Editorial

Notwithstanding the fact that concern for minimal public security is the sine qua non of any government worthy of the name, Myanmar’s de facto Head of State Aung San Suu Kyi, with her blatantly cavalier attitude, continues to preside over ethnic cleansing and indiscriminate slaughter — virtual Genocide — of the minority Rohingya Muslims whose […]

Andre Damon IN A series of provocative actions, the United States is making clear it is prepared to fight a war to block Beijing’s rise as an economic and geostrategic competitor. The “cold war” between the United States and China took a major step toward becoming a “hot” war at the annual Shangri-La defence summit […]

Belt and Road Initiative vs Washington Consensus Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: With the Washington Consensus from the 1980s being challenged, President Donald Trump withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and China pursuing its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), most notably with its own initiatives such as the multilateral Asian Infrastructure […]

Victory of Narendra Modi vis-à-vis saffron surge As per customary norms, felicitations are pouring in for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi who has secured another five-year term after winning a landslide general election victory, in which his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won 303 seats of the 543-seat parliament. The main opposition alliance, headed […]

Peter Maurer THE connection of humanitarian action to broader objectives like peace, development and human rights is understandably complex, but it is also an area in which some fresh thinking is important. The dilemma we are facing today is how to expand and uphold neutral, impartial and independent humanitarian action while designing and understanding such […]

Shouldn’t US stop strangling Huawei’s advanced 5G? Wen Sheng EVER since we entered the new century, mankind has benefited greatly from the internet and broadband. Sea changes are taking place in the way of our jobs, our learning, our interaction and our entertainment, thanks to the speed of invincible but ubiquitous internet linkages powered by […]

Farmers grow food for the nation: They must be protected It is a misfortune for our huge number of small and mostly disadvantaged marginal farmers across the the country to be compelled to sell Boro paddy/rice staple— the year-long hope of the people—at a price below its production cost; and this deplorable circumstance is likely […]

We need a global convention of common principles Thalif Deen WHEN the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) concluded a three-day forum on “Peace and Development” on May 16, the primary focus was the daunting challenges threatening global security, including growing military interventions, spreading humanitarian emergencies, forced migration, increasing civil wars, extreme weather conditions triggered […]

As trade tensions increase, IMF lowers forecasts for global growth Nick Beams THE International Monetary Fund has pointed to a slowdown in growth for 70 percent of the world economy by value in 2019, with the most significant weakening taking place in the advanced economies. Any recovery in 2020 is dependent on expanded production in […]

WASA must supply safe drinking water to city dwellers Despite the fact that in sweltering summer nothing can be more refreshingly welcome than a glass of lemonade often described as the ultimate summer thirst quencher; but the Dhaka WASA chief refused to have it, which was made with the WASA water which he claimed to […]