Intellectual property rights experts and farmer's rights activists in Thailand are up in arms over their government's proposed native-resources protection bill. The bill, designed to protect the country's native animal and plant species, has been drafted to help Thailand comply with...
Academics and lawyers yesterday called on the House of Representatives to set up a joint committee with the Senate to revise the native-resources protection bill.
They argue that the bill - approved by the...
Sony has registered the phrase “shock and awe,” used to describe US military tactics at the beginning of the war in Iraq, for a possible computer game. However, the game may not be sold in Britain and Europe if the scenario is set in Iraq owing to the European criticism of the war. Sony registered...
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As the first round of negotiations with North Korea ended without positive results, the US is considering other strategies to deal with the nuclear crisis in Northeast Asia. The hawks in the Bush administration have come up with the "quarantine" solution, which will put North Korea in an...
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社会学家里亚兹•哈桑（Riaz Hassan）指出，“阿拉伯之春”燃起的民愤和对自由的普遍诉求并未持续多久，便被紧随其后、卷土重来的独裁模式所取代，这重新激起了世人对中东地区伊斯兰教信仰和民主问题的讨论。约莫在公元1000年，中东的GDP占全球GDP总量的10%，相较之下，欧洲只占到9%——两个地区的宗教势力均以保护精英阶层和维持现状为己任。七个世纪后，欧洲GDP占到全球的22%，而中东则只占2%。研究人员试图探询造成这一显著差异的罪魁祸首，其中包括沙漠地形、体制的孱弱和妇女的弱势地位。哈桑由一系列不同学科出发对该现象进行仔细考察后提出，对财产、...
来自伊斯兰世界的自由呼声：饱受压迫的叙利亚民众上街游行，要求自由（上）；印尼总统苏西洛•班邦•尤多约诺（Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono）的支持者在选举集会上手舞足蹈（下）
新加坡：有关伊斯兰教在中东地区的政治落后中所扮演的角色的争论由来已久，最近该议题又重回舆论前端。“阿拉伯之春”的迅猛推进势头因随后卷土重来的独裁倾向而式微，再度引发争论。尽管争论将会持续，但一个尝试性的答案认为，同独裁主义的这种“藕断丝连”的纠葛，在更大程度上可归因于阿拉伯的历史与文化，而非伊斯兰教。...
US President Bush announced a decision to transfer 14 suspected terrorists from Central Intelligence Agency detention centers around the world, including some European countries, to the US military prison in Cuba. By admitting the existence of such secret prisons, Bush put some of his European...
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A rise in state-owned funds and companies investing internationally has triggered national security concerns in a variety of countries and even some protectionist measures. These worries can sometimes be valid – observers of Russia's state-owned natural gas giant Gazprom, for instance,...
When Congress failed to pass a restrictive bill last year that would have threatened foreign direct investment in the U.S, we thought we'd escaped a bullet. Now, another challenge to FDI world-wide has appeared on the...
Often criticized for overwhelming global audiences with 'American culture', evidence from the past twenty years shows that Hollywood is expanding its embrace to include actors from Hong Kong, scripts from South Korea, and production facilities in New Zealand and China. With 50% of its...
Jet Li in China's official entry at the Oscars - 'Hero': A global film with a Chinese director, Hong Kong actors and Hollywood financing. (Courtesy: www.netasia.net Target Asia Network Corporation)
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.: In the eyes of the world,...
Oil production is at the center of current political controversy in Nigeria: The government has become rich from oil sales, while the majority of the population remains destitute. Trade unions imposed an oil workers' strike over the past three days, demanding that the government maintain...
Trade unions in Nigeria yesterday threatened to extend a three-day general strike which has shut down much of the country and driven world oil prices to a record high.
The stoppage was due to end today but...