| Equal opportunity in the home
As more girls grow up to become good executives rather than wives, and more boys are opting to stay single, modern parents are facing some interesting challenges. Three Malaysian families discuss how parenting has changed and how they prepare their kids for the future. When I was growing up, my brother would go out with my father but we girls would stay at home, says Sumi, a housewife and mother of Tivaghaar, 13 and Haermana, 11. .
Asia Currencies: Won Has Best Week in 5 Months on Stocks Inflow
April 7 (Bloomberg) -- South Korea's won had the biggest weekly gain in five months after global investors boosted their demand for the nation's stocks. The currency has been rising since South Korea signed a free-trade agreement with the U.S. this week, as fund managers bet the accord would increase exports and economic growth. The country's domestic demand is also improving, Finance Minister Kwon Okyu said on April 5. Overseas investors bought more stocks than they sold yesterday for the fourth trading session. ``A lot of offshore investors are coming into the Korean stock market so they're selling dollars for won,'' said Moon Hee Lee, a currency trader at state-owned Korea Development Bank in Seoul. ``There's a chance the dollar-won selling interest will come today.'' The won this week rose 1 percent to 931.90 against the dollar, the largest five-day gain since the week ended Nov.
Time To Take A Closer Look at the NYSE Group
Blake Morphis submits: Any fan of Mad Money knows that Jim Cramer's 2007 number one “growth stock of the year" is the NYSE Group (NYX), typically referred to as the New York Stock Exchange. Turns out viewers of CNBC's Fast Money television show found out that three of panelists from Fast Money really like the New York Stock Exchange too. During Thursday night's (3/15/07) airing of Fast Money, a segment was devoted to discussing the Exchange stocks due to the news of Intercontinental Exchange making an offer to purchase the Chicago Board of Trade. Turns out Jeff Macke, Tim Strazzini and Guy Adami all favored New York Stock Exchange as their current favorite Exchange stock. When Dylan Ratigan asked Eric Bolling what his favorite exchange stock was, Bolling simply replied with “All of them".
Rugby: Players in prime heed euro's call
In the early days of professional rugby both Japan and England were happy to offer over-the-hill All Blacks lucrative retirement packages. It didn't matter if the former Mr Big had a crocked knee or heaving lungs - if he had been a name and he was still capable of standing upright for 80 minutes the Poms would pay him a king's ransom in the hope it would put bums on seats. It was a straightforward career path back then for New Zealand's players. They played here for as long as they could and then, once they suspected they were past it, they headed offshore where they could play out their remaining days without breaking into much of a sweat. But in the last few years the dynamics of the global market have changed dramatically. European clubs have realised there is limited value in spending big on end-of-career superstars.
by Linda Schrock Taylor
I am continually disturbed by illegitimacy rates, and I worry so about children being raised by single parents; so often in poverty; too often the product of hit-and-run relationships. I have taught scores of these children, and most will not become excellent students, let alone average ones. I fault the welfare system a system that certainly fails to promote anyone's welfare. I think the State should have named it for what it is: Robin Hood Payouts to Promote and Insure the Corruption of Individuals, the Destruction of the Family, and the Degradation of Community Morals. It makes no sense to reward individuals for inappropriate behaviors, especially those that so negatively impact so many lives while creating greater problems for the community-at-large. Such rewards only insure that there will be more of the same.
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