Over the past 19 years, thousands of Thai fishing trawlers and fishermen have been arrested for poaching in the waters of other countries in the oceans off Thailand's coast. The introduction of the dragnet in 1960 allowed Thai fishermen to net large amounts of fish every hour. But the...
Over the past 19 years, 3,219 Thai fishing trawlers and 28,461 fishermen have been seized in waters off Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Australia, Burma, Malaysia and Cambodia. In many of these cases the...
According to Thailand’s Prime Minister, the spread of SARS is undermining regional cooperation in South East Asia due to the mistrust between different nations in the region. SARS has adversely affected the tourism industry in Thailand. Taiwan has protested its inclusion, by Japan, Thailand and...
The deadly SARS virus is undermining regional cooperation and sowing mistrust among Asian countries, many of whom are still on the road to recovery from the 1997 economic crisis, several political leaders and analysts...
Thanks to the EU, two halves of a divided nation are re-united. Turkish and Greek residents of Cyprus are now able to cross the Green Line – a UN-patrolled border separating the two groups – with ease and comfort. At Turkey's urging, the Turkish Cypriot leadership agreed to drop border...
The Turkish Cypriot leadership's response to Cyprus's formal accession to the European Union (EU) on 16 April has surprised the Cypriot government, stunned both Greek and Turkish Cypriots and transformed politics on the...
In the fire-breathing style that has become the hallmark of North Korean propaganda, an unofficial spokesman of the country threatened retaliatory attack on the US mainland if Washington decided to hit its nuclear reactor. Not that the US is planning to do that but the danger is that an...
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EU antitrust regulation has placed strict restrictions on government subsidies to private businesses. The German government’s plan to create jobs by financing job placement agencies and temporary employment contracts may contradict EU policy, and infringement proceedings against the country are...
Germany's master plan to halve unemployment by 2005 with the help of federal aid to companies which agree to hire may have hit a dangerous snag even before its imminent enactment. A new EU antitrust regulation threatens...
Charles Taylor resigned the presidency of Liberia yesterday in front of leaders from Nigeria, South Africa, and Ghana. The president of Ghana announced the terms of Taylor's succession, while troops from Nigeria and South Africa stood guard in the city of Monrovia to ensure that the civil war...
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As a sub-section of the Pew Global Attitudes Project survey, "View of a Changing World," this article examines the global public's attitudes towards globalization in the past five years. Generally, peoples of the world agree - albeit to different degrees - that after experiencing...
For more than a decade, globalization has been a deeply divisive topic among social activists, intellectuals, business leaders, policy makers and politicians. But the global public is less divided on the subject. To...
In scorching heat, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong demonstrating against a pending anti-subversion law. The proposed 'Article 23' legislation would give the government the power to ban organizations deemed unfriendly to China or Hong Kong, permit...
Dressed in black to represent the demise of human rights, waving banners and holding umbrellas to shield them from the summer sun, more than 250,000 people came out onto Hong Kong's streets on Tuesday to protest against...