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Thai Workers Fly to Sweden Where the Wild Berries Are

September 23, 2009
Wet summer weather in Northern Sweden has affected not only the yield of wild berries growing there, but also the economic well-being of the berry pickers, which, in this case, happen to be temporary workers from Thailand. Journalist Bertil Lintner writes that in 2007, Sweden began to give Thais...

Disrupting US-China Relations Will Incur High Costs

February 28, 2017
The United States and China, the world’s largest markets, are major trade partners. The relationship provides numerous benefits including affordable goods for households and millions of jobs for both nations: China has an estimated 16 million, albeit many with low wages, engaged in exports to the...

The South – Ultimate Pandemic Victim

June 11, 2020
Covid-19 has paralyzed much of the global economy, with varying levels of health and economic crises around the world. The pandemic will hit the global South particularly hard, explains Börje Ljunggren, former Swedish ambassador to China. A decline in global poverty rates will reverse while...

Coca-Cola's Multilingual "America" Ad Didn't Hit Wrong Notes

February 5, 2014
A major US sporting event is the football championship known as the Super Bowl. Many anticipate the television advertisements aired during the game more than the game itself. Coca-Cola’s ad celebrated multiculturalism by featuring the song “America the Beautiful” sung in eight languages from Arabic...

India-China Relations in the Age of Xi Jinping

May 15, 2018
The leaders of China and India, Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi, have nationalist tendencies with a pragmatic bend. Varying economic growth for the two rival nations and contrasting systems of governance – one increasingly authoritarian and the other democratic – have given China the upper hand as a...

Africa Invents

December 6, 2018
More than half of Africa’s 1.2 billion people is under the age of 21, and governments confront challenges in educating and hiring so many young adults. But some young people are impatient, devising inventions to solve basic problems and starting their own businesses, explains journalist Raluca...

Slumdog Paradox

February 4, 2009
“Slumdog Millionaire” is a rag-to-riches love story that has captured the world’s imagination. An orphan growing up in the squalor of Mumbai’s poorest neighborhoods overcomes overwhelming odds that life throws at him, learning in the process much that prepares him to compete in a popular game show...

Wong: Electoral Turning Point for Hong Kong

October 31, 2019
Hong Kong barred a 23-year-old man from running for a seat on a local district council that has no real power to pass legislation. Joshua Wong, an activist who supports the protests in Hong Kong, recently testified before US Congress, lobbying for a bill that would heighten scrutiny of human rights...
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