Ukrainian Teams to Search MH17 Crash Site for Remains: Dutch TV
(Reuters) - Ukrainian search teams will comb the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which went down on July 17, and return human remains and belongings to the Netherlands, Dutch television reported.
Upcoming Event : Developing a Chinese Approach to Public Diplomacy
EVENT DETAILS
DATE Thursday, October 16, 2014
TIME 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. HKT (UTC +8)
LOCATION Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
LANGUAGE English
MODERATOR Pang Xun
SPEAKER Ingrid d’Hooghe
CONTACT Xiaojiao Li
+86 01 82150178 ext 803| xli@ceip.org
REGISTER TO ATTEND
As China’s economy has grown, the country’s cultural impact on the world has also expanded. Beijing’s recent soft power initiatives include broadening the size of Chinese state media’s overseas audience, increasing the worldwide number of Confucius Institutes to 1,000 by 2020, and bidding to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Through these efforts, China is seeking to refine its global image and establish the country as a key driver of cultural and social trends. How successful has this approach been for enhancing China’s reputation around the world and what remains to be done?
Women’s sporting rights put Saudi Arabia and Iran on the defensive
The struggle for women’s rights to engage in and attend sport events has commanded increased attention with the hunger strike of a British-Iranian national incarcerated in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, the expected arrival in Saudi Arabia of Australian women fans for the Asian Champions League final, and the rare appearance of Saudi women in an all-male stadium in Abu Dhabi.
Governing ASEAN E-Commerce Getting Cloudier – ANALYSIS
Big business has tapped into ASEAN’s burgeoning e-commerce market and regional governments have enacted measures to govern the Internet “cloud”. However institutional gaps remain and a region-wide legislation for e-commerce is required.
HK protests have roots in old and new social movements
The standoff is not a single-issue triggered mass event but the result of two strands of social mobilisation, which includes radicalised youth activism
Headlines in the mainstream media such as "Hong Kong's gone crazy", "Umbrella Revolution" and "Communist China's worst nightmare" have attracted widespread attention. They depict recent events in Hong Kong with spectacular images of riot police firing tear gas, protesters chanting and raising fists, and students camping on streets between Transformer-style skyscrapers and in the midst of subtropical thunderstorms.
Europe’s Paralysis Problem
It is seductive to think that the Russian war in Ukraine—and NATO’s sluggish response—is a crisis wholly tied to Russian nationalism and power politics. But in reality, the current crisis is neither simply a function of personal leadership nor political decision-making. As this crisis slowly expands and escalates, we must look at the deeper and far more consequential forces at work upon which the future of Europe—and Ukraine—rest. Russian President Vladimir Putin deals in the currency of force and power. He has found the nations of Europe to be weak, self-indulgent, irresolute, and intestinally unfit for confrontation.
Indonesia in Transition: Impediments To Fuel Subsidy Reform – ANALYSIS
President-elect Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo is bracing himself to face policy challenges left behind by his predecessor, chief of which is the fuel subsidy issue. What impedes the reallocation of fuel subsidy funds and what are the possible solutions?
Terrorist Threats From The Maritime Domain: Singapore’s Response – ANALYSIS
Terrorist threats from the maritime domain are a recurring challenge around South and Southeast Asia even prior to the emergence of actors such as the Islamic State (IS) and Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS). Singapore’s position as a hub for maritime trade and industries has required distinct initiatives to mitigate potential threats by terrorist organisations.
The Middle East in Crisis: A View from Israel
DAVID SPEEDIE: I'm David Speedie, director of the program on U.S. Global Engagement at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. This is another in our series of Ethics in Security bulletins and I'm delighted to welcome today back to the Carnegie Council, Charles Freilich.
Why abolishing direct local elections undermines Indonesia’s democracy
A bill that will transfer the election of local leaders in Indonesia from the people to the Regional Legislative Councils is currently being contested. The Indonesian parliament passed the bill to end direct local elections on 26 September. But outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced on 30 September that he is preparing an emergency presidential decree to overturn the decision and restore elections. Direct elections at the local level — or Pilkada — have been in place since June 2005.