The lifting of UN sanctions will not solve Eritrea's problems

On November 14, the United Nations Security Council unanimously agreed to  lift the sanctions  it had imposed on Eritrea with Resolution 1907....

Why is Netanyahu so desperate for a ceasefire with Hamas?

It was supposed to be a routine intelligence undercover operation whereby the Israeli agents would infiltrate into "enemy territory", carry out the...

Avoiding Mention of Trump and Bibi at Thanksgiving? Here Are Others to Be Grateful For

I'm going to be thinking a lot about war heroes this Thanksgiving week - all the people who, in ways we may never know, often at great personal...

Japan and Russia could finally end WWII

BERLIN – For decades, every sign Russia and Japan had made progress in talks on disputed territories and a post-World War II peace treaty turned...

Now the U.S. Congress can push Saudi Arabia on Yemen

NEW YORK – The Trump administration is ending one of the most important elements of U.S. military assistance to the Saudi-led war in Yemen: the...

Time for a trade reset, but is China listening?

SINGAPORE: – The delegations from the three largest economies in the world — the United States, China and Japan — are now gone from the recent...

(VEČERNO BRANJE) Iz 212 zgodb se ne da narediti ene

Tudi letošnje lokalne volitve so pokazale, da so predvsem desetine posamičnih tekem, ki jih je zelo težko, skoraj nemogoče spraviti na skupni...

Príznaky zlej politiky

Na rozdiel od Andreja Danka, Richarda Sulíka, Roberta Fica a ďalších politikov pre Miroslava Lajčáka nie je Globálny kompakt o migrácii...

Papua New Guinea security forces storm parliament in Apec pay dispute

POLICE and soldiers stormed Papua New Guinea’s parliament on Tuesday, smashing windows and assaulting security guards, in protest over unpaid...

Cambodia ends prosecution of former-Khmer Rouge generals

CITING a job completed, Cambodia has confirmed it will put a stop to the United Nations-backed tribunal into war crimes that last week convicted...

Israel's Iron Dome Is Not a Full Solution

It is true – it saves lives, but it does not solve the basic problem: protection of the civilian population in the south ■ The only way to stop...

How not to solve Tunisia's extremism problem

On October 29, Mouna Guebla, a 30-year-old unemployed English graduate with no criminal record, detonated a homemade explosive device in downtown...

While 'Europeanising' the Balkans, the EU 'Balkanised' itself

Two years ago I gave an interview to Radio Free Europe that attracted a fair share of attention. Reactions, positive and negative alike, were...

What should Asia expect from Trump after the US midterms?

Much like the rest of the world, Asian countries carefully watched the US midterm elections, anxious about how its outcome would affect US foreign...

How the Swedish left moved right

September's general elections left Sweden with a hung parliament. Two months later, negotiations between parties have not resulted in a viable...

MBS and a murderous web of lies

"Oh what a tangled web we weave/when first we practice to deceive," are lines often attributed to Shakespeare that were, in fact, written in 1808...

Indonesians fight back against South Korean-funded coal plants

ENVIRONMENTAL activists in Indonesia have called on South Korean funders to withdraw their support for new coal-fired plants that they warn will be...

Verska svoboda vodovodarske skupnosti

Slovenska Cerkev je v nečem res izvrstna: v svoji samopromociji, v vsiljevanju svojih tem kot družbeno relevantnih, tudi ko gre zgolj za banalni...

Is 'fake news' threatening global stability?

As cited by American journalist Sharyl Attkisson in her excellent book 'The Smear', John H. Johnson, author of 'Everydata: The Misinformation...

Habayit Hayehudi’s War

It looks like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has put out the political fire that started when Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced his...

A Right-wing Party’s Leader-like Woman and Childish Man

Habayit Hayehudi's No. 2, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, will be busy helping choose Israel’s judges, while her boss Naftali Bennett merely wants...

Arrest of Carlos Ghosn sends shock waves around world

I once visited the ancestral hometown in Lebanon of Carlos Ghosn, the chairman of Nissan Motor Co. But everyone I mentioned his name to looked...

Capitalizing on Africa’s Demographic Dividend

LOMÉ – Africa is home to the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. With as many as 20 million young people poised to join the...

China, the fastest growing region for the outlet mall sector

Designer outlet operators, which previously focused on the US and Europe, are now casting their eyes further eastwards to Asia, most notably to...

Airbnb's Ban on West Bank Is Big Win for BDS, Not Necessarily for anti-Semites

It won't even scratch the Israeli economy, or even that of the settlements, but it did drive the government into hysterics

The real lessons of Carlos Ghosn's downfall

Woes of foreign trainee program raise doubts on new visa system

Recent revelations have highlighted serious flaws and lapses in the way the government has prepared its policy initiative to allow more foreign...

The real cause of the fall in oil prices (hint: it’s not China)

Fans of Game of Thrones know that winter is coming, but it has arrived early for traders who have been long of oil, with many having been frozen...

A brave new US Congress or same old hypocrisy?

Since the mid-1990s, the US Congress has abdicated its oversight of the executive’s foreign and national security policies owing to increased...

Has a Ray of Hope Appeared in Relationship Between the US and China?

The New Eastern Outlook has been covering the current shape and transformation of Sino-American relations on a regular basis. This is quite...

Yemen Genocide About Oil Control

The ongoing de facto genocide in the Republic of Yemen in a war whose most intense phase began in 2015, has until very recently been all but...

The limits of Beijing’s charm offensive

STOCKHOLM – Over the last decade, China has taken an increasingly muscular approach to relations with East Asian countries. But in recent months,...

China and the US: the odd couple in an on-again, off-again relationship

Amid the intensifying competition and escalating confrontation between the United States and China, the Brookings Institution and Yale University...

Miri Regev’s Obnoxious Assault on Gantz Is Taken From Donald Trump’s Playbook

From McCain to McRaven, the U.S. President has shown the world that decades of decorated service mean nothing

Chinese nationalism: The dog that barks in the night

LONDON – It comes up often in conversations about where China is heading — the reference, often sotto voce, to that great emerging global...

Hong Kong lacks commitment to poverty relief

Another year, another jump in the number of people living below the poverty line. But we can always count on Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung...

APEC discord reflects a global cooperation system in crisis

Measuring, and Managing, More Sustainable Growth

For more than two generations, economic orthodoxy has held that governments that invest and regulate the least govern best. But Diane Coyle,...

Kroos rediscovering Germany form in new formation

Despite a spectacular collapse against the Netherlands, Joachim Löw's revamp is showing signs of life. Toni Kroos proved he has a future in the...

What the latest wave of arrests has made me think

As I stepped from childhood into the first years of my youth, one of the phenomenon that affected me the most with the beginning of my efforts to...

Kim must visit Seoul as promised

By Choi Sung-jin Not a weekend goes by without Gwanghwamun Square in the heart of Seoul being occupied by demonstrators of one sort or another....

Behind the Scenes / Quality of vocational schools in question

A survey conducted by The Yomiuri Shimbun has found vocational schools — facilities licensed to provide training in practical professions for...

The bounty of pine

By Bernard Rowan The national tree of Korea is the pine, and it's a wonderful choice. Wikipedia states the North chooses the pinus, while for the...

Amid the gloom, a bright spot in US-China trade talks should not be ignored

When the US and Chinese presidents, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, meet at the G20 summit at the end of this month, trade tariffs will top the...

Chess, AI and Asia's future

Malaysia’s Mahathir may defy the global trend of misrule by elite

Political revolts around the world have targeted what are widely seen as corrupt and unaccountable political and business elites — elites that...

‘Do good, be useful’: Indonesia’s disaster hero spends dying days helping others

THE role of information chief of Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency is undoubtedly a stressful and busy job for any person to take...

11/6 has become a landmark date in Muslim American history

There are some dates that are forever etched in the minds of Muslim Americans - dates that live more in infamy or misery, marking moments of...

Amid Brexit chaos, Britain's political system finally implodes

Theresa May surely by now symbolises the phrase "bad day at the office". On Wednesday night, having spent months negotiating the deal by which...

Normalising relations with Israel will not benefit Gulf states

The November 11 Israeli raid on Gaza that resulted in the deaths of seven Palestinians, a senior Hamas commander and an Israeli officer was a...

Turkey, Russia meet once again for Idlib

Turkey’s Syria pre-occupation has many fronts. For eastern Syria, its concerns are on the YPG’s presence and its cooperation with the United...

Bangladesh moves towards a 'managed' election

On Monday, Bangladesh's election commission announced that it had deferred the date for the country's next parliamentary poll from December 23 to...

Are anti-gay witch hunts really protecting 'African values'?

On October 29, governor of Tanzania's largest city Dar-es-Salaam, Paul Makonda,  announced that he formed an anti-gay unit to hunt down...

Brexit and Suez: A tale of two Tory fiascos

Jo Johnson, the pro-Remain minister of transport, resigned from the government last week because he could not vote for the Brexit deal that Theresa...

There is still hope for Cambodia's democracy

It is now just over a year since I was thrown into exile at the stroke of a pen. On 16 November 2017, the Cambodian Supreme Court disbanded my...

What game is Russia playing in Afghanistan?

Earlier this month, the Russian government hosted a much-awaited peace conference on Afghanistan, which was attended by representatives from the...

Where does the future of the American left lie?

Two weeks before the November 6 midterm elections, the White House released a special report by the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) on the...

How do 'peaceful' Democrats propose to end violence? By threatening to 'nuke' US gun owners!

Following the highly divisive midterm elections, which saw the Democrats and Republicans split Congress between themselves, the American people...

When humanity in Gaza sinks into political nihilism

The political “narrative” of bias full of contradictions, aimed at circumventing the centrality of the humanitarian issue and its repercussions...

How Israel weaponises anti-Semitism to block Middle East peace

One of Israel’s most powerful weapons against the voices of Palestinian rights has been the exploitation of Jewish history — the Holocaust...

America’s Senseless Iran Sanctions

CANBERRA – The sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States earlier this month are designed to isolate the country economically, and to force...

The young heroes helping save our world

The wilderness is in trouble. According to University of Queensland (UQ) research, more than 77 percent of land – excluding Antarctica – and 87...

Navigating Ethiopia's journey towards reconciliation and justice

Since November 9, the Ethiopian government has arrested more than 60 leading figures from the National Intelligence Service and Security (NISS) and...

The Global Talent Race

WASHINGTON, DC – More than 3% of all people live outside the country of their birth. But while the share of migrants in the world’s population...

With millions still in public housing, Hong Kong is failing its people

The Lion Rock spirit used to be everywhere in Hong Kong. The streets were humming, alive with the energy of industrious people pushing ahead to...

The Pussy Riot guide: How Nadya Tolokonnikova survived jail and stayed zen

Interview. We spoke with Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of the Russian protest punk group Pussy Riot, about her new book Read & Riot: A Pussy...

Israel's $72m 'war chest' to fight BDS arrives in Europe

The Israeli war on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement took a serious turn last year when the right-wing government of Prime...

What if Donald Trump is what America is all about?

In an erudite and timely piece for the New York Times, published just a few days before the midterm elections in early November 2018, my...

Leaving Palestinian children behind on World Children’s Day

World Children’s Day is, sadly, a day like any other; its symbolism is nothing other than an international gimmick to proclaim rights while...

Can U.S.-China relations be saved?

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

The Inconvenient Truth About Saudi Arabia

NEW YORK – The 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” highlights former US Vice President Al Gore’s efforts to alert his fellow Americans to...

Indonesia to develop Shariah-compliant blockchain gold exchange

IT seems as though efforts to bring blockchain to the financial services industry across the Asia Pacific is slowly picking up momentum. The post...

The right way to boost Indian electronics

Why David Duke, David Icke, Louis Farrakhan and the Assad Regime All Love Shlomo Sand

And Iran, George Galloway, Gilad Atzmon and the Daily Stormer. Why has such a diverse spectrum of anti-Semites converged on the work of this...

Malaysia and Indonesia are bucking the global trend on democracy

In October, Latin America's most populous nation, Brazil, elected as president Jair Bolsonaro, a former military man and historically fringe, far-...

Since Kyprianou is coming to town

It will not be the first time a Greek Cypriot political leader will be visiting Turkey. From Nikos Anastasiades himself to others, visiting...

Turkish children are losing hope

“What is the biggest problem you face when dealing with children?” I asked my latest interweave, Filiz Ayla, the general director of Mavi Kalem...

Global Conflict in a New Age of Extremes

TEL AVIV – The late historian Eric Hobsbawm described the twentieth century as the “age of extremes,” in which state socialism led to the...

Can the digital economy help us diversify Japanese arts?

As with Japan, the creative arts in the Philippines are largely dominated by a few fields - in their case, singing, dancing, and acting, owing to...

So znakom v srdci

Ľudia najmä od januára 1990 spontánne prichádzali so slovenskými zástavami, vtedy ešte prostými trikolórami, a historickým dvojkrížom na...

From entertainment sushi to pension sushi

My favorite sushi restaurant is in the former Tsukiji outer market in Tokyo. It is a small sushi bar with only one counter table that can...

Carrie Lam is becoming Hong Kong’s most hardline leader

When former chief executive Leung Chun-ying was in power, you could often hear some old Hong Kong hands trying to comfort themselves by saying that...

Xi’s embrace of private firms can’t solve China’s economic woes

In the last few weeks, China’s leaders seem to have rediscovered their enthusiasm for private enterprise. Last month, President Xi Jinping pledged...

China and the US need each other more than they realise

When big worlds collide, the universe falls into chaos and confusion. It is happening right now as China and America risk deeper fallout over...

American sijo

By Mark Peterson Whereas many Koreans consider sijo a dead art form, the poetic genre is starting to catch on in America. In a previous column I...

¿Hay lecciones para el presente de la Primera Guerra Mundial?

Acaba de conmemorarse un siglo del fin de la Primera Guerra Mundial, lo cual trajo de vuelta el debate sobre las lecciones que esta podría...

Egipto cambia nombres de sus calles: los símbolos importan

De acuerdo con las necesidades políticas, ideológicas y sociales del presente, se reconstruye una y otra vez la historiografía, ajustando de...

Will the EU be Better off Tending to its Own Security Needs

There’s no arguing that both Trump’s actions and his public speeches serve as a clear indicator that today’s America is completely indifferent...

On the Geo-politics of “European Army”

French president Macron’s call for the creation of a “European Army” and the implicit end of NATO alliance reflects the changing global order,...

Migration -- the forgotten part of ASEAN integration

Britain's enemy is not Russia but its own ruling class, UN report confirms

A devastating UN report into poverty in the UK provides incontrovertible evidence that the enemy of the British people is the very ruling class...

Why Central Bank Digital Currencies Will Destroy Cryptocurrencies

NEW YORK – The world’s central bankers have begun to discuss the idea of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and now even the...

Food Security Rests on Trade

PARIS – From farm to fork, the international community is facing growing challenges in eradicating hunger and malnutrition. And yet while some...

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Letters to the Editor: Corbyn or Sacks?

Misreading the danger to Jews In response to “Diaspora Jews, start thinking about aliyah" (Mor Altshuler, Opinion, Nov. 13). Ms Altshuler is...

As great art shows us, rain can be both curse and blessing

Rivulets of rain snake down a car windshield, only to be repeatedly cleared by wipers. Such scenes appear four times in Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film...

Japan failing to ‘bridge’ divide between nuke, non-nuke states

Serving as a mediator between two groups with conflicting opinions requires winning the trust of both sides and helping them find common ground by...

Brexit-battered pound, not the yuan, is now fuelling market turbulence

A leading economy that has slowed sharply and is at daggers drawn over its trade relationship with its most important partner. A major currency...

As migrants reach Tijuana, the caravan movement divides Mexicans

Reportage. Latinos for Trump. The Tijuana Trump. 'Mexico for Mexicans.' The migrant caravan traveling north toward the border isn't just dividing...

Execution of Inter-Korean Summit Agreement in Military Sphere

On 23 October, South Korean President Moon Jae-in ratified the inter-Korean summit agreement in the military sphere aimed at implementing the...

Korea – Unification, but Does Not have to be ‘German Style’

It is strange that when you come from the south, near to the DMZ (De-militarized zone, which divides Korea into two parts), you will see many flags...

The Risk of Bad Bills Being Passed by the Knesset at the Last Minute

Even though the decision to call early elections hasn’t yet been made official, it’s only a matter of time until the Netanyahu government reaches...

For first time in history, Apec leaders fail to agree on joint communique

TENSIONS between the United States and China have prevented leaders at the Apec Summit from producing a joint communique for the first time in its...

Malý krôčik vpred

V porovnaní s ambicióznou víziou Emmanuela Macrona, ktorý pred rokom okrem spoločného rozpočtu pre eurozónu vyzýval aj na harmonizáciu...

Hong Kong government needs to step and show support for LGBT community

I walked on rainbows the other day in the Marais, a historic neighbourhood in Paris that in recent decades has become a world-renowned centre of...

Hong Kong: Veteran pro-democracy activists facing seven years jail

NINE members of Hong Kong’s “Occupy Central” movement, more popularly known as the “Umbrella Movement” will stand trial on Monday on charges...

Israel Cannot Abandon Some of Its Citizens to Pursue Political Ends

From the prime minister’s perspective, keeping the Strip and the West Bank as separate Bantustans is critical to blocking a Palestinian state,...

Are U.S. Jews Going to Become Political Orphans?

It's not the danger of an anti-Semitic wave that should worry American Jewry, rather a new reality in which its ties with Israel could be problematic

Drugs, weapons, people-smuggling: Why PNG border is a concern for Australia

AS a backgrounder to the APEC meeting in Port Moresby this week, we recently set out in The Australian some of the broad maritime and border...

Here’s what will happen if your bank fails to move to the cloud

BANKS need to go digital. Failing to do so will make it difficult to retain customers and market share. However, the problem isn't that banks...

Hanba býva zadarmo

Veríte, že existuje i taká migrácia, ktorá môže priniesť prospech cieľovým krajinám? Žiadate však, aby mal každý štát právo...

The prolonged torture that is Brexit

LONDON – BBC political correspondent Chris Mason stood outside of the mother of parliaments on Nov. 12 and said he didn’t have the “foggiest...

Reconjuring the vision of the Meiji Centennial

Inspired by the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research forum on “Japan Since the Meiji Restoration,” political scientist Ryota Murai reflects on...

The environment and economy have become great power pawns

WASHINGTON – In recent years, we have seen the renewal of a phenomenon that seemed to have passed into history with the end of the Cold War:...

The Titiev trial — a Chechen circus

A "show trial" is the only way to describe the proceedings against Russian human rights activist Oyub Titiev in Chechnya. Throwing him in jail is a...

Bending the Knee at Herzlia

I wish to express my support for the two students who refused to stand to attention as their school choir sang Hatikva – the Israeli national...

Time for Trump and Xi to end the posturing, and the trade war

It’s not easy being a superpower – whoever would imagine that might be the case? Sometimes, one almost feels an odd twang of sympathy for the...

China drug makers must pay for suffering

Without vaccines to protect against common infections and antibiotic drugs to fight others, the world would be a much more dangerous place. Going...

Apec impasse raises stakes for trade war talks in Argentina

Surprises are rare when leaders of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) grouping hold their annual meeting. Events are usually...

Why Myanmar must pardon two wrongly jailed reporters

In Myanmar, as everywhere, facts have power. It was the gruesome facts uncovered by two of our reporters for Reuters, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, that...

The ‘Forgotten Double’: Reflections at a Johannesburg War Memorial

“Colonialism cast a cloak of western modernisation over much of the world.” Tapped from an LSE seminar called “Imagining African Futures”,...

Cuba-Brasil: la batalla de las batas blancas

La gota que colmó la copa de la Plaza de la Revolución de La Habana fueron unas declaraciones del presidente electo en las que advertía que...

Shhh, Palestinians – It’s Election Time in Israel

Please, keep quiet, my brethren! The Israelis are going to elections for your sake too, to determine your future. Remember, this is a democracy.

Are the Dead Jews of Pittsburgh 'Purer' Victims of anti-Semitism Than Israeli Jews Killed by Hamas?

The gulf between liberal U.S. Jews and right-wing Israel now colors our responses to Jews being killed: there's a sliding scale of innocence...

Is Generation Z ready for employment?

The Gen Z could be a tough group to manage — after all, their confidence in their tech skills doesn't necessarily equate to workforce readiness....

China Telecom's Philippines plan under scrutiny

Gaza will always remain a fortress of dignity

While the whole world is busy dealing with the case of assassinated journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and after the announcement of an internationally-...

The Limits of China’s Charm Offensive

STOCKHOLM – Over the last decade, China has taken an increasingly muscular approach to relations with East Asian countries. But in recent months,...

Hong Kong gets the crowds it wants from its mega bridge. Oops

If you build it, they will come. The mega Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge has been built and they, the people, have come. And, for some strange...

Masha and the Bear: How “the Kremlin” set out to subvert our toddlers. By George Galloway

As it happens I am a Russophile and have been for more than 50 years. But I have four children under the age of 12 and all of them have loved Masha...

What Hamas and Netanyahu Have in Common

Netanyahu's analogy between Hamas and ISIS is demagoguery to justify his 'no' to direct negotiations. But Hamas and Netanyahu share a critical...

The tide is turning: Israel is losing on two war fronts

The botched Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip on 12 November is delineating Tel Aviv’s failure to utilise its army as a tool to...

What makes ‘Masha & the Bear’ propaganda in eyes of West? Mere fact Masha is Russian

As a parent, I think that Masha is too much of a rascal, a troublemaker, and a bad influence for kids. Speaking of bad influence, what can we learn...

Saving South Korea’s Economy

SEOUL – Since taking office in May 2017, South Korean President Moon Jae-in has worked hard to secure a détente on the Korean Peninsula. He has...

The Bleak Fate of the Amazon

SÃO PAULO – Last month, a deeply divided Brazil voted to elect its next president. Faced with a choice between Fernando Haddad of the leftist...

Nelagodje ob nekaterih sodbah

Nelagodje je prizanesljiva beseda. Uporabljam jo tudi zato, ker sem resen nasprotnik teorij in »spoznanj« o krivosodju. Ne nazadnje se moja...

The prolonged torture that is Brexit

BBC political correspondent Chris Mason stood outside of the mother of parliaments on Monday morning and said he didn’t have the “foggiest idea”...

An outlook on Turkey-US ties in the post-Brunson era

It has been more than a month since Turkey and the United States have left the Brunson affair behind and engaged in a new diplomatic campaign to...

Grasping the grape

Imagine a wine tasting where you can take hold of your glass and start sampling hundreds of different labels side by side--grouped according to...

No lack of drama in Turkish-US-Kurdish triangle

This week, Washington hosted the third annual Kurdish conference organized by the Kurdish Policy Research Center (KPRC) since its establishment as a...

Ill-timed scandal for the 'Republic of Samsung'

China is too important a market for foreign firms to exit

Chinese President Xi Jinping met a group of entrepreneurs on November 1 and underscored the government’s support for the private sector. Soon...