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Australia Tips in with Bt250m to Help with People Trafficking in ASEAN

December 18, 2003
Trafficking in humans brings thousands of people against their will from Southeast Asia to Australia each year to serve as sex workers or virtual slaves. To help prevent such gross human rights abuses at the source, Australia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Thailand and other...

Financial Tail Wags Economic Dog: Asia Sentinel

June 3, 2019
The ability to pay for goods and services now dominates economies and the processes of financing have become a larger goal than actual production. “Financialization involves the growth and transformation of finance such that with its hugely expanded size, scope and concentration, finance now...

Will a Rising China Be a Responsible China?

November 28, 2013
The Chinese Communist Party’s Third Plenum released its plan for reforms, including moving toward the free market in allocating resources, abolishing prison reeducation, easing the one-child restriction for some families and eliminating local control over the judiciary. Despite such guidance on...

Why Africa Fears Western Medicine

August 14, 2007
Africa has a history of Western doctors who claim to provide health care while in reality “administrating deadly agents.” The most infamous example is Wouter Basson, who killed hundreds through injecting poisons, but was never convicted. More recently, a Libyan court convicted a foreign physician...

Looking for Common Values, a Community Driven ASEAN

August 9, 2004
Although members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have signed multiple official agreements over the past 37 years, Meidyatama Suryodiningrat of The Jakarta Post sympathizes with critics who see the organization as “a hopeless powwow, meandering from one headline meeting to...

Deutsche Welle: Trump Has Europe Concerned Over Iran Nuclear Deal

September 7, 2017
The US president is signaling an opinion that Iran is not complying with the nuclear deal in place since 2015. Without providing specifics, the US ambassador to the United Nations suggests that the United States has technical reasons for ending the agreement, though these would “contradict the...

Recalculating the Costs of Global Climate Change

December 18, 2006
Without immediate action to reduce global warming, the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change warns that governments around the world risk severe economic damage, predicting a 20 percent reduction in the global gross domestic product. Economists have scrutinized the 700-page report, and...

Global Crisis: Bangladesh Bucks the Trend

October 14, 2009
Conventional wisdom would expect export-dominated, monoculture economies like Bangladesh to suffer badly from the recent financial meltdown. But that has not happened. According to Daily Star opinion page editor and 2009 Yale World Fellow Zafar Sobhan, there are four reasons why Bangladesh escaped...
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