Many voters in the United Kingdom are having second thoughts about leaving the European Union, and not simply because of the plummeting value of currency or stock markets. The referendum’s outcome instantly transformed the UK’s reputation, from being open to trade and diversity to being isolated...
Buy here, but don’t stay: Foreign shoppers go wild in London, top, while British National Party demonstrates against immigrants
NEW BRUNSWICK: The action of 17.4 million voters from a small island on the western edge of the Eurasian landmass has...
With expanding wealth and middle classes in emerging economies, global production of meat has more than doubled since 1986. Such agricultural production also has environmental costs. So entrepreneurs are trying to develop new foods that taste like meat products. “Meat is not their only target:...
Six-Party Talks began in 2003, with China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the US teaming up to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear-weapons ambition. Talks continued on and off with isolated North Korea, as it inched forward with its own nuclear development and clandestine export of nuclear...
Now you see it, now you don't: Syria covered up the site of North Korean built nuclear reactor (top), after it was bombed by Israel
WASHINGTON: North Korea has dropped tantalizing hints about rejoining the Six-Party Talks on its nuclear program,...
Almost two thousand years ago, the Romans were marching towards Germania, intent on expanding their vast empire. In what is now Germany’s Teutoburg Forest, the region’s residents repelled the empire’s army, forcing the invaders to retreat southward for good. In the 19th century, the story became an...
From the Alps to the North Sea everyone would probably be speaking a mixture of French, Italian and Spanish, and it is unlikely there would ever have been a German Empire. History would have taken a...
Domain names ending in dot.nu – “nu” meaning “now” in Swedish – sell like hot cakes in Sweden. The rights to operate dot-nu domain names, accorded to the US-based entrepreneur Bill Semich in the late 1990s, have earned him financial success. Semich has applied some of his newfound profits to the...
The arrival of the Internet brought a rare bit of good fortune to Niue, a tiny, impoverished island in the South Pacific.
Its national Internet suffix, dot-nu, has become a big hit in Sweden, as "nu" means "now...
Nayan Chanda, editor of YaleGlobal Online, interviewed former US President William J. Clinton on October 31, 2003. The full text of the interview is presented here.
Nayan Chanda: You once likened globalization to weather. Why are a lot of people now angry about globalization?
Bill Clinton: Lot of bad weather. First of all, the system is not working for about half the...
Brazil, the world’s seventh largest economy and South America’s largest, is looking to expand its reach across the Atlantic: “Brazil, in particular, wants to safeguard its on- and offshore natural resources, which the navy calls the Amazônia Azul, or Blue Amazon,” write Nathan Thompson and Robert...
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Each year, hundreds of foreign women arrive in South Korea seeking employment as dancers or performers. Now, reports have surfaced of women promised decent jobs and then forced to become bar hostesses or perform sexual acts. As a result, the South Korean government has decided to cancel visas for...
The Ministry of Justice has decided to stop issuing E-6 visas to foreign women seeking entry for employment as dancers at cabarets and other night spots, ministry officials said yesterday.
The ministry made...
