The Macron Implosion – Will it Spread to Other EU Members?

The Yellow Vest Movement – weekend 8 and 9 December – Round 4. Some say, they are the worst riots in France since the student-driven...

Sara Antoinette, Marie Netanyahu

An independent trip by the prime minister’s wife at the state’s expense, such as Mrs. Netanyahu’s current one to Guatemala, is unprecedented

Tackling climate change on a human level

ASIA Pacific is feeling the dire effects of climate change more acutely than many other regions of the world. Already volatile weather systems are...

The Real Face of Justin Trudeau: Are Palestinians Canada’s New Jews?

How does one explain Canada’s contradictory foreign policy regarding Palestine and Israel? On December 4, Secretary General of the Palestine...

Smaller than a parking space: Is time up for Hong Kong’s nano-flats?

LIVING in nano flats – tiny apartments less than 200 sq ft – has fast become the norm in overcrowded Hong Kong. More than 500 units are expected...

Hanging cedar orb signals arrival of seasonal sake

When sake brewers start the "shikomi" (mashing) process for the season's new sake, they hang a green orb, called "sugidama" or "sakabayashi," under...

What next for India's central bank?

Google’s China problem is America’s China problem

WASHINGTON – When Google employees first learned of the company’s project known as Dragonfly, there was an internal uprising. It is easy to see...

Normalizing Japan-China ties poses risks

Japan and China are finally on track to put their relations on a normal path, following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to China in late...

Governments slam the door on China telecom goods

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's genius more relevant than ever

On December 11, the Nobel laureate and last great giant of Russian literature would have turned 100. Critic Victor Yerofeyev says despite a grave...

What France’s ‘yellow vests’ can teach Hong Kong activists

Shots of tear gas ring out on a major thoroughfare. Protesters roar as they disperse from a phalanx of riot police. Waves of yellow ripple from the...

On Human Rights Day 2018, the embodiment of Palestinian rights is as remote as ever

Human Rights Day is celebrated on 10 December to remember the day that the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in...

Mao's nuclear libido

By Lee Seong-hyon When the Truman administration in 1945 dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan, Mao Zedong's reaction was uncommon. He belittled the...

The War on Huawei

NEW YORK – The arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is a dangerous move by US President Donald Trump’s administration in its intensifying conflict...

Lies, Damned Lies, and AI

CAMBRIDGE – Algorithms are as biased as the data they feed on. And all data are biased. Even “official” statistics cannot be assumed to stand...

Sidelining the Afghan government is a mistake

At last month's Geneva Ministerial Conference on Afghanistan, it was clear that the presidential elections were less than five months away. Afghan...

Evacuate the Hebron Settlement Now

Despite the Israeli settlement government’s decision to create yet more facts on the ground in Hebron, the camp that still wants the two-state...

Anti-Semites for Zion, Then and Now

Market turbulence: look to China, not flimsy trade truce or the Fed

Another week, another tumultuous spell of trading in financial markets. Last Monday, the benchmark S&P 500 index joined a global rally in stocks in...

A Monty Python madhouse in Westminster

In the eleventh hour, British PM Theresa May recoiled to delay a decision on her Brexit deal. The move may save her government for the time being...

Abe’s cavalier attitude is killing Diet’s watchdog role over power

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration, which is supported by a dominant ruling coalition, again exhibited disturbingly high-handed behavior...

Zimska pravljica. Za otroke

Prvi dobri mož Miklavž je odklenil decembrsko parado zimzelenih vej in celofana in kamorkoli se ozreš, samo še otroci z darili. Otroci, itak,...

The 2018 Elections and the Uncertain Future of Brazilian Democracy

The victory of Jair Messias Bolsonaro in the Brazilian 2018 elections casts a shadow over the future of Brazilian democracy. His candidacy was...

Israel's National Lottery as Censor

For now, the Knesset rejected the flagship project of Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev, when about two weeks ago it removed the so-called “...

The New Capital of Israel

Despite the Israeli settlement government’s decision to create yet more facts on the ground in Hebron, the camp still hoping for a two-state...

How to build resilient cities without wrecking the environment

Cities can be designed in a way to imitate nature with solutions that are an integral part of the urban system. This can include dedicated areas of...

Why countries are opposing the Global Compact for Migration

The GCM is a voluntary, non-binding global agreement setting out a common framework, shared principles and best practices on international...

What’s behind the online property sales boom in China?

CHINESE home buyers are flocking the online market to snag bargain properties amid the rising rate of mortgage defaulters in the world's largest...

Netanyahu and Nasrallah, the Middle East’s Two Messianic Leaders

Shi’ite messianism these days is confronted by Judeo-Christian messianism. The question is whether a countdown has started to another destructive...

US-listed firm seeks to hire 100,000 Filipino English teachers

RANKED second best in Asia on Education First's English Proficiency Index, the Philippines is a popular country for international recruiters.  The...