Pakistan insists on Qatar World Cup workers’ rights

PAKISTAN will insist on proper labour rights for an army of its citizens working on Qatar's football World Cup infrastructure, the country's...

School uniforms in past century reflect society in constant change

Exactly one century ago, a turning point came in the history of school uniforms for female students--a switch from kimono to Western attire. I...

Fiasco involving flight of convict shows need for corrective action

A man convicted of assault and theft fled with a knife when law enforcement officials tried to take him to prison after he refused to be...

Morsi: death foretold

By Gwynne Dyer Egypt's first and last democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, died June 17, lying on the floor of the courtroom where they...

Serious blunder

State utility should reflect on mishap, redouble safety steps The abrupt abnormal heat output at the Hanbit 1 reactor last month was found to be...

Row over high schools

Parents angry over transition of school status President Moon Jae-in's pledge to abolish elite private high schools is facing an intense backlash...

US antitrust action risks handicapping American tech giants in competition with China

China's strategic shift

By Lee Seong-hyon A very interesting new development in the China-North Korea intrigue happened last week: Xi Jinping began to use North Korea as a...

Defusing danger of Trump's populism

By Martin Schram If you want to really get to know Donald Trump's fervent rally supporters, you'd better get there early. And I did just that. I...

Istanbul and Hong Kong – a double victory for democracy

You could describe what has happened in Hong Kong and Istanbul as classic cases of authoritarian rulers scoring own goals. Who knows how they will...

G20 and thereafter

By Choi Sung-jin President Moon Jae-in will leave for Osaka, Japan, tomorrow to attend the Group of 20 summit, Friday and Saturday. The G20 summit...

Perseverance

By Kim Ae-ran Rearranging the garden in early spring this year, I removed a group of overgrown plants in the middle of the upper garden. The...

Germany vs. Iran – Has Germany Sold Out to the Devil?

Madame Angela Merkel – the head of Europe’s strongest economy, of the leader of the European Union, said that there was strong evidence that...

The West's Losing Battle for Hong Kong

Another pivotal battle is being fought over Hong Kong between Beijing and political forces backed by the special administrative region’s former...

First Foreign Policy Steps Taken by Narendra Modi After Election

The scheduled general election to decide who sits in India’s lower house of parliament (the Lok Sabha) ended on 23 May of this year. The...

The U.K.’s giant delusion of sovereign control

LONDON - As the British struggle to choose a new prime minister and, in effect, a new government team, a huge delusion runs through much of the...

In defense of the not-so-cute animals

NEW YORK - Way back in 1979, the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould made a case that cuteness is not an arbitrary notion, but a measurable...

The End of “Chimerica”

BERLIN – The escalating rivalry between China and the United States is ushering in a bipolar world. While the past few decades have been defined...

Politicians must address retirement concerns

As the aging of Japan’s population accelerates, people are increasingly worried about their retirement finances. In a Cabinet Office survey...

You can trademark whatever words you want now

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS - The U.S. Supreme Court has painted itself into a corner. Two years ago, it held that the First Amendment required the...

A new Cold War liberalism?

FUKUOKA - In 2013, the Japanese philosopher Jun Yonaha published a provocative best-seller book and a slew of articles on the Sinicization of...

Hamas considers Malaysia its gateway to Asia

In recent months, Malaysia has witnessed a series of successive visits by high-ranking delegations from Hamas, indicating the growing ties between...

China demands FedEx account for undelivered Huawei package in new spat

CHINA on Monday called on America's FedEx to explain why a parcel from Huawei to the United States went undelivered, in the second spat between the...

Can the Osaka G20 summit resuscitate the rules-based trading system?

ECONOMISTS are fretting over the trade turmoil that currently roils the world economy. Worst case scenarios are now front and centre, including the...

Trump’s real red line on Iran is recognizing the regime

Commentary. The central issue in the US-Iran relationship is the existence of a red line that has been truly insurmountable for every US...

The slumlords' peace

We Palestinians thought we had it bad the past 25 years since the signing of the Oslo Accords under the reign of American and Israeli technocrats...

Kushner’s Ship in the Desert

Money can't 'fix' Palestine's occupied economy

This week the much-awaited Bahrain workshop is to take place in Manama, with various Arab and Western officials in attendance. The event is...

Antitrust action risks holding back US tech giants in competition with China

The importance of being honest

Report. New research in Science measures our propensity for altruism. Although economists are increasingly realizing people’s basic honesty,...

Ending Trade in the Tools of Torture

BRUSSELS – There is no scenario where torture is acceptable or appropriate. Any practice that destroys its victims’ bodies and minds in order...

Erdogan Lost Istanbul. Now He’ll Use All His Power to Bring Down Turkey’s Newly Confident Opposition

Having realized he couldn’t nix and fix the Istanbul vote again, the opposition ‘Brand Imamoglu’ is becoming a critical threat to a newly...

A Grassroots Antidote to Populism

PARIS – The political parties that once dominated Western democracies have been shaken to the core. Many have suffered electoral debacles, not...

US college suggests ‘God is queer,’ heaven forbid you challenge it!

Hell hath no fury than a liberal scorned, and if Swarthmore College, situated on a lush, tree-lined campus in the state of Pennsylvania, teaches...

Britský Trump, na scénu!

Podľa nedávneho prieskumu viac ako 60 percent členov Konzervatívnej strany si želá brexit aj za cenu, že by sa po ňom osamostatnilo...

Decolonise Palestine to achieve liberation

Palestinians have rejected the Manama summit taking place today for several legitimate reasons – all pointing to how the US prelude to the so-called...