Hong Kong students are becoming a paw of the "Occupy Central" forces that want to stall China's progress without realizing it. But in the end, it will be the students who may have to pay a high price if anything goes wrong. The protesting students believe they are fighting for a "just" cause. And who in this world can say fighting for "democracy" is not a just cause?
At no time has a global deal on climate change looked more likely than it does today. In October, European Union leaders agreed ambitious climate and energy targets for 2030, including a binding domestic greenhouse gas emissions reduction target of at least 40 percent.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has denounced a UN resolution, drafted by the European Union and Japan, as a "US-led farce", and organized a demonstration of about 100,000 people in Pyongyang in protest against it. The resolution is expected to be submitted to the UN Security Council in December.
Historic is a word that most of us use too freely, but the announcement of an agreement on climate change between the United States and China is deserving of the term.
Fifty years ago, New China's first premier Zhou Enlai visited Ethiopia during his maiden trip to Africa.
Economic interests have outweighed, if not eliminated, old grudges in East Asia. China, Japan and South Korea negotiated again in Tokyo last week for a trilateral free trade agreement. There were no concrete results this round, but Sun Yuanjiang, chief negotiator from China's Ministry of Commerce, said the negotiations are almost at the final stage.
ON THE 27 TH WORLD AIDS DAY ON MONDAY, IT is easy to brag about what we've achieved in the fight against the virus, but that does little to help locate where more urgent efforts are needed.
Luiz Loures, deputy executive director of UNAIDS said that medical progress has brought hope of ending the AIDS epidemic, but widening social gaps prevent those who need help most from getting it. Ninety percent of new HIV infections are found in 30 countries and regions, most of which are low- and middle-income economies that need international support to fight AIDS.
A vital round of United Nations climate change negotiations will get underway in Lima, Peru, from Dec 1 to 12 .
A UN anti-torture panel that is investigating the United States said on Friday it was deeply concerned by what it described as the high incidence of police brutality and shootings - especially against African-Americans - in the US.
Gold remains out of favor with Western investors focused on the prospect of tighter US monetary policy and further dollar strength. But we see scope for a decent recovery in the price of the precious metal over the next year or two, with a target of $1,400 an ounce for the end of 2016.
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