President Obama continues his first trip to Asia this week provoking diverse responses from different parts of the world. The talk of a “strategic partnership” between China and the US making a G2 has Europe scared. But, according to China specialist François Godement, there are too many...
Duopoly fear: President Obama with Chinese President Hu Jintao, too close for comfort?
PARIS: The specter of the G2 – a China-US condominium – is haunting European governments as much as the specter of revolution haunted its courts in the days of...
Intent on eradicating malaria, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced plans to use DDT to combat a disease that still infects about 500 million people per year, most in impoverished countries. Malaria was eradicated in the US more than 50 years ago through extensive outdoor spraying of...
The World Health Organization, in a sign that widely used methods of fighting malaria have failed to bring the catastrophic disease under control, plans to announce today that it will encourage the use of DDT, even...
In an interview with the Straits Times, Singapore’s Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew expresses his views on the recent protests in Hong Kong against the proposed anti-subversion legislation. Lee predicts that Hong Kong’s special legal status is unlikely to be threatened, as it is based on the Basic...
The July 1 demonstration in which protesters studiously avoided violence showed that they had learnt the lessons of Tiananmen, Senior Minister LEE KUAN YEW told The Washington Post's David Ignatius in an e-mail...
Emerging markets can prepare for a slowdown in the US by allowing their currencies to appreciate in value and developing new products for their own consumers, advises Raghuram Rajan, finance professor with the University of Chicago and former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. The...
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The self-proclaimed Islamic State terrorist group moved swiftly through Syria and Iraq, committing war crimes in two countries ravaged by civil war and sectarian divide. The group’s evolving name and online maps make no secret of the group’s ambitions for restoring a caliphate. ISIS closes in on...
Unpalatable choice: The West abhors joining force with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who is allied with Iran, seen in file photo with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, top, against brutal enemy – the Islamic State group rampaging through...
The internet offers endless exploration – and search engines like Google, which order search results based on complex mixture of volume, links, content and the democratic nature of the web, create some surprising new stars. Among the latest is 71-year-old Walter H. G. Lewin, professor at the...
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Only weeks ago, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao uttered the now famous words, "Japan needs to face up to history squarely." China has adamantly demanded that Japan come clean about its past war indiscretions, an issue that has provoked lively public debate. At the same time, Beijing has...
CHEUNG EK, Cambodia Outside this stark, but pastoral monument to the victims of Cambodia's gory Khmer Rouge years southwest of Phnom Penh, a group of young men played cards recently and listened to Chinese pop music...
Nations that engage in trading are not immune from the global economic crisis, as it spreads first throughout the trade-deficit, consumption nations and then on to the trade-surplus, producer nations, explains finance professor Michael Pettis for the Financial Times. Pettis offers three ways for...
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