Foreign business investors are finding it still difficult to ever do business in China, in spite of the hope that it is China that will pull the world out of the recession.
Foreign business isn’t exactly booming in China. “China accounts for less than 2% of the global sales of drugs giants such as Pfizer, AstraZeneca [...]

There have been great people who deserved the Nobel Peace Prize more than Henry Kissinger or Yasir Arafat but, then again, the award-giving Norwegian Nobel Committee reserves the right to choose. Here are some of those who missed the rightful glory.
Gandhi should have been an obvious winner. Who to better embody the spirit of peace [...]

China boasts of double-digit economic growth over the last several years. But amidst the economic upliftment of the country lies proof of the corruption and dysfunction of its local government. Chongqing in China holds the country’s hidden face. Central authorities are strong but the public ire is evident. Chongqing is a province with a population [...]

There is good reason for the People’s Republic of China to celebrate its 60th anniversary. It is, after all, the world’s most populous and industrious nation. It is also the world’s third largest economy and trading nation.
The country has been a scientific and technological innovator. It has started to build a world-class university system. It [...]

North Korea has announced that it has begun the ‘last phase’ in the process of enriching uranium to build nuclear weapons. At the same time, the North Korean communist regime said it is also into the parallel process of extracting plutonium from the nuclear fuel rods stored at its Yongbyon reactor. The North Korean delegation [...]

North Korea takes a confident stance regarding its nuclear weapons program. According to the country’s state media, “Uranium enrichment tests have been successfully carried out and that process is in the concluding stage.” This brings yet another worry to anti-nuclearization critics of the communist regime. Now that ‘North Korea has entered the final phase of [...]

Pyongyang has proven its nuclear doggedness. In spite of tremendous international criticism that puts North Korea in a pariah state, it has gone ahead to test nuclear and ballistic missile weapons. Add to that is its ‘nuclear technology proliferation to terrorist-supporting states,’ plus its mounting human-rights abuses.
Those opposed to North Korea’s ever-heightening nuclear capability are [...]

The city government of Shanghai, the largest city in China, has launched a campaign to encourage families to have a second child. The new two-child policy is a reversal of the old one-child policy which was written into the Chinese constitution in 1978, and went on to prevent some 400 million births. The Chinese regime [...]

China is observed to be suffering from amnesia regarding the massacre that occurred at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 20 years ago. Some attribute this to state-enforced erasure of collective memory. The communist regime in China ‘tolerates no mention of the massacre.’
On June 3 and 4, 1989, students and mostly Chinese elite and intellectuals filled the tragic square with a [...]

Cuba responded positively to the U.S. proposal to reopen negotiations on Cuban immigration to the United States, halted in 2004 by President George Bush. The U.S. offer was a new gesture of openness of the Obama administration which attempts a cautious and gradual approach with the Castro regime. Cuba also accepts the U.S. proposal to establish direct mail services [...]