Hearts online, hurt offline: The dark side of Nepali teenagers’ virtual relationships
One in four young people in Nepal experience online intimate partner violence, a recent research shows.
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What Pakistan’s founding father thought of civil liberties and the right to a fair trial
But if the founder remains confined to portraits and postage stamps, it’s come with a cost: our now perma-crisis is the logical outcome of shirking his ideas for years. It’s…
‘We still carry the tsunami with us’: Aceh thrives 20 years after disaster, but scars remain
On Dec 26, 2004, giant ocean waves devastated the Indonesian province of Aceh, killing more than 160,000 people. The Straits Times revisits the disaster zone 20 years on to see…
Use of Alternative Landing Paths at Haneda Airport to be Postponed
The Japan government has decided to postpone its decision over the introduction of temporary alternative landing paths for Haneda Airport, partly due to the aircraft collision…
The myth of ‘Westernisation’
The notion that the West has tried to impose Westernisation and secularism in Muslim regions in the past few decades is largely flawed. In fact, the West has done everything it…
At Freedom’s Gate?
For Bangladesh's political transformation to succeed and establish a democratic state, the movement must genuinely represent and protect all its people.
Trading misery on the Pakistan-Iran border
During the Iranian president’s visit to Pakistan in April, it was resolved to raise Pak-Iran trade to an ambitious $10 billion.
EXPLAINER: Depleted uranium and why it’s a national security threat
The dense material can penetrate through almost anything, making it an ultimate weapon of war.
Japanese brewery to make sake in space; if successful, limited-edition sake to be sold for US$657k
The attempt to brew sake in space will be made in the Japanese Experiment Module Kibo on the International Space Station.
China’s actions in West Philippine Sea ‘accelerating ecological ruin’
But while China denied these accusations, SeaLight, an initiative of researchers from Stanford University’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation said that “no…