Written by lookingbeyondbordersOctober 13, 2012

Southeast Asian Governments Are Spending Vast Sums To Reduce Crushing Poverty. While The Cause Is A Noble One The Reasoning And Approach May Be Faulty

Populist economics is on the rise in Southeast Asia. Politicians have been actively adopting policies that aim to impress upon the poor that governments are doing something, however trivial, to improve their conditions. It is generally a positive development but is it sustainable? Thailand’s Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted as Prime Minister in 2006 but has remained popular […]

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersOctober 13, 2012

A Child Soldier in the War for Pakistan

It’s not every day that Barack Obama and Ban Ki-moon agree with the head of the Islamist group Jamaat-e-Islami or an America-bashing Pakistani politician. But Tuesday’s Taliban attack on 14-year-old activist Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan’s Swat Valley attracted universal condemnation cutting across countries and cultures. Read Here – WSJ Opinion

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersOctober 7, 2012

Cultural Technology And The Making Of K-pop (South Korea Flexes Its Soft Power, And How…)

It was five o’clock on a Sunday in May, two hours before showtime, but already thousands of K-pop fans had flooded the concrete playa outside the Honda Center, a large arena in Anaheim, California. Tonight’s performers were among the biggest pop groups in South Korea—shinee, f(x), Super Junior, EXO, TVXQ!, and Girls’ Generation. In the […]

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersOctober 5, 2012

The Asian Cold War

The roiling dispute over a remote set of rocks in the East China Sea, known to the Japanese as the Senkaku Islands and to the Chinese as the Diaoyus, is more than a mere diplomatic spat between two of the world’s largest economies. It has stripped away the thin veneer of cooperation between the two […]

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersOctober 2, 2012

How Lonely Single Men Created China’s Dangerous Real Estate Bubble

When Xiaobo Zhang got married in the early 1990s, he and his bride, like millions of other couples across China, were given a small room to live in by his danwei, or work unit. At the time a lecturer at Nankai University in Tianjin, Zhang’s room was utilitarian and unremarkable, virtually indistinguishable from the ones inhabited […]

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersOctober 2, 2012

The American Dream Has Become A Myth’, Says Joseph Stiglitz

The finance industry is to blame for the growing divide between the rich and poor in the United States, says Nobel Prize-winning economics professor Joseph Stiglitz. In an interview with SPIEGEL, he accuses the industry of preying on the poor and buying government policies that help them get richer. Read Here – Der Spiegel

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersSeptember 30, 2012

“Freshwater Will Be the New Oil”

Vint Cerf is known as one of the “fathers of the internet.” He sat down with Alexander Görlach to talk about innovation, social networks, and the future of human society. Read Here – The European

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersSeptember 28, 2012

A South Korean Video Is Making Waves On The Web. But The West Is Actually Late To The Party

Korean pop culture may not (yet) turn heads in Los Angeles or London, but its impact — economic as well as cultural — across the developing world is startling. First taking off in China and Southeast Asia in the late 1990s, but really spiking after 2002, Korean TV dramas and pop music have since moved […]

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersSeptember 22, 2012

Long Walk From Freedom: Mandela’s Grandchildren And A New South Africa

Nelson Mandela was the country bumpkin made good, running away from his rural home as a teenager to become a lawyer in the big city and, later, one of the world’s most famous guerrilla leaders and most lionized political prisoners. After 27 years of incarceration, he was freed in 1990 and, in 1994, elected leader […]

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersSeptember 22, 2012

Putin’s Russia Hits The ‘Clear’ Button On The Medvedev Era

It is too early to write off Mr. Medvedev, who recently turned 47. He is now prime minister and remains the leader of the governing United Russia party and the second-most-important politician in the country. A year ago he demonstrated his loyalty to Mr. Putin by walking away from a second term, and Mr. Putin […]

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Southeast Asian Governments Are Spending Vast Sums To Reduce Crushing Poverty. While The Cause Is A Noble One The Reasoning And Approach May Be Faulty

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A Child Soldier in the War for Pakistan

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Cultural Technology And The Making Of K-pop (South Korea Flexes Its Soft Power, And How…)

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The Asian Cold War

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How Lonely Single Men Created China’s Dangerous Real Estate Bubble

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The American Dream Has Become A Myth’, Says Joseph Stiglitz

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“Freshwater Will Be the New Oil”

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A South Korean Video Is Making Waves On The Web. But The West Is Actually Late To The Party

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Long Walk From Freedom: Mandela’s Grandchildren And A New South Africa

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Putin’s Russia Hits The ‘Clear’ Button On The Medvedev Era

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