Can Asia and the Pacific get on track to net zero?
The recent climate talks in Egypt have left us with a sobering reality: The window for maintaining global warming to 1.5 degrees is closing fast and what is on the…
Biennial PIMA scientific convention held
Riphah International University- RIU is producing medical experts and resources to equip the young generation in the scientific field and for this, Riphah is working on Lifestyle Medicine and Patient…
Imran’s disqualification
The Election Commission of Pakistan has disqualified Mr Imran Khan in a case where it was alleged that he had mis-declared his assets in the yearly declaration of assets and…
BoE in murky water with qualified ‘whatever it takes’
‘Time-limited’ and ‘whatever it takes’ don’t sit comfortably together. Even if a law of diminishing returns suggests the legendary ‘whatever it takes’ warning from policymakers to markets is waning somewhat,…
BoE in murky water with qualified ‘whatever it takes’
‘Time-limited’ and ‘whatever it takes’ don’t sit comfortably together. Even if a law of diminishing returns suggests the legendary ‘whatever it takes’ warning from policymakers to markets is waning somewhat,…
Unjustified sanctions
As the Cuban government celebrates the July 26 Day of the National Rebellion – a public holiday commemorating the 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks that is considered the precursor…
Right policies can protect the workers of Asia and the Pacific
Most of the 2.1 billion strong workforce in Asia and the Pacific are denied access to decent jobs, healthcare and social protection but there is an array of policies and…
Inspiration personified
“I’M no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls,” said Michel Foucault, a maverick French philosopher of the second half of the last century. Paul Farmer…
Pacific bloc, united, demands climate action as China, US woo
Pacific island nations, courted by China and the United States, put the superpowers on notice, telling the world’s two biggest carbon emitters to take more action on climate change while…
Indonesian farmers pay price of foot and mouth outbreak before Eid sacrifice
Indonesian farmer Okky Pratama usually sells dozens of cattle for Eid al-Adha, making his biggest earnings around the Islamic day of sacrifice, but this year he has sold just five.…
