Who should pay for higher education in Japan?

Japan has enacted legislation that will expand support for higher education, including grants and scholarships for college and trade school...

Throw the Palestinian Beggars a Bone

Will Young Voters’ Apathy Take Down Europe?

PARIS – The need for a strong, unified Europe has never been greater. But enthusiasm for the European project has rarely been so weak, at least...

Trump’s foreign policy has finally run out of road

WASHINGTON - A superpower can get away with a lot. It can sometimes muscle its way through tough situations; it can duck the consequences of sloppy...

Kushner's squeeze play on Jordan's King Abdullah

In March of this year, King Abdullah of Jordan met the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington. By all accounts, the closed-door meeting...

Cleaning up corruption in Malaysia goes beyond Najib

For those of us who have spent years on the front lines of the fight against corruption in Malaysia, last month marked an historic first. Former...

The US should have no room for alliances with murderers

Reports that three prominent and moderate Saudi Arabian Sunni scholars held on multiple charges of “terrorism” will be executed shortly after...

Zakaj je Kurz potegnil kratko

Zloraba položaja, podkupovanje, ponarejanje dokumentov, goljufija – preiskava je trajala več kot deset let, obtožnica je dolga skoraj tisoč...

The US will proudly go to war with Iran for Saudi oil

Since coming to office, US President Donald Trump has grabbed headlines for his loud declarations; that he called the Saudi king and demanded more...

Think twice about outrageous CEO retirement pay

Daimler chief Dieter Zetsche is just the latest to have his retirement pay package highlighted. Though modest by international standards, these...

Israel’s Attorney General Better Not Let Netanyahu Fool Him

(POGLED) Krizantema siromakova in bogastvo bogatega

Berem, kako Aleksander Čeferin, predsednik evropske nogometne zveze Uefa, varčuje pred slovesnim finalom lige prvakov, ob skorajšnjem zadnjem...

It’s now up to Seoul to break impasse over wartime laborers

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has repeatedly called for “future-oriented relations” with Japan. We understand that his words were based on...

Negotiating ‘America First’ trade with Trump

BEPPU, OITA PREF. - U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to come to Tokyo on Saturday to meet with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Trump indicated...

China is a major global lender; it should act like one

Can the Belt and Road Become a Trap for China?

CAMBRIDGE – Critics often claim that China is using its massive “Belt and Road Initiative” as a form of coercive “debt-trap diplomacy” to...

How Modi Became India’s Hindu Nationalist Messiah

Modi ran for reelection less as prime minister, and more as leader of India’s largest cult, his popularity barely dented by his obvious failures....

US fires arrow into Huawei’s Achilles heel

THE Trump administration's move to block US technology sales to Huawei shoots an arrow deep into the Chinese tech giant's Achilles heel -- its...

How Inflation Could Return

NEW YORK – Debates about inflation in advanced economies have changed remarkably over the past decades. Setting aside (mis)measurement issues,...

Indonesian police fire tear gas to break up election protest

INDONESIAN police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators in downtown Jakarta early Wednesday after a rally opposed to President Joko Widodo's re-...

In Italy, the ports are open to arms but closed to humans

Commentary. The ports are open for weapons shipments, while the same ports are closed for boatloads of desperate human beings, by the order of the...

Netanyahu Is Too Distracted to Face the Threats at Israel's Doorstep

Norihiro Kato’s call for Japan to face up to reality of ties with U.S.

“Nippon Nikki” (Japan Diary), an account of the Allied occupation of Japan by American journalist Mark Gayn (1909-1981), describes a scene where...

Thailand’s competition law dead since arrival

THAILAND was the first nation in Southeast Asia to implement an effective competition law back in 1999 when such laws were unfamiliar to most...

Has Austerity Been Vindicated?

LONDON – Harvard University Professor Alberto Alesina has returned to the debate on budget deficits, austerity, and growth. Back in 2010, Alesina...

Populism and identity politics damage Southeast Asian democracy

Futility and extortion at the Manama conference

Despite the majority Palestinian national consensus that the Trump plan is a consecration of Israeli occupation policies in its right-wing...

Israel's Melting Pot Has Won

A China Food Crisis More Danger Than Trade War?

China faces a threat to its agriculture that could do far more damage to her political stability and economy than the escalating USA tariff war. In...

Political correctness preventing child births in Japan

Even the Antarctic penguins have heard about Japan’s declining population; so massive is the obnoxious media storm. Pan-childlessness is a great...