Search for a secure source of energy has been a major concern for industry-rich, resource-poor Japan. It is a concern that has been further heightened by growing insecurity in the world and rising tension in the Middle East -- its principal energy source. A new geopolitical concern about...
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AIDS has had a devastating impact on the mining industry in southern Africa. Anglo American P.L.C. estimates that 28 percent of its workers are afflicted, and after months of indecision, the company has finally decided to provide them with antiretroviral drugs. This is a significant step in the...
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Global leaders are failing youth, and 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg addressed 60 world leaders at the UN Climate Action Summit about the need for urgent action on climate change, warning “we’ll be watching you.” Her assessment was concise, blunt and searing: “People are suffering. People are...
Covid-19 pandemic costs are immense, as the world heads into recession and unemployment increases. The United States, which may spend as much as $5 trillion to tackle the many challenges, and other nations question China's lack of transparency in late 2019. In turn, China threatens to boycott...
This article summarizes in English a story concerning SARS that appeared in the China Youth Daily. The story reveals the non-scientific reasons why Chinese scientists at the Beijing Genomic Institute, part of the global network on the Human Genome Project, did not succeed in contributing more to...
In a China Youth Daily interview, Henry Yang (Yang Huanming) of the Beijing Genomics Institute laments on how Chinese scientists failed to make a more important contribution to SARS research even though SARS appeared in...
Experts in science, technology, engineering and mathematics – the so-called STEM fields – help grow economies. Yet interest in these fields is down in the US and Europe. “Within industrialized countries, scientific and technical courses are deemed to be difficult, uninteresting and not competitive...
In Sub-Sahara Africa, reported Unesco in 2010, some 2.5M new engineers and technicians would be needed by 2015 to meet the millennium development objective goals (MDO) for access to drinking water and quality of public hygiene. In contradistinction...
More than 50,000 children have fallen ill, after drinking milk contaminated with melamine, a fertilizer ingredient. Chinese and dairy officials – including China’s San Lu, with a 43 percent share owned by New Zealand dairy firm Fonterra – colluded to suppress negative press before or during the...
While Chinese mothers were feeding poisoned milk to their babies , the state was suppressing any controversies that might tarnish the Olympics
In the last two weeks Chinese consumers have been in uproar over...
Thousands of migrants travel the deserts of North Africa, fleeing poverty and conflict, determined to reach Libya and eventually Europe. Many Africans with large families can no longer find work as drought and high temperatures devastate the agriculture industry, explains Thomas Friedman for the...
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