Stay-home request spurs a reading revival

Kizugawa, Kyoto Pref. – In many urban areas of Japan, people were recently urged to stay home for weeks on in the fight to contain the spread of...

The end of Europe’s Chinese dream

Berlin – A paradigm shift is taking place in relations between the European Union and China. The COVID-19 crisis has triggered a new debate...

Nuclear delusions fuel North Korean ambitions

North Korea warned this week that it was strengthening its “nuclear war deterrence.” Experts don’t know what that means, but they are worried....

Regulating in a Pandemic

LONDON – The years after the 2007-09 global financial crisis were characterized by an orgy of rulemaking by financial regulators around the world...

Lufthansa bailout shows Germany has learned nothing from the pandemic

COVID-19 has taught us that individuals and governments can act together for the greater good. In bailing out Lufthansa, the German government is...

Opinion – Sustainability for the Urban Poor Beyond COVID-19

The ‘win-win’ scenario for governments, the urban poor, as well as private players is likely to emerge if public private partnership models are...

Japan's government gets no credit for coronavirus response

Slow start and out-of-touch prime minister have aggravated public

China faces challenging times as it forgoes GDP target

Horrifying high-tech hazmat suit promoted as the future of post-Covid clubbing – but hey, you can vape in it!

After enduring months of lockdown, we can all get back to safely spending hours in sweaty nightclubs, dancing the night away with friends, and...

Twitter & media know this isn’t about mail-in ballots or fraud, but about who gets to define truth; Trump does too

On Tuesday, Twitter took the unprecedented step of posting a link under the two tweets – made by the president on his personal account – listing...

Philippines bolsters posture in South China Sea after navy ship docks at new Spratly Islands port

Two recent developments in the South China Sea are poised to be designed to enhance the Philippines’ position in the increasingly tense flashpoint...

A Chronicle of a Lost Decade Foretold

ATHENS – To exorcise my worst fears about the coming decade, I chose to write a bleak chronicle of it. If, by December 2030, developments have...

I’ve been to China’s wet markets and eaten their wonderful delicacies. Demanding their closure over Covid-19 is cultural snobbery

Of all the sensitivities surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, nothing is more culturally divisive than “wet markets,” such as those in the...

+ (POGLED) Iz usihajoče kleriške kulture

Klasični katoliški kleriki, ki so jih zadnjih 400 let oblikovali mehki barok, polemika s protestantizmom, razsvetljenski absolutizem, nacionalne...

Omar Al-Mukhtar’s Libya is now fighting a global proxy war

As I have said before, I was counting on the Libyan heroes of the February Revolution to continue their struggle against the reckless criminal...

Readers rejoice

Japan's literacy rate in the late Edo Period (1603-1867) appears to have been quite high in cities and rural provinces alike. There were book...

Kimura’s death underscores need for system to ID online abusers

Hana Kimura, 22, a cast member of the popular TV reality show “Terrace House”　produced and aired by Fuji Television Network Inc., died on May...

Boost domestic tourism

Bold investment, deregulation needed to keep travel industry afloat The government unveiled measures aimed at stimulating domestic tourism and...

Climate Targets and Industry Participation in the Recovery

COPENHAGEN – The COVID-19 pandemic must not lead governments to lower their climate ambitions. Accelerating the transition to a low-carbon...

Janša in antinacionalisti z levice na isti strani?

Vprašanje je: Kaj potem? Kaj potem, ko bo ta neizvoljena vlada šla? Ne kaže namreč, da se bo obdržala. Ko se predsednik vlade spušča v javna...

Coronavirus is dark side of an urban interconnected world

Like earlier pandemics, the coronavirus is the dark side of a highly productive, urbanised, interconnected and increasingly prosperous world. Yet...

The vegan chef leading Germany’s far-right anti-lockdown protests

Report. A network of German extremists led by Attila Hildmann is uniting conspiracy theorists, neo-Nazis, anti-Semites, “citizens of the...

How white anger generates violence and inequality in Brazil

Commentary. The pandemic solidified the sabotage of various social programs. And in a country where feminicides and domestic violence are already...

Specter of currency war

Yuan's depreciation could wreck Korean economy The escalating rivalry between the U.S. and China is prompting a Cold War that could revive new...

Basic income: done deal?

By Gwynne Dyer World War I speeded up the emancipation of women; World War II led to the creation of welfare states in all the industrialized...

The right economic response to the COVID-19 crisis

As was widely feared, the serious impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy has become increasingly clear. The gross domestic product in the...

COVID-19 offers chance to halt Iran's practice of taking Western hostages

By Trudy Rubin The COVID-19 pandemic has beamed a spotlight on Iran's barbaric practice of hostage diplomacy. In this dirty game, U.S. and...

Boris Johnson leaves the dirty work to everyone else

London – An awkward question hangs over the COVID-19-shuttered world of Downing Street. At his daily morning meeting, Boris Johnson, back to full...

Khashoggi’s fiancée is right to reject his family’s pardon for his killers 

Over the past couple of weeks Saudi Arabia has upped the ante with regard to retaliation against the family members of political dissenters in the...

In Egypt a murdered woman means nothing but a policeman means everything

In 2008 Mohsen Al-Sukkari held up a card which identified him as block management and stepped inside the apartment of Lebanese pop sensation...

Healthy settling of the #MeToo

By Song Sang-yep The impact of the #MeToo movement on Korean society has been enormous. Companies widely recognize sexual harassment as a crime....

Why we're 'not all in this together'

By Christine Flowers So many of us are parked in front of our television sets these days, more out of necessity than desire. After hundreds of...

China, WHO and Hong Kong

By John J. Metzler The World Health Organization (WHO) held its annual Assembly with barely a mention of the member state which brought this U.N....

Bayern Munich have title in the bag as Borussia Dortmund throw it away again

Bayern Munich's victory against Borussia Dortmund means an eighth straight Bundesliga title beckons for the Bavarians. While they deserve the...

Naftová krivda

Softvér bol aktivovaný len počas emisných testov. Na cestách tvorbu emisií neovplyvňoval a vďaka tomu mali motory v realite vyšší výkon a...

Para una gobernanza económica global

La crisis que sacude al mundo ha dejado al desnudo la inexistencia de una gobernanza global. La dimensión más evidente es la sanitaria. La...

In Dog Years

In December, 2011 I wrote a post titled “For the Love of a Dog,”  In it I wrote how much I wanted to adopt a dog to give her a loving home and...

How to Protect Refugees in a Pandemic

KAMPALA – Perhaps the most effective health interventions in the battle against COVID-19 so far have been behavioral: social distancing and...