This would be the birth of movement having importance for the history of Cuba, movement that would reach its pinnacle with another Catholic, Félix Varela. ..…

If anything, the 2008 financial crash exposed to the public the in the policy that had been promoted for at least four decades by U.S.-dominated international finance institutions such as International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group .. ..…

Five years after Rana Mitter, professor of the history and politics of China at Oxford University, published his book Forgotten Ally China's World War II 1937-1945, that West is beginning to realize that China's WWII was important and needs more attention. ..…

ASIA IN 2017 . The world looks to the East . The impressive development achieved by the countries of the Asian continent in recent years has resulted in a greater global influence, thus allowing us to envisage a change in the international power balance . ..…

The event was sponsored by Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, The Center on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law and Hoover Institution.. ..…

In 1910 shortly Bolshevik Russia and the breakup of European empires all three major branches of Christianity were concentrated Europe. ..…

D'Elia was growing up 40-some years in Washington, D.C., area, the nation's capital was like Southern town, he recalls.. ..…

For example, when I visited Nalanda last October—a month after classes started there—we discussed the respective roles of “the Silk Route” and “the Nalanda trail” in the development of intercountry connections. There has been much historical discussion of the trading links between..…

Asked specifically about the origins of humans and other living things, Muslims in Central Asia, Southern and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East-North Africa region agree with the theory of evolution (regional medians from 54% to 58%). Fewer Muslims accept evolution in Southeast..…

This year the office designated Uzbekistan, Burma, China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Eritrea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Uzbekistan as countries of particular concern for their systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious liberty.. ..…

The electoral promises of all political parties remain the same since 2008, revolving around the development of schools, hospitals, roads, electricity, drinking water, cell phone services, tourism and tax reform etc. Speaking to Asia Sentinel from Thimphu, Gopilal Acharya, commentator,..…

In keeping with this, the RCL reaffirmed the Trotskyist characterization of the reactionary nation-state framework established in 1947-1948 as part of the post-war restabilization of capitalism and rejected any nationalist conception of a Sri Lankan revolution, independent and separate from the..…