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Beijing’s African Summit: Why China Is Wooing the Dark Continent

November 17, 2006
China recently gave a grand welcome to 48 leaders from Africa and passed out $10 billion in aid. As a country that gets about one-third of its oil from Africa, China refuses to criticize human-rights violations that are common throughout the continent. In embracing diplomacy and resisting military...

The Corner Office in Bangalore

June 19, 2006
Outsourcing of manufacturing and service jobs has led to skyrocketing compensation for chief executives at the expense of shareholder profit, according to authors Lawrence Orlowski and Florian Lengyelion. With a large global pool of executive candidates and the average compensation for foreign CEOs...

China Cancels Environmental Report

July 27, 2007
Governments around the globe continue to prioritize the short-term gains of economic growth over the long-term costs of environmental destruction. But with mounting property damage and increasing reports of illnesses such as asthma, nations can’t help but be embarrassed about the costs associated...

Threaten One, Intimidate a Million

February 2, 2006
With bomb explosions, assassinations and riots coloring the recent history of Islam in Europe, the already tense state of relations took a serious turn for the worse over some cartoons. Drawings in the right-wing Danish daily “Jyllands-Posten” last autumn satirically portrayed the images of Prophet...

不管怎么说，“外包”不会停止

March 9, 2009
经济危机横扫全球之际，各国民众都在期待各自的政治领袖能创造出新的工作岗位，但在这一过程中，其他的问题也随之产生了。例如，在美国，巴拉克•奥巴马（Barack Obama）总统已经承诺不再给予外包工作岗位的公司以税收优惠政策。这让一些印度IT公司感动恐慌。印度的IT产业为全球的金融、银行、保险公司提供服务，并已经在金融危机中遭到了严重的打击。不过，IT分析人士显得较为乐观。他们鼓励新产品和人力的迅速流动，因为他们很清楚，在困难时期，外包业务可以为公司节省花销和劳动力。身为记者和作家，迪恩斯C.夏玛(Dinesh C. Sharma)指出：“外包业务已有深厚基础，短时间内逆转这一趋势是不可能的...

In Toyota City, Japan, the Good Times Rolled…Away

March 25, 2009
Many analysts predicted problems with excessive debt and sub-prime mortgages in the US, but few expected that the woes would rapidly spill over into the world’s most successful companies. The global economic recession hits hard at company towns like Toyota City in Japan: “Unlike in Detroit, where...

Why the UN Needs International Rescue

January 4, 2005
The magnitude and scope of the recent Indian Ocean catastrophe - and likewise, the subsequent relief efforts - are unmatched in world history. And according to The Guardian's David Aaronovitch, the coordination of international aid efforts will be a true test for the United Nations. In the...

Spirit of the Wombles

May 20, 2008
The anti-globalization movement captured world attention in the 1990s. But media coverage quickly shifted to terrorist attacks, wars, climate change and other problems, writes Libby Brooks for the Guardian. “Even if 9/11 hadn't happened, it's doubtful whether the anti-globalisation...
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