Indians still move abroad to work or study, but increasing numbers of restless immigrants are now turning to their ancestral land for opportunity. “By several estimates, between 50,000 and 60,000 information-technology professionals alone have returned to India from overseas since 2003, most to the...
Bay area to Bangalore: Returning immigrants recreate Californian comfort in India,
as country benefits from "brain gain" (Photo: © Steve Raymer) Enlarge image
BANGALORE: Residents of the South Indian city of Bangalore,...
Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, is inherently cautious in his choice of words. In the weeks leading to the Iraq war, Annan refrained from outright criticism of the grounds for invasion, and only recently did he warn of the dangerous precedents established by preemptive action. But in a recent...
The declaration of the United Nations secretary-general, Kofi Annan, on the Iraq war was shocking in its simplicity. He described it for the first time as "illegal". No caveats. No equivocation. None of the ambiguity...
A 2006 coup forced popularly elected Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra from office, abruptly ending his attempts to reform agriculture, education, taxation and other programs. Since then, protesters donning red shirts, led by the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship, have rallied...
Seeing red: Bangkok's middle class and the political-military elite resent disruption by protesting farmers
SINGAPORE: The protests by tens of thousands in the red-shirted movement have paralyzed Bangkok for nearly two months. The economic cost of...
Producers of necessary goods anticipate sustained profits, but that does not preclude competition in the areas of quality or affordability. As costs for health care climb in developed nations, India’s hospitals and physicians step up efforts to become a destination for tourists seeking a range of...
Almost a decade after it was originally envisioned as a major phenomenon, medical tourism in India is beginning to take off. More and more people across the globe are eschewing expensive treatments or long waits at hospitals at home for the benefits...
About 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is water and the planet also has a molten core melted core, so the planet wobbles as it spins. The wobbling increased over the 20th century and changed direction with the start of the 21st century, and NASA researchers suggest that melting sea ice is a...
Political, economic, military and historical forces can put civilizations into conflict, but also create a basis for affinity. Japan portrays its own democracy and China’s single-party Communist rule as diametrically opposed, thus qualifying China’s economic success and accounting for recent...
If civilizations tend to clash, is there among nations within the bounds of civilization a propensity toward affinity? Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso writes, "I welcome China's return to center stage-as long as...
Trust is in the eye the beholder, and the friend who speaks the truth is better than the one who tells others what they want to hear. China is developing a Social Credit System to evaluate citizens and assign trust scores, explains Rachel Botsam. An excerpt from her book was published by Wired. Of...
Any discussion on free trade must include a discussion of free immigration, for it is people that produce the goods that are to be traded. If the producers are not free to move, then trade itself is not free. As the writer Balakrishnan argues, “immigration cannot be ignored in any global compact on...
TODAY WHEN you say `globalisation' you may be understood as having in mind either the historical trend or a contemporary project, and this is no academic distinction. Of these, the trend is easy to comprehend. It is a...