Dragon’s tender hug: Prosperity discourse and China’s soft power in Kazakhstan
In this presentation, Daniyar Kosnazarov analyzes the projection of China’s soft power in Kazakhstan, and draws attention to the barriers
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Cricket’s American dream remains as USA welcomed back into ICC fold
Three years after they were kicked out, the USA have had their member status restored and a new governing body
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Gabriel García Márquez remembers his dearest friend, Julio Cortázar
“I always thought that death itself seemed indecent to him.” By Gabriel García Márquez Mexico City, February 12th, 1994– I went to
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Biggest fiction bestsellers of the last 100 years
By Emily Temple As the year draws to a close, some of us like to look forward, and some of us backward—and
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German court rejects case of deadly Pakistan factory fire
A German court has rejected a lawsuit from Pakistanis against German retailer KiK over responsibility for a factory fire in
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Figo, Kaka seek ‘promise’ of football in cricket-mad Pakistan
AFP KARACHI: Portuguese great Luis Figo and Brazilian star Kaka on Thursday (Jan 10) vowed to help develop the “great
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The costs of discrimination: How equal rights can boost economic growth
New research suggests that a more equal society is a more productive one IT IS OFTEN said that rapid social
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Red moon rising: How China could dominate science
Should the world worry? A HUNDRED YEARS ago a wave of student protests broke over China’s great cities. Desperate to
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Why has Rahaf al-Qunun captured the world’s attention while Hakeem al-Araibi is left in jail?
The reasons are varied but likely include the age-old non-science of what makes news and what doesn’t Helen Davidson Australia,
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Setbacks for May as MPs debate Brexit deal before historic vote
AFP British MPs on Wednesday begin five days of debate ahead of a historic delayed vote on Prime Minister Theresa
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S. Korean Olympic champion accuses coach of sex assault
Olympic athlete Shim Suk-hee’s former coach is already in jail for beating her over the course of many years AFP
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Human trafficking takes horrific dimension: UN report
Nearly a third of human trafficking victims are children; The ‘Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2018’ from the UN
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Twenty Chinese school children wounded in hammer attack
Reuters BEIJING: A Chinese man attacked at least 20 young children at a Beijing primary school with a hammer on
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Afghan Taliban call off peace talks with US over ‘agenda differences’
Reuters PESHAWAR The Afghan Taliban said on Tuesday they had called off peace talks with US officials in Qatar this
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China invites UN observers to restive region of Xinjiang, but with ‘conditions’
AFP China said on Monday it would welcome UN officials to the restive western region of Xinjiang with the condition
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