Japan recently unveiled a supercomputer so powerful that it would take the 20 fastest American supercomputers combined to rival it. The innovation has shocked U.S. computer scientists who have dominated the supercomputer-building scene for the last decade. Some believe the reason that the...
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Governments of some developing countries encourage and tangibly assist their citizens who are willing to serve as laborers overseas. In Thailand's case, though, the safety of Thai laborers abroad is also garnering the government's attention. After three Thai workers were involved in a...
The government has stopped job placement agencies sending workers to the Gaza Strip in the Israeli Occupied Territories after two Thai workers were injured in shootout on Friday.
Foreign Ministry spokesman...
President George W. Bush is supposed to stand for free trade and open immigration. However, his recent policies speak otherwise. New steel tariffs have been applied in a preferential fashion, and immigration initiatives favor Mexicans.
While some friends of the U.S., like Brazil, South Africa, and...
Trade and immigration policy were two of George W. Bush's chief claims to virtue. The US president stood for free trade, never once surrendering to the protectionist slogan "free but fair trade", unlike many Democrats....
If you're sick, it's definitely better to live in a rich country than a poor one. Pharmaceuticals produced in developed countries are prohibitively expensive for people in the world's poorest areas, but there are signs of improvement, says legal scholar Krishna Ravi Srinivas. In...
It costs millions to develop new drugs, but most trials don't result in usable medicines.
BLOOMINGTON, USA: When millions of people are in need of medicines for diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, should...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is recognized as the major trade organization of the world, but the emergence of many regional trade agreements (RTAs) has posed risks to global trade, according to the WTO director-general Mike Moore. Moore asserts that RTAs are developing their own rules within...
Mike Moore, director-general of the World Trade Organisation, on Friday warned that the proliferation of regional trade agreements posed a "systemic risk" to the global trading system which would be gravely aggravated...
El crecimiento exponencial del intercambio de mercancías, ideas, instituciones y personas que vemos hoy en día es parte de una tendencia histórica duradera. A lo largo de nuestra historia, el deseo de algo mejor y más...
印度正在迅猛发展的经济能让她所有的国民,无论是城市居民还是农村居民,都一样过上富足生活吗?迄今为止,印度的经济增长,几乎无一例外地集中在城市中心,而农村地区在很大程度上,仍然在极度贫穷的泥淖中挣扎。由于印度70%的人口居住在农村地区,所以绝大多数的印度人发现,他们并没有享受到国家经济繁荣带来的好处。印度的农民通常是以农业为生,而印度的政治制度青睐牙尖嘴利的中间商,不利于贫苦农民。有法律规定农民须通过国营市场来出售他们的农产品,这助长了官僚主义、铺张浪费和高昂的消费品价格。然而,与印度企业家们展开紧密合作的外资如果安置适当,就可以让农民直接进入城市市场;...
受限压抑:印度的贫苦农民被迫在政府运营的市场内,以极低的价格出售他们的农产品;是时候打开城市市场的大门了。
波士顿:印度经济的崛起,正是时下流行的新闻报道题材。然而, 尽管印度拥抱全球化(虽然这种拥抱来得比较晚),70%的印度国民仍被迫处于农村的闭塞之中,无法与能够带领他们脱贫致富的全球网络发生联系。对于这一困境的解决之道,其主要部分在于促使印度的企业家阶层发生改变,并且欢迎外国投资者将城市市场与他们在农村的农产品腹地连接起来。这种私营部门的促进作用,...
N约(NATO)最高文职长官——北约秘书长安诺斯•福格•拉斯穆森(Anders Fogh Rasmussen)设想,北约应在全球范围角色扩张。今天,北约创始成员国面对的威胁(更不用说整个世界面对的威胁)往往具有全球性,而且主体常常不是国家。因此,要消除这些威胁,就需要建立一个全球化的安全联盟。安全专家理查德•韦茨(Richard Weitz)认为,尽管拉斯穆森的构想并没有2006年提出的北约全球化建议(Global NATO proposal)那样雄心勃勃,但这一构想已经引起了俄罗斯和中国的焦虑。这两国担心,北约会在符合联盟自身利益的时候,规避联合国决议。...
全球化的诱惑:北约秘书长安诺斯•福格•拉斯穆森(Anders Fogh Rasmussen,上)设想北约应当发挥更大的作用,但该机构在阿富汗的表现却令人怀疑
华盛顿:冷战以后,北约和其它机构一直试图重新设定其在加强国际安全方面所扮演的角 色。眼下,北约最高文职长官——北约秘书长安诺斯•福格•拉斯穆森打算扩大该机构的权力,以便应对不断变化的情况。最近,他在颇具影响的慕尼黑安全政策会 议(Munich Security Conference)上指出,“在这个安全威胁变得全球化的时代,...