The illegal drug trade in the Golden Triangle has long been dominated by ethnic Chinese gangs, but U.N. officials on Monday reported increased signs of globalization among traffickers.
The illegal drug trade in the triangle has long been dominated by ethnic Chinese gangs, but United Nations officials said Monday that they are seeing increased signs of globalization there: Members of Mexican syndicates were arrested in the region smuggling chemicals used in the production of methamphetamines, and East African gangs are now active in Thailand and Laos.
Probably no other sign of increased globalization is more evident than the rapid worldwide diffusion of cultural goods, particularly from Hollywood.
Such is the dark side of globalization.
In a sign of both the globalization of the entertainment business and the tech industry, the new studio will be based in Vancouver and includes backing from large Canadian and U.K.-based media industry players like Entertainment One, Boat Rocker Media (through its venture arm) and The Telegraph Media Group.
Hueb - 717 Madison Avenue Yet another sign of the growing globalization of New York City retail, this family-owned jeweler from Brazil manufactures everything in-house.
The sign of broadening resistance to globalization came in a new Wall Street Journal-NBC News Poll that showed a fraying of Republican Party orthodoxy on the economy," The Wall Street Journal reported in a page-one news story on Thursday.
But as I was reading the latest bad news, I found myself wondering whether this war is an omen — a sign that the second great age of globalization may share the fate of the first.
However, buried behind these technological marvels which have brought the world closer together stands a much older, overlooked symbol of globalization: "The Peace Sign" or, as known to Winston Churchill, "The V for Victory".
