Article: Globalisation is about profit, not freedom


New Straits Times
07-22-2000
Globalisation is about profit, not freedom
Edition: Main/Lifestyle; 2*
Section: Opinion
Column: Cross currents
Type: Interview
Memo: Farish A. Noor interviews Sulak Sivaraksa, a lay Buddist activist on the challenges facing the Buddist world in global age and the need for an ethical approach to political and economics.

AS part of a series of public lectures around the theme of "Coping with Pluralism in the Contemporary World", the House of World Cultures in Berlin had invited a number of prominent thinkers from different parts of the world to speak about the challenges that face their own religious and cultural communities in the present.

The lay Buddhist activist ...

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