Monacoretains its position as the most expensive place globally to live in, with a Cost of Living Index (COLI) of 137.4. Monaco is a magnet for the wealthy, offering tight security, tax breaks, and a dash of luxury, at the cost of the tight squeeze of available space. This mix shoots...
but some people are, and there is no business class travel in the NGO world,”said Tang. “Ask yourself if you can live without your executive assistant and your expense account before relaunching your career,” he said.
What might have been harder to pick up on was the difference between houses that could have been quickly re-built by the handy DIYers that people living in such conditions have to become, and those that hadn’t been quickly built after the earthquake but that simply are people’s long ter...
Traveller John Dinger reports: "My wife, son, and I took the Air Conditioned VIP bus from Luang Prabang to Vientiane in July. I travel by train and bus whenever it's a viable option and time allows. I read so many reports that travelling by bus between Luang Prabang and Vientiane is ...
Due to the success of nutraceuticals with humans, their use has trickled down to animals as people discover their benefits. Bill & Coo, by DRC Ventures, is an animal nutraceutical company that creates products to help pets with all kinds of needs. Dr. Christina Rahm, the visionary behind ...
How will OHADA affect secured lending in the DRC?DLA Piper's James Willcock assisted by DLA Piper's Herman Lemaire and Emmanuel Lubala analyse what impact West-African legal treaty OHADA will have on secured lending within the Democratic Republic of Congo. [ FROM AUTHOR]...
This chapter covers emerging zoonotic diseases, with a focus on the current understanding of how and where zoonotic pathogens circulate, their pathways to emergence, potential for sustained human-to-human transmission, and gaps in our knowledge. The first cluster of infections among people may be re...
South Sudan. The Central African Republic (CAR). The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Sudan. Chad. Five of the world’s least stable nations, as ranked by the Washington, D.C.-based organization the Fund for Peace, are home to people who travel to other countries to kill elephan...
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As we all presently live in a free-market economy, we have learned to accept that the language of marketing tends to accentuate the positive and play down the negative. The point at which this becomes ‘irresponsible’ is difficult to define, but we focus mainly on those practices that have...