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Nano car. Big questions. (Part 2 of 2)
Is Ratan Tata a hero or a villain? His Tatan Nano car is set to put India’s lower middle class on wheels with its unbelievably low price but at what cost to the environment?
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That was what Ratan presented in New Delhi when he, accompanied by electronic fireworks and the theme song of 2001: A Space Odyssey, drove what looked like an enlarged white jellybean onto the stage of the auto expo.
Older than Bond, James Bond
The art of stealth has deep roots in the Indian, Chinese and Japanese cultures.
Espionage is said to be the second-oldest profession in the world, (presumably driven by a demand from wives whose husbands were busy being supplied by the first) and some ancient Asian civilisations were particularly good at it. In fact, many spying techniques that were used in ancient China, India and Japan may have predated modern intelligence methods by several centuries.
2008: The Chinese odyssey
Forget all you learnt about Columbus. It was the Chinese who discovered America.
And no, it is not China making the claim.
The Menzies were in Beijing to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary but Gavin went home with more than souvenirs and photographs. The retired British Royal navy submarine captain returned to London with the foundation for a book that would rewrite world history.
As they toured, his guide was getting exasperated, unable to answer his questions.
"Why were the Forbidden Palace, the Temple of Heaven and the Great Wall near Beijing all completed in 1421?" he asked.
Move over, Dr Z
Toyota has cast its eyes on the European markets and is out to eat Daimler Chrysler's lunch.
Forget about Toyota overtaking General Motors as the biggest automaker in the world. That is old hat. And Rick Wagoner, boss of GM, has come to a sort of grudging acceptance of sharing the top two positions with Toyota. The person that really hates the guts of Fujio Cho, chairman of Toyota, is not in the US but across the Atlantic. He is Dieter Zetsche, chairman of Daimler Chrysler.
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