Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes no secret of wanting to revise Japan’s constitution, which was drafted by the United States after World War II, to formalise the country’s right to have a military – but critics say his plans go deeper and could return Japan to its socially conservative, authoritarian past.
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Port in Hambantota, Sri Lanka is latest in string of deepwater ports built with Chinese aid along Indian ocean coast
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Primary schools are structurally refusing to accept children with an ethnic minority background because of fears they may drive down test scores, experts from multicultural institute Forum say in Friday’s Trouw.
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European fear of genetically modified organisms has more to do with “commercial politics than it does with the safety of the products”, the director of the Gates Foundation’s .5 billion agricultural strategy has said
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Unlike many wealthy nations that will see their populations stabilize or decrease in coming decades, the United States, the worldâs third most populous country, is expected to grow â to to 420.3 million by 2060 from 315.7 million people today.
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The Chinese are buying up milk powder left and right. Because of this the Dutch and British are experiencing baby formula shortages.
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Authorities slaughter more than 20,000 birds after H7N9 strain of virus is detected in pigeons and human death toll rises to six
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From the Bahamas and Cuba down to Aruba and Suriname, international oil companies are lining up to locate potentially rich offshore deposits in the Caribbean. The death of Chavez might end the cheap flow of subsidized Venezuelan oil.
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As Cypriots grow increasingly concerned about their finances, there are fears of potential social unrest. Bank customers now face losing up to 60 percent of savings over 100 thousand euros, as part of the island’s bailout deal.
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The West supports these NGO’s and is furious.
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