Why The World's Largest Country Is Struggling With Infertility
Worldcrunch.com / ECONOMIC OBSERVER Last December, China abolished its One-child policy. This was introduced since 1979 as a strict way of controlling population. Following the newly adopted two-child...
View ArticleLatin America Will Need China's Help To Survive Trump
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA SANTIAGO DE CHILE - A sonorous, standing ovation was given to China's President Xi Jinping at the November APEC summit, by an audience consisting mostly of Latin...
View ArticleWhen The World Arrives At Your Border
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH What can you do when something you feel is morally right is also against the law? For some, the fear of the legal system and the threat of a sanction is too great to...
View ArticleMy Kids, Koran And Badminton Racket, Baggage Of A Syrian Refugee
Worldcrunch.com / SYRIA DEEPLY In the second installment of our âBags and Belongingsâ series, in which we ask refugees what they packed in their bags and what they left behind, we meet Mustafa...
View ArticleTrump Conflict Of Interest On Display In Argentina Resort
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Punta del Este - From Punta del Este, Argentina, it's business as usual for the Trump family empire. While U.S. legislators have been stating concerns on conflicts of...
View ArticleWhy People In Hong Kong Live Really Long Lives
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH It has come as something of a shock, a year ago, to Japanese people to discover that they have lost the title of being the longest lived population. To their dismay they...
View ArticleSpotlight: Happy Birthday Kim Jong-Un!?
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View ArticleIn Germany: Trying To Keep Up With The Next Terrorist Who Might Strike
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article160877567/Wie-Gefaehrder-die-deutsche-Terrorabwehr-austricksen.html How potential terrorists outwit the German safety services...
View ArticleWhen City Names Are A Passport To History
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES -Â Places speak through their names, and the histories of places and the people who lived there constitute an intangible heritage as significant as buildings and...
View ArticleDeath Of Rafsanjani: The Meaning Of "Reform" In Iran
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View ArticleKebab Violence And Blatant Racism In Poland
Worldcrunch.com / GAZETA WYBORCZA In Poland they beat out of hatred: 6 racist attacks in 4 days but Interior Minister says: ''There is no racism in Poland''. The victims of the attacks are foreigners...
View ArticleAdmit It, You’ve Already Ditched Your New Year’s Resolution
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG Â Â Why good resolutions almost always abort Two thirds donât even hold on to their New Yearâs Eve resolutions till the end of January. But itâs not that...
View ArticleTrump’s Aggressive Handshake Diplomacy
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH The refrain has continued ever since Donald Trump stunned the world with his election victory: âBut what will he actually do?â As the two-plus month interregnum winds...
View ArticleIn Afghanistan, Fighting To End Slavery Of Virgin Girls
Worldcrunch.com / KBR Baad is enacted in the event of a death, when a villager kills a member of a rival clan. Sometimes clans have fatal fight over land, or resources like water. The elders of the...
View ArticleWorld Economy 2017 Forecast: Lost In The (Bretton) Woods
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -Analysis- 2016 was full of surprises: a spike of protectionist fever in the United States at the instigation of Donald Trump, an anti-globalization wave of populism in...
View ArticleLife In Norilsk, A Frozen Gulag Turned Mining Town
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS NORILSK â The belly of mother Russia is most fertile 1,000 meters underground and 300 kilometers north of the polar circle. It's warm and moist in there, while outside...
View ArticleOrtega And Maduro, Burdens Of A Shared Destiny
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Just hours before outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama took the podium in Chicago to deliver an emotional goodbye address, in steamy Central America, another head of...
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