Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party currently holds a majority in the House of Commons and pushed to pass significant legislation before potential shakeups by the federal elections in October 2019. Among the bills passed were...

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is becoming a new energy battleground in Europe’s Southeast. BiH’s western neighbor Croatia endeavors to deliver a diversified and reliable natural gas supply to BiH through the...

South Korean business conglomerate Samsung has been struggling with a number of obstacles in the first half of 2019. A series of emerging fraud and bribery scandals have called Samsung’s family-based corporate governance into question...

Developments at the United States Commerce Department underscore the expansion of the current US-China dispute regarding advanced technology fields. The Commerce Department has prohibited US firms from doing business with...

After a five-year suspension starting in 2014, Russia has regained its voting rights in the Council of Europe (CoE). The CoE lifted sanctions against Russia in mid-July 2019, restoring the country’s full functions and activities in the council...

Facebook is preparing to expand its business outside of its traditional social media platform into payments and commerce. Libra, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, is set up to become a global currency and financial infrastructure utilized by billions of WhatsApp and Messenger users...

Vietnam’s natural endowment of water has been closely linked with their economy and to the Vietnamese way of life. Vietnam was the world’s fifth largest producer of...

Cyber-espionage intrusions into national utilities and industries have taken on a more normalized role for the military forces of the world’s leading powers. Technical and practical concerns are compounding in the current political climate to push the tactic further toward enabling a major military provocation...

Data privacy services have become a new battleground for technology giants like Apple to attract customers. Rivaling with smartphone market competition, Apple announced in early June 2019 that it plans to advance customer data protection by...

Despite the ways in which high-tech industry has driven economic growth in the United States and in Asia, continental Europe (mainly France and Germany) has lagged behind in terms of building similar environments that foster technology-related innovation...