Thousands gathered in a Hong Kong park and other locations to mark the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, reports South China Morning Post. Authorities had banned mass gatherings to prevent the spread of Covid-19, but police did not stop the vigil. “The show of defiance came on a...
Plotting attacks against US, NATO and Afghan forces, US enemies in the war on terror continue to make Afghanistan a source of conflict. Unspoken publicly, but increasingly obvious, is that the US presence will be required in Afghanistan for years, probably long after troops leave Iraq, according...
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The steady outflow of jobs, especially white-collar ones from the US is emerging as a major issue in the US. In part one of our three-part series on the outsourcing debate two scholars explain the reasons. In recent years, US manufacturing jobs have declined as corporations looked for cheap labor...
A Call Center in India: While American companies are saving a lot of money, their employees are looking at pink slips.
SAN FRANCISCO: Will the next wave of globalization come in services? Though moving service...
Individuals increasingly expect the right to be informed and make their own decisions about health care, including control over the timing of death. Close to 800,000 people commit suicide every year, nearly 80 percent in low- and middle-income nations, reports the World Health Organization. As a...
Life and death: All forms of cancer combined are why most patients seek assisted suicide; surgeons use a robot to treat a patient's prostate cancer, and David Goodall, 104, leaves Australia to die in Switzerland with the help of Exit International (...
In an era of human rights accords and global benefit concerts, international tribunals and rubber wristbands for any cause, attention to humanitarian crises seems both pronounced and profuse. Yet, as political scientist Clifford Bob writes, the world has far more crises than what catch the...
Lights, camera, suffering: The genocide in Darfur does not get much notice because TV cameras are not there to record the suffering. (Photo: Reuters)
PITTSBURGH, PA: In summer 2004, as the Darfur crisis edged into the...
在快速发展之下，印度打算开发东部诸省的富矿资源。然而，新闻记者艾瑞克•朗道夫（Eric Randolph）指出，腐败的官员与开发商勾结，剥夺在矿藏附近农村生活的穷人和部落居民的权利，并经常压迫他们。占印度大部分人口的农村人口有40% 生活在贫困之中，但在农村已普及的手机和电视则向他们展示了印度的成功历程如何将众多人口抛在了后面。在缺乏良好的地方治理，以及缺乏与中央政府的紧密联系的情况下，穷人捍卫他们的生活，组成暴动队伍，猛烈抨击不断增长的警察队伍，破坏火车及其他象征发展的事物。政府希望发展能激励国外投资，确保能源安全，但朗道夫写道，“部落民众认为全球化在很大程度上是侵略、财产流失和污染的根源...
新的挑战者：毛派反叛运动对印度崛起为强国构成威胁。图片放大
伦敦：数月来，在印度农村中心地带兴起的毛派反叛运动已经成为印度国内的重点安全问题。但我们也应该把这场国内权力斗争看作是在印度崛起成为世界主要力量过程中的副作用。
总理曼莫汉·辛格（Manmohan Singh）一再将毛派分子形容为印度“最严重的国内安全威胁”。毛派分子也称为“纳萨尔派”（Naxalites），源自于该运动1967年首次暴动的 发生地，北印度的纳萨尔巴里（Naxalbari）小镇。印度正努力满足国内对煤炭、铁矿、...
As exemplified by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to the Arab Gulf, the relationship between Israel and Gulf states has undergone a distinct improvement in recent years. Netanyahu’s Gulf visit marks the first by an Israeli prime minister in more than 20 years. The Economist...
The Venezuelan president announced plans to increase oil exports to China tenfold over the next five years, with the expectation that China will invest in the nation’s oil infrastructure, particularly in developing the reserves of the Orinoco Belt. The heavy tar-like reserves, which require special...
Thumbs up for oil power: Venzuela's President Hugo Chavez signed a deal to get Chinese investment in developing his country's oil resource
NEW YORK AND CARACAS: Hugo Chávez ended his recent visit to Beijing with...
