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New Zealand Herald: New Zealand Bans Home Sales for Many Foreigners

August 15, 2018
New Zealand’s Parliament passed a law prohibiting most non-resident foreigners from purchasing existing homes, with exceptions for those from Australia and possibly Singapore due to trade agreements. Supporters hope to reduce rising home prices and homelessness, but Mike Hosking, writing for the...

Syria Opposition Demands Urgent UN Probe into Alleged Chemical Attacks

August 22, 2013
Video footage from Syria shows scores of children and adults left writhing, convulsing and dead after an alleged chemical-weapons attack. The death toll is estimated at 500 to 1300, reports Reuters. Syria has stockpiles of chemical weapons; Western nations have threatened intervention if such...

Lessons from SARS

April 9, 2003
Although Hong Kong enjoys one of Asia's best public health systems, the spread of SARS has shown that even its well-run government has room for improvement. The former British colony's re-integration with China in 1997 has led to a booming expansion of trade and people flows across the...

中东的“自由赤字”是伊斯兰教之过？

July 5, 2012
社会学家里亚兹•哈桑（Riaz Hassan）指出，“阿拉伯之春”燃起的民愤和对自由的普遍诉求并未持续多久，便被紧随其后、卷土重来的独裁模式所取代，这重新激起了世人对中东地区伊斯兰教信仰和民主问题的讨论。约莫在公元1000年，中东的GDP占全球GDP总量的10%，相较之下，欧洲只占到9%——两个地区的宗教势力均以保护精英阶层和维持现状为己任。七个世纪后，欧洲GDP占到全球的22%，而中东则只占2%。研究人员试图探询造成这一显著差异的罪魁祸首，其中包括沙漠地形、体制的孱弱和妇女的弱势地位。哈桑由一系列不同学科出发对该现象进行仔细考察后提出，对财产、...

Global Power Shift – Part I

March 21, 2012
The US plan to boost its presence in Asia could be less about expanding security and more about setting new priorities. This two-part series analyzes the implications of the new focus on a rising China both for US strategy and its relations with European partners. The Asia pivot could mark the...

Growing Economies, Rising Problems – Part I

June 21, 2011
Rapid growth of the emerging economies is expected to introduce adjustments in global governance. But global power shifts ever so slowly even as the combined GDP of the top seven emerging economies is slated to overtake the top seven developed economies in the near future. Cooperation over global...

An Ethnic Struggle in China Goes Global

July 9, 2009
Recent clashes between indigenous Uighurs and Han Chinese in Urumqi in China’s Xinjiang province highlight the growing difficulty Beijing faces with regard to minority rights. It also highlights how even a small group with global connections can bring the world spotlight on their cause and...

Eastern Germany to Stay Aboard EU Subsidy Train

May 9, 2003
Economic integration on a scale the size of Europe is not easily accomplished. A plan to bring in another 10 member states expands the possibilities for regional cooperation, but it has also threatened to harm the economy of the former East Germany. After some deliberation, the European...
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