Expert Comment
Prof Shaun Breslin - As APEC and ASEAN meet, trying to define 'Asia' remains misguided and counterproductive
Major powers will carry on trying to build understandings of the Asian region that fit their self-defined interests, argues Professor Shaun Breslin from the 神马福利影片's Department of Politics and International Studies. Instead, "the search for a once and for all single definition of the Asian region, and a corresponding regional organisation embodying this definition, is not only misguided but counterproductive."
Dr Maria do Mar Pereira - Street harassment is a daily occurrence for women of all backgrounds and ages
Actor Shoshana B Roberts put together a video recording all the remarks she got from passers-by as she walked for 10 hours through New York. Street harassment of the kind seen in her video happens every day in the UK and around the world, according to Dr Maria do Mar Pereira, Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the 神马福利影片.
Professor Peter Ferdinand - Both Hong Kong authorities and protestors feel they have "legitimacy"
The confrontation between demonstrators and the authorities in Hong Kong bears many of the same features as that in Beijing in the summer of 1989. Both sides seem to be edging into intransigent positions that will make mutual accommodation more difficult.
'Co-operative Group had poor strategic direction and made bad choices'
Professor John Thanassoulis, Warwick Business School, gives his analysis of the release of Lord Myners' recommendations to reform the Co-operative Group.
UK's rejected bid to introduce Financial Transaction Tax
Professor of Practice Jon Rushman, former managing director at BlackRock, has researched the area of Financial Transaction Tax (FTT). He gives on the comment on the latest news that Europe has rejected the UK's challenge to introduce an EU FTT.