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China

Innovation In Asia – A Creative Experiment?

What made the MaD conference 2014 so special? For me, it was because it was an Asian conference. As a youth who was born in Australia, grew up in Hong Kong, but studied in an international school for seven years in Beijing ...
by Helen Leung
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Human Rights

Climate Justice For Indigenous Peoples

Climate change and its heightening impacts have been the center of domestic and international talk for decades. Its irreversible impacts on indigenous communities have both pushed for greater attention from governments and nong...
by Helen Hawgood
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Human Rights
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“Education Is The Only Way”, Malala’s Father Says

When 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, the world was stunned by her bravery and wisdom. Nicola Slawson speaks to Malala’s father, Ziauddin, about education, equality ...
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Sport

Athletics’ Quick Fix: How the politics of doping is taking athletics to the brink of ruin

June 2003 As most sport-crazy 9 – 90 year-old boys do, I began reading my copy of the Mail on Sunday from the last page to the first. But on this particular day, my eyes were strangely captivated by the side column rather tha...
by Tommy Rufai
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Health

Cost Of Obesity Epidemic Comparable To That Of Smoking And War: But What Should Be Done About It?

A newly published report shows the soaring economic costs of obesity, but reflection on this growing ailment of contemporary society requires us to fundamentally assess the role of the state before it is clear what ought to be ...
by Kishan Koria
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Syria – A Nemesis of World Powers?

On the streets of Dimashq, Aleppo, Idlib, Homs, Deraa…Syrians welcome people with an outstretched hand while saying Marhaba (“Hello”). However, the once happy faces of the Syrian milieu are haunted by the thought of t...
by Samson Faboye
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Drugs, A More Moderate Outlook

This is a rather significant departure from my normal writings. Usually, I tap out a piece on US politics or international affairs, or terrorism. This is different. This is something that I have been deliberating a lot on recen...
by Simon Fraser
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Algeria and the Islamic Movement: a Problem of Exclusion, Fundamentalism, and Memory

ON APRIL 18th, the results of the Algerian presidential elections were announced: Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been elected Algeria’s President for a fourth consecutive term, despite his advanced age and feeble health. Bouteflika...
by Anna Lazzarin
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Human Rights

A Reflection on Blasphemy Laws

The idea of blasphemy, expression that is deemed to insult religion, has shot across the news with the recent release online of the rather amateur film ‘The Innocence of Muslims’. The anti-Islamic film insults the Prophet M...
by Rosanna Rafel
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