Tuesday’s picks include Africa’s next megacity and used-car lots in Hong Kong.
The Juilliard School Bets on China, Builds Outside Beijing
The legendary U.S. conservatory plans to develop its first overseas campus, in the coastal Chinese city of Tianjin.
A Massive Blackout Hits North India
A summer of torrid heat and longstanding infrastructure woes facing the country’s electricity grid prompted one of the worst blackouts in Indian history. Nearly 400 million people were left without power throughout swathes of …
The Great Chicken Run of Iran: Why Poultry Makes Tehran Anxious
One of the effects of international sanctions on Iran has been to drive up prices in the country’s domestic poultry industry. For a nation which loves its chicken, the situation has caused quite a flutter
Romney’s Comments on Palestinian Economy Stir Controversy
Voters in the U.S. will likely not notice, but comments made by the Republican candidate for president while on tour in Israel have led to charges of racism
Romney’s Israel Stop: Keeping Up Appearances
Though his remarks Monday morning later threatened to prove otherwise, it appeared that Mitt Romney got in and out of Israel with what he’d hoped for: No gaffes, no real headlines — nothing so substantial as to risk a clear …
Must-Reads from Around the World, July 30, 2012
Today’s selections include self-immolations in Israel and the trial of punk-artist-feminist-protesters in Russia.
Going Rogue: Bandits and Criminal Gangs Threaten Syria’s Rebellion
In stretches of northern Syria where government control has collapsed and rebel militias call the shots, numerous criminal outfits have come to the fore — and threaten to undermine the rebellion
Hong Kong Divided over Plans for Patriotic Lessons in Schools
Several tens of thousands of parents, teachers, students and children took to the streets on Sunday to protest plans to introduce “national education” into local schools at the behest of Beijing
Mitt’s Mission in Israel: Optics, Christian Zionists and Absentee Ballots
The Republican candidate hopes to increase the perceived space between Obama and Netanyahu to court prized electoral groups in November. The incumbent, however, isn’t sitting idly.
Environmental Protest Blocks Wastewater Pipeline Near Shanghai
Demonstrators took to the streets Saturday in a town north of Shanghai to contest plans to build a wastewater pipeline from a Japanese-owned paper mill, the latest case of large-scale environmental protest in China. The government of Qidong, which had earlier said the project would be suspended, announced Saturday that it would be …
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By Ceding Northeastern Syria to the Kurds, Assad Puts Turkey in a Bind
Ankara has been a key backer of Syria’s rebellion, but the prospect of an Iraq-style autonomous Kurdish zone has Erdogan threatening to intervene