South East Asia is natural test bed for revamped Belt and Road

A wall of humanity against the Salvini doctrine

Commentary. On Saturday a miracle took place in Rome: the “invisible” became visible, as an enormous demonstration marched across the city in...

Aso must go, even though Diet rejected motions against him

A no-confidence motion and a censure motion against Finance Minister Taro Aso, who also doubles as minister in charge of financial services, were...

How Developing Countries Can Achieve Universal Health Coverage

ZURICH – Virtually every country worldwide has committed to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030, as part of the United Nations...

Listen to the Children

On Monday evening, Israeli children will be demonstrating at Habima Square in Tel Aviv-Jaffa on behalf of their school and youth group friends....

Donald Trump Is Still Setting Up Concentration Camps on American Soil

It is an earlier incarnation of Auschwitz, a place of indefinite detention for a vilified minority, that we saw on our border this week. The...

Israel May Live to Regret Its Warming Ties With China

Cri-me-a-blues: Sanctimonious sanctions on Russia are damaging the EU, so why renew them?

‘Understand and not judge’ was the philosophy of the legendary Belgian crime writer Georges Simenon and it’s his objectivity and lack of...

UK arms deals gave Egypt the legitimacy it needed to kill Morsi

In 2018 a cross-party group of British MPs asked the Egyptian government for access to Mohamed Morsi amid fears that the former President’s death...

‘No more survivors’ in Cambodia building collapse as toll hits 24

The retrieval of bodies from a building collapse in Cambodia continued Monday, as the death toll rose to 24 with no further survivors expected to...

Australian Islamic State orphans rescued from Syria camp

EIGHT orphans of Australian Islamic State fighters have been spirited out of a camp in Syria, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Monday, in an...

U.S. and allies can still make Iran blink

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration’s initial decision to strike Iran in retaliation for the destruction of a $130 million drone was...

Young people unhappy

Drastic policy change needed to create jobs for youths A recent state survey testifies to the tough reality young Koreans are currently facing....

Time for policy change

Replacing top aides will not help revive economy President Moon Jae-in appointed new top economic aides Friday in an apparent bid to produce...

The fourth Rome versus the neo-Persian empire?

When Tokyo first learned of a U.S. “drone” downed by Iran while flying over the Strait of Hormuz last week, our initial reaction was rather...

The gulf of deniability

MAZAN, FRANCE - What will constitute yet another act of war in the Middle East? On May 12, four oil tankers in the Gulf — two of them Saudi...

Goals for the Group of 20 summit in Osaka

On Friday I will host the 2019 Group of 20 summit in Osaka. Our agenda will focus on three key issues, each of which is particularly important for...

Getting to Net-Zero Emissions

POTSDAM – The leaders of the G20 countries head to Osaka this week for their annual summit. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres...

Setting an example

By John Burton President Moon Jae-in has apparently recognized that humanitarian aid is a good means to help revive stalled talks on North Korea's...

Ochrana detí pred sexuálnou agresiou

Inými slovami, že by sa mali vziať do úvahy aj dávnejšie súdne potrestania, ktoré už boli zahladené. Ústami hovorkyne s tým súhlasila aj...

US lapdog Jeremy Hunt prepping British public for war with Iran, just in case Trump asks

With the US doing its level best to raise tensions with Iran, Hunt has revealed himself to be every bit the pathetic poodle of Washington that Tony...

We need new economic model for North Korea

By Troy Stangarone As part of the talks with North Korea since the beginning of 2018, the United States and South Korea have offered the prospect...

My life at a Korean law firm (part 50)

By Jacco Zwetsloot Recently, while going through old papers at home, I came across a document that I received at the beginning of my stint at the...

Inmigración: que el genio no salga de la botella

No cuestiono el derecho del gobierno peruano a exigir pasaporte a ciudadanos extranjeros que deseen ingresar al Perú. Creo que las preocupaciones...

Gulf of Oman: Latest Provocative Actions by Washington

No sooner had the unfortunate incident, involving an attack on two tankers resulting in sinking of one of them, occurred in the Gulf of Oman, that...

Chile está mal y necesita cambiar

Chile está mal. La economía ha perdido dinamismo y su potencial se ha reducido, las principales instituciones están en crisis, los empresarios...

Are Robots and Artificial Intelligence Taking-Over Human Roles?

[Peter Isackson] With robots and artificial intelligence destined to take over the economy, does anyone have an idea of how a truce might end the...

Haaretz Then and Now

The Gulf State That Might Get Israel and Iran Talking

Despite the risks of war between the U.S. and Iran, a narrow diplomatic opportunity exists. But it is not between Washington and Tehran, but rather...

China thinks it can weather Trump’s trade storm. It can, but not for long. Likewise the US

When Donald Trump and Xi Jinping get together at the end of this week for their “extended meeting” on the fringes of the Osaka G20 summit, there...

The Palestinian refugees and the 'monologue of the century'

In 1948,   about 450 Palestinian villages were razed to the ground by Israeli forces and about 770,000 people - including about 20,000 Jews...

Dates and bullets: Sudan in the grip of the RSF militia

On a hot May evening, I was stuck at a traffic light in a small rickshaw on my way to the sit-in in front of the army headquarters in Khartoum,...

Sudan’s revolution fades as the Transitional Military Council rejects mediation

Few Sudanese support the notion that the ideals of the revolution should be abandoned, but most have surrendered to the reality that the desired...

Case of 7-year-old Who Was Raped Reverberates With Atlanta-style Racism

The testimonies of residents in the ultra-Orthodox settlement in defense of the accused, Mahmoud Qatusa, are some of the only glimmers of light in...

Elect Horowitz

Everything you need to know about the MH17 charges

FOUR men – three Russians and one Ukrainian – will be charged in relation to the shooting down of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which killed...

How to Renew the Social Contract

WASHINGTON, DC – The success of Western-style democracy after World War II was based on national social contracts: citizens paid taxes, and the...

Corporate America in the Crossfire

HONG KONG – American multinationals may like the idea of forcing China to alter the policies and practices – from subsidies for state-owned...

Did they really kill him?

It has often been said that President Mohamed Morsi did not die a natural death, as many insisted that he was killed. The Turkish President Recep...

How to Save the Internet

MANCHESTER – In a scene in the US sitcom Silicon Valley, digital startups compete for funding by presenting their ideas. In each presentation,...

Pismo jadralnim padalcem

Mnogi jadralni prijatelji ga ne bodo brali. Ne berejo več. Veter jih je odnesel tja nekam daleč, predaleč, da bi jim bile črke tega pisanja...

Improving Democracy for the Future: Why Democracy Can Handle Climate Change

The world seems to be following a pattern in which the more we learn about the rate and effects of climate change, the more there is to worry...

US NED-Funded Meddling Exposed in The Philippines

With little else to offer the nations of Southeast Asia, the US has opted instead to wield the familiar and well-honed weapon of political...

Hachimura is weaving an inspiring tale in rise to the NBA

The student was “always the first to come to the gym,” recalls Joji Sakamoto, 59. Sakamoto was the coach for the junior high school basketball...

Gestá a rečičky

Na prahu letných dovoleniek sa konajú rozličné snemy a zasadania ústredných orgánov politických strán, ktoré sú posmelené alebo...

Gap between economic data and sense of recovery

KYOTO - The economic recovery since 2013 has increased employment for both regular and irregular workers, brought record profits to businesses and...

Turkish democracy is still alive

The Turkish opposition's victory over the ruling party in Istanbul’s rerun election is an important victory for democracy. It also sets the stage...

Lost spirit of G20

By Javier Solana MADRID ― On June 28-29, Japan will host its first G20 summit. The initial gathering of G20 leaders, back in November 2008, took...

Ambassador's luncheon speech

By Lee Sun-ho Under the turbulent and precarious circumstances on the Korean Peninsula, the luncheon speech delivered by the U.S. ambassador to...

America's record economic expansion

Ten years ago this month, the U.S. unemployment rate was a disastrous 9.5 percent. General Motors, requiring a government bailout, filed for...