Expat Russian entrepreneurs, budget Russian tourists, and a government hoping the post-Vietnam war exiles will come back home rich to retire: Vietnam is a demonstration model for change.

Syria once had a thriving artistic life, but many who were part of it have had to flee, ending up next door in Lebanon, trying to express what has happened to them and their country.

Thomas Piketty’s phenomenon of a tome, Capital in the Twenty-first Century, doesn’t question the whole system of capitalism unlike Marx’s original enquiry. It simply wants to make things more just and equal.