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To all our Chinese readers and everyone else enjoying Chinese New Year, best wishes for the Year of the Monkey! May you prosper in the important things of life, and enjoy much happiness, good health, and fruitfulness in your many endeavours. Allow me to refer you to a link to a Chinese New Year video production by Petronas, Malaysia's fully integrated oil and gas multinational ranked among the largest corporations in the Fortune Global 500 listing of the world's largest corporations:  http://youtu.be/r9i08erqdpY. This video explores what makes a blessed life. Anyone not moved after watching the video would have missed…

This is the holiday season of Christmas and the New Year.  It is a time for merriment – parties and presents. Christmas has gone beyond being a celebration just for Christians. It is a time for everyone, no matter our race, culture or religion, to think about peace and joy and love for other people.  It is a time to honour each other, to show we accept and care for each other.  It is especially a time where children are showered with gifts and love. But Christmas should be a time when we ought to think of all who are…

Imagine a little boy running around gleefully, and suddenly he falls and hurts himself.  The mother rushes to him, tells him everything is alright and there is no need to keep crying, cleans the wound, puts some ointment, sticks a plaster on his knee and says, “Next time, don’t run.” If it were the father rather than the mother who gets to the child first, the father probably tells the child that boys don’t cry, cleans the wound, puts some ointment, sticks a plaster on the knee, and says: “Now you can run again.” Mothers and fathers are different. No doubt…