The Editor Speaks: Taking a break
IMAGE: mikemesserli.blogspot.com I shall be taking a small break over the next few weeks due to health reasons so this space be will taken up by guest columnists who write a lot better than myself so you are in for…
Charlie Hebdo and the Right to Commit Blasphemy
By Jonathan Chait From New York Magazine Just over three years ago, the office of Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine whose staff was horrifically murdered, was firebombed. Time’s Paris bureau chief, Bruce Crumley, responded to the attack at the…
Voluntary Announcement Compliance of Taiwan/Mainland Investment Regulations by Taiwan Shareholders
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited take no responsibility for the contents of this announcement, make no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaim any liability whatsoever for any…
Household Budget Survey 2015 starts in Cayman Islands
The Economics & Statistics Office (ESO) will be conducting the year-long Household Budget Survey (HBS) 2015 starting Sunday January 11, 2015. “The HBS is one of the most important statistical activities in the Cayman Islands as it seeks to facilitate…
Invoking ‘Alice,’ Lawyers for LinkedIn, Facebook Knock Out Database Patent
By Scott Graham, From The Recorder SAN FRANCISCO — For inventor Thomas Bascom, the handwriting was on the wall. In big, screaming letters. Between a difficult reexamination before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and a Supreme Court decision that…
The Rise of the Gulf Carriers
By Ashley Kindergan From The Financialist Every company can count on an existential threat showing up at its door sooner or later. For European and Asian airlines, that time is now, and it is three Persian Gulf-based carriers that are…
Justice on two wheels in the heart of London
By Jacques Klopp, AFP from Business Insider London cyclist Lewis Dediare, poses with his equipment on December 15, 2014, just one of dozens of British cyclists who have found a new raison d’etre: to travel the land recording reckless drivers…
Cartoon of the Week
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
Scientists discover cosmic factory for making building blocks of life
From Phys.org Scientists have discovered a ‘cosmic factory’ for producing the building blocks of life, amino acids, in research published today [Sep 15 2013] in the journal Nature Geoscience. The team from Imperial College London, the University of Kent and…
Involuntarily brewing beer in your own stomach & getting drunk is a real medical condition
By Mary Beth Quirk From Consumerist There are a lot of things our bodies do that we don’t tell them to — our lungs know to breathe, our hearts know to beat, and we can grow humans in our bellies…
