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China stock market freezing up as sell-off gathers pace

By Samuel Shen and Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s tumbling stock market showed signs of seizing up on Wednesday, as companies scrambled to escape the rout by having their shares suspended and indexes plunged after the securities regulator warned of “panic sentiment” gripping investors. Beijing, which has struggled for more than a week to bend the market to its will, unveiled yet another battery of measures to arrest the

Surrender for Life

We were the only people who visited Michael Singer. In 1971 he moved to a small plot of land in his van. His hope was to basically sit there and surrender to whatever the universe had to offer. He had no money. He lived in his van. He saw nobody. He meditated all day. First one person, then another, built houses on his property and would…

Israeli blockade makes Gaza recovery 'impossible': aid agency

By Magdalena Mis LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Israel’s blockade of building materials for Gaza has created one of the highest levels of unemployment in the world and made it impossible for the small coastal enclave to recover from the war a year ago, aid agencies said on Wednesday. Less than one percent of the materials needed for reconstruction have been allowed into the enclave, the international charity Christian Aid