Both China and Vietnam have filed appeals with the United Nations over territorial claims to the Paracel Islands after China placed huge drilling rig in the area. The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea gives countries exclusive economic use 200 miles offshore and the Chinese rig is 120 nautical...
UNITED NATIONS (TRNS) – China and Vietnam took their escalating territorial dispute in the South China Sea to the U.N. last week, as both countries filed appeals to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon over China’s move to place an oil rig near the Paracel...
The United Nations announced a 72-hour ceasefire for the war in Yemen. The pause, just after the US Navy fired missiles into Yemen in response to attacks on US ships in the Red Sea, may prevent expansion of the war that has killed more than 10,000 and displaced more than 3 million Yemenis. Yemen’s...
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Laura Kasinof was the Yemen correspondent for the New York Times from 2011–12 and the author of the reporting memoir Don’t Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen. She lives in Berlin.
China is the world’s biggest steelmaker, explains Peter Pham for Forbes. The country manufactures nearly half the world’s steel, essential for modern economies and infrastructure. Other Asian nations make 19 percent of the world’s steel; the EU, 10 percent; and NAFTA, 7 percent. As Chinese leaders...
Read the article from Forbes. Peter Pham is managing director of Phoenix Capital, author of The Big Trade: Simple Strategies for Maximum Market Returns and host of "The Big Trade Series" podcast.
The tale of General Motors may provide the inspiration for many a business parable. But according to author William J. Holstein, GM’s downfall started in the 1980s when the company failed to view as credible the threat of Japanese automakers and the tectonic shift in auto production to lean...
Rebuilding Confidence: Can GM become competitive, sheltered by the US government?
NEW YORK: The effort to transform General Motors and Chrysler by using American bankruptcy laws is a huge experiment. If it works, GM, in particular, will re-emerge...
As Europe strives to bail out Greece and other nations in serious debt, global investors ponder the long-term effects of huge imbalances. The worry is that countries with massive debt like Spain and Portugal can weaken strongholds like Germany and France, reports an article in the New York Times....
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The world should be united in ensuring food security. In an essay for TreeHugger, Lester Brown lists the multiple threats: increasing population, especially in the most impoverished nations; an expanding middle class in emerging economies consuming more meat; limits on farm expansion because of...
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Narendra Modi, on his fourth visit to the United States as India’s prime minister, makes a case for strengthening ties between the two nations. The relationship centers on trade, defense cooperation and concerns about China. “Indian moves towards the United States are driven in large measure by...
Strategy and human rights: Prime Minister Modi receives a warm welcome in Washington, top, but his administration’s action against human rights and environmental NGOs cast a shadow
LONDON: India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been a once-in-...
A feminist movement is expanding globally with collective actions like #MeToo and #TimesUp, yet predictably runs into challenges in conservative authoritarian regimes. In Turkey, the women’s rights movement has roots in the 19th century, and legal reforms were achieved in the early part of this...
Feminist threat: Turkish police disperse a march marking International Women's Day, left, and the Turkish government funds its own non-government organization – a GONGO – to support traditional roles for women
NEW HAVEN: As a new form of feminism...
