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Reducing speed can save lives. Photo: iStock

United Kingdom, World

Reducing speed to save lives works, says WHO

by Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun and Michael Bloomberg May 12, 2017February 18, 2020

India, Japan, Northeast Asia, South Asia, World

Obama and the $400,000 question

by Kaushik Basu May 9, 2017May 9, 2017

Photo: Reuters

European Union, United Kingdom, World

Cheating Britain out of Europe

by Jacek Rostowski May 9, 2017

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to speak to the media outside 10 Downing Street. Photo: Reuters/Stefan Wermuth

China, European Union, Hong Kong, Iraq, Kuwait, Middle East, United Kingdom, World

What mandate for Theresa May?

by Chris Patten May 4, 2017May 4, 2017

Why can't they just kiss and make up? Photo: Reuters

AT Finance, Beijing, China, European Union, Hong Kong, Singapore, World

Will London survive Brexit?

by Howard Davies May 4, 2017May 4, 2017

French presidential election candidate Emmanuel Macron arrives on stage to deliver a speech at the Parc des Expositions in Paris, late on Sunday. Photo: AFP

European Union, France, United Kingdom, World

Has France really rejected populism?

by Mark Roe May 4, 2017May 4, 2017

Britons in a London bar on March 29, 2017, celebrate the invoking of Article 50 after Prime Minister Theresa May triggered the process by which the United Kingdom will leave the European Union. Photo: Reuters/Peter Nicholls

China, European Union, France, Germany, United Kingdom, World

Theresa May’s Pyrrhic victory

by Anatole Kaletsky May 4, 2017

Photo: Reuters / Paul Hanna

Middle East, World

Democratizing artificial intelligence

by Maciej Kuziemski May 4, 2017

A researcher takes a piece from a semiconductor wafer. Photo: Reuters, Kim Kyung-hoon

World

A better way from R to D

by Edward Jung May 4, 2017February 18, 2020

Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev (left) and President Vladimir Putin. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Russia’s neo-feudal capitalism

by Anders Aslund April 29, 2017February 18, 2020

Donald Trump was the most vocal anti-China candidate in the 2016 US presidential election. Photo: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton

Afghanistan, AT Finance, China, European Union, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, South Asia, South Korea, Syria, World

Asia’s American menace

by Brahma Chellaney April 27, 2017April 28, 2017

Photo: via Project Syndicate

AT Finance, Middle East, Vietnam, World

Who owns history?

by Lawrence Weschler April 25, 2017April 25, 2017

Photo: Reuters/Damir Sagolj

China, Hong Kong, Japan, Northeast Asia, World

New Life for the IMF’s Special Drawing Right?

by Mohamed A El-Erian April 25, 2017April 25, 2017

The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb. Photo: Elgin Air Force Base/handout via Reuters

Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, South Asia, Syria, World

Trump’s dangerous blank check

by Stephen Holmes April 20, 2017April 20, 2017

US forces could be caught in the crossfire if Turkish President Recep Erdoğan makes good on his vow to attack Kurdish forces in Manbij. Photo: Reuters

European Union, Middle East, Turkey, World

Erdogan’s pyrrhic victory?

by Soli Ozel April 20, 2017April 21, 2017

Posters showing some of the candidates in the French presidential election which is challenging decades of traditional party politics. For the first time in 60 years the main parties of the left and the right could be unrepresented in the second and decisive round of voting. Photo: AFP/Joel Saget

European Union, France, World

Election uncertainty evokes prospect of a second French Revolution

by Zaki Laïdi April 19, 2017

Jaw jaw is alway better than war war, but may take some prodding to yield peace. Photo: Reuters

Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Russia, Syria, World

A game changer for Syria?

by Omar Ashour April 14, 2017February 18, 2020

There is nowhere from world politics as visitors to last weekend's Rugby Sevens in Hong Kong can attest. Photo: HKRU

China, Iraq, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, Syria, World

Trump the war president?

by Ian Buruma April 12, 2017April 12, 2017

US guided-missile destroyer USS Porter taking part in a cruise-missile strike against a Syrian air base in April of last year. Photo: US Navy via AFP/Ford Williams

European Union, Middle East, Syria, World

Solution to global strife: more humanitarian aid, fewer missiles

by Gregory A Maniatis April 12, 2017April 13, 2017

Failed state: poverty and a lack of hope is playing into the hands of extremists. But is that also playing into the hands of global interests? Photo: Reuters

India, South Asia, World

The insecurity of inequality

by Kaushik Basu April 11, 2017April 11, 2017

A recent anti-Trump demonstration in New York City (Midtown Manhattan). Photo: Asia Times/Doug Tsuruoka

Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria, Turkey, United Kingdom, World

Trump’s Middle East supporters

by Barak Barfi April 11, 2017April 11, 2017

Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh is the largest monastery in India. It was founded near the small town of the same name in the northwestern part of Arunachal Pradesh, India by Merak Lama Lodre Gyatso in 1680-1681 in accordance with the wishes of the 5th Dalai Lama. The monastery belongs to the Gelug school and has a religious association with Drepung Monastery in Lhasa, which continued during the period of British rule. It is very close to the Tibetan border, in the valley of the Tawang-chu which flows down from Tibet. Photo: Vikramjit Kakati/Wikimedia Commons

AT Finance, China, India, Japan, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, Philippines, South Asia, Vietnam

The Dalai Lama factor in Sino-Indian relations

by Shashi Tharoor April 11, 2017April 11, 2017

AT Finance, China, European Union, France, Germany, Japan, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, Taiwan, World

Will nuclear history repeat itself in Korea?

by Michael Mandelbaum April 5, 2017April 5, 2017

Vladimir Putin (left). Photo: Reuters

European Union, Russia, United Kingdom, World

Russia’s nonprofit spies

by Robert Skidelsky March 30, 2017March 29, 2017

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

European Union, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, World

A dramatic comeback for Europe

by Anatole Kaletsky March 29, 2017March 29, 2017

Why can't they just kiss and make up? Photo: Reuters

European Union, United Kingdom, World

Britain’s messy divorce from Europe isn’t going well

by Chris Patten March 28, 2017

Is it a good idea to tax the contribution of robots and artificial intelligence? Photo: Wikimedia Commons

AT Finance, European Union, Singapore, World

A taxing question for innovators of the robot revolution

by Robert J Shiller March 28, 2017February 18, 2020

sand oil economy

Egypt, Iran, Middle East, Russia, World

Why economists missed the Arab Spring

by Hassan Hakimian March 22, 2017March 27, 2017

China's President Xi Jinping claps during the opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, March 5, 2017. Reuters/Jason Lee

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, World

Cooler heads need to prevail on the Korean Peninsula

by Minghao Zhao March 17, 2017February 18, 2020

A man types on a computer keyboard in this illustration picture February 28, 2013. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/Files

AT Finance, China, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, Syria, Taiwan, Vietnam, World

A normative approach to preventing cyberwarfare

by Joseph S. Nye March 15, 2017March 27, 2017