China, US spar over South China Sea at Laos talks
The top diplomats of China and the US sparred on Saturday over the South China Sea, where Beijing is locked in a territorial dispute with US treaty ally the Philippines.…
Marked for death
In one night, Israel murdered Al Jazeera’s entire media crew in Gaza City. The Israeli military admitted to assassinating the journalists in an August 10 airstrike on a media tent…
‘Send them away’
WHERE on earth is Eswatini? It is one of the smallest countries in Africa, a landlocked kingdom ringed by South Africa and Mozambique. It is now the new home for…
Sultans of scams
WHEN something sounds too good to be true, it almost always isn’t good or true. That’s how things work in the world of tele-scams and fraud. It starts with a…
Jekyll and Hyde
Addressing the East Asia Summit at Laos in October 2024, Narendra Modi said: “I come from the land of Buddha. This is not the age of war. It’s essential to…
SEZs and economic development
During the decade of the 1980s a paradigm shift took place in the minds of economic policy makers; the movement in thought process was rooted in the idea that economic development…
A peoples’ quest for peace – Part – I
In my previous column series, ‘Discussing South Asian Peace’, we talked about the evolution of people’s initiatives for restoring peace in South Asia. From the Pak-India Peace Forum to Himal…
Indonesia’s ‘smooth’ polls a beacon in sea of strongmen
Indonesia pulled off a complex yet peaceful election across its vast - and ethnically diverse - island territory this week, cementing its place as a democratic beacon in a sea…
New CPEC playbook
Amidst global economic uncertainty, developing nations are striving to minimise long-term economic setbacks and foster recovery. To break free from the low-income trap and achieve sustained prosperity, these countries are…
Dollar bullets
Trump is halting bloody bullet wars, only to ignite bloody trade wars. Meanwhile, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the financial intelligence and enforcement agency of the United States…
