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Forget casinos, Singapore’s Indian tourists are in for some cruising

Bloomberg When Indian architect Rahul Maini and his parents embarked on their first trip abroad in May, Singapore was their destination of choice. But the trio wasn’t going for the hawker food or even the city-state’s casinos — they were there to get on a ship. The equatorial island has become a flourishing entry point for Indian cruise-ship passengers, bolstering ...

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Can we die in peace?

For those of us who had hoped that American attitudes towards death were shifting in ways that would promote a wider reconstruction of the health care system, there’s discouraging news from Health Affairs, the pre-eminent journal of health policy. It devotes its latest issue to ‘end-of-life’ care and finds that —at least so far —the power to make health care ...

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India’s bulls are not tiring yet

An equity culture is growing in India, propelling benchmark indices BSE Sensex and Nifty 50 to a record bull run. Now beware a turning of the tide. For years, the market was a playground for foreign institutions. Since 2014, domestic investors bought $28 billion net of stocks, matching overseas buyers’ $30 billion inflow. Unlike China’s mom-and-pop day traders, Indian households ...

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