Posted in Chess on Oct 31st, 2008
Vladimir Kramnik scores his first win of the world chess championship in the 10th game against Viswanathan Anand. WHEN I was writing this story a few days back, I was hoping for a decision in Bonn, Germany, where Viswanathan Anand and Kramnik were playing this year’s match. Not that I was rooting for Anand to [...]
Posted in Careers on Oct 29th, 2008
Surely, you need to safeguard your current job during these trying times? A job’s not lost until it is lost. So here are three tips from Marcel R Parker, Chairman of IKYA Human Solutions in India, on how to help yourself by not losing this current job of yours. First, under-promise and over-deliver. “Walk that [...]
Richard Branson. Who hasn’t heard of Richard Branson, the guy that went from the music business to the aviation business and somewhere in between, dabbled in lots of other business ventures. Branson has just published his latest book, called Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur. It’s interesting stuff that he has in there [...]
Posted in Careers on Oct 24th, 2008
We are again living in interesting times. There are lots of uncertainties in the air as the global financial meltdown threatens to morph into a world-wide recession. Jobs are no longer that safe. If you are one who is faced with the prospect of a retrenchment, here are some tips on coping with it: Don’t [...]
Posted in General on Oct 24th, 2008
Vladimir Kramnik’s game plan at the world championship disintegrates. THERE’s a great deal of head scratching at the world chess championship between world champion Viswanathan Anand and former world champion Vladimir Kramnik in Bonn, Germany, where Kramnik’s chess game plan seems to be falling apart. In the championship match, the Indian grandmaster is poised to [...]
Posted in General, Investment, Mutual Fund, Rockwills & Estate planning, Unit Trust on Oct 19th, 2008
I’m sure you have heard of it. Madonna and her beau, Guy Ritchie, have gone their separate ways after eight years of marriage. Divorced. And there’s a huge settlement in her ex-hubby’s favour. He’s reportedly walking away with assets worth around USD60 million which includes a 1,200-acre country estate, a London pub and a cash [...]
Posted in Chess on Oct 17th, 2008
The statistics may not excite but that’s the reality of top-level chess. ARE you well settled down in your chair? Good. If not for anything else, be settled down to enjoy one of the highlights of this year: the world chess championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik. The match started three days ago [...]
Posted in economy on Oct 15th, 2008
It’s a grim, grim, grim outlook for the world economy as it stands right now with banks failing everywhere and governments stepping in to salvage them by lowering interest rates and pumping money into their banking system. Australia, Japan, Germany, Iceland, United Kingdom and of course, prime suspect United States. We’ve read about the Americans [...]
Posted in economy on Oct 14th, 2008
As Singapore slips into a technical recession after registering two straight quarters of economic negative growth, Malaysian human resource minister S Subramaniam has warned Malaysians working in the island republic to be prepared should they lose their jobs. This is the report in thestar online today: The story continued: “They need to work on retraining [...]
Posted in economy on Oct 10th, 2008
AFP reports that Singapore’s trade-sensitive economy has declined for a second straight quarter which means that the city-state has entered a recession for the first time in six years. Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry estimated that on a seasonally adjusted quarter-on-quarter annualised basis, real GDP declined by 6.3 percent in the third quarter after [...]
