Japan has been the biggest laggard among the developed countries, and given the size of its economy, its ten-year stagnation has been a drag for the whole world. Power of the entrenched bureaucracy and vested interest of the political bosses have held back attempts to reform the economy. But...
Ready to break down barriers? Japan's newest export, leading baseball player Hideki Matsui and Japanese premier Koizumi in New York. (Photo: AFP)
WASHINGTON: After ten years of economic stagnation and policy...
"Defying predictions that the Internet was inherently too diverse and malleable for state control, China has denied a vast majority of its 46 million Internet users access to information that it feels could weaken its authoritarian power." That's the conclusion of a new survey of...
Click here for the original article on The New York Times website.
Click here to view the study on the Harvard Law School website
Globalization has delivered many benefits to those living in the United States and elsewhere around the globe: Panos Mourdoukoutas offers a quick summary: “It has helped America win the war on communism. It has freed Americans from government regulations and militant unions. It has assigned America...
Read the article.
Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe took a 3½-year voyage, landing on the asteroid Ryugu, believed to be 6 billion years old. The space probe – about 1 x 1.6 meters in size – dropped two robotic rovers on the asteroid to collect and return samples to Earth. “Japan … is developing its own niche in exploring the...
Population growth is linked to conflict, water shortages and resource depletion, climate change and mass migrations. The global population is now 7.3 billion people, up from 2.5 billion in 1950, and is expected to swell to near 11 billion by the end of the century. World leaders convene this week...
Developing population gap: Booming population of Uganda, top, is set to reach same level as that for the United Kingdom – though the UK's was three times larger than Uganda's in 1995
NEW YORK: As world leaders convene for the UN Sustainable...
Even a world superpower can use a few allies. European nations, long stalwart friends of the US, express alarm that the Bush administration could consider attacking Iran without extensive diplomacy, consultation with allies, and reasoned responses such as revision of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation...
EDITO - 2006 is full of ‘explosive issues’ within NATO which are generating bitter relations between the US and its most faithful partners. There is also this growing feeling among Europeans that European defense and...
During his first National Day Rally speech, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced and expounded upon the continuance of Singapore’s “One China” policy in the wake of his non-official visit to Taiwan. Tracing the root of the policy back to Singapore’s independence in 1965, Lee...
THE one thing that will not change is our approach to foreign relations. We seek to be friends with all countries, especially our immediate neighbours and the major powers. We pursue win-win cooperation with all...
Rising seas threaten to overwhelm the Maldives, and the first democratically elected president plans to put together a sovereign wealth fund directed at finding a new, environmentally secure home for a population of more than 350,000. President Mohamed Nasheed is looking at Sri Lanka, India,...
Click here to read the article in The Guardian.
