There are unpopular presidents, popular presidents, and great presidents. Jimmy Carter, who died last Sunday December 29 at the age of 100, was an unpopular one-term American president. A small ...

What can we learn from the latest research which shows a positive relationship between mental health and academic achievement? In view of the sharp increase in student suicide cases in recent ...

I spend an unhealthy amount of time answering emails. So I breathed a sigh of relief when I was recently made aware of an application that could scan through thousands of my emails, devise a ...

Morris Chang is both proud and uneasy about Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the company he founded in 1987 that has become the undisputed world leader. To describe his feelings ...

One of my favourite songs of all time opens with, “When you try so hard and you don’t succeed… When you get what you want, but not what you need.” Thanks, Coldplay. Life is filled with ...

The North Korean soldier lay on the ground in terror as a Ukrainian drone circled above him. Will it kill him, or simply photograph him? The image, on sites on the ...

Indonesia is now moving its capital to Nusantara, East Kalimantan province, 1,236 kilometers from the current capital Jakarta (about the distance between Hong Kong and Shanghai). The relocation ...

Seven years ago Yen Po-Wen (顏博文) was chief executive officer of United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), Taiwan’s second largest maker of semi-conductors, a global company headquartered ...

One way of answering this question is by reflecting upon its counterpart, “Why do we read?” We read for a plurality of reasons – instrumentally, as a source of information, inspiration ...

The Confucian comeback is one of the most striking and unexpected intellectual developments in China. But it’s not all good news, even for Confucians. Along with the revival of Confucianism ...

The Shakespearean tragedy ‘King Lear’, modelled loosely after the apocryphal Leir of Britain, tells the story of an ageing King who seeks to divide his power and land between his three daughters.

20th November was the 25th Geographic Information System Day (GIS Day). The aim of the event was to recognise the outstanding performance of the practitioners and to share the best practice of GIS ...