Quick notes: Impressing the teacher | Anti-trust target...

• Quote of the year: "Rahul Gandhi has a nervous, unformed quality about him like a student eager to impress the teacher but deep down lacking the aptitude or the passion to master the subject" -- Barack Obama.
  



• Amazon is everyone's antitrust target: Germany, Italy and India are investigating Amazon over unfair practices. . . . EU hits Amazon with antitrust charges. A huge fine could follow.



• No room for Mongolian nationalism: China erasing Genghis Khan from its history... French museum abruptly cancels a long-planned Genghis Khan exhibit after the Chinese Cultural Affairs Bureau demanded that the museum alter the exhibition’s title, removing the words “Genghis Khan,” “empire,” and “Mongol.”... The CCP forces the ruling ethnic Han Chinese culture onto minority cultures in its regions of Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet, in many cases assimilating native minorities against their will.



• The burning scar: Inside the destruction of Asia’s last rainforests. A Korean palm oil giant has been buying up swathes of Asia's largest remaining rainforests and setting it on fire deliberately. 



• A different kind of vikas: A Resilient Sponge Corridor - Beijing Yongxing River Greenway... Breaking through the conventional way of flood control engineering, Beijing Yongxing river greenway turns seasonal urban drainage into a water resilient green sponge to retain and filtrate stormwater, meanwhile create an ecologically sound, productive and community-building green infrastructure.
  
  The concrete channel is removed and wetlands were constructed through a balanced cut and fill to create diverse habitats and activity places that fulfil the needs of local communities. This project showcases landscape as green infrastructure that provides a holistic ecosystem that regulates the hydrological environment, supports native biodiversity and creates community vitality.
  




• Pullata Ram Kumar: NRI from Andhra Pradesh donates RO plant every year on his son's birthday 



• Boeing Sells Zero Airplanes in October: Boeing received zero orders for aircraft in the month of October. Airbus received 11 new orders in the month.



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