By Prashant Kumar Singh Japan and Taiwan recently concluded a pact over fishery rights in the disputed Diaoyutai/Senkaku islands in the East China Sea on April 11, 2013. This pact is an important development and indirectly underlines the fact that Taiwan is an independent actor in the territorial dispute over the islands regardless of its [...]
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Most Americans do not want to intervene in Syria’s civil war, although the percentage in favor more than doubles if President Bashar Assad’s forces use chemical weapons against their people, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday, May 1. Only 10 percent of those surveyed in the online poll said the United States should [...]
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By John Chan In meetings with Chinese leaders last weekend, US Secretary of State John Kerry engaged in a barely disguised form of blackmail to pressure Beijing to use “all options” to force its ally North Korea to dismantle its nuclear programs and destroy its nuclear weapons. Impoverished North Korea is completely dependent on China [...]
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Pakistan Petroleum limited (PPL) has reported profit after tax of PKR33.53 billion (EPS: PKR20.41) for 9-month period ended 31st March 2013 as compared to PKR32.3 billion (EPS: PKR19.64) for the corresponding period last year, registering an increase in profit by 4% YoY. The result was in line with market expectations. This increase in profit can [...]
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Non-comprehensive, none-of-the-below, Washington-dictated energy policies guarantee decline By Craig Rucker “We can’t have an energy strategy that traps us in the past,” President Obama proclaimed in March 2012. “We need an energy strategy for the future – an all-of-the-above strategy for the Twenty-First Century that develops every source of American-made energy.” At first blush, this [...]
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During his talk sponsored by the New American Foundation in March 2008, author Parag Khanna addressed the rising challenges facing the US’s global hegemony. According to Khanna, China and the European Union are the new contenders with the battlefield being a global ‘geopolitical marketplace.’ Aside from Khanna’s insight, one statement particularly puzzled me greatly. “Why [...]
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U.S. crude oil production has been rising in recent years following a decline from 9 million barrels per day (bbl/d) in 1985 to 5 million bbl/d in 2008 (Figure 1). Production was 6.5 million bbl/d in 2012 and EIA’s latest Short-Term Energy Outlook forecasts production of 8.2 million bbl/d by the end of 2014, driven [...]
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By Jim Garamone Defense Department leaders continue to work on options and refine plans to respond to the situation in Syria if called upon, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said here today. Since opposition to the Bashar Assad regime burst into war, DOD officials have been developing options for a wide range of contingencies, Little [...]
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North Korea says it has sentenced an American citizen to 15 years of hard labor after finding him guilty of committing what it says are “hostile acts” against the state. The official Korean Central News Agency said Thursday that Pae Jun-ho, known as Kenneth Bae in the United States, was convicted by the country’s supreme [...]
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A new analysis of the contents of lipstick and lip gloss may cause you to pause before puckering. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Public Health tested 32 different lipsticks and lip glosses commonly found in drugstores and department stores. They detected lead, cadmium, chromium, aluminum and five other metals, some of [...]
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In an effort to determine if conditions were ever right on Mars to sustain life, a team of scientists, including a Michigan State University professor, has examined a meteorite that formed on the red planet more than a billion years ago. And although this team’s work is not specifically solving the mystery, it is laying [...]
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The changing strategic context in Southeast Asia has rapidly elevated India to a highly sought after partner in the region. New Delhi must take care, however, that domestic dynamics do not squander its rising stock. By Mahesh Shankar INDIA’S LOOK EAST Policy (LEP) appeared to be in danger of collapsing in the 1990s, when simply [...]
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Crude oil toxicity continued to sicken a sentinel Gulf Coast fish species for at least more than a year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to new findings from a research team that includes a University of California, Davis, scientist. With researchers from Louisiana and South Carolina, the scientists [...]
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The Board of Royal Dutch Shell said Thursday that Peter Voser, as Chief Executive Officer, has elected to retire from the Company in the first half of 2014. Peter Voser was appointed CEO with effect from July 2009 and has been an Executive Director since 2004. Shell’s Chairman Jorma Ollila said “Peter’s leadership of Shell [...]
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By Jo Biddle US Secretary of State John Kerry is moving cautiously and smartly toward fresh Middle East peace talks, but deep distrust between all sides means success is far from guaranteed, analysts say. Wresting an important concession from Arab League nations on Monday that land swaps could be on the table in any deal [...]
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By Mushfig Bayram Uzbekistan is prosecuting Khayrullo Tursunov, a 38-year old Muslim prisoner of conscience, for exercising his freedom of religion or belief, Forum 18 News Service has learned. He was extradited from Kazakhstan – in violation of that country’s international human rights obligations – on 13 March and immediately arrested. Uzbekistan’s National Security Service [...]
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Many politicians in Washington—not yet realizing that the still-broken American economy can no longer sustain an informal, globe-girdling U.S. empire—have sought to use Bashar al-Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons on a small scale to escalate U.S. involvement in the Syrian civil war. And it’s not only the economy that won’t support a more muscular [...]
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If you ever doubted the inability of the federal government to protect you from harm, events of the past few weeks should have been a clincher. While Congress was dithering about a background-check-for-gun-buyers bill, President Obama was out on the hustings—in full campaign mode—trying to gin up support for it. Listening to the president, you [...]
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By Cheryl Pellerin North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear capabilities and development of long-range ballistic missile programs make it one of the most critical U.S. security challenges in Northeast Asia, according to the Defense Department’s first report to Congress on that nation’s military development. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delivered the report, titled, “Military and Security Developments [...]
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Bret Stephens, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, had a commentary, “The Other Bluffer”, in which he discussed President Obama’s and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s statements, respectively, on Syria and Iran; the former regarding a “red line” concerning the use of poison gas and the latter being Iran’s intention to make its own nuclear [...]
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