|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
By Catherine Lutz $17.28
By Paul Conrad
$22
|
|
|
|
 GlobalTradeWatch (CC BY-ND 2.0)
|
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, a U.S.-led free trade agreement that would exempt multinational corporations from having to comply with policies governing industry in signatory countries, looks set to be rammed into law without comment or notice from much of the American media.
Posted on Apr 5, 2013
READ MORE
|
 Ghobind Khalsa (CC BY-ND 2.0)
|
Despite temperate weather, low unemployment and high per-capita GDP, a new Gallup poll marks Singapore as the least outwardly emotional country in the world, beating what some regard as the traditionally humorless nations of Eastern Europe.
Posted on Nov 22, 2012
READ MORE
|
 ana_omelete (CC BY-SA 2.0)
|
Medical professionals are puzzling over why a hand, foot and mouth disease has killed so many children in a relatively small outbreak in Cambodia.
Posted on Jul 12, 2012
READ MORE
|
|
By William Pfaff — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was in Kabul at the start of June talking about withdrawal—or non-withdrawal—from Afghanistan, but before he went home he stopped in Singapore to talk about an enlarged American military engagement in Asia.
|
|
Deng Coy Miel, Singapore —
|
 commons.wikimedia.org
|
Those words from the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, who warns that the global economic malaise is only at its halfway point, if that. “The U.S. is not out of the woods,” says Ken Rogoff.
|

|
When it comes to American foreign policy, could it be that less is more? Raja Mohan of Singapore’s Nanyang Tech University thinks so, arguing for a “policy of restraint” on the part of a United States that has reached the limits of its ambitious post-WWII superpower strategy on the world stage.
|
View the most popular tags overall?
|
|