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Magazines are the most popular source of information about luxury for both core luxury millennials and boomers, but millennials also rely on word-of-mouth sources such as friends, family and online social networks...
...Charging Ahead.” Over 600 people attended the conference, hosted by the South Asian Business Association at HBS. Topics of discussion included the country’s infrastructure, retail, and health care. A panel on private equity and venture capital was one of the most popular events of the day, as attendees crammed into an auditorium to listen to industry experts speak about their fields’ implications for India. Panelist Heramb Hajarnavis, a vice president of the Principal Investment Area at Goldman Sachs, noted that both the number and the size of private equity deals in India...
Turkey's militant secularists may have lost their battle against the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) at the ballot box, but they're hoping that what the electorate denied them might be granted by the judiciary. To popular disbelief, the country's secularist chief prosecutor has applied to ban the ruling party, reelected last July with 47% of the vote, on the grounds that it is supposedly seeking to destroy secularism. The move comes on the heels of a controversial government move to overturn a ban on wearing headscarves at universities...
...Islamist parties have been banned before in Turkey, where strict secularism is enshrined in as a founding constitutional principle. But this time is different: The AKP is far more popular than any of its predecessors; its landslide victory in the election last year - prompted by a stand-off with the powerful generals rejecting the party's nominee for president - was largely a response to economic boom times, but also a sign that Turks are tired of military interference in politics...
...religious holiday's first parade occurred in 1762 in New York, when Irish soldiers conscripted by the British army marched to bond over their shared and distant homeland. Ever since, the event has been more popular abroad than at home - though Dublin's days of revelry is no poor showing - with especially large festivals in Boston and Chicago. "The parade is a celebration of diaspora," Roach said. With hundreds of Irish nationals living in Beijing and over 50,000 Chinese emigrants composing the largest non-European community living in Ireland, the holiday has morphed into a celebration of heritage across...