Not enough Canadians currently possess the necessary skills, experience and cultural understanding to be effective in Asia.

Widely regarded as one of the world’s top cities to live in, international students from places likes Myanmar and Singapore are drawn to Vancouver because of its moderate climate, diverse cuisine and high quality of living.

Learning how to communicate across cultures involves more than just using your voice – non-verbal cues are just as important.

Fragrance speaks the loudest on a subliminal level,” the writer Marion Bendeth once famously remarked.

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David and Shannon Simpson were nervous and a little sad to leave good friends behind. But they were also excited to begin a new adventure together.

Mexican-born Amy Celorio Ayala, 23, lived in Vancouver for 10 months. While learning English at a private college, she was able to experience, and even enjoy, Halloween. But when she returned home she noticed that the North American holiday is over-shadowing the importance of Mexico’s Día de los muertos (Day of the Dead).

As the world’s second largest continent, Africa, with its multiplicity of history, peoples and cultures, is still often misunderstood. In one of his dissertations, African historian Paul Tiyambe Zeleza suggests that the interchangeable use of the term “Africa” with “Sub-Saharan Africa” ultimately gives a racialized view of Africa as the “black” continent. In other words, Africa is often viewed along ethnic lines.

It has been just over one year since the creation of the independent nation of South Sudan. This new country, which chose to separate from Sudan following a referendum supported by well over 90 per cent of the region’s population, held high hopes that legal, economic and religious autonomy would usher in a new era of peace and prosperity. Since its inception, both peace and prosperity have been elusive targets.