
Sunday, July 28, 2019
Alternative Intelligence

Sunday, July 21, 2019
Poor Earth
When Chinese President Xi Jinping toured a provincial rare-earth processing plant in May 2019, analysts speculated that his visit signalled overt messaging by China in the middle of tortuous trade negotiations with the US. Suspicions have long trailed China’s near-monopoly over rare-earth supplies, not unlike the past scenario in the petroleum industry.
Sunday, July 14, 2019
Visually Speaking
Try 4C.2S.2T. But to what do these adjectives refer?
Before answering the question, first let me admit my ignorance but abiding fascination with an East Asian puzzle. To an untrained ear, hearing Mandarin or Cantonese spoken, say on TV, is always riveting. In print, the script is even more impenetrable.
Sunday, July 7, 2019
Building Blocks
Driven by rational self-interest, human beings have always been drawn towards activities that create economic value. And over the last century, pioneers in scientific management techniques, such as time-motion studies, laid the groundwork for improving work methods in a manual, mechanised, and progressively digital world.
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