Creating synergies for growth of Asian economies
This is the 10th anniversary of introducing the
“Western China Development Strategy” and the successful launch of
the 10th Western China Expo. In the past six decades China has
accomplished enormous feats in becoming a modern and prosperous
nation which has become a source of pride and inspiration not only
to the Chinese people but to all of us in the world. The western
development drive has thereby turned into a mammoth project bringing
many opportunities to all of us in Asia, making it a win - win
strategy for the world at large.
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On the ‘Gota Principle’ of retirement
Some years ago, Roshan Mahanama wrote a book,
Retired, hurt. The reference was to the game he loved and excelled
at, cricket. Sometimes one gets injured while batting and is forced
to get back into the pavilion. That’s ‘retired hurt’. The word
‘hurt’ in this instance had other connotations. Mahanama clearly
left the game early, i.e., while still in his prime. He was
consistently putting his hand up and delivering for team and country
when he was dropped, according to him for reasons outside his
ability, his relative merits over contenders for his place in the
team. He was hurt.
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Aiding and abetting
Three major stories broke out in the past weeks
over funding to Sri Lanka. Firstly UK said it will soon withdraw all
but emergency funds for the camps that hold the Internally Displaced
People in the aftermath of the civil conflict in Sri Lanka which
ended a few months ago.
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Dark cloud over climate talks
In an astonishing and unfortunate turn of
events, the Bangkok climate talks ended on 9 October by taking steps
backwards from progress towards this December’s Copenhagen
conference.
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