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Liquid biopsies are among the top 10 emerging technologies in 2017. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Posted inAT Finance, Indonesia, World

Top 10 emerging technologies of 2017

by Oliver Cann June 28, 2017February 18, 2020

A diverse range of breakthrough technologies, including “artificial leaves” that turn CO2 into fuel, and a technique that harvests water from air, could soon be playing a role in tackling the world’s most pressing challenges, according to a list published today by the World Economic Forum. The technologies were selected by the World Economic Forum’s […]

Looking to the future: "Innovation is at the heart of creating value." Photo: Reuters/Thomas White
Posted inChina, European Union, World

A view from China on the future of innovation and education

by Xu Jinghong June 22, 2017February 18, 2020
A supporter reacts during a rally after Taiwan's constitutional court ruled that same-sex couples have the right to legally marry, the first such ruling in Asia, in Taipei. Photo: Reuters/Tyrone Siu
Posted inAT Finance, Australia, China, India, Malaysia, Oceania, Shanghai, Singapore, South Asia, Taiwan

An incomplete equality: Taiwan moves to legalize same-sex marriage

by Mei-Hua Chen June 22, 2017February 18, 2020
Refugees or migrants? When it comes to children who cross international borders without papers, there’s no easy answer. Photo: Reuters/Stoyan Nenov
Posted inAfghanistan, Bangladesh, European Union, Mexico, Middle East, Pakistan, South Asia, Syria, World

Refugee or migrant? Sometimes the line is blurred

by Parvati Nair June 21, 2017February 18, 2020
A background or texture made from a tie dyed fabric. Photo iStock
Posted inAT Finance, Iran, Mexico, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, Syria, Vietnam, World

A psychedelic spin on ‘national security’

by Ira Chernus June 21, 2017February 18, 2020
Indian woman drawing water from the well as two of her children wait in the  Thar Desert, Rajasthan. Photo: iStock
Posted inAT Finance, China, European Union, Germany, India, Singapore, South Asia, World

India’s wells are running dry, fast

by Asit K Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada and Udisha Saklani June 19, 2017February 18, 2020
Green roof of City Hall in Chicago, Illinois. Installing green roofs is one of the adaptation measures that cities can use to lower local temperatures and hence the economic impacts of climate change. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
Posted inMexico, World

Urban heat island effect could more than double climate costs for cities

by Mike Gaworecki June 18, 2017February 18, 2020
Fans watch a World Cup qualifying match, in Doha, between Qatar and South Korea, in June. Photo: Reuters / Ibraheem Al Omari
Posted inBahrain, European Union, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Middle East, Turkey, World

How the World Cup became a political football

by Simon Chadwick June 18, 2017February 18, 2020
As of February 2017, a Wildlife Conservation Society team counted  around 69 Irrawaddy dolphins. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Posted inAT Finance, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, South Asia, World

Last waltz looms for Myanmar’s dolphins and fishermen

by Kayla Walsh June 17, 2017February 18, 2020
The entrance of Arte Moris, Dili, Timor Leste 2017. Photo: Y.H
Posted inAT Finance, Australia, Indonesia, Oceania, South Asia, Timor Leste, World

How arts heal and galvanize the youth of Timor Leste

by Khoo Ying Hooi June 17, 2017February 18, 2020
Chemistry class at the Dong Tien Secondary School, Thai Nguyen province, Vietnam. Photo: Asian Development Bank/Flickr, CC BY-SA
Posted inEuropean Union, Germany, Japan, Middle East, Northeast Asia, World

Global Pisa tests show how evidence-based policy can go wrong

by Andrea Saltelli June 17, 2017February 18, 2020
What goes up... once seen as a one-way bet on China's surging economic growth, the yuan's fortunes have reversed. Photo: Reuters
Posted inAustralia, Beijing, China, Middle East, Oceania, South Asia, United Kingdom, World

Chinese political donations pose a threat to Australian democracy

by Daniel Fazio June 16, 2017February 18, 2020
China has conducted and supported cyber intrusions into US commercial networks for over a decade, according to a US government report. Photo: Reuters / Edgar Su
Posted inChina, India, Russia, South Asia, United Kingdom, World

Welcome to the ‘managed’ internet: unpacking China’s new law

by Scott Shackleford June 15, 2017February 18, 2020
A man cooks a traditional Uyghur rice dish on the Chinese side of the China-Kazakhstan Horgos International Border Cooperation Center (ICBC), in Horgos, China May 19, 2017. REUTERS/Sue-Lin Wong
Posted inAT Finance, Australia, Bangladesh, Beijing, China, Middle East, Oceania, Pakistan, South Asia

China’s dangerous ethnic policies in Xinjiang

by Ben Hillman June 13, 2017February 18, 2020
US President Donald Trump waves to the crowd during a rally in Ohio. Photo: Reuters/John Sommers
Posted inAT Finance, Bahrain, China, Egypt, European Union, France, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, Syria, Turkey, United Kingdom, World

Is Trump launching a new world order?

by Michael T. Klare June 13, 2017February 18, 2020
A palm oil plantation south of Jakarta on the Indonesian island of Java. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY 2.0.
Posted inAT Finance, Indonesia, North Korea, Northeast Asia, South Asia, South Korea, World

Forest council to investigate Korean giant’s Indonesia palm oil operations

by Mike Gaworecki June 10, 2017June 15, 2017
Truong Tan’s catalogue for his first solo exhibition in 1994 documents his tentative exploration of performance art and frequent use of ropes. Photo: Truong Tan used with permission, CC BY-NC
Posted inAT Finance, China, South Asia, Taiwan, Vietnam, World

The pioneering queer artists who opened Vietnam to gay culture

by Cristina Nualart June 10, 2017February 18, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump applauds his aides and staff members looking on as he departs to spend the weekend at his New Jersey golf estate from the South Lawn of the White House. Photo:  Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
Posted inGermany, Middle East, World

Dear President Trump: Breaking up (banks) isn’t so hard to do

by Nomi Prins June 10, 2017February 18, 2020
There are a number of ways the global community can protect the oceans. Photo: Shutterstock
Posted inChina, India, Middle East, South Asia, World

The world has finally noticed that the ocean is a finite resource

by David Obura June 8, 2017February 18, 2020
Indigenous Awajún women in Shampuyacu, Peru. Conservation International has worked with these women to designate a forest of their own where they can cultivate traditional plants. Photo: Freddy Guillen
Posted inAT Finance, Cambodia, European Union, Middle East, World

Q&A with a champion of the “gendered approach” to conservation

by Roz Evans June 3, 2017February 18, 2020

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