How Bangladesh can achieve universal health coverage
There is an opportunity to greatly increase Bangladesh's finances by expanding the scope for the tax base.
Rising dengue cases demand appropriate response
Health experts in Bangladesh fear that the actual numbers could be several times higher than the reported figures.
Dangerous to rely on imports for food supply
Japan is highly dependent on food imports, with its calorie-based self-sufficiency rate standing at 38 per cent in fiscal 2021.
Make polluters pay for loss and damage from climate change
The writer says it is time to confront the fossil fuel companies who are the real criminals behind the climate crisis.
The challenges facing digibanks
User experience, not products, will ultimately decide who the winners will be.
Crucial to verify age to make social media safer for children
The lack of age verification is just the tip of a mountain of criticism made against social media platforms.
Pakistan’s children must be at the heart of flood rehabilitation effort
Cross-border fruit trade supported by express lines and cold chain logistics has already replaced small-scale fruit trade around the border areas.
Indonesia’s billion dollar deforestation question
The bottom line is Indonesia aims high but it cannot reach those heights without help from others, including Norway.
Khem Veasna: The cult leader and the destruction of Cambodian families
Though the Kulen-Mountain Incident is over, the socio-economic impacts thereof are far-reaching and perhaps perpetual.
Bangladesh needs to rely less on EU, US markets
There is a strong argument for suggesting our garment industry has too many of its eggs in one or two baskets, leaving it massively over-exposed.