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The July 2008 package

WTO in the Asian Century

The next Director-General of World Trade Organization should be Asian, and Indonesia's Mari Pangetsu is an excellent candidate. Read more...
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Welcome to Canada!

Canada extends a very warm welcome to its immigrants, as evidenced in the "Welcome to Canada" booklet published by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. An increasing number of immigrants are Asian. Read more...
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Asian migration to Australia

While a growing share of migrants to Australia comes from Asian countries like China and India, only a very small number come from Indonesia, Australia's nearest and very important Asian neighbor. Read more...

Australia's migration muddles

Australia has one of the world's most successful experiences of immigration. In an act of political desperation, Australia's Julia Gillard is undermining this. Read more...
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Change of direction at Asian Development Bank?

Could the Asian Development Bank be heading in a new direction under the prospective new leadership of Takehiko Nakao? Read more...
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Human trafficking and Australia

We don't think of Australia as a destination for human trafficking. But it is, like everywhere else. Read more...
International Women's Day Amsterdam 2013 BRIDGES OF PEACE FOR OUR FUTURE: we still have to bridge the colonial gap in the present

International Women's Day 2013

On International Women's Day 2013, we can celebrate the great progress achieved in women's lives. But we must also deplore the widespread discrimination and violence from which women still suffer. Read more...
Vatican

An Asian Pope for this Asian Century

This Asian Century deserves an Asian Pope. And the Asian papal candidate is the Archbishop of Manila, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle. Read more...
US State Dept

US on migrants' rights

The United States is an admirable international spokesman on migrants' rights issues. But it still has many challenges to deal with at home. Read more...
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Racism and intolerance in Australia

Racism towards Asian and other ethnic groups is alive and well in Australia, despite the country's attempted embrace of the Asian Century. Read more...
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Can world's water crisis be solved?

Combining good policies and management practices with right technologies could eradicate the global water shortages, argue Asit Biswas and Julian Kirchherr. Read more...

Among the haystacks

Asian migration to the Gulf

As we celebrate the Asian Century, don't forget that the majority of emigrants from Asia go to the Gulf countries, where many suffer terribly -- to this very day. Read more...

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Asia's wasted migration opportunities

Older, labor-scarce Asian countries like Japan, Korea and Taiwan are wasting migration opportunities from their younger, labor abundant Asian neighbors. Read more...
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Quality: most pressing water problem

The real long-term water problem the world is facing is the continued deterioration of its quality, rather than its physical scarcity, argues Asit K Biswas. Read more...

33rd Annual Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Festival (DUMBO Brooklyn 2012)

Asian Americans key for Democrats in 2016

Asian Americans are staunchly Democrat, and the fastest growing population group in the US. They will be critical for Hillary Clinton or any other Democrat candidate in 2016. Read more...
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Connecting the policy dots in food, energy and water

Much wastage of food, energy and water can be avoided if countries just take an integrated approach, argues Asit K. Biswas, Founder of the Third World Centre for Water Management, and Leong Ching. Read more...

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Asia's migrants remittances

In 2012, Asia's overseas migrants sent home to their families more than $220 billion in remittances. What are the remittances worth to Asia's developing economies? Read more...

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Marriage migration in East Asia

Migration by women from developing Asia for marriage with men in rich Asian countries is now a dynamic form of migration in East Asia. But it has also become a new avenue for human trafficking. Read more...

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Asian migration to the West

The US, Canada, UK and Australia are blessed with a wave of skilled migrants from Asia, according to a recent OECD report. Continental Europe, Japan and Korea are missing out on this dynamic. Read more...
Dissent Without Permission: Will Protest Permits & Free Speech Zones Halt Or Hasten Rebellion?

Freedom of the Press in Asia

The recent strike and protests by journalists at Southern Weekend are harsh reminders of the repression of press freedom in China and many other Asia countries. Read more...
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