As the world’s two biggest democracies, India and the United States share many interests on trade, investment and security matters. US President Barack Obama will attend India’s Republic Day celebration on January 26, and many in business and government look forward to a stronger partnership...
New beginning? President Barack Obama returns to India, top; India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif need to step up cooperation
NEW HAVEN: India will celebrate the 66th anniversary of its foundation as a...
Poverty continues to linger in most Sub-Saharan countries, in large part due to the shortsighted nature of their export-based commodity economies. In an opinion essay for Project Syndicate, Kandeh Yumkella, director general of the UN Industrial Development Organization, suggests the time has come...
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Ohio, part of the country’s Rust Belt, was a swing state in the 2004 US presidential election, and the state’s voters will play a big role deciding the 2008 Democratic nominee and probably the next president of the United States. Their choice might set the US agenda for global economy. As one of...
Vision: A small company dominates the market by selling big-screen televisions and show that initiative can pay off
NEW HAVEN: The candidates for US president sense deepening anxiety over globalization among workers, blue and white collar alike. But...
The Mekong, one of the world’s major rivers, starting in Tibet and flowing through south China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, provides sustenance through irrigation and fishing to those living in its basin. But it also provides hydroelectric power through dams, three of which were...
China's Xiaowan dam, the world's tallest, poses a huge challenge to the Mekong river basin countries
SINGAPORE: Back in 1986, when China began building the first of a series of dams on the Mekong River, hardly anyone in the downstream countries of...
The free-market principles that drive global trade of goods, services and ideas often run counter to notions of institutional regulation. According to David Rothkopf, author and visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, this void in global governance has facilitated the...
Rich and powerful: Global elite gather at the World Economic Forum's
annual meeting in the Swiss ski resort Davos
WASHINGTON, DC: Like nature, power also abhors a vacuum. On the global stage this has meant that...
By mastering the process of reverse engineering, the Indian pharmaceutical industry has successfully produced generic drugs at low prices – crucial for providing affordable treatment to those in need. The government's impending adoption of Trips (Trade Related Intellectual Property in...
THE Indian pharmaceutical industry finds itself at a cusp. Depending on how the government approaches the necessary amendment to the Indian Patents Act, the fast-growing sector could find itself stalled or poised for a...
Some political analysts believe that the war in Iraq presents Russia with a "golden opportunity" to integrate the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
Igor Torbakov: With US troops controlling Baghdad, Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to temper criticism in Russia of the American military campaign in Iraq. The Russian leadership wants to avoid doing anything...
一年一度的春运又开始了，火车作为民众回家过年的首选交通工具，“购票难”依然是个凸显的难题。尽管铁道部今年推出了网络购票、电话购票等新举措，但是，对于文化程度不高、说话仍然带有浓重乡音的民工群体而言，网络和电话都是可望不可即的购票方式——大多数人仍然会选择去售票点、火车站排队买票，而我们似乎也习惯了看到网络和媒体上在醒目的位置报道“民工排队X天X夜仍然未购到票”，或者在没买到票时民工站在街头四顾茫然的眼神。民工作为一个弱势群体，我们却鲜有人想到，在推出诸多“便民”的措施之时，能够伸出双手，帮助我们身边的民工朋友购票。重庆目前推行的公共图书馆开始帮助农民工购票的措施，被《东方早报》的苑广阔赞誉为...
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