An online petition protesting Japan's bid for a permanent UN Security Council seat has reportedly garnered over 22 million Chinese signatories. And as anti-Japanese discourse grows ever-more incendiary in cyberspace, the Chinese government may wonder how far "power to the people"...
Shadow on a shrine: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's annual visit to Yasukuni Shrine to honor the war dead, roils relations with China and other neighbors
At the dawn of the Internet Age, many visionaries...
今天，全世界的物质、思想、机构以及人员的交流在成指数增长，这个现象只是一个长期历史趋势的一部分。在人类历史上，人们对更为美好事物的追求一直激励着全球范围内的人口流动、贸易往来和思想文化的交流。
1962年，“全球化” 第一次出现在我们的词汇中，而现在，这个词语已经从一个那时的专门术语变成了今天的一个口头禅。《经济学人》杂志 （The Economist） 已经把它称之为“21世纪被滥用词语之最”。在我们最近的记忆里，没有哪个词语能够像“全球化”一样对不同的人群有如此不同的含义...
法国最近提出禁止在公共场合穿布卡（burqa），显示了其在价值观和安全问题上有意做出的如何与伊斯兰教徒打交道的决定。与其它西方国家不同，法国政府认为布卡不仅是个人选择，也象征着原教旨主义的政治议程，而这种议程危害了妇女权利，有时还会危及她们的人身安全。许多人批评法国的这一做法，认为这违反了个人权利的民主理念。此外，批评家们还认为，这将在穆斯林与其它民族融合的征途中确立恶劣的先例。尽管这一举措可能会使一些温和派变得激进，但也可能在穆斯林世界制造出反对原教旨主义的强烈呼声。然而，禁止在公共场合穿布卡这一措施的效果最终还要看法国国内的穆斯林群体；在欧洲，...
华盛顿：法国议会委员会建议在公共场合，诸如公交车、银行和医院等地，禁止人们穿布卡 （一种覆盖全身的头巾）。这是伊斯兰教和西方之间持续的文化战争中最近发生的一场小冲突。但这项可能通过的禁令的重要意义，以及由它所引发的爆炸性大讨 论，已经远远超出了仅仅为巴黎市区制定着装规范这个层面。它集中反映了关于如何才能最好地与伊斯兰激进派抗争的各种不同观点。激进派对伊斯兰信仰的阐释试 图让21世纪的生活向被伊斯兰教法奉为圣典的中世纪行为准则看齐。
法国认为布卡不只是一种服饰，还是——用法国议员安德烈•...
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...
Deutsche Bank employees flagged transactions of the Trump Foundation and other entities controlled by Donald Trump and Jared Kushner in 2016 and 2017 and prepared suspicious-activity reports for federal review. “But executives at Deutsche Bank, which has lent billions of dollars to the Trump and...
Creating and criticizing are part of a lively internet culture. Unfortunately, the internet is also used to promote fraud, copyright violation or other crimes. The Japanese government is moving toward more active monitoring and control of the internet within its borders. “Motivated by lofty goals...
In a country with one of the world's most vibrant Internet cultures, rumblings of change in the way that online information is managed, controlled and regulated is causing concern for many.
A series of reports...
A popular television show reveals a big divide in Iranian society. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has questioned the historical basis of the Holocaust. But the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei approves all programming for Iranian state television, including a well-funded show about an Iranian-Palestinian...
Every Monday night at 10 o'clock, Iranians by the millions tune into Channel One to watch the most expensive show ever aired on the Islamic republic's state-owned television. Its elaborate 1940s costumes and European...
Approximately 2 billion people around the world tune in on a regular basis to watch Latin American soap operas known as “telenovelas.” While Hollywood and the US television industry are often seen as the defining forces of cultural globalization, the success of telenovelas is a global phenomenon...
Latin American soap operas have circled the globe and made a splash in places as far flung as Poland, Russia, and Indonesia. Their secret? Plotlines that keep the poor and underprivileged glued to their sets. Now these...