Spain recently commemorated the first anniversary of the March 11 terrorist train bombings. With an international conference on terrorism and five minutes of nation-wide silence, Spain's conduct one year after the tragedy is markedly different from the US declaration of war in response to 9/11...
We are not afraid: Spanish Muslims join the demonstration against terrorism to mark the first anniversary of the Madrid bombing. (Photo: Reuters)
MADRID: Last March, a new word entered Spanish vocabulary: "9/11" of...
For forty years now, the Olympic Games have been televised to audiences around the globe, providing a public forum for assertions of national greatness and claims of superiority. In this context, writes Olympics scholar Emma Wensing, international sport "can be seen as a substitute for war,...
Despite the veneer of global unity, national rivalries still animate the way we view the Olympics
TORONTO: When the XXVIII Olympiad opens in Athens, get ready for the bursts of national pride. Since the 1964 Tokyo...
Since gaining independence from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Central Asia has remained solidly in the hinterland of economic globalization. The region has seen little of the boom experienced by its behemoth neighbors India and China. A recent forum, "Central Asia in the Global Economy...
Thirteen years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the economies of Central Asia are still struggling. One problem is that Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan are not relying enough on...
Trafficking in humans brings thousands of people against their will from Southeast Asia to Australia each year to serve as sex workers or virtual slaves. To help prevent such gross human rights abuses at the source, Australia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Thailand and other...
Thai and Australian government officials yesterday discussed new moves to counter the trafficking of "sex slaves" and other people Down Under and within the region.
Thailand is one of four Asean nations...
Can Taiwan teach Iraq lessons in democracy? Taiwanese officials think post-Saddam Iraq can learn much from its “young democracy”, since Iraq has before it a road Taiwan has already taken – from authoritarianism to modern democracy. So while many countries are still bidding for economic contracts,...
Rebuilding Iraq will top the agenda of the Taiwan Democracy Foundation when it begins formal operations by the end of June, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Michael Kau (高英茂) said yesterday.
"The Taiwan...
Some multi-national corporations are now larger economically and growing faster than many nations, a UN report says. The report was filed to answer the debate whether corporations were over-shadowing countries in economic stature.
Among the corporations, Exxon Mobil Corp, an oil company, topped the...
TWENTY-NINE of the world's 100 leading economic entities are companies, with the largest - oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp - bigger than the economy of Pakistan, a United Nations survey showed on Monday.
Pakistan is...
With world powers squabbling over military action in Iraq, a new poll shows that President Bush may still have work to do to convince his own citizens that war is an immediate necessity. While a majority of Americans support military action against Iraq, 59% think that the United Nations should be...
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The US may make headway on increasing automotive efficiency without federal support. Automakers General Motors and DaimlerChrysler dropped a lawsuit against a California rule requiring them to produce millions of cleaner, more efficient "hybrid" cars that operate on a combination of gas...
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