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Epic traffic jam calls for painful sacrifice

Opinion | Shanghai Daily columnists
2010-9-9

RECENTLY, an epic traffic jam on an expressway leading to Beijing has been drawing global attention. Since August 14 thousands of drivers got stuck in a 100-kilometer-long jam, for up to nine days! I wonder...

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Cool response to Gates' and Buffet's call on rich Chinese to give

Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2010-9-9

LESS than three weeks before a Chinese billionaires' banquet, sponsored by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett on September 29, only two Chinese businessmen have confirmed they are attending. Gates and Buffett initiated...

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Thai PM cites efforts to spread wealth, close social divides

Opinion
2010-9-8

EDITOR'S Note: Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva spoke to Shanghai Daily reporter Ni Tao in Shanghai on September 4 about the security and political situation in Thailand, following the crisis that...

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Competition can fix failed US public schools

Opinion | Foreign perspectives
2010-9-8

AMERICAN spending on public education, adjusted for inflation, has more than doubled over the last three decades. What did taxpayers get for their money? The average math and reading scores of American 17-year-olds...

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All our innovation hasn't cleaned up auto pollution

Opinion | Shanghai Daily columnists
2010-9-7

THIS is an age in which our society, with seeming pride, is polluting itself to death. One-fifth of Chinese cities are now suffering severe air pollution largely because of car emissions, and yet more cars are...

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A hungry pack of wolves defeats a business lion

Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2010-9-7

IF business is a jungle where the lion is king, then the wolves are looking to usurp the throne. While Western executives are reading the sixth century BC Chinese classic °?- The Art of War by Sun Tzu - Chinese...

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Post-90s youth: Don't label me selfish

Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2010-9-6

IN each era, people are eager to identify and label the youngest up-and-coming generation and lament how they might be different from their predecessors. All over the world, this is very common, but in my view people...

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Too much focus on banks 'too big to fail'

Opinion | Foreign perspectives
2010-9-6

OBVIOUSLY, the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 was partly one of specific, systemically important banks and other financial institutions such as AIG. In response, there is an intense debate about the problems...

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Behind promises of better life through globalization

Opinion | Shanghai Daily columnists
2010-9-4

GLOBALIZATION has become a buzz word around the globe. When an expert or a student begins an article with "In this globalized world of ours ..." you are supposed to know we are in for something big, and feel lucky...

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Business Books TOP FIVE USA

Opinion | Book review
2010-9-4

1.10 Career Essentials Advance in your career by knowing your personality type and adapting your professional goals to reflect your true self. Donna Dunning | NB Publishing 2010 | 256 pg. | ISBN: 9780891063780...

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More stuff is not more happiness

Opinion | Book review
2010-9-4

DESPITE the fact that many will have difficulty pinpointing its exact location, Bhutan has captured the imagination of many Western minds. Columbia University economics professor Jeffrey Sachs wrote recently of...

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A simple tale of persistence and a helping hand

Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2010-9-3

RECENTLY, while conversing with my mother, I came across a very interesting story. Upon hearing it, I was initially not too impressed. After all, we of international backgrounds are constantly bombarded with...

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Allure of country life draws many city dwellers

Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2010-9-3

AS far as land grabs go, it was quiet and secret - and the perpetrators almost got away with it. Almost 200 Chinese city government officials stealthily changed their identities on the administrative computer...

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Greed breeds rapid urbanization

Opinion | Shanghai Daily columnists
2010-9-3

IN today's opinion article ("Allure of country life draws many city dwellers"), you can see how greed breeds urban sprawl at the expense of rural interests and how ugly urbanization has become. In the past 30...

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Fetish for microchips over potato chips

Opinion | Foreign perspectives
2010-9-2

ECONOMISTS long ago put to rest the error that Adam Smith made when he argued that manufacturing should be given primacy in a country's economy. Indeed, in Book II of "The Wealth of Nations," Smith condemned...