North Korean nuclear programs have long been a puzzle for the international intelligence community to solve. No one is quite sure when they started, how they started, or how far along towards producing weapons-grade uranium and plutonium they are. The recent revelation by Pakistani scientist A.Q...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il reviews his troops: Will the Pakistani revelations about his clandestine effort force him to come clean?
WASHINGTON: Recent revelations about Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan's...
The world has about 700 million extreme poor, reports the World Bank. Half of those living on less than $2 per day are in five nations, including 100 million in India. India concludes its weeks-long election process on May 23 and democracy fails if it cannot reduce extreme poverty, suggests author...
Demand for homes: India has hundreds of millions of people living in inadequate housing, and the nation could reduce extreme poverty by capitalizing on the tiny house movement, focusing on innovative, sustainable housing such as that made by Techno-...
Although South Korea’s legislature just approved the deployment of 3000 troops to Iraq, South Koreans’ anger about US military actions has reached a boiling point, argues Sook-Jong Lee, a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. South Koreans have become increasingly critical of the US since...
Be careful what you wish for: A third of American forces will be leaving South Korea.
WASHINGTON: Last October, South Korea’s liberal civic organizations began to protest more loudly as the South Korean government...
Dams, volatile weather patterns, pollution complicate the water supply from cross-border rivers, increase environmental hazards and even brings ruin to some communities in China and India. The two countries have shared hydrological data since 2006 with some disruptions, such as damaged equipment...
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...
Surveys find solid disapproval of adultery in every country, yet technology and social media, modern lifestyles and flexible gender roles, films and news reports about the affairs of politicians and celebrities make the activity more visible worldwide. “Historically, most cultures consider the...
Adultery on trial: From Chinese leader Bo Xilai, with wife Gu Kailai, to a Pakistani commoner, adulterers in some nations face punishment and shame
NEW YORK: Adultery, despite near universal disapproval, has become more visible and prevalent...
The latest poll by the Pew Research Center reveals that Americans place a higher degree of personal importance on religion than residents of other wealthy countries. The survey of 44 countries, part of The Pew Global Attitudes Project, also found that residents of Asia, Latin America, and Africa...
Religion is much more important to Americans than to people living in other wealthy nations. Fully six-in-ten Americans say religion plays a very important role in their lives compared with just 33% of those surveyed in Great Britain and even...
Migrants flee war, persecution, poverty and natural disasters while many others simply seek economic opportunity. The growing numbers challenge the open-door policies of host nations, fueling resentment and populism that targets migration. “And while there is a basic humanitarian obligation to...
Controlling the flow: Germans were rare among Europeans to welcome refugees; former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggests that Europe has done its part for migration
HONG KONG: A freighter trundles into a harbor, carrying several hundred...
