1. China's foreign investment
(Panorama/Investment)

... an additional $5-$8 billion on oil and gas development, to keep Nexen's headquarters in Calgary, and to make an annual report to Industry Canada (the relevant government ministry) on the implementation ...

2. Asian Migration
(Panorama/Migration)

... manifest need for migrants in light of rapidly ageing populations and chronically low birth rates. Foreign workers make up only 1.3 per cent of total in Japan and 2.1 per cent in Korea. Japanese and ...

3. Globalization and the challenges of our youth
(Panorama/Society)

... They must also make more progress on developing rules for global finance.  Unfortunately, there is much work to do at home to digest the effects of the crisis, and make the necessary reforms for the future.  ...

4. Globalization, the word
(Panorama/Globalization)

... that constructs itself naturally in the English language by combining the word “global” with the standard suffix “ization”.  It obviously must mean “to become global”, “to make global” or something along ...

5. Global citizens
(Panorama/Globalization)

... of your brain; (iii) remember that ‘one’ comes before ‘two’; (iv) make sure your house has an open door; (v) think like a minority; (vi) increase your knowledge – including how to not-know; (vii) test ...

6. Singapore in the Asian Century
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... if the Asian century is to become a reality. Each Asian country has a part to play in the future prosperity of Asia to make the scenario unfold according to expectations. In this paper, I wish to analyse ...

7. Japan in the Asian Century
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... would make Japan a more appealing country with which to do business, therefore increasing its GDP and trade with the rest of the world. Just as the Japanese are not particularly innovative globally, ...

8. America's Asian Century
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... recent non-Asian arrivals, and almost surely makes the recent Asian arrivals the most highly educated cohort of immigrants in U.S. history. Recent Asian immigrants are also an elite group from their ...

9. China's reform in a bind
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... right wing groups.  The leadership and other changes underway require brokering and consensus-building betwen these groups, which stifles the capacity to make important changes, such as to SOEs, through ...

10. Living on $2 a day
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... in the informal sector.  Thus, you make more on some days, less on others, and often get no income at all.  The government offers you very limited help, and when it does, the quality of assistance is apt ...

11. Burmese Days
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... more than $1 a day, which makes it the lowest of all countries in the Asia-Pacific, even lower than North Korea and Afghanistan (in purchasing power parity terms it is around $1000).  The government estimates ...

12. Microfinance today
(Panorama/Finance)

... using the microfinance banks, and the multiplier effect on communities can be quite powerful. For example, if one family begins to make more money via a microenterprise they started from a microloan, they ...

13. Asia`s social development
(Panorama/Society)

... and China. What to make of all of this?  While it is difficult to come up with some simple conclusions amidst all this information, it seems clear that Asia's performance in economic growth has been ...

14. Asia's information society
(Panorama/Society)

... in terms of fibre-to-the-home/business connections, and by February 2011 it had a higher percentage of homes connected to fibre than France or Italy.  This has helped China to make great progress in terms ...

15. Asia's low quality jobs
(Panorama/Society)

... makes our iPhones and iPads, need to improve the quality of their jobs. The proportion of developing Asia's population living on or below the $1.25-a-day poverty line fell from 51.8% in 1990 to 20.8% ...

16. Food security in Asia
(Panorama/Environment)

... seriously, they could make a meaningful contribution to global food security. It is also important to stress the costs of food insecurity.  Obviously, there is a tragic human cost when people go to bed ...

17. Clinton on democracy in Asia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... and operation of political parties, taken steps to protect the freedom of expression, and has begun to make efforts to heal bitter ethnic divisions. And Aung San Suu Kyi, who for decades was the imprisoned ...

18. Japan's governance problems
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... to meet the challenge of a rapid policy response were people and politics.  "People have autonomy to choose; at issue are the choices they make, not the cultural context in which they make them."  For ...

19. China's reform in a bind
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... right wing groups.  The leadership and other changes underway require brokering and consensus-building betwen these groups, which stifles the capacity to make important changes, such as to SOEs, through ...

20. Tyranny in China and Russia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... state was as a spy and whose understanding of power was learned in an interrogation rooms of a police state." Putin's weakness makes him more ruthless. He "is not a barbarian of old, since he does ...