December 8th: Beijing issued a red alert (the highest level warning) for the first time ever. The photograph shows students arriving home having left their work midway. (photo courtesy of aflo) ...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently announced that they will accept the Chinese Yuan into the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights (SDR). Questions arise as to whether this will le...
At Princeton University, a group of Black American students occupied the President’s room, demanding that the institution erase the name of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the U.S. ...
Anastasia Lin, a 25-year-old China-born actress who is the winner of Miss World Canada 2015, was stopped in Hong Kong as she was barred from boarding a connecting flight to mainland China where...
“The reason why the ‘Laws of Justice’ is taught now is to create a ‘world we can believe in’, for we all have the right to live in such a world.” Those were the words of Founde...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has decided to add the yuan, also known as the renminbi (RMB), to the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket of currencies. According to the IMF, the yuan wil...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe established 3 new pillars and set the aim for Japan’s GDP to 600 trillion yen. It is estimated that it will be achieved in around 2020. In 2014, Japan’s GD...
World War II brought to light the fundamental disconnect between the East and the West. Distrust, disparate goals, basic philosophic, economic and racial barriers stood in the way of constructi...
Since Mr. Malcolm Turnbull became Australia’s new prime minister in September of this year, China has been rapidly spreading its tentacles to Australia. Mr. Turnbull has been drawing crit...
A Syrian passport left at one scene of the Paris attacks led to a new possibility that the terrorists entered the country as Syrian refugees. The passport was discovered near the body of the su...