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WHEN A SHOPPING centre is dying, its patronage slipping away, it is referred to as a greyfield. At this...

By Mark Welker

IN 1985, I was a very junior lawyer in a blue-ribbon Sydney law firm. Over expensive cocktails at a...

By Margot Saville

THE OPENING CREDITS of East Enders, the most watched television soap in Britain, show an aerial view of the River...

By Barbara Gunnell

EACH DAY SOME day two and a half million commuters pass through the turnstiles at Tokyo's Ikebukuro metro station....

By Mark Chou

AT IRREGULAR INTERVALS of between twenty and thirty years came great floods which were afterwards remembered as one remembers...

STANDING IN MY in red coat, next to my luggage on the shining granite floor, I wait anxiously. Facing...

By Frances Guo

THE BUSHFIRE DEBRIS descends from the night sky with a strangely graceful motion, as if swimming. Leaves and twigs...

By Robert Hillman

TOBIAS FOX, VICE president of sales, arrived at our Canberra sales office by taxi. This was the last stop...

By Brett Caldwell

I WAS INITIATED into the Japanese investment-banking scene in a murky Tokyo izakaya in early 1988. Selling Japanese stocks to international...

By Colin Mills

EMERGING FROM THE subway I joined the crowds of Lower Manhattan, anxious about my first day on the job....

By Erica Sontheimer

THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL crisis or GFC, as it is affectionately referred to in discussions taking place in the boardrooms...

By Kylie Charlton

THE IDEA OF globalisation never enjoyed popular support in developed nations and for that reason it will probably become...

By Chris Zappone