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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) interest rate policy in 2015-2016
06/03/2015
Grouped Articles
India’s Central Bank Cuts Key Interest Rate Again
Wall Street Journal 06/03/2015
How New RBI Governor Patel’s Style Differs From Rajan’s
WSJ 10/05/2016
U.S.- Japan Security Agreement in 2015
04/29/2015
The new security agreement signed in 2015 opens up the geographic constraints on Japan's Defense Forces so that Japan can participate in joint action with the U.S. to protect vital global interests.
Grouped Articles
U.S., Japan Announce New Security Agreement
Wall Street Journal 04/29/2015
Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Argues for Trade Deal in Speech to Congress
Wall Street Journal 04/30/2015
Overcoming Japan’s Security Skeptics at Home
Wall Street Journal 07/21/2015
Expert opinion on U.S. Federal Reserve rate increases in 2015- views in the U.S. (1)
04/09/2015
Grouped Articles
Fed Must Consider the World and All U.S. Employment
Wall Street Journal 04/09/2015
China's Navy and the effort to build naval power in the Spratly islands
03/31/2015
Grouped Articles
As China Expands Its Navy, the U.S. Grows Wary
Wall Street Journal 03/31/2015
China Says It Could Set Up Air Defense Zone in South China Sea
New York Times 05/31/2015
What Lies in the South China Sea
Wall Street Journal 10/15/2015
U.S. Navy Tests China Over Sea Claims
Wall Street Journal 10/28/2015
China, Britain, Australia, India, Germany, France and Italy as founding members in 2015 of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
03/19/2015
There is great need for financing nfrastructure development in developing Asian countries. China is leading the way for financing with support of a new institution- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Britain and other European countries have decided to become founding members in 2015.
Grouped Articles
Hostility From U.S. as China Lures Allies to New Bank
New York Times 03/19/2015
South Korea Plans to Join Regional Development Bank Led by China
New York Times 03/26/2015
Stampede to Join China’s Development Bank Stuns Even Its Founder
New York Times 04/02/2015
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: The infrastructure gap
Economist 04/05/2015
Obama Presses Case for Asia Trade Deal, Warns Failure Would Benefit China
Wall Street Journal 04/27/2015
India’s Debt Pileup Complicates Growth Plans
Wall Street Journal 05/05/2015
Michelle Obama and the "Let Girls Learn" Initiative in 2015 for the 62 million girls not in school
03/16/2015
Grouped Articles
Let’s Ensure That Every Girl Can Learn
Wall Street Journal 03/16/2015
Michelle Obama’s Graduation Speeches Show Her Personal Side
New York Times 04/10/2016
The New York Times 10/21/2016
The origins of Hong Kong in the opium wars and the opium trade- William Jardin and James Matheson of Jardin Matheson & Co
01/12/2015
Foreign Secretary Palmerston negotiated the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 giving England possession of Hong Kong for her commercial interests. A new book on the opium wars "Opium and the Empire," focusses on the role of two Scottish traders Jardine and Matheson in the opium trade carried out on he black market which paid for the shipping expenses for tea and silks brought back from China. It was the confiscation of opium from ships owned by their firm which led to the first Opium War. Walden points to the self delusion of these traders with huge commercial interests in the British Empire who even banned whisky in their areas, used a missionary for a translator, and pretended that the opium was only used by the upper classes in China like tea and whisky.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 01/12/2015
Investing strategies for 2015
12/19/2014
Grouped Articles
How Investors Can Prepare for 2015
Wall Street Journal 12/19/2014
A 2015 ‘Rebalancing’ Act for Investors
Wall Street Journal 01/01/2015
Lessons From Fund Managers in Their 70s, 80s
Wall Street Journal 01/06/2015
Why This Old Bull Market May Not Be Ready to Die
Wall Street Journal 04/26/2015
Smart Moves in a Pricey Stock Market
Wall Street Journal 05/03/2015
Five Things: What Investors Shouldn’t Do Now
Wall Street Journal 08/23/2015
Indonesia's president Widodo's interview with WSJ reporters McDowell, Otto and Murray in December 2014
12/08/2014
Grouped Articles
Indonesian President Joko Widodo Pledges to Cut Investment Barriers
Wall Street Journal 12/08/2014
China and the transparency, anti-corruption initiative at the Brisbane, Australia, G-20 Summit
11/17/2014
Grouped Articles
China Reverses Opposition to G-20 Anticorruption Plan
Wall Street Journal 11/17/2014
China Slips in Corruption Perceptions Report
New York Times 12/02/2014
In China’s Antigraft Campaign, Small Victories and Bigger Doubts
New York Times 01/15/2015
China Opens Corruption Inquiry Into Sinopec President
New York Times 04/27/2015
For All Its Heft, China’s Economy Is a Black Box
Wall Street Journal 08/25/2015
In China’s war on graft, television is a double-edged sword
The Economist 08/26/2017
Indian prime minister Modi's "Clean India Campaign," SwachhIndia
10/17/2014
Grouped Articles
Economist 10/17/2014
Micromanager-in-Chief: Narendra Modi Upends How India Is Run
WSJ 03/09/2017
Assembly elections 2017: Modi writ large in BJP’s sweeping victory in UP, Uttarakhand
http://www.hindustantimes.com/ 03/11/2017
Narendra Modi’s Party Wins Big in Uttar Pradesh, India’s Largest State
The New York Times 03/11/2017
DW.COM 03/11/2017
UP Elections 2017: A Modi victory means a consolidation of majoritarian democracy
http://www.hindustantimes.com/ 03/11/2017
iPads vs. paper books for reading to children or how to integrate iPads with paper books and libraries for a fuller experience
10/11/2014
The role of reading in a child's development is crucial for the child's future, with parents reading to children an activity to be encouraged and fostered by society in every way. How can parents use electronic technology of iPads to shift some of the television time to the wider selection of books and programs of educational value for children? Training children to make wise and useful choices of educational value from the wide proliferating selection on the internet is itself an exercize that is needed, just as the exercize of showing children how to make wise and useful eating choices is needed.
Grouped Articles
Is E-Reading to Your Toddler Story Time, or Simply Screen Time?
New York Times 10/11/2014
The Great Gift of Reading Aloud
Wall Street Journal 07/15/2015
Long Line at the Library? It’s Story Time Again
New York Times 11/01/2015
The New York Times 08/02/2017
Why today's Islamic societies and nations are more anomaly than fitting into the pattern of Islamic commercial societies in history
10/10/2014
Trade and commerce was an essential part of the great Islamic societies in history, giving them a large degree of openness and liberal ideas. This is not always present, but is so to a large extent in long periods of prosperity. For various reasons needing more research, this changed and reverted to less receptiveness to science and technology in the 19th c. and 20th c. , a period when great advances in medicine, industry, transport, were made in Europe and America. Buddhist societies confronted this influence in 19thc and 20th c. with warinness and suspicion, but later changed to open embrace for Japan in 19th c. , S, Korea in 20th c. , China in 21st c. , and India (as Buddhist-Hindu) in 21st c. The potential is for this to change with Indian and Indonesian Muslims acting as a catalyst for Islam swinging back to its usual mode, but can take a few decades to develop.
Grouped Articles
Fareed Zakaria: Let’s be honest, Islam has a problem right now - The Washington Post
Washington Post 10/10/2014
New York Times 11/19/2014
Teaching Islam’s ‘Forgotten’ Side as Germany Changes
New York Times 01/09/2015
After Terrorist Attacks, Many French Muslims Wonder: What Now?
New York Times 01/10/2015
The Roots of the Migration Crisis
Wall Street Journal 09/11/2015
Coal India under the Modi administration- problems with lack of technology and the 1 billion ton target for 2020
05/14/2015
India's coal monopoly Coal India, is state run and hugely inefficient, lacking technology that is commonly found in other countries. The average age of 333,000 employees is 45-50, and with the lack of modern technology, an eight hour shift can produce what a modern mine in the U.S. could do in 5 minutes, say experts. Coal plays a critical role for electricity production to power India's manufacturing, and its economy. The Modi administration is focussing on efficiency, introducing competition, and setting a target of about 15% growth in output for the next 5 years. Only about 75% of Indians have access to electricity, much lower than Brazil, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. China is close to 100%.
Grouped Articles
Indian Prime Minister Prods Coal Monopoly
Wall Street Journal 05/14/15
Oil-Thirsty China a Winner in Iran Deal
Wall Street Journal 07/15/15
India becomes more active in the fight against global warming
The Economist 04/21/17
Lacklustre power demand in Asia throws a cloud over coal
The Economist 04/21/17
Australia Debates: Does a Warming Planet Really Need More Coal?
The New York Times 10/14/17
Clean coal, not solar, is the silver bullet for India’s carbon emission reduction
http://www.hindustantimes.com/ 11/02/17
Rini Soemarno, Indonesia's minister for state owned enterprises, in the Widodo administration
04/21/2015
State owned enterprises have about $300 billion in assets in Indonesia, and are an important part of the effort to build infrastructure in Indonesia under the Widodo administration.
Grouped Articles
Indonesia Pushes Overhaul of State Firms as Key to Growth
Wall Street Journal 04/21/15
Expert opinion on U.S. Federal Reserve rate increases in 2015- views in emerging markets (2)
04/09/2015
Grouped Articles
Fed Must Consider the World and All U.S. Employment
Wall Street Journal 04/09/15
The mixed legacy of prime minister Lee Kwan Yew in Singapore- promoting economic freedom, yet stifling change
03/23/2015
The situation on the Malay peninsula over 50 years- more economic freedom, yet stifling of change. Neighboring Indonesia moves to democratic multi-party system and alternating governments after the Suharto period, with widening of democratic process in the election of Widodo as president. Chaotic compared to Singapore and Malaysia's "orderly'' process, yet dynamic in other ways.
Grouped Articles
Singapore, the Nation That Lee Kuan Yew Built, Questions Its Direction
New York Times 03/24/15
Lee Kuan Yew: The wise man of the East
Economist 04/05/15
In Lee Kuan Yew, China Saw a Leader to Emulate
New York Times 03/23/15
Economist 07/19/15
The Iranian factor in oil prices for 2015-2016
03/17/2015
A nuclear deal reached in 2015 would reduce economic sanctions. The economic sanctions since 2012 have cut Iran's sales of crude to 1-2 million barrels a day, half of normal production levels. The extra crude following a succesful nuclear negotiated deal would keep oil prices low for an extended period.
Grouped Articles
Iran’s Nuclear Deal Could Open Oil Flood
Wall Street Journal 03/17/15
Iran’s Discount Deal for Global Oil
Wall Street Journal 07/14/15
The Global Battle for Oil Market Share
Wall Street Journal 12/16/15
Battered by War, Iraq Now Faces Calamity From Dropping Oil Prices
New York Times 01/31/16
Weak Oil Prices Curbing Production
Wall Street Journal 04/13/16
Oil prices, financial markets sink after production limit plan fails - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/18/16
Lower oil prices in 2015 and the impact on Indonesia- president Widodo is able to remove costly fuel subsidies and increase investment in healthcare and education
01/17/2015
Costly fuel subsidies in Indonesia took up more of the budget than investment in education and healthcare. Before the drop in oil prices other governments tried but failed to remove fuel subsidies. Indonesia has a chronic problem for underinvestment in infrastructure, education and healthcare services.
Grouped Articles
For Indonesians, President’s Political Outsider Status Loses Its Luster
New York Times 01/17/15
Indonesia Pushes Overhaul of State Firms as Key to Growth
Wall Street Journal 04/21/15
U.S. Oil Prices Hit Fresh Six-Year Low, Dipping Below $40 a Barrel
Wall Street Journal 08/23/15
Tony Fernandes, CEO of budget airline AirAsia
12/31/2014
Grouped Articles
AirAsia’s Chief Responds to Crisis With Quick Compassion
New York Times 12/31/14
The Widodo administration's plans to attract foreign investment for infrastructure and oi exploration- 2015-2017
12/08/2014
Indonesia's president describes his plans to attract foreign investment to WSJ reporters in Dec. 2014. He points to the need for $500 billion in foreign investment for deep water ports, airports, oil exploration and investment in industry. Widodo says Indonesia will improve the investment climate to win projects that have gone to Vietnam, Malaysia and other countries from companies like Samsung.
Grouped Articles
Indonesian President Joko Widodo Pledges to Cut Investment Barriers
Wall Street Journal 12/08/14
Indonesia Pushes Overhaul of State Firms as Key to Growth
Wall Street Journal 04/21/15
Economist 05/15/15
Indonesian elections: Joko Widodo claims re-election victory
The Guardian 04/18/19
Technology and Health - how smartphones, tablets and PC's affect the spine and neck
11/22/2014
Medical experts say the pressure on the neck doubles for every inch we bend over to look at a screen on a smartphone, tablet or PC. This reaches 60 pounds at a 60% degree angle bending over posture for the neck.
Grouped Articles
‘Text neck’ is becoming an ‘epidemic’ and could wreck your spine - The Washington Post
Washington Post 11/22/14
China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
10/24/2014
Grouped Articles
China Signs Deal With 20 Other Nations to Establish International Development Bank
New York Times 10/24/14
Hostility From U.S. as China Lures Allies to New Bank
New York Times 03/19/15
Stampede to Join China’s Development Bank Stuns Even Its Founder
New York Times 04/02/15
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: The infrastructure gap
Economist 04/05/15
New China-Led Bank Pledges to Fend Off Graft
New York Times 04/11/15
Obama Presses Case for Asia Trade Deal, Warns Failure Would Benefit China
Wall Street Journal 04/27/15
E-books on iPads and reading to children or toddlers
10/11/2014
If screen time is not good for children under 2 is it ok to use an iPad to read to them. The larger question of reading to children preK and 2-8 when reading skills are developing and interests being formed. The role of parents, libraries and books with the social interaction offered in the library environment as supplemental or well integrated with iPad reading.
Grouped Articles
Is E-Reading to Your Toddler Story Time, or Simply Screen Time?
New York Times 10/11/14
The Great Gift of Reading Aloud
Wall Street Journal 07/15/15
Long Line at the Library? It’s Story Time Again
New York Times 11/01/15
The New York Times 08/02/17
The internal debate in Islamic societes for a way forward using the best in Islam and Islamic history
10/10/2014
Grouped Articles
Fareed Zakaria: Let’s be honest, Islam has a problem right now - The Washington Post
Washington Post 10/10/14
New York Times 11/19/14
Teaching Islam’s ‘Forgotten’ Side as Germany Changes
New York Times 01/09/15
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