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Grappling with a counterfeit reality

Recently, the New York State University in the US initiated a programme called ‘NYU in real life’, to promote a student-led culture change of spending less time online and more in living life in person, and creating together a ‘collective effervescence’.

October 1987 crash in historical perspective

On 19 October 1987, following three days of decline in the New York stock market, the Hong Kong market dropped 10.5 per cent after a rise of 89 per cent in the previous 12 months.

Once upon a river

There’s an old saying: no person can dip his toe in the same river twice. It’s never the same river. Nor the same person.