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(4 Sep) - We know the recipe to Singapore’s success but can’t use it because it doesn’t meet our inborn tastes. The Singaporean miracle is a well-known success story. Singapore is a city-state built on practical and pro-market capitalism. In just several decades after independence, the tiny former British colony off the... 

A man fights and argues with commuters after his child urinates in Shanghai subway. (Yahoo! screengrab of YouTube) (4 Sep) - A video showing a man arguing with commuters after his infant urinated on a train in Shanghai has been going viral on the Internet. In the six-minute long video, which has a lot of vulgarities, a man in... 

(5 Sep) - Technological advances have made redundant many of the services performed by operators. Falling wages have also reduced the appeal of foreign call centres, which often have problems of language and data security. In the past five years, India has lost 10 per cent of its BPO business (mostly call centres) to countries...