Mueller Dropping Russia Probe, Says Trump Working for Israel and Saudis

The Mueller Russia probe, according to mainstream media sources, Daily Beast, BBC, Vanity Fair, UK Independent, Mother Jones, al Jazeera, the UK...

Israel Has Weaponized the Settlements

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement that he plans to answer the latest round of terror attacks by legalizing thousands of homes in...

'From the River to Sea' Was a Zionist Demand Long Before It Became a Hamas Slogan

Decades before the Hamas rallying cry of a 'free Palestine from the river to the sea' came the 'Greater Israel' imagined and demanded by the first...

Parenting 101: how to stop your child being a bully at school

No parent wants to be told, or to admit, that their child is a bully. It reflects badly on their parenting skills and their role as a moral compass...

Protecting city’s status as world city must be high on Lam’s agenda

Hong Kong claims to be Asia’s world city, but the proud tag sometimes comes with a political burden that can be tough to bear. People usually see...

What if Huawei CFO’s arrest really was about sanctions?

Huawei chief financial officer Sabrina Meng Wanzhou wiped away tears on Tuesday as she was granted US$7.5 million bail by a Canadian judge. Yet the...

Pivnice stačiť nebudú

Ak za úspech považujeme samotný fakt, že sa zástupcovia z takmer dvesto krajín dokázali podpísať pod nejaký spoločný dokument hovoriaci...

The Leadership Gap Among Israeli Arabs

Two-thirds of Haifa’s Arabs rejected the communist-front party led by Raja Za’atry, and didn’t want him as deputy mayor

Moshe Kahlon, Be a Proud Arab Jew

In response to Shaul Elovitch, who reportedly refers to you as ‘the Arab,’ I suggest you respond: ‘Yes, Mr. Elovitch, I am a proud Arab Jew’

After Katowice, giving up still isn't an option

Negotiations at the UN Climate Conference in Katowice were, again, extremely tough. Nonetheless, it's vital that these mammoth annual summits...

Who's Trying to Prevent France from becoming Europe's Leader

There’s no arguing that today’s political climate on the international stage has changed drastically since Donald Trump’s rise to power, as even...

Co-location ruling gives needed clarity to important legal issues

The high-speed railway linking Hong Kong with cities in mainland China has been open for almost three months. Some 3.4 million passengers have used...

Western tourists trickle into Saudi Arabia as it tries to open up

Western tourists, a rarity in Saudi Arabia, visited this weekend under a new visa system, as one of the world’s most inaccessible countries tries...

Brandt must leave listless Leverkusen to fulfill his potential

Julian Brandt was one of the only Germans to emerge with any credit from the World Cup and his ability is clear. But he's stagnating at a club...

5 Stars ready to tear up contributions to newspapers and radio

Analysis. The 5 Star Movement leader, Luigi Di Maio, announced this week the new Italian budget will progressively reduce state contributions to...

Entropy is outpacing the balance of the biosphere

Commentary. We’re accelerating the heat death of the planet. But not in the way you might think. written by Enzo Scandurra Topic Climate change...

The lethal consequences of misclassifying dolphins

NEW JERSEY - The annual dolphin hunt in the town of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, began in September. By next March, despite global condemnation and...

Whose economy is in the stronger state to survive the trade war?

Who really waved the white flag first in the ceasefire of the US-China trade war? US President Donald Trump would never admit the funk he is in,...

Political ideology does not pay the bills

You can’t live on politics alone. That may be why Lee Wai-fung has given up People Power for what may be called “yuan power”. Formerly a member...

Drastic employment changes are coming

HIKONE, SHIGA PREF. - At the eleventh hour of the recent extraordinary session of the Diet, a highly controversial amendment to the immigration...

The world has nothing to fear, ‘Made in China 2025’ is a paper tiger

China’s industrial ambitions have the US on edge. But what has actually come of its plans for global technology domination? Beijing is...

Continuing hope for peace

By Tong Kim Approaching the end of 2018, it may be pertinent to note that some positive progress has been made toward peace on the Korean...

Abe’s nationalist push could easily heighten tension in the region

Japan’s China policy is one of hedging – balancing dialogue and deterrence. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s strategy is to combine diplomatic and...

Minimum wage rise highlights inequality

Come 2019, the city’s lowest paid can begin counting down the months, weeks and days until they get a rise in the minimum wage of 8.69 per cent in...

Three things Hong Kong needs before the silver tsunami strikes

Perhaps because this is the month I became eligible for Hong Kong’s “fruit money” (payable on a non-means-tested basis at age 70), I have been...

In democracies' political chaos, new model emerges

Bickering in the Oval Office. Shouting at the Houses of Parliament. Rioting on the Champs-Elysees. It's a chaotic moment for the countries that...

Asian central bankers on the ropes

I Feel No Sympathy for the Settlers

Beneath the veil of sanctimonious and hypocritical unity, and the media’s fake show of national grief to advance its own commercial goals, the...

Kiska bez masky

Andrej Kiska sa v televíznej debate priznal, vo Veľkom Slavkove kúpil roku 1999 okrem pozemku s rozlohou 1,2 hektára, ktorý nedávno prehral...

My Japanology / Opportunities to grow in Japan exist through innovation

When Stanislav Vecera came to Japan for the first time in August 2015 to become president of Procter & Gamble Japan K.K. (see below), he was happy...

To kick us into action, we must all feel the effects of climate change

Last week, Japan’s Kanji Proficiency Society revealed its “Word of the Year”, based on a nationwide annual poll organised since 1995. The word...

What the fuss over Meng Wanzhou’s passports says about Hong Kong

You could be forgiven for thinking Sabrina Meng Wanzhou of Huawei was some sort of modern-day Helen of Troy. With the world’s great powers going...

Teen experiences the good of social media

The negative impact of social media has been increasingly apparent in recent months, from the proliferation of fake news, to online bullying,...

The torture of Theresa May

Now is the time for all good citizens to put their elected politicians on the rack. Torture is what tyrants visited – and, often, still visit –...

The Incident in the Strait of Kerch: a Middle-Eastern Perspective

The Strait of Kerch, a location that is not often mentioned in the Middle Eastern media – or social media – has become rather more familiar in...

Why Does China Love Electric Cars? Beijing, Washington & The Fall of Rome

The numbers speak for themselves. 746,000 New Energy passenger cars were sold in China between January and October. By the end of 2018, all buses...

Why Do Fundamentalist Christians Support Israel – Right Or Wrong?

It appears that many fundamentalist Christians support the hard-line policies of the Israeli Government (currently consisting of the parties Likud,...

Psovka

Svetlana Makarovič je opsovala. Natančneje, navedla je primer psovke, ko je govorila o tem, kaj vse koristnega in lepega smo v dolgem trajanju...

Meng Wanzhou: how China could turn Huawei arrest in its favour

Ever since news broke of the arrest in Canada of Meng Wanzhou, a top executive of the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, at the behest of the...