Here are some things we really appreciate our parents doing for us while we are put through the usual academic wringer.

Today, we take a little bit of time to say a few words of appreciation for our mothers, who are the wind beneath our wings.

Today is Mother’s Day and as we scramble to buy last minute gifts for all the mother figures in our lives, let us pause and ask ourselves frankly — at a time when postpartum depression is at its peak, workplaces are especially unforgiving to women who have just given birth, and the immediate family scene is replete with taunts about being a “good mother”, is an engraved pendant or a spa session enough to make mothers happy?

China raised the central rate for its yuan currency by the largest amount in a decade on Monday, officials and reports said.