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This picture taken on February 1, 2017 shows statues symbolizing so-called "comfort women" in a park in Shanghai. Photo: AFP / Johannes Eisele
Posted inOpinion

Academics, nationalisms and ‘comfort women’

by Shaun O'Dwyer April 1, 2021November 22, 2021

In Lu Chuan’s 2009 film about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, City of Life and Death, a harrowing panorama unfolds in which we view human cruelty and sympathy, victors and vanquished. It approximates the artistic ideal Hannah Arendt called “Homeric Impartiality”. Yet the film’s focus is the pity of war, not its grandeur.  Two characters in this […]

Posted inSouth Korea

‘Dying wish’: Comfort woman urges UN court justice

by Andrew Salmon February 17, 2021February 20, 2021
Posted inUnited States

The virus is here to stay: Harvard study

by Dave Makichuk April 16, 2020April 17, 2020
US President Donald Trump holds an arms-sales chart with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House on March 20, 2018. Photo: AFP/Mandel Ngan
Posted inAfghanistan, Beijing, China, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Middle East, Oceania, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, Syria, World

MBS feted in the US despite war atrocities in Yemen

by Pepe Escobar March 30, 2018February 18, 2020
By turning the new regulatory body into a Rottweiler, Beijing hopes to get a grip on debt. Photo: iStock
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, World

China gets tough on debt with ‘Rottweiler regulator’

by Gordon Watts March 13, 2018February 18, 2020
Hwang Byung-ki. Photo: Courtesy of Han Mal-sook
Posted inIran, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, South Korea, World

Master musician was ‘the father of modern Korean music’

by Dr Jocelyn Clark February 7, 2018February 18, 2020
The causes of the Great Recession are rarely debated. Illustration: iStock
Posted inWorld

How economics survived the economic crisis 

by Robert Skidelsky January 28, 2018
S.B. Woo speaks at a meeting of the University of Delaware Association of Retired Faculty. Photo: University of Delaware
Posted inAT Finance, Cambodia, China, Philippines, Shanghai, South Asia, World

The Asian American battle over college admissions

by Doug Tsuruoka Editor at Large August 26, 2017February 18, 2020
A man walks on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. Photo: Reuters, Steve James
Posted inWorld

America’s Ivy League schools are desperate to hide discrimination against Asians

by Asia Unhedged March 31, 2017February 18, 2020

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