Wait 'til next year: Giving up on 2020, looking toward 2021

This was supposed to be the year of the comeback for Boysie Dikobe, a South African dancer recovering from his second hip replacement and gearing...

‘Go To’ tourism campaign should be parked while virus cases spike

The government’s decision to forge ahead with its policy initiative to boost the tourist industry pummeled by the new coronavirus pandemic despite...

Widow alleges husband was driven to suicide by loyalty to Abe

"I was ordered to do something that could blow the Cabinet apart," Toshio Akagi confided to his wife. "And it's always us flunkies who end up...

It’s time for the middle powers to step in

The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the level of dysfunction between the United States and China. Both were unwilling or unable to...

No recovery without debt relief

By Mo Ibrahim ABUJA ― Last month, the African Union launched the Africa Medical Supplies Platform to facilitate the production and provision of...

When there are guns and knives in UK schools, how can ANYONE argue against having police on site to keep kids safe?

When a 13-year-old boy was convicted of assault earlier this month after taking a selfie of himself attacking a police officer who was already...

Stisk roke in njegov pomen za zgodovino

Je slovenski predsednik Pahor italijanskega kolega Mattarello v ponedeljek v Bazovici prijel za roko spontano ali dogovorjeno? Ne vemo. Vsekakor mu...

The inward gaze

In 1963, Timothy Leary, the high priest of LSD, anointed a German author, Hermann Hesse, the ‘poet of the interior journey’. Hesse had died a...

Singapore disputes claims of poor pandemic handling

The political sand in the bucket of law: Hagia Sophia

Illegal cellphone sales

Mobile carriers should do more to get rid of online marketers The nation's three mobile carriers and the Korea Association for ICT Promotion (KAIT)...

Interest rate freeze

Economy likely to contract further than expected The Bank of Korea (BOK) decided to leave its key interest rate unchanged at 0.5 percent Thursday....

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China’s Deepening Geopolitical Hole

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – The United Kingdom’s decision to ban Huawei from its 5G networks has dealt a painful blow to China. Until recently, China...

Fighting China's wars

By Donald Kirk China is behaving like a caged beast growling, menacing, lashing out and baring its teeth at potential enemies on all sides. In the...

Malaysia and Vietnam must unite against China, not fight each other

Beijing’s brazen opportunism should unify ASEAN in South China Sea

Basic income for everyone

By Kim Sun-ae If you receive ― for example ― 500,000 won every month as basic income, how will your life change? Seeing a homeless man on the...

Menace of illicit drugs in Golden Triangle region

By Dr. Nehginpao Kipgen and Shivangi Dikshit The Golden Triangle region of Southeast Asia is one of the major producers of illicit drugs. This...

Can reshuffle jumpstart engagement, denuclearization?

By Stephen Costello The appointment of Suh Hoon to National Security Council director should be a good move for the South Korean administration,...

More statues won't solve our statue problem

By John M. Crisp We already have a statue problem. President Donald Trump's solution to the problem is ... more statues. During his July 3 Mount...

Dr. Fauci, we always knew it would come to this

Let's begin today with Joe Biden, who is far too often trumped by the tumultuous roar of the MAGA train wreck. Biden, who currently leads Trump by...

Beinart cracks Zionism's apartheid foundation

Is it a case of much ado about nothing or does it pose a significant challenge to undermine key components of Israel’s multi-layered myths? From...

Antonio Guterres

From COVID-19 to climate disruption, racial injustice to rising inequalities, we are a world in turmoil. At the same time, we are an international...

Home stream

Many portraits of homelessness still end up ‘othering’ people, despite their storytellers’ best intentions. The UK-based Italian filmmaker...

Remembering Israel’s killing of four children on the beach in Gaza

What: Israeli missile kills four children of the same family on a beach in Gaza When: 16 July, 2014 Where: The Gaza Strip, occupied Palestine...

Good news: China is growing again; just don’t ask how

New York – For all the talk about the pandemic producing a new normal, China’s economic picture sure looks a lot like the past. Exports and...

+ Pogumno in državniško

Trditev, da se je zgodilo, ampak življenje teče dalje, bi bila žaljiva za ponedeljkove dogodke v Trstu in Bazovici; odvzemala bi jim vsebino in...

Yarmouk is moving from being a refugee camp to a Damascus neighbourhood

In April 2018, Syrian regime forces and those Palestinian factions allied with them used Russian air cover to launch a military assault on Yarmouk...

Peter Beinart Is So Disappointed by Israeli Jews He’s Given Up on Them

In America, Peter Beinart has been both praised and flayed alive for his one state preaching; in illiberal Israel, his ideas have little traction....

Will China revisit South China Sea policy as Washington reaches out to Asean?

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s statement on Washington’s opposition to Beijing’s expansive claims in the South China Sea goes beyond its...

Protecting Refugee Children During the Pandemic

NEW DELHI/AMMAN – Taima’a al-Hariri, a 17-year-old Syrian refugee living in the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan, had been regularly attending...

Israel or Turkey: which one is the real democracy?

Israeli Professor Ron Robin announced his resignation on Tuesday from his positions as President of the University of Haifa and Chairman of...

The Israeli Press Leans to the Left? Absolutely Not

Inconclusive investigations and psychological trauma cultivate Israel’s impunity

In May, Israeli security forces killed Eyad Al-Hallaq, a 32-year-old Palestinian man with special needs, on suspicion that he had a weapon. He was...