The abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners in US custody in Iraq has made headlines around the world this week, with condemnation coming from many heads of state and governments who are appalled by the shocking images they have seen. Yet Iraq's own Governing Council, says this article in Egypt...
Two months ago a statement distributed in Baghdad and Falluja and signed the "Abu Ghraib Mujahidin" claimed that "many Iraqi female inmates were humiliated and raped" inside the Abu Ghraib prison. Abu Ghraib is a town...
In May graphic evidence of American soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners was presented to the worldwide media, causing an uproar and leading to charges of abuse that have reached into the highest levels of American policymaking. With the world's attention focused on Iraq, say the authors of...
Syed Nabi Siddiqi, a 47-year-old former police officer with piercing eyes and a long black beard, is lying with his face pressed to the floor, his arms stretched painfully behind his back. He is demonstrating one of the...
According to this article in Singapore's Straits Times, China's mishandling of the Sars epidemic is in part due to the communist country's heavy-handed control of its media and its proclivity for " putting its image above all else, including the lives of its people."...
CHINA must get to the root of the Sars problem if it hopes to restore international confidence after the country's mishandling of the outbreak.
Its sacking on Sunday of two senior officials - Health Minister Zhang...
As Washington pressed on with its effort to rid Iraq of its suspected weapons of mass destruction - read nuclear weapons - early last year, North Korea's nuclear program shifted into high gear. Or so Pyongyang would have the US believe. In this first-hand account of the recent unofficial...
Officials from Japan, US, North Korea, China , Russia, and South Korea met in Beijing in August for talks on North Korean nuclear issue: They will meet again, but it has become talks-for-talks sake.
WASHINGTON: Over the...
A significant lobby in Washington is pressuring Beijing to revalue its currency relative to the US dollar, claiming that the artificially low renminbi gives China an unfair competitive advantage. To be sure, Chinese resent the pressure and worry that an appreciation of the renminbi relative to the...
Money talks: China resists pressure to revalue its renminbi, but it could be good for financial liberalization
NEW HAVEN: As the US trade deficit continues to mount and Chinese exports surge, angry voices are...
North Korea is among the world’s most isolated nations. Since the end of the Korean War in 1953, the regime lashes out at South Korea, thriving just across the border. The most recent provocation: a landmine attack that wounded two South Korean border guards. Seoul responded by switching on...
Empty threat? North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatens war against South Korea, top; South Koreans carry on with life as usual
SEOUL: The blood-curdling threats against the South emanating from North Korea are all too familiar, but ironically the...
As finance minister for India from 1991 to 1996, Manmohan Singh prevented economic collapse by opening the nation’s economy. When he became prime minister in 2004, many anticipated great promise for India as an emerging economy. Over the past decade, India could pursue economic growth and strategic...
Lost in a multipolar world? President Obama meets Prime Minister Singh at the White House, top; Singh with Chinese Premier Li
LONDON: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a busy man these days – on a legacy tour, trying to underscore his...
Many nations seek economic relief by promoting exports. But a trade system built on all exports and no imports is an impossible feat to achieve. To lift economies from recession's mire, nations pursue, among other things, domestic rebalancing by curtailing unsustainable, wasteful spending and...
MEDFORD: Not so long ago, it looked as if the US was getting over its propensity to run unsustainable trade deficits and the world economy could move to “rebalancing” – meaning that its growth did not depend on unsustainable debt growth in any...
