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Talented young people who want to change the world go into the tech industry, and those who just want money go to Wall Street. Right? Colin Fan, cohead of …

When the European Union announced it was downgrading its relations with Thailand to show its opposition to the military coup in late May, the reaction from …

Muslim countries worldwide have problems with gender equality. They dominate the bottom 10 countries in the Global Gender Gap Report, and none of the 10 most …

Malala Yousafzai’s Nobel Peace Prize win was a rare, wonderful moment of pride for Pakistan. It was a feel-good bonus point that she shared the honour with …

Lawmakers and administration officials are pushing to ban Uber, the app-enabled taxi service, from operating in local cities. A ruling party lawmaker recently …

Whether to lift blanket sanctions Seoul imposed on Pyongyang in 2010 in retaliation for a deadly naval attack has emerged as a sensitive topic here, as the two …

WASHINGTON ― Maybe President Barack Obama should have asked his Cabinet secretaries to sign book-royalty agreements when they took their oaths of office, so …

Myanmar and Thailand have injected much-needed life into the Dawei mega-project, but a keystone of its success will be how it affects the communities living in …

Rumors are a form of cowardice on the part of both their creators and disseminators. Rumors sometimes play a benign role in an oppressed society, as a form of …

The Nobel committee finally got the Peace Prize right in 2014. After blowing the chance to choose Malala Yousafzai last year ― as a brave and inspiring …