China is preparing for a broader role in leading Asia on economic development and world affairs. The nation has long been an active member of global organizations including the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and others, and now is “engaged in global institution building of its own”...
Building Asia: The founding members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank with China’s President Xi Jinping in China, top; Chinese workers build railway network in western China
NEW HAVEN: China is making waves again, not just in the South...
Studies confirm that inequality continues in the United States as income rises for the very rich but stagnates or even declines for the majority. Economist Joseph Stiglitz describes a study from the UN Development Programme for an essay for Project Syndicate: “America ranks fifth according to HDI,...
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Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics and University Professor at Columbia University, was Chairman of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and served as Senior Vice...
Increasing numbers of Chinese choose to study abroad, and nearly half head for US institutions of higher learning. The reasons behind the exponential growth, even at the undergraduate level, are as much financial as “the emphasis on globalization and diversity touted by the universities,” explains...
Enriching US universities: Enrollment of Chinese students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has shot up, top; the University of Cincinnati, where the class of 2013 celebrates, has earned legendary status in attracting foreign students ...
Nations that manage to satisfy a large population politically, economically, socially can become beacons of hope for the rest of the world. The US is the world’s third most populated country, trailing China and India, but could aim to become most populated by the end of the century: An eightfold...
Let them come: Tourists at the feet of the Statue of Liberty (top); Latino demonstrators rally for immigration reform
NEW YORK: The United States could aim to have largest population in the world before the end of the century, thus ensuring its...
Boasting uninhibited women, lush tropical backdrops, and cheap production costs, Brazil has become a prime destination for adult film outsourcing. But Brazil also has the second highest incidence of HIV and AIDS in the western hemisphere. Last month, the porn industry's increasingly global...
SAO PAULO - Flush with dollars, American porn film directors swoop into Brazil for its exotic and uninhibited women, dazzling tropical backdrops and cheap production costs -- a phenomenon that has turned South America's...
“伪娘”是最近几年在中国和日本新产生的词汇，指的是喜欢扮女装的男性，尤其是青年男性。在日语当中，伪娘被称为“男の娘”，“娘”在日语中有少女的意思，所以，“男の娘”翻译成汉语就是“男少女”。在蒋丰的笔下，日本的“伪娘”之风有愈演愈烈之势。首先，在20岁到30岁的男性里，有57%的人回答每天使用洗面奶，有35%的人坚持每天修眉，有18%的人每天打粉；其次，从2006年开始，大大小小的“伪娘”社团宣告成立，他们除了每年举办活动之外，还创办杂志月刊，向全社会公开发行；而且，随着“伪娘”文化的流行，它还带动了相关产业的发展，除了动漫业，还有以“伪娘”为主题的俱乐部、服装店、餐厅、...
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For more than two decades, Belarus has balanced ties between Russia and the West, with a neutral foreign-policy stance that can irritate both sides. For example, the government has not yet recognized Crimea as Russian territory, and Belarus has a dismal human rights record with a president who has...
Too close for comfort? Belarus depends on subsized oil imports from Russia that it then refines and sells to Europe at market price; Russia threatens to end the subsidies, and Belarusian and Russian presidents Alexander Lukashenko, left, and...
Oil prices plummeted in March when OPEC and non-OPEC producers including Russia could not agree on production cuts to stabilize oil prices. Producers opened the taps, and oil prices went into negative territory with worries over storage space. By April, 23 nations agreed to a 10 percent cut in...
