Kazakhstan is rolling out colourful pageantry to celebrate 550 years of statehood, defying an economic downturn that has battered a country viewed as a post-Soviet success story. In scenes recalling…
The historic nuclear deal reached between Iran and major world powers has yet to be implemented, but one clear winner has emerged: Iran's highest authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.…
Savun Sim looked dejected as a large plastic vacuum hose sucked 2,600 pounds of wild Gulf of Mexico shrimp from his trawler's ice hold. With dock prices at their lowest…
Over history wars have been fought among nations, with all their destructive fallout, but these wars have never contributed to the removal of the irritants and factors that caused them.…
China's approach to "democracy" issues attained a kind of a violent form in certain instances in the former middle kingdom following a qualitative intensity in the Arab Spring that had…
Focused on privatisation as a viable policy tool - part 1 looked at global literature on the subject while part 2 focuses on some examples of poor post-privatisation performance in…
I saw this photograph on Twitter: an Iranian man kisses the TV screen in his home as US Secretary of State is speaking. How did this become possible? Well, this…
A decade after towering waves wrenched her newborn baby from her arms, Mi Htay remains haunted by memories of the children she lost in the tsunami whose bodies, like hundreds…
China has spearheaded a move to launch a multilateral bank - Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) - amidst much US-led Western opposition. The President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)…
Rows of new houses and beautiful mosques with glittering minarets give little clue that the sleepy Indonesian fishing town of Meulaboh was the ground zero of the 2004 Asian tsunami,…
