The scarcest of scarce resources, land for agricultural use in Africa has attracted a slew of foreign buyers. While some proclaim this “neo-colonialism.” Profit seeking and concern over food security appear to be the main culprits. The purchases started in 2006 – as oil prices began shooting up –...
In the past two years, various non-African countries –– China, India, South Korea, Britain and the Arab Gulf states lead the pack –– have been taking over huge tracts of farmland in Africa by lease or purchase, to produce food or bio-fuels for their...
“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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The global economic recession has resulted in a rise in human trafficking, according to a US State Department report. The report, issued annually and covering 2008, cites 52 countries and territories for failing to combat human trafficking, up from 40 the previous year. While the rise was caused in...
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Impoverished Afghanistan was racked by war for 10 years after the Soviet invasion in 1979. Sayed Rahmatulla Hashemi’s formal education ended with the fourth grade, and he learned English from aid workers. The brutal Taliban regime soon took control over the nation, and with minimal skills,...
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Only a handful of Chinese brand names have achieved global consumer recognition. More often, many view China as a low-cost producer of Western consumer goods. The fact that Western companies essentially place their logos on goods manufactured in China, preventing Chinese companies from...
LONDON China is usually seen as a low-cost producer of consumer goods, often of Western brands that simply slap their own logos on products made in Chinese plants. Only a few Chinese brands - Tsingtao beer, perhaps, or...
The dominant world powers historically pushed for globalization as a means of increasing wealth and influence. Yet those nations fret as the emerging powers of India and China embrace the same strategy. This two-part series by World Bank economist Branco Milanovic explores why both the world’s...
Falling income, rising migration: Increasing number of illegal Mexican immigrants are rounded up at the US-Mexico border
WASHINGTON: Historically, the dominant power tends to support globalization as a way to...
Claims that Islam is incompatible with democracy and modernity are terribly off-base, says Asghar Ali Engineer, a scholar and author at the Institute of Islamic Studies in Mumbai. The observation that science and democracy are not found in contemporary Islamic countries is fair, he says, but the...
Because of certain happenings and because there happens to be monarchy or dictatorships in most of the Muslim countries it has been concluded that Islam is not compatible with democracy and also with modernity. Some...
By all accounts, life as one knew it is over in New York City's Little Pakistan. Little Pakistan formed as an ethnic residential and business neighborhood of Pakistani immigrants in the early 1960s. In the decades that followed, the neighborhood transformed into a bustling center of...
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