A college admissions operation involving fraud, conspiracy and racketeering thrived on the allure of American cultural icons –sports, charitable giving, shortcuts and elite universities as the starting point to a life of success. The ringleader pled guilty, and US federal prosecutors have charged...
Iran has the world’ fourth-largest oil reserves and second-largest gas reserves. Once sanctions are lifted, the population of 77 million will provide a large, eager market. The economy, with a strong manufacturing sector and educated workforce, is diversified, explain Jamsheed Choksy and Carol...
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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...
In the past few weeks, the world has been stunned by the evidence of US and coalition troops abusing Iraqi prisoners in their custody. Now, the world is shocked once again with a video of the beheading of an American civilian by anti-US Iraqi insurgents. As the editorial in one of the Middle East...
How quickly events in the Middle East overtake what was yesterday's headlines. For the last week or so the world has been stunned by revelations that US and coalition troops have abused Iraqi prisoners in their custody. The world was revolted at...
China has taken the unprecedented step of quarantining Wuhan, a city of 11 million, to prevent the spread of a new coronavirus. The virus has infected more than 500, killed 17 people and spread to at least six nations since the start of the year. Public health officials connect foreign cases to...
The process of globalization continues to produce new surprises. Thomas L. Friedman, whose 1999 classic “The Lexus and the Olive Tree” has been translated in 30 languages, offers an update on globalization since his last interview with YaleGlobal editor Nayan Chanda a year ago. Friedman says that...
Thomas L. Friedman
The following is a partial transcript of Nayan Chanda's interview with the New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman conducted on March 25, 2004.
Nayan Chanda:...
Separatist tendencies rumble around the globe as citizens take issue with governments over taxes, religious beliefs and cultural norms, recognition of minority rights or mismanagement. The West cheered such movements during the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union. But the United States and the...
Independence through ballot: Catalan nationalists vote for independence, right, as do the Kurds in Iraq.
LONDON: In the early 1990s, as remnants of the Berlin Wall were transformed into a tourist attraction, there was a near-unchallenged...
六月初开始，中国民众想在微软入口网站张贴部落格(网络日志)时，用「民主」及「人权」等字眼作为标题，会收到一个粗鲁的的警语：「标题不能含有禁制用语，例如亵渎的语言，请使用别的标题。」在西文软件大厂公开支持中国政府的网络审查下，这种把民主自由等同于亵渎的警告，标志着中国持续努力争取言论自由的一个新的里程碑，而这只是冰山一角而已。
比起公开限制个人网站还更阴险的是，中国已经布下了隐形的监视罗网，这得感谢西方大厂的协助。...
