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Chinese Girls’ Toil Brings Pain, Not Riches

October 2, 2003
China’s shift to capitalism has brought huge rewards to many Chinese, but for 150 million unemployed peasants, poverty is still a harsh reality. Job prospects are limited, and a lucky few find jobs with multinational corporations, which offer good pay and high labor standards. In China’s export...

Skills Gap Hurts Technology Boom in India

October 23, 2006
India’s universities produce many engineers, but only one in four is ready for the global market, reports a study commissioned from the National Association of Software and Service Companies, based in India. Many engineering graduates lack technical skills or English – and the labor shortage comes...

India Tries to Contain Tempest Over Soft Drink Safety

August 23, 2003
Coca-Cola and Pepsi are teaming up in India to restore consumer confidence. New Delhi's busy INA market place – which sells everything from Oreos cookie made in China to "Hot Eats" of North India – had posters proclaiming the safety of Cola products. The campaign comes after a...

Nuclear Doubts in the House

July 16, 2003
During the Cold War, fear deterred the United States and the Soviet Union from all-out nuclear warfare, and today it makes the prevention of nuclear conflict a chief objective of American foreign policy. However, according to this opinion in The New York Times, a new bill in the US House of...

经济民族主义在印度尼西亚抬头

June 5, 2012
在印度尼西亚，当外国投资者对某个项目（比如收购银行或修建港口）表示感兴趣时，政府便用一些新的规制措施进行干预，从而挫败项目交易和巩固国家控股企业。税收对原材料、矿产或棕榈油的出口产生负面影响，并激励印尼境内的精加工。虽然全球化和外国直接投资促进了亚洲的繁荣，印尼却在排挤外国投资者，转而依靠自身的稳定增长和庞大国内市场来维持财富。《亚洲哨兵报》（Asia Sentinel）编辑约翰•贝特尔森（John Berthelsen）警告说，这类经济民族主义和贸易保护主义姿态可能侵蚀印度尼西亚的经济增长和全球地位。他报道说，印尼商会（Kadin）“想要印尼拥有资源‘所有权’,而只与外国公司缔结服务合同...

Is Brand America in Trouble?

September 26, 2005
While US brands like Marlboro and Disney remain popular all over the world, the popularity of America itself is diminishing, stoked by grievances that far surpass the war in Iraq. Echoing pop star Bono's impression of "a brick through the storefront of Brand America," reporter Paul...

With Asian Hands

January 28, 2003
This editorial from Egypt's Al-Ahram Weekly says that Malaysia, an economically rising Asian nation whose population is predominantly Muslim, is the type of nation with whom Egypt must forge closer ties in the century to come. Thanks to the forces of globalization, the author says, the West...

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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