Parking wealth under the Dubai sun
The city's booming real estate has also been used by Bangladeshis as an offshore haven to park wealth for a big reason – cash payments are widely accepted even by top property…
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Democracy ends where leadership begins
Dynastic politics, personality cults plague Bangladesh's political parties.
Geoeconomics: The new geopolitics in Nepal
As Nepal struggles to balance the competing interests of India, China, and the US, the geopolitical rivalries offer economic growth and cooperation opportunities, and experts call…
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.
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.