Howard Chua-Eoan

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Howard Chua-Eoan

A human ailment since the origin of the species, the first successful surgery for appendicitis took place only in 1735. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Since I was a child, I’ve been terrified of appendicitis. There was no horseplay with my cousins and siblings after a meal. I suspect that myth was helpful to parents who wanted their children well-behaved in spite of post-dessert sugar highs. Still, everyone is born with an appendix and so we are all at risk one way or another.

3 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Howard Chua-Eoan

A final toast to Lyle’s. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Statistics don’t hit home — until they do. At the end of 2024, Price Bailey, one of the top chartered accountancy firms in the UK, released a report saying that perhaps 6,000 of the UK’s nearly 51,000 restaurants would close in a year. Of about 10,000 that were technically insolvent, the firm’s risk analysis estimated that 12% were liable to default on debt.For small, family-run businesses, the litany of costs is titanic.

3 weeks ago | yakimaherald.com | Howard Chua-Eoan

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4 weeks ago | bloomberglinea.com | Howard Chua-Eoan |Christopher Furlong

Una familia de gaviotas, dos adultas dando de comer a un polluelo, se habían reunido junto a la chimenea papal dos minutos antes de que saliera el humo blanco que anunciaba la elección de un nuevo papa. El Espíritu Santo generalmente está representado por una paloma, así que ¿qué podemos pensar de esta trinidad? De todas formas, es solo un pequeño detalle en este conmovedor día. Ya existen muchos otros presagios que hay que analizar.

4 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Howard Chua-Eoan

New Delhi embarks on a sensitive census to help tackle millennia-old social stratification. This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a categorically concise compendium of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . The last time India asked its citizens to self-identify by caste, the survey generated 4.6 million different categories in the millennia-old system of social stratification.