As separatists in Eastern Ukraine hoist new Donetsk Republic flags over captured government buildings, Russia masses 40,000 troops along the Ukrainian border, and the Ukrainian acting President puts his nation’s forces on com...
On the March 18, student protesters stormed into the Taiwanese Legislative Yuan in Taipei to halt the passage of a bill ratifying a treaty that will liberalise trade in services between China and Taiwan. The protesters argued t...
The tone of the campaign against Scottish independence hit a new low this month. With the polls narrowing recently and voters becoming turned off by the “Better Together” group’s negative campaigning, several senior figur...
China’s rapid economic interest in the African continent is quite possibly the most important trend in the Africa’s foreign relations since the end of the Cold War. In 1990 Sino-African trade hit the $1 billion mark. A deca...
The city of Bytom lies at the heart of Silesia – a region in the south of Poland that used to be the industrial center of the country. Through the second half of the 20th century, the Communist government fostered steel and ...
The crisis in Ukraine has put the EU on high alert not only because of the prospect of war on its border, but also because the conflict between Ukraine and Russia threatens energy security in the rest of the continent as 30 per...
The 17th of December saw the installation of Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and her coalition cabinet following the longest entre-en scene of government in German history. Despite the prolonged negotiations, foreign poli...
Football is turning increasingly ugly but its defects are merely symptomatic of the wider flaws of a modern capitalist society out of control. Football. A divisive topic at the best of times, an obsession for some and an irri...
Violence is nothing new to Eastern Europe, as the most recent events in Ukraine show. However, there are fears among many analysts that the example of violence used in Ukraine to overthrow governments could be repeated in other...