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Policing the Sea Is a Job for Everyone

June 3, 2003
In a speech at the Asia Security Conference, Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Tony Tan tried to raise an alarm about the threat of terrorism on the high seas. "Individual state action is not enough," he says. "The oceans are indivisible and maritime...

SHIN Deal: Is National Security Compromised?

February 9, 2006
In a move that reportedly skirts laws concerning foreign ownership of assets designated strategic or sensitive, Singapore’s state investment arm has acquired a near-majority stake in a Thai telecommunications conglomerate. The deal between Temasek and Shin Corp. has raised alarm in Thailand over...

Foreign Groups Fear China Oversight Plan

June 19, 2015
China’s leaders can change regulations quickly, lending uncertainty for any investment. Foreign NGOs that have long promoted education, health care, and other social causes in the nation expect closer monitoring by the government, reports Andrew Jacobs for the New York Times. Proposed legislation...

Scrambling to Clean Up After a Category 4 Financial Storm

September 24, 2008
The global economy is in crisis, with giant financial institutions folding, banks refusing to lend to other banks and some countries closing, changing stock-market rules and currencies dropping in value. “What we are witnessing may be the greatest destruction of financial wealth that the world has...

Africans' Burden: West's Farm Subsidies

September 10, 2003
Ugandan cotton farmers are a prime example of developing world farmers who are losing the competition with their subsidized counterparts in Europe and the United States; simply making ends meet is difficult. At the new meeting of the Doha trade talks in Cancun this week, African countries are...

What Big Eyes You Have, Dear, But Are Those Contacts Risky?

July 7, 2010
With the help of popular comics in Japan and a global star like Lady Gaga, a fashion for giant eyes has sped around the globe – catching some eye doctors and health regulators off guard. In the US, teens forgo prescriptions and go online to purchase contact lenses, imported from Asia, that extend...

The Future of Globalization: Lessons from Cancun and Recent Financial Crises

Joesph Stiglitz
October 10, 2003

The Withdrawal Syndrome – Part I

October 31, 2006
Three years into the endless violence and destruction of the Iraq war, sentiment in both Iraq and the US calls for American withdrawal. This two-part series reviews how the US government is dealing with that sentiment and analyzes the implications of US withdrawal for both nations. The first...
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