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Chinese Hackers Linked to Attack on Australian Spy Agency

May 29, 2013
Secrets are not secure on the internet, with hackers intent on prying into every online nook and cranny. An Australian Broadcasting Corporation documentary claims that Chinese hackers have stolen the blueprint for Australia’s new intelligence agency before it even opens, reports Neil Hume for the...

Tech That, And That

July 29, 2005
Throughout history, democracies have allied with one another. The emerging ties between the US and India, however, are not due to a shared democratic ideology, but can be attributed to a recent convergence of interests. In this Outlook India article, S. Enders Wimbush argues that the recent...

Obama Tries to Stop Execution in Texas of Mexican Killer

July 6, 2011
Article VI, Paragraph II, of the US Constitution designates international treaties signed by the federal government as “the supreme Law of the Land,” which individual US states cannot override. The 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations provides that foreign nationals charged with crimes are...

US Makes New Plans for War on Pyongyang

June 4, 2003
This article in the Sydney Morning Herald reports that the US is developing a new plan to consolidate American and South Korean forces in areas away from the demilitarized zone in the Korean Peninsula. A US official told reporters that the U.S. military would be able to line up around the...

China Raises Tally of Cases and Deaths in Mystery Illness

March 27, 2003
The mysterious pneumonia known as SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) that has been plaguing much of Asia has claimed more lives than previously thought. Yesterday China told officials with the World Health Organization that its total cases of SARS number almost 800, with an estimated 31...

China Allows UN Agency to Help Fight Illness on Taiwan

May 4, 2003
China approved a World Health Organization (WHO) mission to Taiwan, opening up the ‘territory’ to a UN agency for the first time since 1972. As the number of SARS cases in China has continued to rise, so has the international pressure on China to respond more effectively to the SARS epidemic. At...

A Journey for Change

September 24, 2003
The Statute of Liberty, who promises open arms to all immigrants rich and poor, will soon be greeted by some of her new Americans. In an attempt to recapture the spirit of anti-racism activism in the 1960s, thousands are traveling across America's 'Heartland' to decry anti-immigrant...

Mountains Still to Climb

May 13, 2005
The decision to allow new member states into the European Union has been met with vigorous debate in the past year, with none as contentious as that of Turkey's inclusion.Though Turkish officials declare their commitment to whatever actions will further the nation's bid, a host of...
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