related stage gates, in a typical command & control culture. This leads to numerous pain points such as: Lack of communication & trust Errors during handovers Difficult to repeat workflows Longer project timelines Delayed decision making Inefficiency & higher costs Difficulty valuing sustainability ALECA helps organisations transition to more AGILE ways of working. The system standardises, digitalises & centralises projects, empowering young professionals to collaborate and deliver projects faster. It also provides a simplified way to leverage global experts, to mentor and peer review projects.
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How to Skyrocket Your Sales by Using Digital Marketing Funnel April 26, 2021 In this fast-paced digital universe, everything is changing quickly. If you want your business to be successful, maybe it is time to adapt to the digital marketing funnel as part of your marketing campaign in Malaysia and skyrocket your sales. Imagine if all browsers and visitors on your e-commerce site become buyers. It is like a dream comes true – which does not happen that often. The hard truth is that selling is not easy, and it is undoubtedly not a one-step process. In fact, it is probably more difficult today compared to years back. It is as a result of the average customer’s access to information and competitors’ deals. - On average, the customer engages with 3-5 pieces of content before talking to a sales rep - 81% of shoppers begin their research on a search engine for information before they proceed with a further decision Modern consumers are highly savvy – they check multiple pieces of content across several digital platforms before moving on from one stage of the sales funnel to the next. Finding the right content to answer the customers’ questions, providing the right and valuable solutions for consumers’ problems and ultimately convert prospects into paying customers is challenging. It is a constant battle for brands and companies to take up the challenge. Undoubtedly, a digital marketing strategy is a must in your marketing campaign. Even in digital marketing Malaysia, competition is fierce, with over 3 million e-commerce websites for consumers to choose from. With so many brands and businesses to choose from, consumers are sceptical and, more often than not, conduct thorough research before purchasing any products. The million-dollar question is – how do you incorporate a digital marketing funnel as part of your digital marketing planning? There is no point in having a business and brand on online platforms if your brand cannot be found. In this case, the sales funnel for digital marketing helps your brand to be everywhere on the net. Yes, everywhere. In other words, you will no longer wonder if you can generate leads and convert them to sales. Are you ready to learn about the internet marketing sales funnel? Keep on reading! What is a Digital Marketing Funnel In simple words, a digital marketing sales funnel a depiction of the buyer journey from being a prospect to a customer. It describes the steps that browsers take to move from the top part of the funnel as a prospect to the bottom part of the funnel as a buyer. It is called a funnel because the number of people at each stage becomes lesser than the previous one. Imagine the wide top of a funnel. This is where a large number of people might become aware of your products or services. All these people are your leads – your potential prospects. As they move through your funnel towards the much narrower passage, many will drop off. Finally, a small number of leads will make it through to the bottom of the funnel and become your customer. That is why the digital marketing funnel has a wide mouth in the prospecting stage, while the bottom is narrow and has only a handful of customers. While there are multiple marketing funnels, most include stages focused on awareness, consideration and purchase. Businesses can use any funnel to guide their marketing efforts. Why Sales Funnel in Digital Marketing Malaysia is Important Regardless of which sales funnel strategy you like the best, the inevitable fact is that consumers do not instantly buy your products for the first time. When you do research for the digital marketing sales funnel and your buyer journey, you can improve your marketing strategy. Instead of guessing what your target audience wants, you can use your data to build a data-backed campaign for attracting and nurturing new and existing customers. Learning and adopting sales funnel in digital marketing activities can help your business in Malaysia in several ways, including: - Discover the strategies, like SEO Malaysia, that will help your audience the most - Understand the motivations that drive your target audience to research and purchase - Uncover how and when to nurture relationships with potential prospects and current customers - Build an effective plan for marketing to users at different stages of the funnel Sales funnel helps you acquire and retain your customers throughout the buying journey. The goal is to chart out the customer’s journey in advance so you can make better preparation to communicate with them at each stage and seamlessly move them from one stage of the funnel to the other. Stages of a Digital Marketing Funnel Finally, it is time to take a closer look at each stage of the digital marketing sales funnel in depth. For this article, there are three major stages of the digital marketing funnel. Each stage requires you to take a different approach to reach out and communicate with your consumers. The cold group is the very first stage of the digital marketing sales funnel – the widest and largest group in the funnel. For businesses, consumers in this stage offer the most opportunity. It is called the cold group because it consists of consumers that do not know anything about your brand, products or services. Basically, they are not aware of your existence yet. Due to the lack of awareness, they feel like your products and services are not a necessity. They might not be aware of your brand, but they are highly potential customers. How to reach out to the Cold Group While consumers in this stage are not really aware of your brand, this is where your chances begin. To target this group effectively, you certainly should not use hard selling as your tactic. As they are not looking for a solution nor ready to buy yet, hard sell might scare them off. So, what can you do? To connect with consumers seamlessly, you can utilize educational content as part of your content marketing planning. You can create branding activities to spread brand awareness and let people know about your products and services. Here are some ways you can do to reach this stage: - Social media marketing - Google banner ads - Content marketing In this stage, it is pretty much self-explanatory – consumers become aware of your brand. At some point, consumers have to become aware of a certain brand in order to become customers. Now, they are aware of your existence, and they may think that they need your products and services, but they are not ready to purchase yet. While they are not ready to buy, they are ready to explore and find the solution to their current problem. Essentially, you are trying to get the attention of your target audience amongst competitors and increase your brand awareness. How to reach out to the Awareness Stage There are many ways for consumers at this stage of the sales funnel to become more aware of your brand, products, and services. Your primary focus here is to create educational content and provide educational materials such as tutorials, blog posts, and blog articles to capture consumers’ attention. It will make them think of you when they move to the next stage and ready to purchase. To improve awareness of your brand, digital marketing strategy that you can utilize: - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - Content marketing - Social media marketing - Video marketing The final stage is the buy mode, where consumers are searching in ‘hunt mode’ for a solution and ready to purchase. This is exactly where you convert your leads into customers. For many businesses, consumers at the bottom part of the sales funnel offer the most value. They are ready to buy your products and services, visit your location or browse your e-commerce store, and may even call your business. Consumers gather the last bit of information they need before deciding to buy and finally become customers. How to reach out to the Buy Mode This stage is critical as it helps determine your conversion rate and revenue. It is crucial to prepare content with impeccable quality that should be able to convince the consumers to purchase from you. They will most likely be looking for solutions on the search engine, such as Google, so your website and e-commerce store must be ready and appear in front of them immediately. In other words, you certainly must establish your online presence on the search engine. A few ways your business can reach consumers in the buy mode stage: - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - Pay Per Click (PPC) - Email marketing Make Your Digital Marketing Funnel Malaysia Works for Your Business Every business that is involved in the digital marketplace in Malaysia needs to have a digital marketing sales funnel. This is crucial to ensure that your customers have a smooth journey from being prospects to customers. Are you ready to increase traffic and skyrocket your sales? Contact us at Cleverus for more information. March 29, 2022 February 14, 2022
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APAC Digital Digest - 24 April 2020 APAC Digital Digest is a fortnightly round-up of what has been happening in APAC in just 3 minutes. Here is what has been happening in APAC in less than 3 minutes. Google Search data reveals how brands can help during the coronavirus pandemic The coronavirus has made lives anything but normal these days. With retailers adapting to delivery or online models, schools closing, and much of the workforce staying home, people are looking for clear, specific information about where, how, and when to get the things they need. Search interest related to retail has spiked globally over the past few months as people try to find relevant things to negotiate the new normal. Here are some search stats as people limit their trips to grocery stores while still trying to remain healthy: “food that lasts long” (“makanan yang tahan lama”) saw a rise of 160% in Indonesia “fresh delivery” grew by 1,050% in Malaysia “homemade pasta sauce” saw a 300% increase in Australia “vitamin c fruits” rose by 1,050% in Pakistan. Google Reverses Cookie Changes Google has announced that it will roll back the changes to how cookies are handled on its Chrome browser. The new SameSite rules, which are designed to make it more difficult for sites to track users’ online activity by making it harder to access cookies from third-parties, are being put on hold to ensure that essential websites remain accessible during coronavirus lockdown. The tech giant has made it clear that the move is a temporary one, stating that it plans to resume making changes during summer 2020. 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Morgan Stanley has a a report out today on Asian growth prospects next year that I think is right: Where are we in the growth cycle? After decelerating throughout the first half of 2013, the region’s GDP growth improved slightly in 3Q13, to 6.2% YoY from 6.0% YoY in 1H13. However, this recovery has been uneven both across countries and expenditure components. On a YoY basis, GDP growth accelerated in 3Q13 relative to 2Q13 in China, India, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore, but decelerated in other economies. Across the region, though external demand has improved, the trend in domestic demand remains subdued. Within domestic demand, investment, which historically has been tightly linked to exports, appears to be holding up better than consumption. What are our forecasts now? Our global economics team expects global GDP growth to improve to 3.4% in 2014 from an estimated 2.9% in 2013 (see Global Economics: 2014 Global Macro Outlook: Five Key Transitions, by Joachim Fels et al., December 2, 2013). This improvement in global growth remains centred around accelerating growth in DM. Despite this improving global growth environment, we expect AxJ GDP growth to stay flat at 6.0% in 2014, for two reasons. First, domestic demand will face twin constraints: a higher starting point of leverage than before, and higher real rates. Second, though external demand is expected to improve, it will remain structurally weak due to weaker positive spillover effects from a US recovery and a loss of external competitiveness. Bear and bull scenarios: Risks to the region’s growth outlook remain finely balanced. In our bear case scenario, GDP growth would decelerate to 5.4% in 2014. Higher bond yields, weaker global growth, and a drop in export volumes would weigh on the region. In our bull case scenario, a faster than expected pace of private sector growth in the US and also a decisive pace of announcement and implementation of policy reforms in the region would lift GDP growth to 6.7% in 2014. Bottom line: We believe that the region’s macro outlook will remain challenging in 2014. Our framework for assessing this has been and remains the trend in real rates and real GDP growth. As it is, the gap between real GDP growth and real rates has already narrowed to a decade low. In our base case outlook, we expect AxJ GDP growth to remain flat at 6.0% in 2014. In other words, even if real rates were to remain at current levels, we are not likely to get a situation where the gap between real GDP growth and real rates would widen, as it did over 2003-07. And on China: China has played a key role in the region’s development over the last three decades. The region’s dependence on China has also increased sharply over the last five years as China emerged a key source of end demand at a time when the US, Europe and Japan slowed significantly after the credit crisis. The slowdown in China’s growth will be transmitted to the rest of the region largely via trade and commodity price linkages: In China, we believe that headwinds from tighter financial conditions will likely tilt the risk to the downside for domestic demand growth, and this will exert downward pressures on the rest of the region’s growth outlook due to the spillover effects via trade flows and lower commodity prices. A slowdown in China’s domestic demand will slow import growth and will have an attendant impact on the export growth of its trading partners. Within the region, the economies that have the highest direct trade exposure to China* are Taiwan, Korea and Singapore. Hong Kong’s role as a regional trading hub will mean that it will also be affected by a slowdown in China. Slower growth in China, one of the world’s largest consumer of commodities, implies a slower growth rate of consumption of commodities as well, putting downward pressures on prices. In this context, the net commodity exporters in the region such as Indonesia and Malaysia will be most affected. The report does not cover Australia but if it did it would find we are also at risk:
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Talks on a Pacific Rim trade pact abandoned by U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to have stalled Friday as Canada balked at a basic agreement worked out in ministerial-level talks hours before. Trump pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership in January. Leaders of the 11 countries remaining in the TPP had been due to meet and endorse a deal worked out in last-minute talks overnight. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday that the 11 leaders had to postpone their meeting on the sidelines of the annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Danang, Vietnam. "It was said that it is not at a stage where (the agreement) can be confirmed at the summit level," said Abe, who was to co-chair the meeting. He made the comments to Japanese reporters after meeting with his Canadian counterpart, Justin Trudeau, who stayed away from the planned TPP leaders' gathering while most other leaders showed up. There was no immediate word from Canada on its stance. However, Trudeau had said days earlier that Canada would not be rushed into an agreement. The chances for a deal by the time the summit ends on Saturday were unclear. Earlier in the day, officials from Japan and some other countries expressed differing opinions on whether an "agreement in principle" had been reached. The TPP member countries are trying to find a way forward without the U.S., the biggest economy and, before Trump took office, one of its most assertive supporters. Trump has said he prefers country-to-country deals and is seeking to renegotiate several major trade agreements to, as he says, "put America first." Vietnamese officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Trump reiterated his markedly different stance on trade before the 21-member APEC summit convened late Friday with a gala banquet. The U.S. president told an APEC business conference that "We are not going to let the United States be taken advantage of anymore." He lambasted the World Trade Organization and other trade forums as unfair to the United States and reiterated his preference for bilateral trade deals, saying "I am always going to put America first." Trump said he would not enter into large trade agreements, alluding to U.S. involvement in the North American Free Trade Agreement and the TPP. In contrast, Chinese President Xi Jinping told the same group that nations need to stay committed to economic openness or risk being left behind. The Chinese president drew loud applause when he urged support for the "multilateral trading regime" and progress toward a free-trade zone in the Asia-Pacific. APEC operates by consensus and customarily issues nonbinding statements. TPP commitments would eventually be ratified and enforced by its members. But even talks this week on a declaration to cap the APEC summit had to be extended for an extra half day as ministers haggled over wording. It's unclear what the exact sticking points were, but officials have alluded to differences over the unequal impact more open trade has had on workers and concerns over automation in manufacturing that could leave many millions in a wide array of industries with no work to do. As a developing country with a fast-growing export sector, this year's host country, Vietnam, has a strong interest in open trade and access for its exports to consumers in the West. The summit is an occasion for its leaders to showcase the progress its economy has made thanks largely to foreign investment and trade. Danang, Vietnam's third largest city, is in the midst of a construction boom as dozens of resorts and smaller hotels pop up along its scenic coastline. APEC's members are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the U.S. and Vietnam.
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“While in transit at a hotel, we saw a flock of 15-16 Japanese White-eyes (Zosterops japonicas simplex) feeding in the early morning. “These resident white-eyes are known to visit parks, urban environments, even apartment balconies. “They were relatively unafraid of us, allowing a close approach, as they were busy foraging for caterpillars and insects in the cold morning on roadside trees. “They have a almost continual, high pitched, ‘communal’ call as they feed together (above). Sonogram is also given above. “A few birds had a darker flanks and breast with a ‘dirty’, less bright head and I wondered if they were Zosterops japonicus japonicas, which are migrants (above, below). Dato’ Dr Amar-Singh HSS Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia 14th December 2014 Location: Kaohsiung City, Taiwan Habitat: Urban Environment
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BRIDGING YOUR BUSINESS NEEDS TO THE SOUTH PACIFIC Offering shipping services between Asia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. WHY CHOOSE CARPENTERS SHIPPING At Carpenters Shipping we understand the challenges and complexities of doing business in the region, hence our dedicated team focuses on supporting and growing your business through our reliable shipping solutions and far reaching industry networks. We’re ‘Bridging Oceans’ for you by delivering dependable vessel schedules that you can feel confident building your business around, and offering a Customer Oriented approach where we are ever ready to help. Why not contact one of our team to find out more about how we can assist your business? SOME OF OUR PARTNERS & PRINCIPALS Our parent MBf Group of Companies is a dynamic fast expanding conglomerate based in Malaysia. Through its numerous subsidiary, associate and affiliate companies, it has diverse commercial interest in Malaysia, Thailand, Tonga, China, Singapore, Philippines, Australia and the United States of America.
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Peace is gone. It looks that US ‘regime change policy’ in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, and Syria has backfired. The policy was counter-productive and faulty, introducing un-ending instability in the region. The violence of ISIL/ISIS has gone beyond the Middle East. Now the violence has been even threatening door steps of Europe and Americas alike. Republics in Central Asia have been receiving ISIL/ISIS threats. Additionally, Japan faces a dilemma about its Middle East policy after two Japanese nationals were killed by ISIL in January and Japanese Prime Minister shortened his Middle East tour. Who was behind the formation of the ISIL/ISIS? What were the objectives? Or the group was the combination of forces defeated by the United States and NATO in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Egypt, and Yemen etc. Things are not yet clear but brutal inhumane activities are underway. One can term the ISIL/ISIS as a real multinational Jihadi group. The group is even bigger group than formed during the Afghan war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s. The US authorities have confirmed the travel of over at least 20,000 Jihadis in war zone. At least 3,400 travelled from Europe to join the ISIL/ISIS, they mentioned. They say Russia, France, and Germany are important places for the recruitment of ISIL/ISIS Jihadis. They have also come from the United States. More than one thousand have come from the South East Asia especially from Indonesia and Malaysia. There are reports that Jihadis from Afghanistan and Pakistan also travelled to war zone in Iraq and Syria. China has been threatened in a big way by ISIL/ISIS. Unlike China, Pakistan officially denies the existence of ISIL/ISIS in Pakistan but Chinese officials admit the presence of Islamic State operators and sympathizers in China. Recently, the existence of ISIL/ISIS was confirmed by Zhang Chunxian, Secretary of the Communist Party of China at Xinjiang. Militants carried out a number of disruptive activities all over China. Chinese officials have also confirmed that a number of Uyghurs have joined the Islamic militant group, which controls parts of Iraq and Syria. A Chinese media source mentioned that around 300 Uyghurs have joined ISIL. Global media also made such confirmation of Uyghurs involvement in Iraq and Syria. Uyghurs have a separatist movement, known as the East Turkmen Islamic Movement (ETIM) in Chinese western autonomous province of Xinjiang. They are an ethnic Turkic-speaking minority in China. They want a separatist State of their own in China. Authorities in China convicted over 700 terrorists, separatists, and related criminals last year. The ETIM has close links with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), Taliban, and Al-Qaeda. There is a Uyghur-American Association (UAA) based in Washington, D.C with an objective to promote self-determination of Uyghurs. No such association or group was allowed to form a body or to operate from inside Pakistan. The spread of militancy in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran in the past three decades has also affected the Chinese Muslims. Many of them became radicals and extremists. Many of them were trained in Pakistan’s tribal areas and inside Afghanistan. These regions were the breeding grounds for renewed Uyghurs violence in China. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban provided a springboard to Uyghurs to operate against Chinese authorities. Uyghurs have fled to Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar, fanning more terrorist activities inside China. Turkey is a home to some Uyghur exiles and a source of irritation between Turkey and China. Uyghurs have an ethnic legacy attached to northern areas of Pakistan. They used to be traders between Kashgar and northern areas under the British control of the Subcontinent. Some Uyghurs came to Pakistan after the Communist revolution in 1949. Soon after Pakistan’s independence, some expected Pakistan to encourage feelings of sovereignty in Xinjiang as another Muslim State on its northern border, but Pakistan did not pay heed to that idea. The Pakistan-China trade was originally carried by Uyghurs until more regular trade was evolved between the two countries. Later, Uyghurs used Pakistan as a transit point to pilgrimage to Mecca by the 1980s. Some Uyghur students came to study at Madaris run by Hizb-e-Islami and Taliban in Pakistan and settled down there. They were recruited byAl-Qaeda and the Pakistani government banned Uyghur students. On the demand of the Chinese Government, many were deported and extradited to China. The Uyghur’s and Pakistanis developed a good people-to-people-contact but Pakistan never fueled the separatist and terrorist tendencies among the Uyghurs. Rather, Pakistan has always taken punitive measures and fully endorsed China’s policy on Uyghurs. 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