| Gwadar’s real estate boom busts (The Pakistan Link) |
| GWADAR: Land prices in Gwadar district – where a $298 million warm water port was inaugurated in March with the financial and technical assistance of China – have fallen to abysmal levels in recent months after a real estate boom that began in 2002. A local real estate agent, who requested not to be named, informs that a plot in Gwadar's premier Jinnah Avenue, worth Rs 10.5 million some four ... |
| 11/29/2008 |
| Rediscovering Japan as a market (Manila Standard Today) |
| It is easy to be amazed while in Japan, the world’s second-largest economy (next to the United States) where technologies and human imagination have produced new products that helped improve the quality of life of the Japanese people. |
| 12/03/2008 |
| Old Mexican mining town yields new treasure (Cape Cod Times) |
| The Mexicans call their ghost towns "pueblos fantasmas," and Mineral de Pozos - about 185 miles northwest of Mexico City and 40 miles northeast of San Miguel de Allende - is one of them, a relic from the great Mexican mining boom of the late 19th century. |
| 11/29/2008 |
| Sean Penn: Mountain of Snakes (HuffingtonPost) |
| I'm not a socialist. Or at least not entirely so. As an American, I've got a little Al Capone in me. I like the idea of individual achievement -- just not against a background of hopeless oppression. |
| 11/30/2008 |
| How safe is your job? (The New Statesman) |
| This has been a year of financial panic, but 2009 will be dominated by unemployment. In a flexible labour market, with few legal protections, the indebted young will be hit hardest |
| 11/27/2008 |
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