Women now outnumber men in global university attendance and graduation rates. Most gains are in developed nations; in some countries, as many as two thirds of graduates are women, though discrimination still lingers. Globally, the ratio is 93 men to 100 women; men tend to concentrate in engineering...
More responsibility, less pay: 51 percent of Saudi students are women (top); in the West, mothers must multi-task to join the workplace
NEW YORK: In recent years women have risen to the top of the corporate world. From Indra Nooyi at Pepsico to Mary...
As US President Donald Trump tries to reschedule the summit with North Korea's Kim Jong-un after having cancelled it, he must set realistic goals. The two sides kept talking, with Trump writing: “The world, and North Korea in particular, has lost a great opportunity for lasting peace and great...
Bullying contest: US President Donald Trump on the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un shows off nuclear-capable ballistic missile
WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA: After canceling a summit with North Korea, President...
As mandated by the Congress, the Trump administration has unveiled its National Security Strategy, and promises to advance US influence in the world and put “America First.” The strategy released in mid-December reaffirms longstanding US perspectives, but also describes a dark and hyper-competitive...
Revisionist powers: Donald Trump’s ambiguous relations with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping
WASHINGTON: Difficulties dealing with China and Russia continue to impede the Trump administration’s ambitious foreign-policy objectives...
Japan and Italy are major economies, ranked third and ninth in the world, respectively. Yet both have slipped in recent years, a result of insular policies that in turn encourage provincialism. The cultures offer beautiful and unusual elements that draw admiration from around the world. Ironically...
Between local and global: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Italian counterpart Matteo Renzi seek to open to the world (top); but local charm endures in both countries - hilltop town of Pienza in Tuscany
ROME: It might seem odd but two inward...
What really are the pros and cons of globalization? In this article, Johan Norberg, an advocate of globalization, uses the example of Nike in Vietnam to demonstrate the benefits of globalization. According to Norberg, in Vietnam Nike pays its workers three times higher than the minimum wage earned...
Nike. It means victory. It also means a type of expensive gym shoe. In the minds of the anti-globalisation movement, it stands for both at once. Nike stands for the victory of a Western footwear company over the poor and dispossessed....
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made few friends within the anti-globalization movement, despite government actions that – on the surface, at least – reflect goals espoused by demonstrators – from Seattle to Genoa. Liliana N. Proskuryakova argues that anti-globalization activists have held...
Populist authoritarianism: Vladimir Putin opposes globalization like the Left but lacks respect for civil liberties and social welfare
ST. PETERSBURG: Russian President Vladimir Putin's policies have sought to...
An avalanche of secrets exposed by a former National Security Agency contract worker is complicating US relations with southern neighbors. Reports allege that the United States spied on countries regardless of poor or good relations. Stopping the Bolivian president’s plane in Europe for a few hours...
Trading accusations: The Bolivian president's aircraft is forced to land and searched by Austrian police in the Vienna airport (top); Brazilian President Rousseff with President Morales, united in denouncing the US
MEXICO CITY: The Latin American...
A New York Times article on May 5 says that “tacitly acknowledging that North Korea may not be deterred from producing plutonium for nuclear weapons, President Bush is now trying to marshal international support for preventing the country from exporting nuclear material.” While preventing the...
Pakistan test launches Ghauri, the renamed North Korean Nodong and [inset] Kim Jong Il: Washington wants to choke off this export.
SEOUL: It is still uncertain whether North Korea, as it claims, really possesses, or is capable of producing,...
