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Saviours at sea
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 18/03/2019
» The Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 took a terrible toll across South and Southeast Asia, with an estimated 230,000 people killed in 14 countries. In Thailand, the hardest hit area was in Khao Lak in Phangnga where some 4,000 people lost their lives when the wall of water overwhelmed them.
Clinging to hope
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 21/05/2018
» They have survived many challenges, from a genocide that killed nearly 3 million of their people, the ultimate fight for freedom from Pakistan, a series of coups since independence in 1971, and the assassination of the Father of the Nation, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. But the people of Bangladesh still find it in their hearts to help those even less fortunate than themselves, in this case hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees.
Financial inclusion a core philanthropic goal
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 03/07/2017
» Helping the unbanked and small-scale entrepreneurs gain access to finance is definitely an area where financial institutions can play a role in the philanthropic world, according to the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.
The Brexit clock and Asia
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 03/04/2017
» Britain has pulled the Brexit trigger but will it score a bullseye for prosperous sovereignty or commit economic suicide by leaving the European Union? In either case, as Prime Minister Theresa May declared last week after invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty: "This is a historic moment from which there can be no turning back."