With high interest and high stakes associated with elections, political parties no longer patiently await official results. Instead, they turn to fast, global communications to tout victory, criticize results and shape the view of those on election watch. The goal is to weaken opponents, with the...
See the election results from Bangkok Post.
BANGKOK, STRAITS TIMES (REUTERS, DPA, BLOOMBERG) – A party linked to Thailand’s military led the popular vote after most ballots had been counted from Sunday’s (March 24) general election, giving it a...
Media coverage of the Iraq War varied to such an extent that viewers in the US and in Europe were left with distinctly different understandings of what was going on. Some Europeans claimed that America's 'embedded journalists' were simply 'in bed with' the US military,...
Cover of Stern newsmagazine: Anti-Americanism is now socially acceptable.
Thanks to 24-hour satellite television and all the global news agencies, the Iraq War was a global event. Yet the same event was seen in different corners of the world...
A populist movement is gathering momentum in Latin America. Moderate socialist candidate Michelle Bachelet has just been elected as the first female president of Chile. More radical Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanta Humala’s support has also been rising rapidly in recent polls. Humala is a...
In the latest sign of the populist wave coursing through Latin America, presidential candidate Ollanta Humala, a left-wing opponent of free trade and free-market policies, has surged to the top of the polls ahead of...
The war in Afghanistan has been underway since 2001, and confidential documents suggest that US officials hid evidence that the longest war in US history was unwinnable, reports Craig Whitlock for the Washington Post. Those documents entitled "Lessons Learned" were obtained after a three-...
More than 10 million soldiers and many civilians died in the First World War, 1914-1918. An assassination, incidental in the century’s overall history, triggered the massive war spurred by national rivalries and reckless arms race. “The approaching centenary should make us reflect anew on our...
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Biodiversity is probably the best protection against any biohazard that could hit the globe. Governments invest millions in technology to detect biohazards, but cannot expect to detect every possible problem with a gadget, argues Laura Kahn in “The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.” Animals and...
While policy makers fret over the obstacles in developing biosensor technology, the best and cheapest biosensors are already distributed globally but generally ignored: They're called animals. The United States has...
Developing nations struggle to balance aid, trade and politics with Asia’s largest economy. During Mahathir Mohamad’s first term as Malaysia’s prime minister, from 1981 to 2003, China was an emerging economy. Chinese investment has since become a major campaign issue for democracies like Malaysia....
Road bargain: Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad bargained with the Chinese leaders to reduce the price tag of a BRI rail project, and the Chinese build a bridge across the Mekong to connect Laos with neighbors
HONG KONG: Mahathir Mohamad...
Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator and Associate Editor for the Financial Times, talks about his new book “Fixing Global Finance,” and the current financial crisis. In this interview with Nayan Chanda, editor of YaleGlobal, Wolf explains why global imbalances caused the financial crises,...
Nayan Chanda: I am Nayan Chanda, editor of YaleGlobal Online, and we have returning to our studio, Martin Wolf, chief economics writer for the Financial Times. Martin, welcome back.
Martin Wolf: Pleasure to be here again...
