Making MNCs Respect LGBTI Rights

LONDON – Last January, at the World Economic Forum’s annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, the WEF, the United Nations, and leading...

Colau keeps Barcelona, and Madrid goes to PP with help from Vox

Analysis. The Catalan mayor Ada Colau accepts the support of Manuel Valls to remain in her seat, while the capital changes hands. written by Luca...

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China stays mum as Hong Kong protests extradition bill

CHINESE state media remained largely silent as an estimated two million Hong Kong people took to the streets Sunday to protest an extradition bill,...

Expanding paternity leave in Southeast Asia

STATUTORY rights to maternity leave are available to working women in 185 countries, but only 78 offer statutory rights to paternity leave. Nordic...

Angeli v delovnih uniformah

Kadar koli iz Singapurja pridemo na dopust v Slovenijo, se nekako držimo podobnega koncepta. Prioriteta na vrhu seznama je preživeti čim več časa...

China risks killing the Hong Kong golden goose

Has Trump painted himself into Israel’s corner over war with Iran?

Is America preparing to go to war with Iran? This is the question dominating discussions around dinner tables as well as boardrooms. Confined not...

Hong Kong’s Joshua Wong to be released from prison today – party

JOSHUA Wong, the student leader who became the face of Hong Kong's "Umbrella Movement" democracy protests nearly five years ago, will be released...

Masked Men: The Ugly and the Beautiful

Fawzi Ibrahim bequeathed courage to his sons, against his will and theirs: The courage to oppose the continued theft of their land by the Jewish...

The Holocaust and the Nakba: The Jew as the Arab

Last month Al Jazeera Media Network suspended two journalists over a video that "downplayed and misrepresented the Holocaust".  The short clip,...

Hong Kong extradition protests: ‘one country, two systems’ is good for business – and for Beijing

Demonstrations, tear gas and rubber bullets on the streets. You can see why the business community is in a flap. At first glance the events of the...

Continued action needed to totally root out hate speech in Japan

This month marks the third anniversary of the coming into force of the law to crack down on hate speech, or forms of expressions denigrating...

Is U.S. attention on the Mideast yet again?

I am writing this piece on my return flight from Washington. Coincidentally, I was visiting the U.S. capital while Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in...

Pruning

By Kim Ae-ran In spring, we planted almost 5,000 seeds of rose moss in the garden, but what a pity it is to say that about 15 rose mosses...

Trump and the Taiwan Gambit

Taiwan has become a new “eastern pivot” for Donald Trump. Against all international laws and UN charters, he is approaching Taiwan, as indicating...

The World Is Running Out of Time

WASHINGTON, DC – In 2015, the international community launched a renewed effort to tackle collective global challenges under the auspices of the...

By Demonizing BDS, Germany Is Betraying the Fight Against anti-Semitism

The Bundestag mixed up the struggle against anti-Semitism with support for the most right-wing, populist government ever to rule Israel. Will...

Who is bombing hospitals in Syria?

My name is Rashed al-Ahmad. I'm a pharmacist originally from Kurnaz, a small village in the countryside of Syria's Hama province. I fled my home...

Will Trump go to jail?

Picture the scene: Donald Trump stands in a courtroom sporting an orange jumpsuit. Handcuffed, his carefully coiffed mane is slightly dishevelled....

Sea Watch: Europe’s refugee policies are a ‘total failure’

Interview. We spoke with Giorgia Linardi, spokesperson for the Sea Watch organization, which has come under attack by Italy’s far right Interior...

Hong Kong protesters’ fight evokes images of ‘Attack on Titan’

I still recall how excited I felt the first time I read “Shingeki no kyojin” (Attack on Titan), an enormously popular Japanese manga series....

Bernie Sanders: A refugee from the 1930s

WASHINGTON - Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, is a man from the 1930s. If you didn’t...

Saudi Arabia and the UAE belong on the UN 'list of shame'

In the coming days, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will finalise his annual list of governments and armed groups that have committed grave...

Corrupt ties with suspects

Police losing credibility due to negligence, incompetence Police are increasingly losing the public's confidence due to their slipshod...

Time to resume dialogue

Kim should prove promise with concrete action President Moon Jae-in last week wrapped up his eight-day visit to three Scandinavian countries ―...

What if the U.S. could fight only one war at a time?

WASHINGTON - Over the past 18 months, the Pentagon has been pursuing a radical change in U.S. defense strategy. The Department of Defense has been...

How the U.S. can keep the Strait of Hormuz open

WASHINGTON - The summers are long and hot in the Persian Gulf. I deployed to those waters half a dozen times during a long navy career, and have...

Fiscal Money Can Make or Break the Euro

ATHENS – It’s a curious feeling to watch your plan being deployed to do the opposite of what you intended. And that’s the feeling I’ve had...

Why this time turned out different for Hong Kong

NEW YORK - Hong Kong protesters have won a stunning victory. Saturday’s suspension of an extradition bill that would allow criminal suspects to...

Why this time turned out 
different for Hong Kong

NEW YORK - Hong Kong protesters have won a stunning victory. Saturday’s suspension of an extradition bill that would allow criminal suspects to...

Please #SkipTheTrip to Israel, Toronto Raptors

On 13 June, the Toronto Raptors won the National Basketball Association (NBA) Championship. A few days earlier, news had broken in the Israeli...

Competing visions about civilian rule make any agreement in Sudan unlikely

Historians and political scientists who have followed recent events in Sudan closely will point to the irony of the current dispute between the...

US will not ‘stumble into’ war with Iran by mistake. If it happens, it will be by design

Last week, Donald Trump pinned the blame for the attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman squarely on Iran. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,...

Hong Kong protests should inspire Americans

By Trudy Rubin Those Americans who fear for the future of American democracy should be inspired by the massive pro-democracy demonstrations...

Halting Latin America's economic slide

By Mauricio Cardenas BOGOTA ― "Nobody's backyard: The rise of Latin America" was the headline on the cover of The Economist on Sept. 11, 2010....

Resuscitating denuclearization talks

By Tong Kim Donald Trump does it again. He raises the possibility of resuscitating stalled denuclearization. Since Trump said he had received...

World wary of China-centered connectivity

In late April, representatives from more than 100 countries, including 37 leaders of foreign governments, were in Beijing to attend the second...

Fake capitalism misguides youths

By Dr. Jeffrey I. Kim I have resumed teaching economics in the university ― currently economic development. The class is a good mixture of local...

Time to resume dialogue

Kim should prove promise with concrete action President Moon Jae-in last week wrapped up his eight-day visit to three Scandinavian countries ―...

How Korea can win World Cup

By Vee Chansa-Ngavej South Korea's youth team reaching the 2019 U-20 World Cup final was a noteworthy and commendable achievement. The players and...

US-backed Agitators Go "Missing" in Asia - Why?

The Western media along with multiple US and European funded “rights” groups have sounded the alarm over what they claim is a wave of...

Boris’ tactic to become British prime minister is to hide the crazy

Look, I don’t judge Boris for wanting to be leader. The perks are excellent; central London pad and a place in the country, driver, mobile phone...

Is the US on a Major About-turn on Iran?

In May 2018, more than a year ago, when the US threw the hard-negotiated nuclear deal with Iran out of the window of the Oval office, it did not...

Lindsey Graham, America's Most Unlikely Campaigner Against Israeli Annexation

Now the anti-annexation, pro-two state 'resistance' has been joined even by the fiercely pro-Israel Trump confident and loyal Netanyahu ally...

The German Way of Securitizing the BDS Movement

On May 17, 2019, the German federal parliament – the Bundestag – passed a resolution in which Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions – the BDS...