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COMMENTARY

Jul 27, 2004

Rumor, fear and innuendo fuel tensions

By Tom Plate

LOS ANGELES -- Anyone who knows anything about China knows that it's not just its current government but its people, too, who are ultraprotective and ultra-sensitive about the Taiwan issue.

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 26, 2004

Providing the social tools to cut poverty

By Steen Jorgensen

Today we live in a world of sharp contrasts. There has been great progress in human and economic development as well as great opportunities for reducing poverty in the globalizing economy. Information flows more freely than ever before. Yet deep-seated imbalances threaten socio-political sustainability....

COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK

Jul 26, 2004

Separate but equal acts of reconciliation

By Hiroaki Sato

NEW YORK -- In "My Life" (Knopf, 2004), former U.S. President Bill Clinton writes: "Elizabeth Eckford, who at 15 was deeply seared emotionally by vicious harassment as she walked alone through an angry mob, was reconciled with Hazel Massery, one of the girls who had taunted her 40 years earlier."

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 26, 2004

Flawed homeland security

By Ronald A. Morse

LAS VEGAS -- The dispute between Washington and Tokyo over the fate of Army Sgt. Charles Jenkins, whom the United States accuses of defecting to North Korea some 40 years ago, is more than a case of American legalism vs. Japanese ad hoc policy and humanitarian instincts. The issue goes much deeper into...

COMMENTARY

Jul 26, 2004

Beijing entering Hong Kong cul-de-sac

By Harvey Stockwin

HONG KONG -- On July 1, Hong Kong, figuratively speaking, stuck to its democratic guns. It was just as well since China, naturally, has stuck to its antidemocratic guns.

COMMENTARY

Jul 26, 2004

Lifting women's job status

By Kiroku Hanai

Women's status in male-dominated Japan remains alarmingly low, according to a recent international survey. A U.N. Development Program survey showed that Japan ranked 38th among countries of the world in the gender empowerment index, which measures women's participation in political and economic decision-making....

COMMENTARY

Jul 25, 2004

Gender imbalance exacting social costs

By Frank Ching

HONG KONG -- A quarter of a century ago, China decided to focus on economic development rather than Maoist class struggle. As part of that drive, it adopted a policy of limiting population growth with couples allowed to have only one child in the cities. Chinese officials say that as a result, 300 million...

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 24, 2004

Labor threatens golden FTA

By Alan Goodall

SYDNEY -- Ah, such dilemmas in power politics. At last, after years of both sides giving concessions, Australia has gotten America to agree to a free trade agreement. And what does the Australian Labor Party do? Threaten to kill it before birth.

COMMENTARY

Jul 23, 2004

Dream of wind power flags

By David Howell

LONDON -- Is Britain about to reverse its policy on civil nuclear power? Could the British policymakers be reluctantly coming to accept that while the official energy policy is to keep only one nuclear power station going after 2020 it may in practice be necessary to build some more in order to ensure...

COMMENTARY

Jul 22, 2004

Myths of intelligence exposed

By Gregory Clark

One reads with anger the conclusions of the U.S. Senate report and the British Butler report on the false intelligence reporting used to justify the U.S.-British attack on Iraq.

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 21, 2004

Indonesian voters showing their savvy

By Eric Teo Chu Cheow

SINGAPORE -- Results of the first round of Indonesia's presidential election on July 5 indicate that the electorate has grown more sophisticated than many observers had expected -- only six years since the country emerged from decades of authoritarianism.

COMMENTARY

Jul 20, 2004

Time, terror shadow oil era

By Hugh Cortazzi

LONDON We cannot afford to be complacent about the future energy supplies needed to maintain our current standards of living and economic growth. Nor can we be complacent about the environmental impact of current consumption levels of carbon fuels.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

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By Tomoko Otake

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