24 January 2012
From Saudi Arabia Corespondent Eman Al Nafjan… Historically Arabs are notorious for their autocratic business model, however in today’s highly competitive world companies fall over each in trying to gain consumer loyalty through quality products and better customer services. Unfortunately not all Saudi companies have caught on to this approach. In the majority of Saudi [...]
20 January 2012
From Philippine Congressman Mong Palatino… Please visit the special page I created about Philippine Airport Terminals. I also edited my profile page The Philippines is often recognized by global institutions for its strong commitment to human rights. Indeed, compared with other countries in the region, where government critics are given insanely long prison sentences and [...]
17 January 2012
From India Corespondent Divyaa Kummar… Mind expansion…. is like climbing a mountain…the higher you get, the more extensive becomes your view of self, life, the other and god! The higher you climb you begin to see in fresh ways those spots you had dwelled in on the way up!! No scene, no concept ever remains static and done with…. [...]
14 January 2012
From Uganda Corespondent Arinaitwe Rugyendo… I spent the last three days of the passing week in Rwanda at the invitation of the Office of the President of Rwanda, H.E Paul Kagame. The purpose of the invitation was that the president wanted me to see for myself how Rwandans run their affairs and report objectively. The [...]
10 January 2012
No one ever likes to hear the words “You’re Fired!” the fact is however, is that it happens everywhere, all the time. Funny thing is, more often than not, its deserved. There are certain people that just refuse to conduct themselves in a manner expected by most any boss. Laziness, constant complaining, excuse making, job evasion, and, gossip mongering could all [...]
05 January 2012
From Special Guest Iman Hassad… Throughout my lifetime, I have learned to seek wisdom in what apparently seemed insane, to seek it in the uttered words of the illiterate and in the spontaneous actions of a little child. I have never depreciated the tiny rays of light in hostility. I have always believed in the [...]
30 December 2011
From Thomas Megginson… When I was a kid, ethnic stereotypes often made their way into Halloween costumes. It was a more innocently ignorant time, when dressing as a “Mexican Bandito”, and “Indian” or a “cannibal” was seen as OK. Here, for example, is a scene from a costume party in the 1983 comedy Trading Places. [...]
27 December 2011
From Tanzania Corespondent Lute Wa Lutengano… So we have just celebrated, or rather marked, 50 years of Tanganyika or Tanzania Mainland’s independence. There were several events to mark the occasion in all major towns and cities in the country and in all cities where our embassies are located be it in Asia, Europe, the Americas [...]
22 December 2011
From David Anthony Hohol… Of all my memories of Christmas past, the most magical was a personal and very private moment in time. It was 1978 and I was an independent-minded eight-year old boy, who’d already seen much of the country. My family recently made another unexpected move, taking me away from yet another school [...]
19 December 2011
The greatest Christmas movie of all time is usually a toss up between Jimmy Stewart’s It a Wonderful Life or Alastair Sim’s A Christmas Carol. RELATIVITY OnLineweighs in on the side of good old Ebenezer Scrooge, an international and indelible icon of redemption. Originally written in 1843 by literary immortal Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol reminds [...]
18 December 2011
From South African Corespondent Hassan Isilow… African scholars are trying to bridge the current gap between North-Africa which is predominately Arab and the rest of the continent, through research aimed at regional integration. This was revealed during the launch of a book entitled Regional Integration in Africa: Bridging the North – Sub-Saharan Divide. Published by [...]
16 December 2011
From Bangladesh Corespondent Rezwan… For centuries dowry has been part of the social system in many parts of the world and in developing countries it is seen as a financial burden for the bride’s family. In several South Asian countries it has been prohibited by law in the past century, but dowry is still widely [...]
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