Caked with mud and soaked in putrid water, Qazi Mohammad Yahya’s ruined handmade carpets and Pashmina shawls reflect Indian Kashmir’s economic devastation from the region’s worst floods in a century. http://news.yahoo.com/kashmirs-famed-carpets-ruined-5-bn-flood-losses-023316485.html
A ship carrying hundreds of passengers close to the island of Corfu has issued a distress call because of alleged armed people on board, according to the Greek shipping ministry. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/corfu-ship-issues-distress-call-because-of-armed-men-on-board-9950134.html
Alibaba puts China on par with the United States in the rapidly increasing global competition for technological innovation and economic transformation. The GSK case reminds me of a popular book “China Can Say No,” first published in China in 1996 and which signaled a new era for growing Chinese nationalism. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/business/