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INDIAN INNOVATION Gujarat Leads the Way
TRADE BOOM Chinese in Africa
GENDER GAP
Wikipedia’s Quandary
Arianna Huffington
New Age Media Mogul
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30 A New Monopoly There’s no cheating in the computerised version of Monopoly. Hasbro, the maker of the game, says people don’t want to read rules but simply play. Critics say it takes all the fun out of the game.
34 New Uses for Old Bunkers Switzerland’s mountains are peppered with carefully concealed military bunkers. They were built to protect the country’s sovereignty, but critics claim that they are obsolete and cost too much money.
40 A Bold Proposal Charif Souki, the chairman and chief executive of Cheniere Energy, built a huge terminal to import gas into the US. Now, he plans to use it to export gas as local prices tumble due to oversupply.
44 China’s African Focus A million Chinese, from engineers to chefs, have moved
is outstripping the rest of India. Many believe that the chief minister of the state, Narendra Modi, is behind this success.
56 Wiki’s Gender Gap
to work in Africa in the past decade. This trade boom has
Wikipedia has hundreds of thousands of contributors, but
changed lives on a global scale.
less than 15 per cent of them are women. The reason why
48 Back from the Brink Rachel Ashwell had a turbulent time during the global financial crisis and had to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. But now her Shabby Chic range is bouncing back.
52 Inspiring Growth Gujarat’s annual 11 per cent gross domestic product growth
men outnumber women on the site runs far deeper than Wikipedia.
60 Tough Task Tina Brown, the renowned former editor of The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Talk, has been given the task of turning Newsweek into a profitable magazine. That is a lot to ask according to media insiders.
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Essentials 65 Riding the Dragon Hoi An’s temples, pagodas, markets, food and people ensure that you get all the best of Vietnam in one tiny place – an opinion shared by UNESCO who put it on their World Heritage List for precisely that reason.
70 The Super Concierge 65 82
When it comes to getting exactly want you want, without having to lift a finger, Indispensable is the worldwide answer. The man providing the global magic is the savvy Concetto Marletta.
74 Message In a Bottle Every year, billions of empty water bottles end up in landfills around the world. The little Australian town of Bundanoon has totally banned the selling of bottled water, and the idea is catching on.
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78 The Sound of Free Scores The Internet Music Score Library Project is the world’s largest free source of musical scores. Like many other similar sites, it has ignited copyright concerns and is challenging traditional business models.
82 An Unhealthy Legacy? The promise by the 2012 organisers to get two million more English people involved in sport has faltered. But that’s not the first time the Olympic legacy has not lived
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86 On Patrol
World business in a nutshell.
maintaining its solid off-road credentials. Just don’t
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Spotting and analysing business trends.
22 Column: Thomas L. Friedman Serious in Singapore
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EU Taxes Chinese Tiles Ceramic tile prices are set to rise in
million ($385 million) to Europe per year,
Europe after the European Union (EU)
according to the EU.
said it would introduce heavy duties on imports from China.
EU industry “is suffering material
Europe’s ceramic tiles industry is the world’s largest after China’s. Companies that operate in the European
injury because of the effects of dumped
Union have seen their profit margins
imports”, the EU said in a statement.
squeezed as a result of Chinese
says is illegal dumping, the EU said it
Initially the duties will stay in place for six
producers undercutting their prices,
would impose duties of up to 73 per
months, though they could be extended
according to the European Ceramic
cent. China exports tiles worth €275
for five years.
Tile Manufacturers’ Federation.
In an effort to put an end to what it
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Jackson Pollock
Number 5, 1948
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Willem De Kooning
Woman III
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Gustav Klimt
Adele Bloch-bauer I
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Pablo Picasso
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Pablo Picasso
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$100 million
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Pablo Picasso
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James Patterson
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$114 million
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$87 million
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$70 million
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Kenny Chesney
$50 million
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$48 million
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Sony’s New Challenger Sony’s chairman Howard Stringer’s decision to make Kazuo Hirai his top lieutenant signals the company will accelerate plans to marry its content with hardware after its products lost ground to Apple and Samsung Electronics. In naming the 50-year-old executive to oversee all of Sony’s consumer electronics, Stringer picked the only one of the ‘Four Musketeers’ he’s been grooming who isn’t an engineer by trade. Hirai, who’s fluent in Japanese and English, was also the youngest musketeer. The promotion will test the games chief’s ability to carry out Stringer’s vision to integrate Sony’s TVs and computers with content from the entertainment businesses. After the Walkman’s domination of portable players in the 1980s, Tokyo-based
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NEW AGE BUSINESS The $315 million sale of the Huffington Post to AOL is a great deal for its founder – but what about the unpaid bloggers who made it a success? That’s just one of the many contradictions that characterise Arianna Huffington, reports Hadley Freeman.
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Arianna Huffington founded The Huffington Post, a popular news website. She has also authored several books and is a respected columnist.
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On February 7, 2011, AOL announced it would acquire The Huffington Post for $315 million and make Huffington president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, which will include The Huffington Post and existing AOL properties.
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“As a journalistic enterprise, our commitment is to pursue the truth, we’re not doing advocacy, we’re not cheerleading for any particular party, and that for me is where Huffington Post was and where we’ll continue to be.”
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Huffington has written 13 books, including Maria Callas – The Woman Behind the Legend, and a biography of Pablo Picasso, Picasso: Creator and Destroyer.
Tim Armstrong, chief executive officer of AOL, left, and Huffington at AOL’s headquarters in New York.
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There’s no cheating in the computerised version of Monopoly that goes on sale later this year. Hasbro, the maker of the game, says people don’t want to read rules but simply play. Critics say it takes all the fun of out of the game, reports Stephanie Clifford.
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In the new version of Monopoly, the game’s pastel-coloured bills and the designated banker have been banished, along with other old-fashioned elements of the game, in favour of a computer and virtual accounts.
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In Monopoly Live an infrared tower with speakers issues orders and dictates the speed of the game.
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NEW USES FOR OLD BUNKERS Switzerland’s mountains are peppered with carefully concealed military bunkers. They were built to protect the country’s sovereignty, but critics claim that they are obsolete and cost too much money, reports Christopher Solomon.
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This former military bunker near Gstaad has been leased from the Swiss military and now houses a server farm. April 2011
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Up to 36,000 Raclette cave-aged cheeses are stored in a former bunker. The Swiss military is looking for more tenants.
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Charif Souki, the CEO of Cheniere Energy, has seen share prices tumble as new drilling techniques have created a gas glut in the US.
A Bold Proposal Charif Souki, the chairman and chief executive of Cheniere Energy, built a huge terminal to import gas into the US. Now, he plans to use it to export gas as local prices tumble due to oversupply, reports Clifford Krauss.
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Steve Dgat, left, and Travis Trahan, load a tanker with liquefied natural gas, also known as LNG, from the control room at the Cheniere Energy LNG terminal near Sabine Pass, Louisiana.
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Last year trade between China and Africa was estimated at $100 billion. Raw materials are exported to China and finished goods travel back.
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Chinese contractors are competing with Portuguese and Brazilian firms in the rebuilding of Luanda, Angola’s capital.
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Back from the Brink Rachel Ashwell had a turbulent time during the global financial crisis and had to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. But now her Shabby Chic range is bouncing back, reports Antonella Gambotto-Burke.
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Above and left: Ashwell has expanded her product line to include home textiles; new furniture that resembles restored pieces; baby bedding and accessories; and accessory items such as chair pads and lampshades.
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Ashwell began her career as a set designer. Every house she lives in is a Shabby Chic showpiece that features in her books. The house itself is also for sale.
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Inspiring Growth Gujarat’s annual 11 per cent gross domestic product growth is outstripping the rest of India. Many believe that the chief minister of the state, Narendra Modi, is behind this success, reports Heather Timmons.
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The Canadian heavy machinery company Bombardier got a factory up and running in 18 months, which is a testimony to Gujarat’s business-friendly approach. The factory supplies subway cars to the New Delhi metro.
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Sue Gardner has set a goal to raise the share of women contributors to Wikipedia from around 13 per cent to 25 per cent.
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Tina Brown, the renowned former editor of The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Talk, has been given the task of turning Newsweek into a profitable magazine. That is a lot to ask according to media insiders, reports Jeremy Peters.
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OUT OF SEVERAL MILLION CASKS OF MATURING SCOTCH WHISKY AVAILABLE TO JOHNNIE WALKER, OUR MASTER BLENDER DEEMS ONLY A VERY SMALL NUMBER OF THEM TO POSSESS THE EXCEPTIONAL FLAVOURS AND PROPERTIES REQUIRED FOR BLUE LABEL. THE REWARD IS A POWERFUL BLEND THAT IS RICH, COMPLEX AND MAGNIFICENTLY DISTINCTIVE. NOTHING ELSE COMES CLOSE.
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Hoi An is one of those places where you sigh with gratitude for its existence and promptly relax. Its temples, pagodas, markets, food and people ensure that you get all the best of Vietnam in one tiny place – an opinion shared by UNESCO who put it on their World Heritage List for precisely that reason, reports Hans Kemp.
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The Japanese Bridge is one of Hoi An’s main attractions. It is the only Japanesestyle building left in the city.
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Hoi An became an important centre of commerce in the 17th century thanks to the Tu Bon river, which was navigable by big ships. Today, the river is much smaller due to siltation.
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Hoi An’s citizens of Chinese descent hold an annual ceremony to honour their ancestors. The ‘donations’ collected at these gatherings have kept many of Hoi An’s traditional buildings from crumbling.
Hoi An’s market, as in every Vietnamese town, is the centre of commerce. Portfolio
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Cao Lau, a large bowl of noodles served with slices of roasted meat, is the local specialty.
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Chinese influences can be seen throughout town both inside and outside the temples, houses, and ancestral halls.
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Marletta is so indispensable that he has a unique working arrangement with London’s The Dorchester hotel. He has retained his role as Guest Relation’s Manager and runs his own business.
Marletta learnt the tricks of his trade working as a concierge in London’s best hotels. April 2011
“The high-profile guests also discovered very early on that Concerto’s personal qualities of sincere warmth, discretion and professionalism were what made their time in the hotel so hassle free.”
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If you want front row seats at a Versace haute couture show in Milan, Marletta can make it happen.
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“Such is their dedication to this remarkable man that, when he transferred in 1998 to the Mandarin Oriental hotel on Hyde Park in London, many of his clients moved with him so as not to lose his services.”
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Marletta has even managed to get two seats at the Academy Awards for a wealthy client.
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Marletta has one of the world's most famous 'little black books' that allows him to look after the needs of his Indispensable clients.
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MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
Every year, billions of empty water bottles end up in landfills around the world. The little Australian town of Bundanoon has totally banned the selling of bottled water, and the idea is catching on, reports Graham Simmons.
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In Bundanoon, Australia, new-style water stations have replaced bottled water.
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“To get all the retailers on-side, we had to prove to them that they could do better by not selling bottled water,” says Kingston. “In fact, they found that they could make just as much money from the sale of refillable water bottles.”
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Huw Kingston instigated the move to ban bottled water in Bundanoon.
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THE SOUND OF FREE SCORES The Internet Music Score Library Project is the world’s largest free source of musical scores. Like many other similar sites, it has ignited copyright concerns and is challenging traditional business models, reports Daniel Wakin.
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An Unhealthy Legacy? The promise by the 2012 London Olympics organisers to get two million more English people involved in sport has faltered. But that’s not the first time the Olympic legacy has not lived up to its billing, reports Jere Longman.
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“Inadequate planning, a change in government, severe funding cutbacks to sports organisations and an apparent overestimation of the impact the Olympics can have on mass participation have all forced a rethinking of England’s Olympic legacy.”
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Although there has been an increase in people participating in sport, it is far from the promised two million.
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LOCOG chairman Sebastian Coe and the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, unveiled the Olympic rings at St Pancras station in March.
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storey wooden house missing
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while making his rent call.
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Zuria Ali, 30, said he was
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the site of his house in
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Malaysia’s northern Perlis state
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cupboards, a dining table and
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a refrigerator and estimated his
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losses to be about 30,000
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ringgit ($10,000).
to find out the truth,” Zuria said.
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Zuria’s neighbour, Ah Kiung,
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said he saw three men and a
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trailer arriving at the house last
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month. “I thought the three
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dismantling work on
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instructions from the landlord,”
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Ah Kiung said. “I did not
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suspect anything until Zuria
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asked me about it.”
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a report about the ‘missing’
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house.
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Police confirmed receiving
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