News: Workers in the Bangladesh readymade garment sector started violent protests from 21st September, 2013, demanding increase in their monthly minimum wages from existing BDT 3,000 (USD 38.5) to BDT 8,100 (USD 104.0). Hundreds of workers were injured from police attack on the protestors, properties vandalised and looted, and work has been stopped in hundreds of factories in the industrial belt surrounding Dhaka for more than a week. Government had…

News: The fallout from the Westgate Mall attack has been immense with some situations bordering on the comical. Straight from the intelligence briefings before the attack to the actual handling of the siege, it has been a case of pure incompetence by a so-called efficient security apparatus in cahoots with the political mandarins that run it. As reported by the Nation Newspaper of 28th September 2013, counter-terrorism reports seen by…

News: On 2 October in the capital of Tatarstan, an international economic summit of Russia and OIC countries Kazan Summit 2013 has started.Welcoming the guests of Business Breakfast that opened the Forum the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov expressed the opinion that Kazan summit has established itself as a platform that allows to bring together our country and the countries of the Islamic world."There appeared a new platform in Russia,…

News: The last US president to visit Malaysia was Lyndon Johnson back in 1966. Now, Malaysia is again opening its arms to the president of the US, this time in the guise of Barack Hussein Obama. This 44th president of America is coming to Kuala Lumpur on the 11th of October 2013 to participate in the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, an initiative that the US leader designed as a way to…