Feb
23
Global warming can cause global cooling?
February 23, 2008 | 1 Comment
by Carol Zhou Yan
In an article, “Scientists announced in the July 21, 1999, edition of the journal Nature findings that suggest that global warming can lead to cold weather or even a worldwide freeze.”
Others argued that this prediction had no scientic and reasonable theory to support.
But, the extreme snow storm in Southern part of China-BBC [...]
Feb
22
World Hunger
February 22, 2008 | 4 Comments
By Eva Chang
The UN Millennium Project Hunger Task Force issued a report ‘Halving hunger: it can be done’ to provide updates on issue of world hunger and recommendations on the means of eliminating hunger. According to the report, hunger has two elements requiring solution. One is food insecurity or the inability to access sufficient [...]
Feb
20
Clash of Civilizations?
February 20, 2008 | 1 Comment
By Wanching
I have read the articles on Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations and the following is some of my thoughts on it.
According to Huntington, there are several major civilizations, namely Western, Islamic, Sinic, Hindu, African, Latin American, Orthodox-Russian, Buddhist and Japanese. This categorization is actually the main weakness of his argument as it is very [...]
Feb
20
Let’s not forget Kenya’s humanitarian concerns
February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Meryam
While Kenya’s politicians continue to struggle over deciding the exact nature of the country’s ‘power sharing’ at the Serena Hotel, it is worth remembering that hundreds of thousands of Kenyans are currently homeless and/or displaced. The post-elections violence burned many homes, while other families were driven away in fear of their lives. Of these [...]
Feb
20
Can the Democrats win without support from white, working class voters?
February 20, 2008 | 1 Comment
by Thomas
This is the question posed by Michael Lind of the Washington based Think Tank the New America Foundation in today’s Financial Times ( you’ll need a subscription to read it on line, but try and get a copy of the newspaper). Lind points out that since 1968, the Democrats have only won three out [...]
Feb
20
John McCain: China Policy
February 20, 2008 | 1 Comment
by Maggie ZUO Yitong
US-China relations are increasingly becoming the core of the foreign policy of the United States Government. John McCain recently published an article in a Foreign Affairs journal and pointed out that rising China will be a central challenge for the next American president, the two countries are not destined to be adversaries. [...]
Feb
20
John McCain: Forgotten US War Hero
February 20, 2008 | 1 Comment
by Maggie ZUO Yitong
On February 5th, “Super Tuesday” of the United States presidential primaries elections, John McCain, the Senior Senator from Arizona won a relative majority in the Republican primaries, with the records of 9 states and 511 delegates, laid the basis for the presidential nomination.
McCain was a candidate for the Republican nomination in the [...]
Feb
18
Understanding Climate Change
February 18, 2008 | 1 Comment
by Eva Chang
Climate Change has evolved to have a dual meaning. On one hand, climate change pertains to the shifts in climate caused by natural causes experienced through the natural seasonal changes. On the other hand, climate change has recently been understood as the environmental phenomenon reflecting the extreme changes in climate in different regions [...]
Feb
18
Obama: so many rounds to fight
February 18, 2008 | 2 Comments
Kitty Tse Rui (1)
Feb. 14, 2008
Barack Obama has racked up victories in Nebraska, Washington, Louisiana, Maine, District of Columbia, Maryland as well as Virginia from Feb. 9 to Feb.12, making further progress in his Democratic nominee campaign. But the results shadow forth that fierce competition for delegates will continue to primaries in Texas and Ohio [...]
Feb
18
Some basics on drug production and trafficking
February 18, 2008 | 1 Comment
By Violet Wang
Drug trafficking is continuing a trend of its own globalization, with different countries seeing their roles changed in the chain of illegal drug industry, thus facing new issues to fight the crime.
Traditionally the manufacturing of opium was from the the south-east Asian “Golden Triangle,” once a major center of illicit poppy cultivation, taking [...]
