China: Erotic novel author jailed for producing gay pornography

A Chinese court sentenced the author of a gay erotic novel to more than a decade in prison on Sunday for producing and selling pornographic...

Will Vietnam follow China down the pollution path?

THE news that China is bracing for smog waves as the winter heating season begins has once again put the dangerous levels of air pollution in Asia...

Boycott Airbnb, Unless You're Good With anti-Semitism

Even if you fiercely oppose the occupation, you should still be able to see that denying Jews rights that you don’t seek to deny to others, even...

Kalifornija kot neoliberalistični paradiž

Naj rečem nekaj o požarih v Kaliforniji, čeprav sem o tem že pisal. Pojav namreč ni nov. Novo je to, kako gori, ampak to je novost zadnjih let,...

Indonesia: Beached whale carcass found with 6 kgs of plastic in stomach

OVER a thousand pieces of plastic rope, hundreds of disposable cups, and two pairs of rubber sandals were among nearly six kilogrammes of man-made...

When the Army Is the Moral Compass

The Israeli army, it turns out, has a mind of its own, independent thinking, and responsibility that competes with the irresponsibility of its...

4 Sinking Asian cities that could be drowned by climate change

WE hear a lot about rising sea levels associated with climate change and the dangers this can pose to coastal areas and island nations, such as the...

Thailand waives visa fees to boost tourist numbers

GOOD news for Indian passport holders as the Thai government has decided to waive its visa on arrival fees. The post Thailand waives visa fees to...

Why a US decoupling from China may backfire

Washington’s new foreign policy buzzword, “decoupling”, has a rather bland ring, especially given the momentous phenomenon it describes – of...

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China will have to boost economy if trade war worsens in 2019

China’s economic data for October, released over the past two weeks, paints a relatively stable macro picture for now. However, with a storm...

How the case of a Chinese chip maker shows Beijing’s intent to shake up world order

US Vice-President Mike Pence has added fuel to the fire of the trade war and also reportedly threatened “a cold war” unless China makes...

Trump Wanting His European Cake

Nothing more ironically illustrates the end of the ‘American Century’ than the abject failure of the American President to fully participate in...

A New Bone of Contention Between South Korea and Japan?

A short while ago, while commenting on the dominant themes in the war of words between Japan and South Korea, we noted South Korea’s attempt to...

Air pollution can take a decade off your life expectancy

AIR pollution is the greatest threat to human health and cuts the average lifespan by almost two years globally, according to new research. Major...

When capital becomes second nature

Commentary. For a while now, the crisis of work has been accompanied by calls to become entrepreneurs ourselves. The new imperative is to think...

U.K. researcher Dore traced slide of corporate values in Japan

During the postwar occupation of Japan by Allied forces, British sociologist Ronald Dore, who died on Nov. 13 at the age of 93 in Bologna, Italy,...

North Korea’s children face an Orwellian nightmare, its allies must help them

KIM Jong Un, North Korea’s tyrannical leader, recently “reaffirmed historic ties” with Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuba’s president. The post North...

Investigation at Nissan should expand beyond Carlos Ghosn

A train of events that started on Nov. 19 can only be described as stunning. Tipped off by a whistle-blower, the special investigation department...

Building a ‘free and open’ Indo-Pacific

AUSTRALIA – The Indo-Pacific is emerging as the center of global power and wealth, with security dynamics changing rapidly in the region. The...

Renault and Nissan lurch toward war

NEW YORK – When Serbian nationalists assassinated the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary in 1914, they hoped the move would lead to the...

Initiative helps, not hinders, development

Does China practise stealth imperialism by saddling developing countries with loans they can’t afford with its “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI)...

Greed drove Nissan's Ghosn into a trap

Can U.S.-China relations be saved?

At the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting on Saturday afternoon, Chinese diplomats arrived unexpectedly at the Foreign Ministry of host...

Diery v lodi

Opozícia zdôrazňuje, že plagiátorstvo je neprípustné. Danko sám sa tvári statočne, SNS otvorenie schôdze podporuje. SNS jedným dychom...

How a people’s jury system is opening up China’s courts

Jin Zhehong, 50, has languished in prison since 1995, when he was convicted in Jilin province of raping and murdering a 20-year-old woman. The...

Can the business community resolve the trade war?

The ongoing US-China trade war bodes poorly for global economic growth. There are steps we can take to prevent the current tit-for-tat escalation...

Berlin doesn’t really want an EU army

For all the recent transatlantic debate about creating a joint European army, Germany — which has the second-biggest military in the European Union...

A Retreat to the Old and Primitive World

The ruling given by the High Court of Justice in a petition against the Great Rabbinical Court, according to which a woman’s part of an asset may...

Why Saudi Arabia's foreign policy is failing

The brutal murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul on October 2 and the spectacular mismanagement of the...

US assault on Russian arms exports could misfire in Asia

The Promise of Multi-Shift Schooling

ISLAMABAD – The need to uphold the right to education has gotten a lot of attention in recent years. Ensuring “inclusive and equitable quality...

Europe Finally Pulls the Trigger on a Military Force

MUNICH – US President Donald Trump is making an intolerable show of himself in Europe. Not only has he cast doubt on America’s commitment to...

Kriv je zdravnik!

Je že res, da je iskanje krivde skorajda slovenska olimpijska panoga. Predvsem, kadar govorimo o njenem prelaganju. Slovensko zdravstvo že dolgo...

Natives and migrants, locked in a common struggle against imperialism

Commentary. A social conflict—or, if you will, a “class struggle”—has flared up on a planetary scale between those seeking to enter the...

Thailand’s Prayuth says open to invitation for PM candidacy

THAILAND'S military Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha said any political party that wished to see him run for office as a civilian in the upcoming...

What do the Palestinians want from the international community?

Two days before Israel’s latest criminal attack on the Gaza Strip, I wrote an article in which I tried to explain exactly what the Palestinians,...