Shanghai Tan

The following study is published annually by International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group.
“It takes 2 days to start a business in Australia, but 152 days in Brazil and 203 days in the Haiti. There are no monetary costs to start a new business in Denmark, but it costs [...]

This excerpt is taken from Thomas L. Friedman’s latest book, The World Is Flat.
“What if regions of the world were like the neighborhoods of a city? What would the world look like? I’d describe it like this: Western Europe would be an assisted-living facility, with an aging population lavishly attended to by Turkish nurses. The [...]

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you [...]

S’il y a une chose qui peut faire venir les deux célébrités légendaires, Paul Mc Cartney et Brigitte Bardot, au Canada durant la même saison, ce serait les phoques polaires! Et soudainement, dans le monde du show business, on ne parle que des phoques. Décidément, après les pandas qui étaient si médiatisés durant les années [...]

Nowadays it seems that our politicians are managing public opinion more delicately than anything else. So bad that for a given new policy that the government is trying to promote, expert groups’ opinion matters less than public opinion sometime. Especially when it comes to election campaign, all the parties are mainly managing or reacting to [...]

Once upon a time, there was a great city called Montreal. It was the economical and cultural center of Canada, it was considered the bridge between Europe and America. It had the charm of European cities with the modernity of an American cities. The cost of live was among the lowest of western cities, while [...]

As every good netizen should do, I’m setting up my blog today. Just as a domain name give someone a virtual address, a blog give someone a voice, and give the author a place to shout.I suspect this is a genetically written behavior as old as our specie is. At first human started to draw [...]