In the past decade, as China opened its markets to foreign investment, the northeastern city of Dandong developed into a bustling center of economic activity. But its North Korean counterpart city across the border, Sinuiju, is still languishing in bleak poverty. North Korea has made plans to...
DANDONG (China) - Streams of cars, trucks and taxis flow on bustling riverside roads in this Chinese city bordering North Korea.
Across the Yalu River, the North Korean city of Sinuiju offers a striking...
Rising inequality is a complex challenge that lacks simple solutions. “This complexity implies that any adjustments to our political economy should be based on sound social science and directed by elected leaders who are genuinely acting in the interest of the people,” argues economist J. Bradford...
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Nigerian authorities and the world may have lost a sense of urgency about Boko Haram’s brazen attacks on small villages and mass kidnappings. A UNICEF report points out that girls are regarded as sex slaves, boys are trained to fight, and both are used as suicide bombers. Inequality and a...
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Read the report from Unicef. Special correspondent Aminu Abubakar reported from Kano and Times staff writer Robyn Dixon from Johannesburg, South Africa.
Combative rhetoric in free elections challenges a united national foreign policy. More than 15 candidates in the US presidential race, to be decided in November 2016, compete by siding with President Barack Obama or criticizing his policies. After serving two terms, Obama cannot run for reelection...
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Migrant workers in South China are increasingly more assertive. A once relatively compliant workforce is staging more and bigger strikes prompting authorities to escalate suppression. Anita Chan, author and research professor, analyzes the internal and external forces behind the unrest. Labor...
Labor pains: Unwilling to tolerate harsh conditions, Chinese laborers begin to protest; workers at a shoe factory in Yue Yuen, Guangdong Province (top); Chinese factory workers take a break
SYDNEY: It’s been chiseled into the minds of Chinese...
The “opening up of a country to trade and investment has created opportunities for bribery and corruption on a scale greater than at any other time in the past,” writes Nayan Chanda, YaleGlobal’s editor, in his column for Businessworld. But the internet rallies citizens to protest corruption, too....
As globalization faces strong headwinds, generated by anti-immigrant and anti-trade backlash, a third issue challenging the benefits of global connectedness is taking center stage in many countries: corruption. It is not that corruption is directly...
About half of the world’s languages are at risk of falling into disuse in the near future. This rapid disappearance of languages is attributed to globalization, which has granted languages like English a special status of utility that rare languages do not share. Translators from entities like the...
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Taliban fighters still alive in Afghanistan plan to wage a grinding guerilla war against US troops, similar to the strategy waged against the Soviets during their occupation in the 1980s. Such fighters claim that Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar still resides in Afghanistan, hidden and directing...
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