After taking aggressive measures against Covid-19 in early January, Vietnam reported no new cases in more than a month. “Vietnam saw a small window to act early on and used it fully,” reports Anna Jones for BBC News. “But though cost-effective, its intrusive and labour intensive approach has its...
Globalization of Yale University began early. To mark the 150th anniversary of the graduation of the first Chinese student Yung Wing from Yale, Asian American Cultural Center and other organizations launched a lecture series. The first lecture entitled, "Yellow in a White World", was...
Thank you, Peter, for that most generous introduction. As the father of a happy Yale freshman, let me say that Yale College is very lucky to have a dean like you.
I also want to thank the Asian American...
The end of the Cold War ushered in the beginning of a new era – one in which the economic, military, and political superiority of the United States seemed an undisputed fact. Gautam Adhikari reexamines the vocabulary of unquestioned – and often unquestionable – US authority. While the country...
Limits of power: Even the sole superpower had to seek a deal with radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al Sadr, whom it had vowed to arrest or kill. (Photo: Al-Ahram)
WASHINGTON, DC: With American casualties in Iraq crossing the...
Amid many reports about the threat of vaccine hesitancy, a greater challenge lingers – millions of children missing out of potentially life-saving vaccinations because the treatments are too costly or unavailable. Jocelyn Chan, medical doctor and 2018-2019 International Fox Fellow, focuses on a...
Unhealthy inequities: The Gavi Vaccine Alliance has provided vaccines to developing nations like Kenya since 2000; Médecins Sans Frontières relied on a special global assistance program, a first for Europe, to vaccinate refugee children in Greece...
Competitive nations recognize that education helps societies advance. China is embracing research in sensors, brain-image scanners and other high-tech equipment to study children’s learning and performance in real time. “Neuroscience – studies of brain development, structure, function and...
Shaping young minds: Students at Jinhua Xiaoshun Primary School wear headbands with sensors developed by a Massachusetts company, and a UNESCO delegation visits the State Key laboratory of Neuroscience and Cognitive Learning (Photos: Wall Street...
Archeological discoveries and scientific analysis of materials continue to provide new insights on the transformation of the Chinese ceramic industry, in particular the development of porcelain during the Tang Dynasty, from 618 to 907. “During this period, China was the epicenter of Eurasian trade...
Art, science, history lessons combine: Museums reassess the history of Chinese art with the help of archeological discoveries like the Belitung shipwreck, laden with thousands of pieces of porcelain, as well as materials testing in art conservation...
Global recessions are rare, but the world may have dodged one in 2019. The world posted GDP growth of 2.9 percent that year, far below the average 3.5 percent posted since 1980. Deviations from the trend signal a warning even for strong economies and corporations, suggests economist Stephen S....
Not only democracies but dictators and authoritarian governments pursue the benefits of economic freedom. The recent passing of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and the Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman provokes economist Pranab Bardhan to reflect on the connections that these two...
Pinochet legacy: Time to debate whether Chile's brutal repression was worth the economic progress that Milton Friedman championed
BERKELEY: The lives of two recently deceased nonagenarians, one a brutal military...
