The price of expensive development
The unusually high construction costs of various megaprojects in Bangladesh are fuelled by irregularities, corruption, and problems with project planning.
Zahid’s bright political stars
Last year, my politician of the year was Pakatan Harapan chairman and PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who defied all odds to be Prime Minister. This year, so far, it is…
Dwindling Filipino farmers
There remains the urgent need to encourage more Filipinos to take up farming by dismantling the structural obstacles that have held down farmers and prevented the country from…
Totally new type of ROK President achieves reconciliation with Japan
President Yoon met with Prime Minister Kishida and took a step to resolve the issue of wartime requisitioned workers from the Korean Peninsula.
Political dialogues: The long road to nowhere
The problem in Bangladesh is that politicians consider compromise as a weakness and a sign of defeat, says the writer.
Zuckerberg steals the KPK’s thunder in Indonesia’s fight against graft
The nation has a moral obligation to thank Zuckerberg because his technology has provided the people an effective tool to humiliate corrupt officials.
The shadow over solar power
The main problem facing Indonesia is the conflict of interests of the debt-ridden electricity monopoly (state electricity company PLN).
The spectre of inequality
To make the tax system progressive and to achieve tax justice, it is a must to have more taxes on income and wealth and fewer taxes on consumption.
Punjab govt’s coercive actions against PTI threaten stability in the country’s largest province
Matters have come to a point where each side’s version is almost violently at odds with that of the other and arriving at some compromise or consensus appears increasingly…
Crazy showy Indonesians
Amid an avalanche of wealth-related scandals in the civil service, President Joko Widodo has stepped in and told officials, and presumably their families, to stop showing off…