Category: Columnists
I am aware that I don’t give animals the attention they deserve; I postpone writing about animals as I always feel like other subjects are more important. Another reason why I am reluctant to write about animals is there is usually not good news to tell, except this time. Good things also happen; a new regulation [...]
The International Monetary Fund lowered its outlook for the world economy on Tuesday, and warned that the global financial system faces growing risks from the debt crisis in Europe. The IMF now expects the global economy to grow 3.3% in 2012, according to an update to its World Economic Outlook. In September, the IMF said [...]
The recent uptick in PMI numbers in the US and the EM world has many wondering whether the growth slowdown is over and done with. While this is likely true for some EM economies, particularly LatAm economies, one would caution against taking such a benign view of these data points at this stage for the rest [...]
“I have been harassed.” If you are a young lady who is even slightly foreign-looking and walking alone, you will utter this sentence sooner or later. The best-case scenario is that someone will say to you, “Ma?allah!” which can be used with good intentions but usually is not. I hate that there is no proper [...]
Russian energy companies Rosneft and Transneft are seeking a 25 per cent stake in a planned Turkish oil pipeline, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin has said. The pipeline, to be built by Turkey’s Calik Holding and Eni of Italy, will link the Turkish ports of Samsun and Ceyhan and has strong backing from the [...]
I recently received the following question: “I am getting married to a Turk soon. I am a foreign citizen and a resident of Turkey. I have been told that I needed to get my birth certificate translated into Turkish, which I have done. I have also been told that the Turkish authorities might need other [...]
Turkish intellectual property law, Sometimes lawyers feel that all those violations experienced by their clients will never touch them. This is certainly not the case. It happens to us, too. Just recently, I was wandering in a bookshop, and I checked the legal books section, and what did I find but a legal guidebook for foreigners [...]
The tradition of the New Year’s Resolutions goes all the way back to 153 B.C. Janus, a mythical king of early Rome was placed at the head of the calendar. With two faces, Janus could look back on past events and forward to the future. Janus became the ancient symbol for resolutions and many Romans [...]
Robin Haynes, MD of FSA regulated and award-winning Currency Index, offers his expert comment on today’s quantitative easing by the Bank of England: “The Bank of England’s £50bn extension to its quantitative easing (QE) programme today is not good news for overseas property buyers. Injecting more money into the economy has the effect of diluting [...]
Cape Verde has catapulted back into the top 10 in the TheMoveChannel.com’s latest Top of the Props report. While Spain and the USA continue to compete for the number one slot, the tiny islands saw a surge of interest at the start of 2012, jumping 18 places to become the seventh most popular destination in [...]
A hospital in southern Turkey on Saturday performed the world’s first triple limb transplant, attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man, an official said. At the same time, a team of doctors at Akdeniz University Hospital, in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, transplanted the face of the same donor onto another [...]
Flu-Fighting Foods that we need because getting cold nearly all over the world and better to be safe and with out flu around so lets take some actions and stay away from flu because buried in the controversy over whether to get the H1N1 vaccination (or even where to find one), is that one of [...]