by Global Sherpa | Nov 15, 2010 | Cities & Countries, Foreign Policy
The courageous pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Laureate Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi should have been the one to guide Myanmar (formerly Burma) from the darkness of military rule to the light of democratic governance. Instead, she spent most of the last 20 years in...
by Global Sherpa | Nov 9, 2010 | Aid & Development, Environment, Foreign Policy
The massive earthquake that devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010 was the worst quake to hit the region in 200 years. The disastrous event cost more than 250,000 lives and an estimated $7.2 to $13.2 billion. Much of the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince, was...
by Global Sherpa | Oct 27, 2010 | Aid & Development, Environment, Foreign Policy
Biodiversity is in full swing these days. 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity. The United Nation Environment Programme’s Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is currently holding its tenth biannual meeting in Nagoya, Japan. A commitment to...
by Global Sherpa | Oct 22, 2010 | Business, Foreign Policy, GS Features
It’s hard to resist getting caught up in the intriguing tale about China’s control over the all-important supply of rare earth elements (“REs”). It turns out that these tiny, mysterious substances are necessary to make everything from cell phones to guided missiles...
by Global Sherpa | Oct 1, 2010 | Cities & Countries, Countries, Foreign Policy, Oddly True, Russia
If you want to know if your neighbor is a Russian spy, just check the flowerbeds. (GS is still cleaning out its backlog of entertaining oddly true news from the summer before we were on the map.) Did you get the eerie feeling that you just might be under the prying...
