TR EMERITUS

In many countries, the existing government "cheated" by redrawing the electorial boundaries to ensure that they have a better chance of winning the next general election. It is called "gerrymandering". In some cases, they give money or goodies to the poor people to buy their votes. The poor people are usually illiterate or politically... 

In 2001, Naspers, a South African publisher (It published the ST for the apartheid regime) bought a stake in a lossmaking Chinese start-up in the wake of the dotcom bust for US$32m. This week it sold more than US$10bn of its shares in Tencent, the Chinese technology group, a sliver (2%age points) of a stake worth US$167bn which... 

I read and follow with much apprehension, Just how did Xi and Putin put strongman politics back on the map? the "reelection" and usurping of power from the commoners of these 2 Communist leaders in the name of the national good which we all know, is far from true! Though we are not citizens of these autocratic countries, we...