Buy a discount maid at Singapore’s malls
(27 Jun 2014 ) - In Singapore, maids are put on display and made available for 'purchase' in central shopping malls. Go to the Bukit Timah Shopping Centre, a 1970s mall in central Singapore, and you will find five levels of brightly lit rooms and galleries called "Homekeeper" and "Budget Maid". Inside these rooms, dozens of...
Singapore is a poor role model for Hong Kong
Migrant workers in Singapore enjoying their day off. The city state relies heavily on a large population of temporary, low-paid workers. Photo: AP (29 June 2014) Philip Bowring says Hong Kong should care little for a social economy propped up by dominant state enterprises and foreign companies, and an underclass...
Why Is Dubai’s Stock Market Crashing?
Why is Dubai's stock market crashing? (24 June 2014) The Dubai Financial Market has been taking a beating for weeks, and news of firings at Arabtec (ARTC:UH), the United Arab Emirates’ largest listed builder, caused a new round of panic yesterday. Shares in the stock exchange fell 6.7 percent, to 4,009.01,...
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