Intent on eradicating malaria, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced plans to use DDT to combat a disease that still infects about 500 million people per year, most in impoverished countries. Malaria was eradicated in the US more than 50 years ago through extensive outdoor spraying of...
The World Health Organization, in a sign that widely used methods of fighting malaria have failed to bring the catastrophic disease under control, plans to announce today that it will encourage the use of DDT, even...
Wal-Mart executives eventually realized that requiring employees to smile at customers or participate in the “morning Wal-Mart chant” at its German stores did not mesh well with either the staid employees or customers. Differences in corporate and national culture, combined with competition from...
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The internet has contributed to unprecedented global connections, but its openness distresses some governments. Censorship takes many forms, and some nations even consider creating an exclusive system for their citizens, cutting off contact with the rest of the globe, notes John Negroponte, a Brady...
Internet check: Chinese police raid an internet café (top); Iranian woman surfs the web
NEW HAVEN: The internet as we know it is open, secure and resilient. This is no mistake. It was designed and evolved this way. Due to its open nature, the...
Analysts question US influence and capabilities, as the Covid-19 exposes corruption, a health system struggling with preventive care and other failures. The United States, with 4 percent of the world’s population, represents about 35 percent of Covid-19 confirmed cases and more than 25 percent...
Recent terrorist bombings in Bali have pushed the island to the brink of an economic crisis. With an occupancy rate of 11 percent in the 1,400 hotels, tourism is almost non-existent. Bali derives about 40% of its income from tourism and side services that cater to tourists. But there seems to be...
Bali does not seem to be much of a holiday destination these days. With taxis standing idle, restaurants seen half empty and hotels offering sharply-discounted rates, one would find it hard to believe that this is the...
As a thriving democracy, India has hundreds of political parties and is led by coalition governments. As a result, the party in power must please many special interests, not the least impoverished farmers who represent a majority, reports Stanley A. Weiss, founder of Business Executives for...
NEW DELHI: With hundreds of political parties, religions and languages, thousands of castes and subcastes, 3 million elected officials, 20 million government employees and 670 million voters, "there is never a dull...
Moon Jae-in became South Korea’s president in 2017 and the wake of a corruption scandal and impeachment of his predecessor. He has made addressing inequality a priority. “He is responding to a growing despair in South Korea that ordinary people cannot get ahead, small- and medium-sized companies...
Inequality and corruption: The IMF austerity recipe for growth after the Asian financial crisis prompted protests; South Korea has seen growth since, but is still wracked by inequality and corruption
SEOUL: During the height of the 1997-98 Asian...
Vietnam has a long and troubled history with China. After the chill caused by the 1979 Chinese invasion of Vietnam and subsequent tussles over the South China Sea, the two nations normalized relations in 1991 for cross-border trade and diplomacy. Still, the Vietnamese people are not so quick to...
Neighbor’s dilemma: Vietnamese protesters oppose a visit from the president of China, the powerful neighbor to the north; Vietnam’s Communist Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng welcomes Xi Jinping
HANOI: Few people had expected mass...
