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August 30, 2024

Tech and Tradition

Cryptocurrency miners whose servers generate their digital product have flocked to Paraguay to take advantage of the landlocked South American country’s low taxes and cheap electricity. But as power shortages continue to plague the capital of Asunción, many of these crypto miners also steal electricity, as...

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August 27, 2024

The Price of Stardom

“Impossibly blue skies, a wild and dramatic coast, and warm Mediterranean waters lapping at your feet – welcome to Albania,” gushed Condé Nast Traveler this month. Come, experience the Maldives for £25 ($32) and get that “Bora Bora feeling” enticed British tabloid the Mirror in mid-August. Isolated...

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August 23, 2024

The Judicial Wall

The ruling party in Thailand’s parliament, Pheu Thai, recently nominated Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the 37-year-old daughter of billionaire former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, as the Southeast Asian country’s next prime minister. Usually, such an announcement would signal a resolution to political instability and the start of a new...

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August 22, 2024

Punch Drunk

Smoke billowed from the streets of Khiam in southern Lebanon recently after Israeli military forces shelled the area in response to the Iran-backed militant group and political party Hezbollah launching missiles into northern Israel. In Dahieh, a densely populated residential and commercial district of the capital...

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August 21, 2024

Common Ground

Architects in Tanzania are using three-dimensional printers to construct housing and other buildings, also using soil rather than artificial materials – the production of which emit greenhouse gases that cause climate change. The builders hope to construct a village called New Hope to the west of...

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August 20, 2024

Blinis in Buenos Aires

Russian émigrés are buying apartments, beauty salons, restaurants, and other assets in Argentina and Brazil. They’ve brought popular Russian pastimes with them, too, noted the Wall Street Journal, like smoking tobacco from hookahs and eating beef shish kabobs rather than thick, South American-style steaks. Meanwhile, in...

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August 19, 2024

Ganamos

Tens of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets around the world over the weekend, demanding that authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro recognize the results of last month’s election they say he lost. In the capital Caracas and other cities across Venezuela, in the United States, Australia,...

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August 16, 2024

Getting Rich, Right

Past efforts at reforming the constitution of Guyana have yielded little change. Now, however, as the small South American nation prepares to dole out the benefits from new oil drilling, advocates say the recently empaneled Constitution Reform Commission must create a new political and economic order. “A...

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August 14, 2024

Atoll Power

Around 1,300 miles south of the American state of Hawaii, Kiribati is a country of 115,000 people living on 150 square miles of atolls that stretch across more than 1.3 million square miles of the South Pacific. This strategic location blessed Kiribati with an amazing...

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August 12, 2024

The Tyranny of Doubt

In March last year, Cyclone Freddy ripped through Malawi and southeast Africa, killing 679 people, displacing almost 660,000, and causing property damage totaling more than $500 million. Thirty-nine-year-old mother Gladys Austin was one of those hundreds of thousands who had to flee her home in the...

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August 09, 2024

Human Shields

The return of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul Whelan and other foreign prisoners in Russian custody in the biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War ended the latest round of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s so-called “hostage diplomacy.” Defined in World Politics...

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August 05, 2024

Pull Harder

Greece recently adopted a six-day working week to maintain its workforce as its population ages, but also to clamp down on tax evasion stemming from undeclared work. Under the new law – which only applies to industries that operate 24 hours a day, seven days a...

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