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Male-to-male sex and illicit injection drug use are important transmission routes for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Of all new HIV infections in 2010, 80% were among men, of which [...]

Byline: Christopher Johnson , SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES CALGARY, Alberta -- After Canada's largest earthquake in more than 60 years struck off British Columbia on Oct. 27, many residents [...]

Byline: Christopher Johnson, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES TOKYO -- In a white shirt and hat on a sunny Tokyo afternoon, he looks like Andy Roddick, walks like Roddick, serves [...]

TOKYO -- The peaceful rhythms of Japanese culture have a way of polishing the edges of many who come here. When the N.B.A. prospect Jeremy Tyler, 19, signed with the [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON; Special to The Globe and Mail BUSINESS WITHOUT BORDERS / NETWORKING TOKYO -- With a greying population and a stock market only one-fifth its 1989 value, Japan [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON; Special to The Globe and Mail BASKETBALL / WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP / SPAIN 89, CANADA 67 IZMIR, TURKEY -- After losing 89-67 to Spain and bowing out of [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON; Special to The Globe and Mail BASKETBALL / WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP / NEW ZEALAND 71, CANADA 61 IZMIR, TURKEY -- Needing a win to stay alive, Canada gave [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON; Special to The Globe and Mail BASKETBALL / WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP / FRANCE 68, CANADA 63 IZMIR, TURKEY -- This would have been a game of dreams for [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON; Special to The Globe and Mail BASKETBALL / WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IZMIR, TURKEY -- The second most popular game in the world, basketball has become much bigger in [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON; Special to The Globe and Mail BASKETBALL / WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP / LITHUANIA 70, CANADA 68 IZMIR, TURKEY -- Now 0-2 at the world basketball championship after blowing [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON BLACK SATURDAY Freelance writer and author of Siamese Dreams *** Given Thailand's lèse-majesté laws and the power of its gunmen, it's difficult for anyone to publicly reveal [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON; Special to The Globe and Mail INTERNATIONAL FINANCE TOKYO -- Soaring debt, unsustainable government spending, slashed credit ratings. The problems that forced Europe to pledge a financial [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON; Special to The Globe and Mail VANCOUVER 2010 / THE PODIUM Like Canada in 2010, Japan had high hopes of owning future podiums after it won five [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON; Special to The Globe and Mail AUTO MAKING TOKYO -- Even before recent massive recalls, Japanese consumers had been losing faith in the domestic auto industry. Sales [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON; Special to The Globe and Mail TRANSPORTATION TOKYO -- At 55, Masaaki Ueda was looking forward to retiring soon with a generous pension after 32 years of [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON; Special to The Globe and Mail TRANSPORTATION TOKYO -- Across Japan, thousands of members of the 'JAL family,' from ground staff to pilots to the airline's CEO, [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON SHARING THE ROAD Tokyo-based Canadian journalist With an estimated 20 million bicycles in the metro area, Tokyo is the best major city in the world for cyclists. [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON AND ALEX LAWLER; Reuters ENERGY OPEC notes signs of demand slump stabilizing LONDON -- OPEC cut its forecast for world oil demand in 2009 further yesterday but [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON; Reuters LONDON -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. expects agricultural commodity prices to outperform industrial raw materials and oil next year and has cut forecasts for crude due [...]

The global banking crisis has given rise to a Manichaean view of banking - retail banking good, investment banking bad. Yet it was not so long ago that public anger [...]

My bank has charged me [pounds sterling]50 for a service that should have been free. My daughter lives in France with her three children. I made them a gift of [...]

Byline: Christopher Johnson Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor With Western naval ships loaded with aid waiting at their door, and visiting UN diplomats demanding faster rescue and relief, Burma [...]

Byline: Christopher Johnson Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor mae sot, thailand -- Wearing a black shirt of mourning, Myo Khin spends hours every day on Burmese blogs, hoping to [...]

Byline: Christopher Johnson Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Mae Sot, Thailand -- The longstanding tensions between the two largest organizations in Burma (Myanmar) - the military and the Buddhist [...]

Byline: Christopher Johnson Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Myawaddy, Burma -- Officers in crisp longyis stare incredulously at a Westerner walking into the police station. One calls for backup [...]

Byline: Christopher Johnson Correspondent Myawaddy, Burma; and Mae Sot, Thailand -- Since 1949, the Burmese military has waged a war in the east against mainly Christian Karen ethnic minorities, who [...]

Byline: Christopher Johnson Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Myawaddy, Burma -- The Asian Highway should be jammed with a convoy of trucks carrying aid supplies from the Thai border [...]

Byline: Christopher Johnson Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Mae Sot, Thailand -- In this border town known as 'Little Burma,' thousands of Burmese exiles and refugees were excited when [...]

Byline: Christopher Johnson Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Tokyo -- At a Jomo gas station in western Tokyo, an attendant in green-and-orange overalls recently explained why rising prices may [...]

Iintend to live to be 100. I am now a mere 76. I need the time to read the unread books, view the unseen videotapes and sort out my accumulated [...]

Byline: Christopher Johnson Tokyo -- For the few remaining foreigners in Tibet, most of Lhasa has become a no-go zone. Soldiers have filled the streets ahead of a deadline set [...]

Readers, money is always welcome. But do not send me a cheque, whatever you do. Cheques have been making my life a misery and the sooner they disappear from the [...]

Iwish my contemporaries would stop dying. They deprive their friends and families of their company. They oblige us to go to ted-ious and inaudible funerals where the Anglican church tries [...]

There is a new willingness by employers to take on older workers, as the Financial Times has been reporting this week. So why wait until 2026 to raise the state [...]

From Mr Christopher Johnson. Sir, In June 2004 the inter-governmental conference that agreed the European constitutional treaty issued the following declaration: 'If, two years after the signature of the treaty, [...]

Most employers know it is impermissible under Ohio and federal law to discriminate against employees because of their sex. Specifically, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and [...]

Teaneck-based Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., which manages computer systems and writes software with a staff based primarily in India, ranked No. 1 on Forbes magazine's annual list of the most [...]

Knight Trading Group Inc., the biggest market-maker of Nasdaq Stock Market securities, said Monday that third-quarter profit beat analysts' expectations by as much as 9 cents a share. Its stock [...]

Gordon Brown's fourth test for UK entry into the euro is: 'what impact membership of the single currency would have on our financial services industry'. The verdict of the Treasury's [...]

From Mr Christopher Johnson. Sir, I am relieved to see from Ken Jones's letter (July 1) that I am not the only person pinching myself when we are told that [...]

For small businesses, where every minute and every dollar counts, the saying ``time is money'' rings especially true. While small businesses often spend the time and money necessary to ensure [...]

From Mr Christopher Johnson. Sir, Antony Thorncroft has given encouraging news about share donations to charities in the arts under the new scheme introduced this year ('Share and shares alike', [...]

From Mr Christopher Johnson. Sir, Martin Wolf, normally a critic of European economic and monetary union, quotes research in defence of the euro concluding that 'two countries which share the [...]