World Mar 23 Remembering Lee Kuan Yew, an autocrat who created a successful modern nation For Lee Kuan Yew, lifting the tiny nation-state of Singapore into a world-class city took single minded, even ruthless determination and a deep involvement of the state in the smallest matters. The result is a multi-ethnic population able to educate…
World Mar 09 Separating sheep from goats in a tense Hong Kong In Hong Kong these days, a Chinese and international city of 7 million brimming with both raw commercial energy and political tension, the newest hot button issue is how to separate the sheep from the goats.
World Feb 10 Past and present collide in Cambodia PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- In recent weeks, from Israel to Europe to the United States, civic and religious leaders and a cluster of survivors, have commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day and this year the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the…
World Oct 27 Are China’s latest economic reforms a game-changer? Even in a country and economy as large as China, sometimes the small stuff matters.
World Oct 23 20 years later, commemorating a war averted Across Europe and scattered parts of the old British Empire, 2014 has been a centenary year in books and commemorations that ask yet again how great nations sleepwalked into the catastrophe of World War I. More happily this week, in…
World Sep 15 India plus China: Lots of people, but less love It's not often that two politicians can get together and claim to speak for more than a quarter of the world's 7.2 billion people. That's what will happen when President Xi Jinping of China and Prime Minister of Narendra Modi…
World Aug 29 NATO: very much alive at 65 When the leaders of the North Atlantic alliance wrapped up their Chicago summit two years ago and started preparing for their 65th anniversary meeting in 2014, they could have asked John Travolta to provide the soundtrack, "Stayin' Alive."…
World Jun 27 ‘The shots heard round the world’ 100 years ago The shots hurriedly fired at point-blank range from the steps of a delicatessen in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, found their royal targets, mortally wounding the heir to the throne of the Habsburg Empire and his wife.
World Jun 03 Reporter’s Notebook: How Tiananmen Square expanded global coverage In spring 1989, journalists arrived in Beijing to cover Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's visit, while students amassed in Tiananmen Square. Michael D. Mosettig looks at how world events and television news coverage became one story.
World May 22 Europeans are voting, but for what? Separated as they are by geography, national experience and often by ideology, members of the U.S. Congress and the European Parliament share one common feature as its members run for re-election this year. Their respective legislative bodies are suffering record…