Asia

Volkswirtschaftslehre

Asia needs ASEAN-ization not Pakistanization of its continent

Why is (the Korean peninsula and East) Asia unable to capitalize (on) its success

Speculations over the alleged bipolar world of tomorrow (the so-called G-2, China vs. the US), should not be an Asian dilemma. It is primarily a...

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Volkswirtschaftslehre

Australia in the "Asian Century" or is it Lost in Asia?

Australia maintains a delusion of reality China and the US - The Australian dilemma.

The Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard released a long awaited white paper Australia in the Asian Century yesterday, which has been "wowed" by...

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The SMRT Labour Dispute: Symptoms of a dirty business

Corporate greed, old authoritarian hangovers, and demographic changes in the foreign labour industry

Late last month 171 Chinese national bus drivers who were employed by the Singapore Government controlled bus and underground railway company SMRT...

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Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Do Confucian Principled Businesses Exist in Asia?

Confucius was born with the name K’ung Ch’iu in the Lũ Kingdom of China in 551 BC, and was in later life called K’ung Fu-Tzu (Master Kung)...

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Geopolitics of Technology and the Hydrocarbon Status Quo

Why does the Kyoto mechanism fail again? Is oil more than energy? Is this a construct that architectures the world currently known to and permitted...

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