NCT’s Johnny Suh has become the most mentioned star on social media according to US market research company Netbase Quid.
Suh was the only K-pop artist to attend this year’s Met Gala on May 2, where he turned heads with his cool demeanour and stylish appearance.
The K-pop phenomenon was not only the most mentioned; racking up 240,000 mentions he was also the most named star overall. Coming in second was Ryan Reynolds’ at 48,000. The other three most mentioned male stars were Shawn Mendes at 34,000, Chadwick Boseman at 21,000 and Sebastian Stan at 18,000.
Among the women, Blake Lively was most mentioned with more than 220,000 mentions. She was followed by Nicki Minaj at 100,000, Kim Kardashian at 50,000, Billie Ellis at 44,000 and Katy Perry at 36,000 mentions respectively.
On May 4, Johnny took to Instagram Stories to express his gratitude to his fans.
Posting Netbase Quid’s list of the top five most-mentioned men, the idol wrote, “NCTzens [NCT’s fans] are the besssttt.”
A new face at the gala, the Chicago-born K-pop idol had flown in from Seoul, South Korea to attend the Costume Institute Gala in New York City with designer Peter Do.
Since his debut the star has become well-known for his stylish appearance both on and off stage catching the eye of Peter Do, the Vietnamese-born New York City-based designer. Do who is an LVMH Graduate Prize recipient designed a three-piece suit in black satin for Suh complete with statement boots and a sleek hairstyle marking his debut at the Met.
Speaking about walking the red carpet at the event Suh said, “I have been on many red carpets. I think this was the first time that I was really nervous because I didn’t know what was going to happen in there. I heard that my team couldn’t come inside, so that got me really worried.
“And there were a lot of people I’ve never met before that I really have wanted to meet. It was just so many new things at once. That’s what made it kind of nerve wracking.
“It was actually great. It was less stressful than I thought it would be. There were a lot of people there to help me. I had wonderful people standing with me in line and everybody was really sweet. It wasn’t really hard to have a conversation with anybody,” he said.
He was seen hanging out with model Gigi Hadid, actor Darren Criss, media personality Kris Jenner and singer-songwriter Finneas at the event.
What a surprise! According to the happy woman who shared a video of a cake with the cash on TikTok, it was a present from friends.
Nonetheless, TikTokers were astounded by the generous birthday gift and the enormous cake, with the video receiving 605,000 likes and 36,000 tongues wagging.
Of course, there were individuals who tried to be amusing with their remarks. They would suggest that if carrying the monetary burden is onerous, they could be called in to assist.
@titimelyana shared the video, which has 3.9 million views on TikTok, on her profile page. She is from Makassar, South Sulawesi, and claims she received the present on April 21 as part of her 26th birthday celebrations.
“Coincidentally, on Thursday (April 21), we broke our fast together,” said the woman named Titin Sri Melyana.
She added that she was shocked when her three good friends suddenly gave her a Moneycake arranged with paper money like a tower.
Another birthday surprise was in Malaysia, with a person spending RM300,000 as gift from loving parents to a child.
“Happy birthday Ali (Happy birthday Ali),” said a birthday greeting written on sand and heart emojis exclusively on the beach on a private island.
Such was the good fortune of a four-year-old child who watched the shock from a helicopter that he and his family boarded.
Farah MJ, the child’s mother, claimed she and her family recently flew by helicopter from Kuala Lumpur to a private island in Pangkor, Perak, for a vacation at a resort.
The woman says the son is loving, clever and a good listener. Though the helicopter flight, the first for the kid, was a big surprise, the mom says the son was more than happy with a multi-story cake.
She told the local media, in March, that the cost of the holiday and the birthday celebrations was around RM300,000!
We all make mistakes in our romantic relationships. That is a given. It is said that the key is communication and we should talk things out and forgive and forget.
But what happens when your significant other makes a mistake that you can’t seem to go back from. How do you forgive a cheating partner, when does one forgive and does it seem weak to do so? How do you deal with infidelity?
One way is not to decide straight away, give it some time and mull over it for a bit. Nothing is that urgent, take your time to process the knowledge or information and also be absolutely sure that it really was cheating.
This is always easier if the other person confesses but if they don’t and it’s something that you saw or suspect, take time out to figure out how you want to confront him or her about this. Get an emotional hold and brace yourself for the storm ahead.
Voice out your feelings
Tell your partner what you know, that you’ve found out about the cheating. Confront them and speak your mind. Honesty in communication is always the best policy no matter how emotionally painful.
What next
This one is very subjective. Whether a person should forgive someone who has been unfaithful depends on what type of relationship they want to have and how they want to handle things going forward. Learning to forgive and forget is not impossible but takes a lot of effort and time.
It’s never right but it’s important to understand why
Cheating is harmful and wrong and it is important to understand that forgiveness does not mean that you condone this behaviour. When people enter into a relationship it is for mutual love, respect and fidelity and cheating is perceived as the ultimate form of betrayal for most.
Why and how this happens
Infidelity can occur for any number of reasons. It may be that one partner is bored or his or her emotional needs are not being fulfilled. Rather than expressing what is wrong, they look to fill the void elsewhere.
Cheating can also happen as a result of seduction, the desire for someone new, lack of self-esteem or an insecure feeling. Ultimately the decision to cheat is a choice.
How to let go of the anger and the feeling of betrayal
Holding on to negative emotions is never a good idea but don’t give your partner opportunities to let you down more than once. If they do express deep regret and express their love for you but you don’t see any real change and it keeps happening. Walk away. You don’t have to engage in an endless loop of sadness and disappointment.
Put yourself first
If you can no longer trust your significant other and you no longer feel safe or comfortable, choose to forgive but you don’t need to stay in the relationship. This includes letting go of the desire for revenge too.
Forgive for your own peace of mind
Holding a grudge is mental torture. Your mind and emotions will wreak havoc on your body. When you forgive and choose to move on, you benefit the most. Your mind is an important asset and there are more important things to consider than to let this occupy that space.
You do not have to forgive someone who is lying and unrepentant about their actions and it won’t happen just because the other person apologizes. But forgive yourself for getting involved with such a person and remember that time heals all wounds. Give it time.
Forgiveness will ensure your mental and emotional health. By doing this you reduce anxiety, anger, stress and aggression. Depression is reduced and your heart and immunity function better too.
Yes, facts are important. You have to be truthful and not lie and mislead people. However, just telling facts on their own won’t do the trick. You need to make the facts relevant. Credit where credit is due. Donald Trump told stories that people could relate to and made it such that dry facts on their own didn’t matter. Let’s look at the comparison in Singapore.
Our ministers are good at reeling off statistics. If you talk about open door policies on immigration, they will inevitably reel off a bunch of statistics on how that benefits you, the voter. However, even if those statistics are true, they don’t tell a believable story, especially if you’re talking to a forty-something-year-old retrenched PMET (professional, managerial, executive, and technical) who can’t get a job and has a mortgage to pay and all he notices is that the HR manager in every company he’s applied to happens to be from a particular nationality.
Say what you like about Donald Trump, but he is an exceedingly successful politician. For all his obvious faults (the management chaos helped boost the sales of newspapers and wrote material for comedians), the man inspired passions and somehow every issue in the world’s most significant nation became all about him. Even with his criminally inept – the world’s most advanced country has significantly more Covid cases and deaths than India and Brazil – which are both developing nations.
Incidentally, when someone wrote a LinkedIn post about how Singapore needed to ban people from places like India and the Philippines, I replied that we needed to ban white Americans for spreading misinformation along with the disease. My comment was deleted by LinkedIn for “bullying” – but apparently it was OK to talk about banning people from India and the Philippines, even if White Americans are more likely to give you Covid than Indian or Filipino management of Covid-19.
Donald Trump still managed to get more votes than anyone else in history, and one can say that the 2020 election was not so much a case about Biden winning but Trump losing – a case of more people voting against him rather than for Joe Biden. Furthermore, one cannot rule out the possibility that should he run again in 2024, he may well be back in the White House.
I will undoubtedly come under fire for what I’ve just written and it’s worth understanding why people whom you might deem a rational and decent would cheer on a man who openly targeted an ethnic group (the one that actually does work in the USA – or as one Mexican guy said “the group that actually makes love to women”) and didn’t seem to find anything wrong with the fact that Neo-Nazis and members of the KKK felt so embolden during his stint in the White House.
So rather than talk about his policies, let’s look at why he’s managed to inspire so much passion. The answer lies in what the man is – which is a brilliant salesman. The Donald instinctively understands that humans are essentially emotional and when it comes to buying products and services, how they feel about a said product or service is perhaps more important than the dry details of that product or service’s benefit.
If you look at what Donald Trump did in 2016, you’ll notice that what he was doing was creating feelings about himself rather than reeling off product benefits. He made it such that his opponent, a known “policy wonk” turned out to be dry and well, the less said the better.
Sure, we live in an environment where marketing has become “left-brained” where data analytics and research consultants have grown in stature at the expense of creative agencies. Whilst the more technical side of marketing communications may be on the rise, some of the best drivers of sales have come from advertising that brings out feelings.
David Ogilvy famously said, “When I write an advertisement, I don’t want you to tell me that you find it ‘creative.’ I want you to find it so interesting that you buy the product.”
Bill Bernbach, the legendary creative director of DDB went further and made the point that “Facts are not enough.”
A great salesman needs to tell a story, and Trump did tell stories that people wanted to hear. He was fact-checked and, for the most part, found to be lying or to use his words “telling truthful hyperbole.” What fact-checkers forgot was that Trump had made it such that facts were not really relevant.
When I was an intern at Citibank back in 1999, my then boss, Mr Eddie Khoo would tell us that “there is no sale without a story.” Trump told stories and people could feel whatever he was saying, regardless of the facts.
This is something that people need to remember. Having data is good. Having facts on your side is good. However, you’re not going to get very far if you can’t make the data relevant to your audience. Which tells a more believable story? One that reiterates statistics, or the one that people can relate to from their gut?
A former Singapore Airlines (SIA) cabin crew member completely changed her career path when she decided to help her husband’s family business during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Chen Jiaqi, 29, graduated with a communications and new media degree. She worked in SIA for three years.
As she was working from home during the Circuit Breaker period, Ms Chen noticed that her in-laws were frequently worried about their butchery at Quan Shui Wet Market at Block 156, Bukit Batok Street 11.
The stall owners told 8World that they were afraid their business wouldn’t make it through the Circuit Breaker.
Ms Chen then decided to utilize her degree and work experience in retaking the business online after a previous attempt that didn’t push through.
The family business started small and began accepting orders from neighbours through messaging platform WhatsApp and delivering them by foot.
Privy to the critical elements of digitalization and the current market trends, Ms Chen designed a website for the business, including taking photos of their products and creating a sales strategy.
Every family business prides itself on sharing the load with everyone, so Ms Chen could also be spotted chopping meat, preparing chickens and making deliveries.
Within two months, the business began improving, resulting in Ms Chen quitting her day job to work full-time at the stall.
She admitted to 8World that she never imagined working at a wet market. There were challenges, such as starting early and ending late daily or the humid and dirty working environment.
“The damage to body and soul is quite significant,” she noted.
However, Ms Chen has her husband for support because he too left his teaching job to work at the family business.
Meanwhile, the stall owners are happy they can retire earlier, seeing their son and daughter-in-law taking the reins of the business.
“It is our first time baring our hearts and souls on-screen and it is such a vulnerable and and humbling experience,” said the family in a Facebook post, sharing their 8World feature.
“Thank you to everyone who has stuck by us this entire journey and a warm welcome to our new friends! We hope that you got to know us better through the video and feel free to chat with us, we would love to know more about your stories as well!”/TISG
Television star Blac Chyna has lost the $138 million (USD $100 million) lawsuit she brought against the Kardashians. The model will go home with empty pockets as the judge declared that there would be no damages awarded whatsoever.
Chyna, 33, accused Kim Kardashian, her sisters Khloe and Kylie Jenner as well as their mother Kris Jenner of making defamatory statements against her that ruined her reputation and scheming to ensure her television show Rob and Chyna got canned.
She was formerly engaged to Rob Kardashian and had sued the family for loss of earnings. In her lawsuit, she claimed that the women had falsely told television producers and executives that she had violently attacked her then-fiancé in December 2016 in an attempt to get her reality show cancelled.
The jurors who deliberated for 10 hours said that while the Kardashians-Jenners had often acted in bad faith and were not justified in their abuse claims, their behaviour was deemed to have had no substantial effect on the fate of the spinoff show.
Chyna’s lawyer Lynne Ciani said, “ Two things. Number one, the jury found that Chyna had not physically abused Rob Kardashian. Number two, the jury found that all four defendants intentionally interfered with [Chyna’s] contracts with the E! Network. We will appeal the remainder of the verdict.”
Network executives from E! testified the Kardashians’ and Jenners’ actions were not the reason Rob & Chyna ended, in fact, the show wasn’t ever officially renewed for a second season in the first place.
Earlier in the trial, Kris Jenner had testified, speaking about Blac Chyna’s alleged history of abuse. She said that Chyna had pulled a gun on her son as well as threatened her daughter Kylie Jenner and her daughter’s then-boyfriend Tyga. Tyga also has a child with Chyna.
However, Kris Jenner said that the family had no power to get her show cancelled.
After the verdict, lawyers for the Kardashian and Jenner family “expressed appreciation” for the jury.
They added they were “thankful for the steady hand” of Judge Gregory Alarcon.
Rob & Chyna aired from September through December of 2016.
The world is opening up, and in areas where nobody expected it to. A former colleague has, for example, found the joys of driving a jeep made by Mahindra Automotive. This is a revelation in as much as India didn’t get manufacturing in the same ways that the Chinese didn’t get software.
Africa, for example, is also producing music as well as natural resources. We cannot stop hungry people from getting the things we take for granted. One of the best ways to commit financial suicide would be to willingly become a prisoner of our parent’s worldview.
I have started watching a reality show called “Young, Famous and African,” on Netflix. As the title of the show illustrates, this is a reality show based around Africans, who are exceedingly wealthy, young, and famous. The show is shot primarily in Johannesburg, South Africa.
However, the participants in the show are not limited to South Africa. The show’s power couple is from Nigeria, and one of the more colourful characters is from Tanzania. Think of this as Africa’s answer to “Bling Empire.”
This show is what you’d call an eye-opener, and hopefully one that will open the rest of us to the opportunities available in a world of increased nationalism and Covid restrictions. If you talk to enough people in Singapore and beyond, you’ll find that their image of Africa is limited to a single, monolithic block filled with starving black people being screwed by dictators mollycoddled by China.
Whilst much of Africa is poor and filled with starving people ruled over by some of the worst brutes in history, there are parts of Africa that are growing their wealth. Whilst the middle class in Sub-Saharan Africa remains small compared to many parts of the world, the fact remains, there is such a thing known as a “Consumer Market” in Africa and wealth is being created outside what is considered the only economic activity in Africa (looting natural resources) – the participants in this show, for example, money are made from movies and music.
Copyright South China Morning Post – An African Queen of Bling, who doesn’t “own” a resource rich nationCopyright GANDAlebs – Another African Queen of Bling who proves that a woman with brains can go far in a “Dark Continent”
Seeing a “Prosperous” Africa is a powerful reminder to the rest of us that the world that we grew up in is changing. Singapore like the other Asian Tigers (Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea) got rich by manufacturing more cheaply and selling to the developed world of the West and Japan. Wealth was generated in one part of the world, and the rest of the world acted as a contractor. Hence, the early development of Asia was in the manufacturing of “cheap” goods.
However, things have changed since then. The developing Asian giants of China and India disrupted this model of development. China’s economy went from USD178 billion (smaller than Canada, Spain, and Brazil – let alone Germany and Japan) to USD 14.72 trillion (Only the USA has a larger economy and the talk is about when rather than if China becomes the world’s largest economy).
Suddenly, the world economy had a few more engines and economic prosperity in the developing world has brought along social changes. French cognac producers, for example, no longer kick up a fuss when people mix cognac with soft drinks. The reason is simple – the largest market for cognac is Asia or more superficially China, which is filled with people who mix their cognac.
Furthermore, the traditional model of development has changed. Innovation, for example, used to be regarded as a uniquely Western thing, with a lot of economic growth in the developing world coming from people bringing Western things into Asia. This is strictly speaking no longer true.
China, which had a brand name in low-end manufacturing, is trying to get rid of low-end manufacturing and high-end technology companies like Tencent and Alibaba. The mid-tier Indian companies that did things cheaper than their Western counterparts make the distinction of being “product” companies that create things rather than do things cheaper.
This is not to say that developing countries are the cure all for everything. Just as China and India have a middle class bigger than most countries have people, the vast majority in both places live in awful poverty. Americans in particular needed to be reminded that China will only be the largest economy because it has more people.
Even when China becomes the largest economy in the world, the average American will be more prosperous than the average Chinese. Migration flows will continue to flow out of developing countries. As has been pointed out, the American-Born Chinese (ABCs) still call themselves Americans of Chinese descent rather than Chinese with American passports.
I’m not saying that dealing with people from the less developing world is going to be easy. However, the point is that the developing world is actually developing, which means opportunities in a variety of industries are being created.
Kim Kardashian struggles up Met Gala stairs wearing Marilyn Monroe’s too-tight dress
As she struggled to walk up the Metropolitan Museum of Arts Steps, to say Kim Kardashian’s Met Gala dress was tight is an understatement. She attended the Met Gala with her new beau Pete Davidson.
The reality TV star and SKIMS founder had worn Marilyn Monroe’s iconic dress, which the sex symbol had donned for John F. Kennedy for his 45th birthday in 1962. The dress gained both fame and notoriety as Monroe crooned the Happy Birthday Mr President song while wearing it.
Woman secretly poked holes in her ‘friends with benefits’ partner’s condoms to get pregnant
A German woman who was in a ‘friends with benefits’ arrangement with a man has now gotten the female companion a jail sentence. This happened when the woman desired more from the connection to the point that she started poking holes in the condom supply they were using.
She even told him she had nobbled the condoms and was expecting a child. He informed the authorities, who found her guilty of sexual assault! According to media sources, ruining a condom before an assignation is referred to as ‘stealthing,’ and usually entails the man breaking the birth control barrier. This is where she made legal history in the country.
Man who got his penis attached to his forearm offered Kate Beckinsale his sausage after she bigged him up online
Photo: Screenshot from The Sun UK
A father, 47, recounts how he lived with his new genitals attached to his forearm for six years after his real one fell off in a toilet due to a blood infection. He claims he burned the attachment while cooking and slapped his family in the face with his genitals when hugging them.
Malcolm MacDonald of Norfolk had his genitals amputated 12 years ago. Medics created him a penis that was attached to his forearm owing to surgery problems, and he appeared on Channel 4 as ‘The Man With a Penis on His Arm’ on Thursday night.
Memories of Golden Mile: “Hello, I’m Morning Dew. How are you?”
Golden Mile Complex, known as Singapore’s Little Thailand, has been put up for sale since Oct 31 last year for S$800 million. (Photo: Screengrab from YouTube)
“I am not sure whether I am about to say goodbye to the Golden Mile Complex which has just been sold for $700 million to a consortium consisting of Perennial Holdings, Sino Land and Far East Organization. Hopefully not. Most likely, yes. But meanwhile, let’s share some memories.”
95-year-old cleaner at Woodlands coffeeshop says she will work ‘as long as her body allows it’
Photo: FB screengrab/Larry Lai
At first glance, an elderly woman clearing tables at a Woodlands coffee shop might be a heartbreaking sight. However, one grandmother reportedly chose to continue working because she did not want to be a burden to her children.
Mdm Zheng Xuehua has been working at a coffee shop in Block 780, Woodlands Crescent, for 14 years.
According to Chinese daily Lianhe Zaobao, Mdm Zheng has had a hard life, her legs getting less flexible as she ages.
A woman shared on social media her experience with a boy who asked her for a piggyback ride and walked away just fine after she refused.
In an alarming turn of events, it appears that others have also been approached by a boy requesting the same thing.
TikTok user @xuanlai posted a video of what happened on May 6, noting she was “freaking out.”
The woman was walking home when out of nowhere, a kid appeared “from behind a pillar” and tapped on her shoulder.
“Can you help me? Can I climb on your back,” the boy allegedly said.
The TikTok user was confused at first and asked the kid why.
“He told me that his leg was in pain, and I asked him where is your pain,” said @xuanlai.
“He showed me his thigh, and there was nothing that indicated an injury (no broken skin, cuts, bruises, fractures, swelling, etc.,” she wrote in the caption.
The woman then noted that the kid was walking normally. Her gut feeling also alerted her to leave the premises immediately.
“He kept insisting that I give him a piggyback to a block nearby. Even when I gave him alternative ways I could help him home, he begged for me to give him a piggyback ride, plus he looked very scared,” she added in the caption.
She told the boy that her hands were full, and she couldn’t accept his request.
In the comments, @xuanlai shared more information that the incident happened at night. “Both me and my sister’s friend experienced it at night.”
At first, she thought it was a dare, but she didn’t see any other children laughing or snickering.
“When my sister’s friend experienced this, she said there was a grown man standing nearby observing them, pretending to use his phone,” said noted. “Both the man and the kid disappeared at the same time.”
Netizens commented on her post, sharing they, too, went through a similar situation.
Getting people to play together is the best way of ensuring that peace is secured. Tensions between nations, just as tensions between people, will always be a constant. Just exercise allows individuals to channel aggression, and sporting events allow nations to channel feelings of aggression onto the sporting pitch instead of the battlefield.
I believe that Singapore should look into this and see how we can host events that get the world’s rivals to duke it out in the national stadium. Sure, we’ve been good at some grand gesture politics, like getting Xi-Jinping and Ying-Jeau or Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un to shake hands in Singapore. However, we can do more. We have what you call the right ingredients in as much as waring parties want to behave when in Singapore.
Can you imagine if we hosted an annual football tournament between Israel and the Palestinian Authority? We share a bond of being two small non-Muslim nations between larger Muslim nations with Israel, but we also have a sizeable enough Muslim population to make the Palestinians feel at home.
I’m not much of an athlete. My “sporting” career was something of an accident in as much as I simply enrolled in the school karate club and persevered until the club couldn’t maintain its numbers and ended up closing just as I was starting my A-levels. However, whilst I’ve never been much of an athlete, I’ve always loved watching sports and following the drama of great sporting events.
Growing up in England meant that I ended up in the centre of great rivalries such as the annual Five Nations (Now known as Six Nations) Rugby tournament between the home unions (let’s remember that the United Kingdom isn’t a single country but four and this is the chance for Wales, Scotland, and Ireland to stick to England.
I am young enough to remember the 1990 Scottish Grand Slam) and France (the English and French have been at it since 1066 when the Normans took control of England), England versus Germany football (The English like to remind the Germans they won the war and Germans remind the English that they’ve won four world cups to the solitary won for England) and England versus Australia in cricket.
These rivalries also extended to individual sports where you had Edberg versus Becker at Wimbledon and Formula One in those days was about the late Ayrton Senna versus Alain Prost and Nigel Mansell.
These sporting rivalries are perhaps one of the most important developments in the last century because they provide an important outlet for nationalistic feelings. This is particularly true in Europe, which was, in the early part of the 20thcentury, the centre of rivalries that got played out in two world wars.
I think of former British Prime Minister, Sir John Major (Born in 1943) who said that whilst his predecessor, the late Baroness Thatcher (Born in 1925), grew up in a Europe that could not conceive of peace on the continent, he was from a generation that could never conceive of war taking place in Europe (excluding Eastern Europe, which was only just emerging from Soviet domination).
How did Sir John Major’s words come about? A large part of it has to do with the creation involving the creation of the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Community (EEC) as it was then known.
European countries started trading together and realised that if they gained prosperity from trading together, there was no reason to go to war. The driving force behind the EEC or EU was to ensure the Franco-German rivalry that was at the heart of two world wars would become a Franco-German partnership to create prosperity for each other.
Whilst economics was an important driving force in bringing former enemies together, the importance of sports cannot be underestimated. Just as there was an idea that trading together would disincentives war, sports got people to “play together” and the potential for “nasty nationalism” got channelled onto the sporting pitch rather than onto the battlefield.
In the 1930s, it was all about keeping Germany down. These days, the English, and Dutch are trying to beat the Germans on the soccer pitch.
There are lessons for the rest of the world. Here in Asia, we have several flashpoints like North-vs-South Korea (which could turn nuclear-nasty), India-vs-Pakistan (also potential for nuclear-nastiness) and let’s not forget China-vs-Taiwan. With the exception of India-vs-Pakistan, these rivalries consist of people who don’t “play together.”
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The circumstances of the above image are inevitably much better than the one below:
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Whilst nobody has yet to conduct a study, I would argue that cricket matches between India and Pakistan have helped tame the tensions and potential for war between two nuclear-armed countries.
By hosting sporting events between some of the most bitter rivals on the planet, we can really be a powerful force for good. The diplomatic and commercial benefits are enormous. It’s something our Ministry of Foreign Affairs needs to look into.
