The Price Of Modern Hunger
roti_with_filling.jpgThe globes worst food crisis in a generation emerged as a blip on the big boards and computer screens of America's great grain exchanges. As prices rise, major grain producers including Argentina and Ukraine, battling inflation caused in part by soaring oil bills, were moving to bar exports on a range of crops to control costs at home. It meant less supply on world markets even as global demand entered a fundamentally new phase.
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Wall Street, Run Amok
wealth_lion_at_turf_club2.jpgYou don’t really need to find out what’s going on.

You don’t really want to know just how far it’s gone.

Just leave well enough alone... .

— Don Henley, “Dirty Laundry”

YOU may well be asking yourself, as I have asked myself, how on earth did the credit crisis on Wall Street become such a catastrophe?
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Malaysian economy to deteriorate in H208: Think-tank

Malaysia's economy would decline in the second-half of the year due to a downturn in the US economy with growth in 2008 expected to reach 5.4 per cent, an independent think tank said on Wednesday.

The Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (Mier) said that the Malaysian economy could sustain its rate of growth in the first-half of 2008 'before cooling in the second-half'. 'The fear is that the US turmoil is getting deeper and nobody is certain when it will bottom out,' it said.
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How to Write a Killer Business Plan

Writing a Business Plan can be a daunting task.  You have so many ideas floating around in your head that it can be difficult to capture them all in a logical format. However, committing time to writing an effective Plan can help improve your chances of success.  In this article I will be giving you some tips on how to write a killer Business Plan!

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The Chinese Way Of Doing Business
If you wander into any of China's five floored bookstores, the first thing you'll notice right when you enter the store won't be the newest hardcovered fictions. It'll be management books written by successful American businessmen. On shelf after shelf, you could see copies of Jim Collins's "Good to Great," Jack Welch's "Straight From the Gut," Tom Peters's "Re-Imagine!" and just about everything the late Peter Drucker ever wrote. One section you won't find in Chinese bookstores is a section for management or human resources. 
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Templeton's Mobius Says Credit Crisis Is Near End (Update5)
Templeton Asset Management Ltd.'s Mark Mobius said the credit-market crisis that's caused $245 billion of losses at banks and brokerages is ''near the end.''

The fund manager, who oversees $47 billion in emerging- market equities, said he has been buying shares of banks including Bank of China Ltd. and Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. Malaysian equities are also becoming ''more and more attractive,'' he said in a Bloomberg Television interview today.
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