Archive for April, 2008

Always invent options!

Story:
I bought 10 books from Amazon on Apr 14.  They were packed and shipped in four packages and supposed to arrive at my place on Apr 18 or 19 with the fastest shipment option avail on the site.  I waited and waited but they never arrived.  finally, on Apr 24 I decided to track the [...]

Advantages of arbitration

Arbitration offers overwhelming advantages over litigation in resolution of labor disputes. The three most significant advantages are as follows:[1]

arbitrators are considered to have specialized expertise than judges in the matter they are hearing;[2]
parties in question could better maintain their employment relationship in the arbitration proceedings than in the litigation as they are entitled to [...]

A Thousand Splendid Suns

The best writing style I’ve ever seen! Almost every single sentence catches my attention.  I wish textbooks could be written the way A Thousand Splendid Suns is.
Khaled Hosseini’s other book is Kite Runner, which is also an international best seller out there.  If i can afford it, I will also grab this one too.
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Getting to Yes

This is to me a must-read book by Roger Fisher and William Ury if you wish to be an effective negotiator. It contains plenty of win-win negotiation techniques. The strategies for dealing with “dirty tricks” in negotiations are also striking.
You can’t be an effective negotiator reading this book alone, though. What’s also important [...]

The Power of a Positive No

How can you say no positively? The book attempts to tell you how to!  It contains lots of tricks techniques based on a very simple theory, “yes, no, yes”.  A quick example of this is something like this when you’re refusing a friend’s invitation to a party. “I’d love to (YES), but I have to do my homework to be submitted [...]

Cambodia now 6th largest garment exporter in world

The news report came as a great surprise to me when I received it from a friend in Nagoya. Below is the whole report I would like to quote for our discussion.
PHNOM PENH, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) — Cambodia has become the sixth largest garment exporting country in the world, the Chinese-language newspaper the Commercial Daily [...]

10% owns 90% of Cambodian land!

“We’re moving toward possibly about 10 percent of the population owning 90 percent of the land in Cambodia,” said Naly Pilorge, director of the nonprofit Cambodian League for Promotion and Defense of Human Rights.

P.S. I Love You

Plot Summary:
The novel’s main character is Holly Kennedy, a recently widowed 30 year old woman living in Dublin, Ireland. When we first meet Holly she is emotionally devastated by the death of her husband Gerry from a brain tumour and she does not want to keep living without him. A little later though, on a [...]