Nations that manage to satisfy a large population politically, economically, socially can become beacons of hope for the rest of the world. The US is the world’s third most populated country, trailing China and India, but could aim to become most populated by the end of the century: An eightfold...
Let them come: Tourists at the feet of the Statue of Liberty (top); Latino demonstrators rally for immigration reformNEW YORK: The United States could aim to have largest population in the world before the end of the century, thus ensuring its power...
An April report from Japan’s National Institute of Population and Security Research predicts that the nation’s population will shrink by 30 percent within the next half century unless current government policy aimed at increasing the fertility rate is a rapid success. With a decline of 40 percent,...
Lèse-majesté charges are on the rise in Thailand, from a single case in 2000 to nearly 500 in 2010. Among the charged is Joe Gordon, an American who translated excerpts of a biography of the Thai King, receiving critical acclaim everywhere but Thailand. Gordon was sentenced to two and a half years...
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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States reviews US foreign investments in the United States and allows the president to suspend or block transactions if other laws do not apply even as “credible evidence” suggests a national security risk. The group of nine cabinet members and...
Wide security net: UAE-owned DP World manages ports around the world, including one in Vancouver, Canada, left, yet was forced to sell operations of six US ports in 2006; Beijing Kunlun Company divests from online dating site Grindr, as ordered by...
Greater openness in tourism and trade, on which much of Asia's recent economic growth has been based, is coming back to haunt countries from South Korea to Thailand. The extent of the economic fall-out from the Sars epidemic is only just becoming apparent, but WHO estimates already place the...
Fear of Sars: Threatening the sinews of globalization. (Photo: Copyright 2003, Lycos, Inc)
SINGAPORE: Asia is reeling from the spread of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) virus and the respiratory illness it causes. The rising...
What really are the pros and cons of globalization? In this article, Johan Norberg, an advocate of globalization, uses the example of Nike in Vietnam to demonstrate the benefits of globalization. According to Norberg, in Vietnam Nike pays its workers three times higher than the minimum wage earned...
Nike. It means victory. It also means a type of expensive gym shoe. In the minds of the anti-globalisation movement, it stands for both at once. Nike stands for the victory of a Western footwear company over the poor and dispossessed....
The state once controlled narratives of memorialization, often confined to specific geographic spaces in museums or archives. The world has more technologies than ever before for gathering and conveying evidence of mass atrocities – from the internet and social media to holograms, artificial...
Global grieving; New technologies help museums and individual gather evidence and relay history – Holocaust survivor Sam Harris answered hundreds of questions to help create a hologram; global movement Together We Remember relies on social media to...
A recent proposed treaty on illegal fishing has the potential to aid the world’s poor nations and improve global governance. If enforced, the proposal, formulated in Rome and signed by 91 countries, would prevent fishing boats from landing in various ports if inspectors deem the catch to be...
Mention the words ‘global governance’ and you can expect yawns. But for all the scorn and neglect it garners, collective management remains the only effective means of running an interconnected and chaotic world.
Earlier this month in Rome, largely...
