The annual ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Foreign Ministers meeting is in full swing this week in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and thus far the talks have been highly revealing of the major trends and themes in the reg...
All human beings deserve to be treated with dignity. Here, one victim of the Bangladesh factory collapse, which killed over 1,000 workers, recounts her close to death experience. “I didn’t think anybody could save me,” s...
My maternal grandmother has been an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) since 1997, immediately after the December elections and the subsequent ethnic clashes that ensued. My maternal grandfather and his second family followed th...
The daughter of former US Vice President Dick Cheney has announced her intention to run against Senate incumbent Mike Enzi from Wyoming in the upcoming 2014 Republican primary. There’s nothing strange about that in itself, ex...
The long-awaited rise of China has arrived, and with it, geopolitical concerns. Japan and the United States have been the principal victims of this rising. Both countries, allies since 1945, now face tough competition in light ...
Faith D’Aluisio and Peter Menzel have successful careers documenting diet, economic and environmental habits of the world. They have a knack for juxtaposing stories to help individuals understand their habits in comparison to...