Od tega tedna Maribor brez redne letalske linije

Potem ko je pretekli petek  iz Maribora v München in naprej v Antwerpen še zadnjič poletel 50-sedežni fokker, ostaja Maribor ponovno brez...

Henkel Maribor ima višji dobiček

Družba Henkel Maribor je objavila letno poročilo, iz katerega izhaja, da so v preteklem letu ustvarili za slabih 40 milijonov evrov prihodkov....

Za rakom so umrli. Tudi kuharica v podjetju

Pogovarjamo se, ko spet velja, da v podjetju Albaugh ne bodo izdelovali, sintetizirali glifosata. Nekateri to napačno interpretirajo, da ga ne...

Cene naših lepot - vstopnine od Ptuja do Logarske doline

Ptujski grad s svojimi bogatimi zbirkami, med njimi so kar štiri nacionalnega pomena, in z navdušujočim razgledom s ploščadi na spodnjem...

Are politicians in Southeast Asia too old?

PLATO once touted the values of gerontocracy, a form of oligarchical rule in which an entity is ruled by leaders who are significantly older than...

Why Singapore’s Hsien Loong broke down last Sunday

SINGAPORE Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's usually stoic demeanour cracked on Sunday as he addressed the city-state during the annual National Day...

Even animals are divided by Israel’s Wall and occupation threats to the local environment

Israel’s “Separation Wall” through the occupied West Bank separates human beings; that much we know. What isn’t so well-known, though, is that...

(FOTO) Grand California - za stopničko več

Seveda je grand california od običajne californie, ki je zanimiv mini bivalnik (na osnovi transporterja T6), večja za dober meter, sloni pa na...

Is the specter of ethnic cleansing coming to India?

NEW DELHI – Seventy-one years after the partition of India, and 47 years after the former East Pakistan became Bangladesh, one of the legacies of...

U.S. needs a cyberforce before a space force

NEW YORK – Sadly, the proposal for a new U.S. Space Force has become a punchline on late-night TV. It is being battered as a needless new...

Democracy needs the press as an ‘opposition party’

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS – What’s the main value in a free press? To hear the press tell it — as in many of the 350-plus editorials published...

Crazy Asian wealth porn has its funny side

I admit I enjoyed watching Crazy Rich Asians, though I did so with guilty pleasure. Some gentle put-downs of America were amusing. A rich...

'The Spy Gone North'

By Stephen Costello "The Spy Gone North," the new movie by director Yoon Jong-bin, is slow-moving and lacks the shock and awe of almost any other...

INSIGHTS into the WORLD / A walk to connect cancer survivors

I feel so thrilled after recently finishing a 3,500-kilometer nationwide journey on foot called the “Trans-Japan Walk in Support of Cancer...

What use is rising life expectancy when elderly care is a disgrace?

For millennia, humans have been trying to defeat death, and some might say we are winning the battle. Through advances in medical care it has...

Threats against Al-Aqsa and Israel’s Judaisation policy

The Israeli occupation authorities expelled all of the Muslim worshippers and closed the doors of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem between the...

Why China should point the finger at America’s ‘predator priests’

The Chinese government is regularly subjected to charges of human rights abuses. The latest came earlier this month in the form of accusations by a...

Hamas Is Desperate for a Deal With Israel. Here’s Proof

That Hebrew message Hamas sent Israelis wasn’t exactly a threat. It was a plea for a cease-fire before Gaza descends into chaos

Why the West shouldn’t underestimate China’s innovation prowess

Maybe the West does suffer an “illusion of Chinese innovation”. It best not, however, suffer an illusion that there is low-quality Chinese...

Turkey’s crisis shows a deeper disease – and Asia is infected

As Turkey’s lira crisis has deepened over the last few weeks, businesspeople and investors around Asia have asked themselves whether Turkey’s...

Why Trump’s trade war aimed at foreign investment in China

The US-China trade war may seem to revolve around the United States’ colossal trade deficit with China, but it actually hinges on investment....

Will inflation kill the U.S. economy?

WASHINGTON – Inflation is back. What do we do about it? For starters: Don’t ignore it. The latest consumer price index (CPI) — the...

Pregnant New Zealand minister bikes to hospital to deliver baby

New Zealand’s Women’s Minister Julie Anne Genter just performed an astonishing feat at 42 weeks pregnant - ride a bicycle... to the hospital...

Naftali Bennett's Gaza Warmongering

Education Minister Naftali Bennett is convinced that Israel’s indirect negotiations with Hamas over a long-term truce in the Gaza Strip are sowing...

What did Kofi Annan mean to Southeast Asia?

KOFI ANNAN meant different things to different people. In his ten years as UN secretary general, and in his work that followed, Annan left his mark...

Turistom plačilo samoumevno, domačinom ne

Eno težjih vprašanj v turizmu je oblikovanje cen, ugotavlja direktor Postojnske jame Marjan Batagelj. Vedno je namreč treba imeti v mislih, da cena...

Malaysian authorities in frantic search for missing radioactive device

MALAYSIAN authorities are scrambling to search for a 23kg Radioactive Dispersal Device (RDD) which they fear could fall into the hands of...

‘Live like a local’: Tourism’s new (and misguided) obsession 

There seems to be a rise in interest among tourists to sign up for activities that promise they would get to experience living "like a local". But...

Milan Mandarić: Sanjski nasprotnik? Maribor!

Čez dva tedna bo dopolnil 80 let, a Milan Mandarić še vedno živi za nogomet, zmage, uspehe in posel. Potovanja, sestanki, pogajanja so del...

Pozor, Ljubljanska je zaprta!

Okoli pol devete ure danes zjutraj je Komunalno podjetje Nigrad na željo Mestne občine Maribor zaprlo območje Ljubljanske ceste in uredilo...

Plastika: Lažna dilema med varovanjem okolja in željami potrošnikov

Po le dobrem stoletju, odkar je človeštvo prvič odkrilo potencial plastike, smo je proizvedli že skoraj devet milijard ton, ki se bodo razkrajale...

Prodaje Tab Mežica za zdaj ne bo; v igri drugi partner? 

Iz mežiškega Taba so danes sporočili presenetljivo vest, da so pogovori o strateškem povezovanju z južnoafriško družbo Metair prekinjeni....

Post-austerity, Greece gets a second chance

The EU lent Greece the funds to keep it from bankruptcy. Austerity was a harsh process that was often unfair — but lenders saw no real...

Trener Ilke Štuhec: Operirano koleno? To je končana zgodba!

Smučarski trener Grega Koštomaj bo najboljšo slovensko smučarko Ilko Štuhec danes odpeljal v Južno Ameriko, v Čile. Tam bo ekipa, v kateri so...

Obilen pridelek jabolk, a nižje cene

Podravski sadjarji kljub krajevni toči in zadnji suši napovedujejo, da bo letina po dveh letih, ko so bili skoraj brez pridelka zaradi...

Dobrega stotaka za šest znamenitosti

Za ogled največjih znamenitosti v New Yorku, mestu, ki nikoli ne spi, ponujajo več paketov. Eden je New York City Pass. Za ogled skupno šestih...

Aston Martin: Z asfalta med oblake

Pri Aston Martinu so se lotili zanimivega koncepta majhnega letala Vision Volante Concept, ki stavi na hibridni pogon in zmore popeljati tri...

Ptuj kot evropski center za poezijo

Že konec tedna se je s prevajalsko delavnico s španskimi in slovenskimi pesniki ter branjem poezije začelo uvodno dogajanje v festival Dnevi...

Kofi Annan kot kapetan "brazilske reprezentance"

Svet žaluje za nekdanjim generalnim sekretarjem Združenih narodov Kofijem Annanom, ki je po krajši bolezni umrl v soboto v bolnišnici v Švici,...

Australia -- the unlucky country?

Full respect to Aretha Franklin for capturing spirit of an era

Some songs capture and are empowered by the spirit of the times. American singer Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” was one such example. Originally,...

Are the Uighurs one of China’s 56 nations?

Dear comrades in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China, This is not a letter of protest and, as a sympathetic friend of the Chinese...

V sožitju z McDonald'som

Pravijo jim »mcbegunci«. To so brezdomci, ki so izgubili stanovanje in se ponoči zatečejo v varno zatočišče restavracije, kjer lahko v miru v...

Focus on Tencent’s woes, not the Turkish lira

For currency investors, there is little doubt about the source of the latest shock to roil markets. The collapse of the Turkish lira, which at one...

History lesson

By John Burton Koreans as well as many Americans are bewildered by the actions of Donald Trump. But perhaps the best way to understand him is that...