US President Barack Obama’s visit to Vietnam, and lifting an arms embargo, underscores growing cooperation between the two countries that were at war just over four decades ago. David Nakamura reports for the Washington Post: “Obama said the latest step ‘was not based on China or any other...
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Many Indians are wary of starting business on their own. With a poor economy in the West, many are giving up jobs in Silicon Valley to return home and organize their own startups. The emerging economy offers a huge test market along with low costs and dependable workers. The returnees offer “an...
Homeward bound: Entrepreneur Anshuman Bapna (left) with his cofounder in his first home-office (top); greeters wait for arriving passengers in Bangalore airport (below)
BANGALORE: When Rachna Singh returned to India in early 2011 after a successful...
The world’s largest online shopping day got off to a strong start in China this November 11, a date with digits that symbolize being single. In a variation on Valentine’s Day, single Chinese shoppers buy themselves gifts. “The ‘anti-Valentine’s Day’ celebration was first known as Bachelors’ Day,”...
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Nairobi is home to more than 200 startups as well as established firms like Intel and Microsoft, reports Laura Mallonee for Wired. Photographs by Janek Stroisch show young adults at work alone on computers and with teams surrounded by gadgets, wires and equipment, all reminiscent of scenes from...
Media reports on Google’s redirecting internet searches by Chinese authorities to its uncensored site in Hong Kong have largely presented it as a conflict between two global titans. But the narrow focus of such reporting overlooks that Google’s pull-out was limited, leaving many services in place,...
Searching for new home: Google's empty office in Beijing after it moved part of its search operation to Hong Kong
NEW YORK: After negotiations failed over uncensored internet searches for China, Google stepped away from China’s web, and news reports...
US President Obama’s recent decision to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan may be his last chance to solve the worsening situation. It is a gamble likely to define his presidency. And, as former intelligence official and Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution Bruce Riedel writes, the...
WASHINGTON: Until Tuesday evening the Afghan war was a Bush legacy. It is now President Barack Obama’s war and history will judge him on the success of his bold gamble to send more troops to Afghanistan.
The situation there is dire and...
In an interview with Nayan Chanda, Editor of YaleGlobal Online, Daniel Yergin, one of the world’s leading experts on energy, discusses the future of dependence on oil and a push towards efficiency. He also talks about the “globalization of demand”, in which he states that the success of...
Nayan Chanda: We are delighted to have in our studio Daniel Yergin, one of the world’s leading experts on energy. He is the Founder and Chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and a Pulitzer Prize winning author of books. The latest one is...
If you get sick in South Korea, make sure the medication you buy is the real thing. In a recent raid on 123 pharmacies in Seoul, police seized millions of won in counterfeit pharmaceuticals. Local authorities and global drug companies say that fake drugs are easily available in Korea, but...
To international drug companies, the pills and capsules at neighborhood pharmacies may one day prove to be ticking time bombs.
Their general consensus is that the counterfeit pharmaceuticals market in Korea...
