On March 28th, Khalid Malik, director of the Human Development Report Office at the United Nations Development Program, spoke with the press in Beij…[详细]

On March 28th, the OECD released its Interim Economic Assessment in Paris. Titled “What is the near-term global economic outlook”, the assessment …[详细]

On April 10th, U.S. President Barack Obama announced the Proposed Budget for the 2014 fiscal year. Drawing mixed reactions on either side of the ais…[详细]

Our current multi-channel, multi-screen, “always on” world is giving rise to a new form of storytelling, “transmedia”, in which a narrative unfo…[详细]

On April 18th, the IP& Science business of Thomson Reuters launched the report “Research Fronts 2013: 100 Top Ranked Specialties in the Sciences an…[详细]

At the end of March, the last book of the famous British Marxist historian Eric J. Hobsbawm (1917-2012), Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the…[详细]

I learned this morning that Kenneth N. Waltz, who was arguably the preeminent theorist of international relations of the postwar period, had passed …[详细]

As the 44th World Earth Day was approaching this year, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was one of many to propound the need for humankind to take p…[详细]

UNESCO’s International Congress “Culture: Key to sustainable development” convened in Hangzhou from May 15th to 17th. The congress marked the fir…[详细]