Prime Minister’s Questions is the weekly session where Prime Minister answers questions of the opposition leader and the other MP’s in the House of Common. For those you that are not familiar with the UK parliamentary system, House of Commons is the parliament where members of the parliament meet each other. Although prime ministers have answered…
Singapore is the food capital of Asia and it has many good restaurants. I have been asked many times by travellers to Singapore which restaurants/bars I recommend, so I thought it would be nice to post this week’s article on this subject. There are, of course, many good restaurants in Singapore and these are only my…
The Oxford dictionary defines the word passion as ‘strong and barely controllable emotion’ and passionate as ‘having, showing or caused by strong feelings or beliefs‘ . What great definitions! To succeed, be meaningful and happy, you need to be passionate about something. If you want to stay an average person, you may not bother at all,…
The date of 15 September 2015 marks the completion of a decade away from Istanbul in my native land, Turkey. It is always good to look back and analyse your challenges, mistakes and successes to improve yourself. I am still young but a completely different person from who I used to be. What has been…
There is a FOMC meeting scheduled for next week and September, 17th is the date when Janet Yellen will hold a press conference. Everybody is waiting for that date in the financial sector as Janet Yellen will convey the decision on whether they will hike the interest rate or not. For those of you without a finance…
The world is changing rapidly and we have been living two types of lives for some time now; physical and digital. Our physical lives are simple and also complicated. Simple because we follow our basic needs and wants such as sleeping and drinking. These are our instincts. Complicated because we interact with many individuals during our lives…
We absolutely need more women in the labour participation… It is not only because of diversity benefits but also for economical growth of the nation and raising well-rounded children. Diversity benefits of increasing women in the labour participation is well known and well discussed. I would like to focus more on the economical benefits and its positive effects on the…
It is all started when China had released its exports numbers on August, 7th. Chinese exports were tumbled by 8.3% in July and China was registering its worst export decline in the last four months. Most importantly, the market was not expecting these figures to be that bad! Along with the release of the figures, Chinese central…
According to an article by Patrick Kingsley in Guardian Newspaper, we are facing the world’s biggest refugee crisis since the World War two. 224,000 migrants and refugees have come to Europe in 2015. For those of you who can’t visualize the number, it is equivalent of four Arsenal Emirates stadium in London. What could be…