Today’s global media stories look at the pressure on Asian leaders to develop welfare states, the rise of drag trafficking in South America and the deterioration of living conditions in Gaza.
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Russia hosts APEC in its remote Far East; arms sales skyrocket in 2012; the rest of the world yawns at the U.S. election
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In today’s offerings: Live bullfighting returns to Spanish television after a six year absence, Hong Kong’s top official attempts to find more affordable housing in one the world’s most expensive cities, and Quebec’s newly …
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Today’s essential reading: a fishing dispute threatens bilateral relations between India and Sri Lanka, the South Korean government has been ordered to pay $2 million to a man wrongly imprisoned as a North Korean spy for 15 …
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Today’s picks: Africa’s illegal elephant ivory trade reaches its highest point, a new school year in Hong Kong begins amidst mass protests and hunger strikes, and British Prime Minister David Cameron chooses his new cabinet.
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Today’s required reading: The United States strikes strategic defense partnership with India, Vietnam’s political elite struggle to connect to the public and renewed violence further delays any chance of a solution to the Turkish …
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India’s Prime Minister flees another crisis, Mexicans loose faith in police reform and China outlines its booming mineral resources-driven business in North Korea.
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In today’s offerings: the U.S. and China’s increasing military competition, Ai Weiwei’s protege and Palestinian politics intersect with regional realities.
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In today’s required reading: another massacre in Syria, Japan plans to buy disputed South China Sea islands and communal violence rears its head again in Indonesia.
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Military stakes set to rise in Asia-Pacific, Bangladesh forcefully tries to keep its place as a low-cost export powerhouse and fresh leaks on Iran’s nuclear program.
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A closer inspection of Greece’s austerity program, controversial take on U.S.-Pakistan relations and Mexico’s Supreme Court pleases human rights activists
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American ideals versus interests in Ethiopia, Apple and Foxconn told to do more on labor conditions in Chinese factories and François Hollande faces criticism over treatment of the Roma
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Today’s required reading: reports on and from inside Syria, Burma’s slow march towards media freedom and Chinese scorn for U.S. military moves in Asia.