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Judgement: The enemy of creativity
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 26/04/2012
» Are you very critical? Do you often criticise other people and their ideas and actions? Do you apply the same standards to yourself? If so, chances are that you're not very creative _ or that you do not fully use your own creative potential. Judgement is the enemy of creativity and creation. Here is why.
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Cites missing the big picture
Business, Published on 09/03/2013
» There can be no sadder task for an animal lover than to formally declare a once-loved species extinct. But that duty fell to delegates at the 178-nation Convention in Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) conference in Bangkok this week as they removed a distressing number of now-extinct animals from protection lists that had failed to protect them. They included Australia's dusky flying fox and cartoon-like rabbit-eared bandicoot. And, at the rate humans are killing off wild animals and plundering the seas, more familiar species could be joining them.
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Cites augurs ill for animals
Business, Published on 09/03/2013
» Wow, Cites is in town...! People have jetted in from all over the world to attend the so-called Cop16 meeting to try and help the planet's wild species. However, things are not going so well for many animals like elephants, tigers, rhinos, sharks and the polar bear, plus many others. Legislation to improve protection seems to have been lost in what I call ''747 conservation politics'' with infighting and squabbling amongst the parties. Many countries have their own agenda on what and how these species can make money. Even Thailand is trying to pass legislation on crocodiles so we can export more skins and meat.
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Indonesia, Pakistan democracies vote to kill
Business, Published on 09/03/2013
» The recent slaughter of Shia in Pakistan is another grisly reminder of the perilous condition of its minorities. Indeed, in Pakistan and Indonesia, the two largest Muslim countries, both of which are in the midst of a fraught experiment with electoral democracy after decades of military rule, murderous assaults on Shia, Christians and Ahmadis by majoritarian Sunni fanatics have become routine.
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Employees belong in the cities, not only in cubicles
Business, Published on 09/03/2013
» Critics of Yahoo! Inc's recent ban on telecommuting say the policy will hurt productivity, while supporters say that making employees come into the office will help the struggling company.
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Going to jail for writing is a horror story
Business, Kong Rithdee, Published on 09/03/2013
» Interestingly, getting people killed can't be as bad as disturbing people. Fatal recklessness isn't as unforgivable as deliberate provocation. At one extreme, murder is sometimes more tolerable than writing. To know how to toe the line, to know what to write and what not to write, has become a political as well as literary dilemma - and here we're talking about Chinese Nobel literature laureate Mo Yan's semi-endorsement of censorship and jailed editor Somyot Prueksakasemsuk's sentence for breaking the lese majeste law. And we thought clemency was the way of our world.
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Supachai lays out vision for the future
Business, Published on 16/03/2013
» Supachai Panitchpakdi, the secretary-general of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, feels productivity improvement and speedy regional integration must be the top priorities of Asian countries to raise their well-being and help create a more stable world economy.
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BTS gets SEC nod for B62.5bn fund
Business, Published on 16/03/2013
» BTS Group Holdings Plc, the skytrain operator, plans to raise up to 62.5 billion from Thailand's first infrastructure fund in the country's biggest-ever initial public offering.
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PTT's CNG loss to reach B100bn by 2014
Business, Published on 16/03/2013
» Energy giant PTT Plc will continue to suffer heavy losses in the compressed natural gas (CNG) business, with accumulated losses reaching 100 billion baht next year from 62 billion at present.
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Government finally unloading some rice
Business, Published on 16/03/2013
» The government approved in principle yesterday a proposal for the Foreign Trade Department to sell a combined 50,000 tonnes of rice from its massive stock.
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