The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests led to iconic images, like the lone man, his identity unknown, confronting a line of Chinese People’s Liberation Army tanks. The ongoing protests in Hong Kong, which began in 2019, have already lasted more than twice as long as the Umbrella Movement and more than...
Struggle continues: Hong Kong’s lengthy protests since June 2019 provoke police shooting, and Tiananmen Square’s tank man from 1989 still inspires (Source: South China Morning Post)
IRVINE: In 1989, residents of cities across the People’s Republic...
India has deployed supersonic cruise missiles to Arunachal in the northeast, and China promised counter-measures. India developed the missiles with Russia. “The deployment of the cruise missiles is the latest in what is starting to look like an arms race between the two countries, which have...
New Delhi’s decision to deploy the BrahMos supersonic missile – the world’s fastest anti-ship cruise missile, which can fly at 2.8 times the speed of sound – in the disputed northeast state of Arunachal, has left its rival and neighbor fuming as big...
After the September 11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made the decision to present terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and Iraq as a linked triple threat. Susan Moeller, professor of media and international affairs at the University of...
White House press room: The US media listened too much to the White House and ignored independent experts.
WASHINGTON: Although Americans were already shivering from frissons of fear provoked by the post -...
Fear of global brands is a powerful, universally recognized phenomenon. Just as powerful and less noticed is the consumer pushback against global brands and search for unique, local products, notes Bryant Simon, author and American Studies professor. “The spread of these branded symbols of...
A new day: India's CaféCoffee Day challenges Starbucks
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON: Shakespeare’s birthplace is not immune from a common complaint. When Jim Hyssop saw a Starbucks open up several years ago in downtown Stratford-upon-Avon, near the McDonald’...
Up until this month, Singaporean women living overseas could not pass citizenship rights onto their children born out-of-country – only men were given this privilege. Children of expatriate women were forced to apply for citizenship. Yet as more Singaporean men and women leave the country to work...
CHILDREN born to Singaporean women overseas from May 15, 2004, will now be able to obtain Singaporean citizenship by descent.
As it stands now, only Singaporean men can pass on their citizenship to their...
Amid many reports about the threat of vaccine hesitancy, a greater challenge lingers – millions of children missing out of potentially life-saving vaccinations because the treatments are too costly or unavailable. Jocelyn Chan, medical doctor and 2018-2019 International Fox Fellow, focuses on a...
Unhealthy inequities: The Gavi Vaccine Alliance has provided vaccines to developing nations like Kenya since 2000; Médecins Sans Frontières relied on a special global assistance program, a first for Europe, to vaccinate refugee children in Greece...
Three decades after the Berlin Wall fell, political divisions are again rising between East and West Europe, reports the Wall Street Journal. “Despite the economic success of German reunification and the triumph of democracy across Eastern Europe, the two regions are drifting apart again in a clash...
Around the globe, more women and men are delaying childbirth, with many deciding against having children altogether. Economic recession, high unemployment rates, education and career ambitions contribute to the phenomenon. Among most developed nations, one in 10 women in their late 40s have no...
All the single ladies: Childlessness is no longer rare with women's rising education levels; about one out of four Italian women in their late 40s have no children, top, and in India, it's about one out of 30
NEW YORK: While considerable media...
