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The article discusses a paper by the American Council on Education entitled "Venturing Abroad: Delivering U.S. Degrees Through Overseas Branch Campuses and Programs." The paper offers guidance for colleges setting up programs overseas. It focuses on global hotspots like China, Singapore, and India, and discusses the things that colleges should consider before making a move abroad, such as accreditation and the environment in the host country. It can be purchased on the council's Web site and includes a list of institutions with programs abroad.

The article discusses the protests of self-proclaimed mankind expressing their frustrations over the built-in inequalities of global capitalism. It notes that great prosperity ruling of democratic and autocratic governments of China and India is the essential factor for political instability even violence for both countries. It mentions that metropolitan Chinese and Indian peers occupying Zuccotti Park in Manhattan, New York belong to their countries have fresh and young faith in capitalism.

The article presents comments on various issues and events in the U.S. One commented on a quote saying criminals would use public transportation to commit crimes. Another commented on the higher wages in the country which has driven millions of jobs to China, India, Mexico and others. Another commented on the word that threatens the public's existence which is "entitlement."

The article reports on the criticism by foreign academics of their countries' engineering programs. Academic and business leaders in China and India consistently say that despite rapid growth in enrollment and graduates, degree holders lack English-language and other business skills needed to work for multinational corporations. India can't take the lead in high-tech production jobs despite the quantity enrolled in higher education, for only the top-tier institutes educate for quality. Tu Shandong, vice president of the East China University of Science and Technology, in Shanghai, says an increasing number of employers are asking "embarrassing questions" about the quality of education.

The article reports on the reopening of the old Silk Road, a commercial route that handles local trading between Sikkim and West Bengal in India and Chinese-occupied Tibet. The agreement to reopen the pass was part of a diplomatic bargain in which Beijing agreed to recognize the formal takeover of the Himalayan state of Sikkim south of the pass by India and New Delhi moved one step further in fully accepting Chinese rule in Tibet.