Struggles in supplying enough water to meet demand are not limited to dessert or developing nations, and nearly half of the population in England and Wales live in areas with “water stress,” explains Juliette Jowit in an article for the Guardian. She reports on a government environment report,...
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The number of Thais attending Chinese universities has grown six-fold in recent years. Lower fees, China’s growing economic power, and the fact that many are third generation Thai-Chinese are reasons cited for the increased enrollment. Favored courses include Chinese language, medicine, acupuncture...
BANGKOK - Thai students are enrolling in Chinese universities by the droves - attracted by China's growing economic might, low tuition fees and quality of education.
They are making a beeline for courses, at the undergraduate...
The civil war in Libya has escalated even though the United Nations called for a “global ceasefire.” Warlord General Khalifa Haftar and his forces, the Libyan National Army, or LNA, claim to occupy some towns in the northwest and repel attacks by the UN-backed government army aiming to capture the...
The state once controlled narratives of memorialization, often confined to specific geographic spaces in museums or archives. The world has more technologies than ever before for gathering and conveying evidence of mass atrocities – from the internet and social media to holograms, artificial...
Global grieving; New technologies help museums and individual gather evidence and relay history – Holocaust survivor Sam Harris answered hundreds of questions to help create a hologram; global movement Together We Remember relies on social media to...
The price of oil has fell from $110 per barrel to about $60 per barrel for a combination of reasons: Increased US oil production has upended global markets; Nigeria once delivered a million barrels a day to the US; that dropped to zero this summer. Now oil-producing nations like Nigeria, Saudi...
Since the 1970s, Nigeria has sent a steady stream of high-quality crude oil to North American refineries. As recently as 2010, tankers delivered a million barrels a day.
Then came the U.S. energy boom. By July of this year, oil imports from Nigeria...
Over the latter half of the 20th century, relations between China and Pakistan were anchored in large part on both countries' strategic interest in balancing India as a regional power. The Karakoram Highway, which runs for 500 miles between the two nations, is representative of those...
Although billed as a 'friendship highway', the Chinese-built Karakoram Highway has carried Chinese arms into Pakistan and allowed passage of trained Islamic insurgents into China.
ISLAMABAD: The Karakoram Highway,...
This collection of editorial comments from Arab media argues that although the perpetrators of the Moscow theater hostage crisis identify themselves with Muslim groups, their actions are contrary to Islamic teachings and are utterly unacceptable to humanity. The inability to distinguish individual...
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En sólo tres décadas, China ha dejado de ser uno de los países más pobres, para convertirse en la segunda economía más grande del mundo. Sin embargo, en palabras de Yanzhong Huang, un senior fellow para Salud Global del Council on Foreign Relations de Washington DC, el rápido crecimiento chino se...
The dark side of growth: Forty percent of China’s rivers are polluted (top); China, dubbed the world’s factory is badly regulated
NUEVA YORK: De haber sido uno de los países más pobres del mundo a estar sólo detrás de los Estados Unidos, China está...
