Learn Mandarin and breathe [less polluted] air

This is from the article, Teach your kids Mandarin, in The Straits Times.

WHEN asked for his advice on how to survive the financial crisis, global investment guru Jim Rogers often tells his interlocutors: 'Teach your children Mandarin.' The 66-year-old financial commentator has practised what he preaches, in 2007 selling his mansion in New York and moving his family to Singapore.
'I am (in Asia) because this is the exciting part of the world. This is the future, and I want my children to grow up knowing Asia, and knowing things Chinese,' he said during an interview from his exercise bike.

Indeed, he said his five-year-old daughter is now a fluent Mandarin speaker.

He had thought about moving to China or Hong Kong, but decided against it because of air pollution, adding: 'I don't want to breathe Hong Kong air.'

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Average is no longer average

This is from the AFP article, Singapore: Asia's Switzerland for millionaires.

The tiny, tropical island-state, Southeast Asia's most advanced economy, has emerged as a centre for the wealth management industry which caters to an elite breed called high net worth individuals, or HNWIs.

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"Smart" may be truly stupid

This is from the article, Singapore Medicine, in the blog Stupid Malaysia.

Singapore has not only positioned itself as a financial capital, leading innovator in the arms industry, petroleum processing centre, biotechnological centre. It has now almost emerged as a medical hub. Providing unsurpassed medical treatment and care to well paying patients either from countries where medical treatment are prohibitive and countries in which expertise are lacking.

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Competitors from India coming

This is from the article, Mumbai improves ranking in attracting foreign investment, in The Economic Times.

In terms of overall ranking, Mumbai has been placed at 48th spot with London retaining the top slot as the global economy's most influential city, it said.

In addition to London, top five positions are occupied by New York, Tokyo, Singapore and Chicago.

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Becoming a world financial power

This is from the article, Kuwait's role to promote media outshines others in Gulf region, in the Arab Times, Kuwait News.

'With the current turbulences of the stock markets, Kuwait, like Singapore, is now ready to become not only an oil power but a world financial power. The country gives as well the feeling that it invests money with a very accurate sense of opportunity, avoiding wastes and useless showoffs,' said Mettan.

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