One man’s protest against corruption has caught India’s attention, ignited by trends of mass protests abroad, argues Rajiv Kumar in an opinion essay for the Hindu BusinessLine: With fewer opportunities in the West, investors flock toward emerging economies like India, bringing along new demands for...
I wonder if those who see a foreign influence on Anna Hazare's movement realize how close they are to the truth. As I argue below, global trends now unfolding have a major influence on our social and political realities. Not of course in terms of...
Tools of globalization like the internet, so often blamed for homogenizing the world, are also encouraging diverse lingual communities to connect and even revitalize their endangered languages. “Linguists estimate that of the world’s remaining 6,500 languages, up to half will no longer be in...
Disappearing voices: Gyani Maiyi Sen, 75, remains one of the world's last Kusunda speakers, top; Boa Sr., the last known Bo language speaker died in Andamans at 85 (Photo of Boa by Anvita Abbi)
NEW YORK: No one should be too surprised to overhear an...
西方对于中国发展模式的一个通常预设，是一个由中央政府推动的“大一统”、在各个地区得到无差别实施的发展政策和实践。加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校教授、亚洲研究所主任王国斌则挑战了这种观点。他认为，中国形势远比这种预设要复杂得多。不同的地区有不同的刺激经济政策，而这些不同的省份和地区又能够在一个统一的政治框架之内进行有效的互相协调和合作。比起欧盟的“多重政治权威”运作方式，中国的模式显然要富有效率得多。而且，欧盟政治制度的安排，从本质上妨碍了其在日益一体化的市场中实行有效的金融规制，而中国没有类似困扰欧洲的问题。在刺激经济的计划中，中国采取了一条“财政政策优先于金融政策”的道路，...
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In what may be the largest, most diverse worldwide peace protest since the Vietnam War, millions of people protested against a war on Iraq. The demonstrations were largely peaceful worldwide, with very few problems reported. Under the umbrella organization United for Peace and Justice, protests...
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En sólo tres décadas, China ha dejado de ser uno de los países más pobres, para convertirse en la segunda economía más grande del mundo. Sin embargo, en palabras de Yanzhong Huang, un senior fellow para Salud Global del Council on Foreign Relations de Washington DC, el rápido crecimiento chino se...
The dark side of growth: Forty percent of China’s rivers are polluted (top); China, dubbed the world’s factory is badly regulated
NUEVA YORK: De haber sido uno de los países más pobres del mundo a estar sólo detrás de los Estados Unidos, China está...
Cambridge Analytica executives claim to have consulted on more than 200 elections around the globe - the website claimss 100 - and an undercover investigation in London suggests the company may have used extreme measures to support candidates in violation of the UK Bribery Act and the US Foreign...
Donald Trump won the US presidency with less than a majority vote and governs with a level of support that struggles to reach 40 percent. The administration’s ineffective policies reflect a larger society that thrives on “an unrelenting barrage of crude and voyeuristic entertainments, most of which...
Reality TV presidency: Donald Trump shows his own rubber mask; Willie Robertson, actor with reality TV show Duck Dynasty, addresses the Republican National Convention
LAFAYETTE, INDIANA: Even now, polls suggest that about 40 percent of Americans...
Vietnam, intent on modernization for its 92 million people, vacillates between China and the United States for economic and military ties. Both great powers expect the small communist country to acquiesce to specific demands: The US wants improved human rights and democratic freedoms while China...
Changing direction? Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang, left, with China's President Xi Jinping in June( top); former US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta visiting Vietnam's Cam Ranh Bay harbor
FRESNO: Head-of-state visits typically take months to...
