Here is something you guys might be interested: Microlending on world scale.I saw a documentary about this organization, "KIVA," on TV last night. It interested me a lot because what they were doing was neither a charity nor ordinary micro…

Japan Farm Minister QuitsIt is not my habit to talk about contemporary Japanese politics. Neither am I in a desperate need of something to kill my time on. Ive got other things to do. But this time I feel obliged to say something about the…

Being a backpacker, I was always trying to be careful during the travel not to be cheated by local merchants for unreasonably high prices for low quality products or services. Not that I had a terrible experience of being cheated before, b…