Greatest risk to Hong Kong’s national security is from within
The writer says educating young people about the nature of our country’s political system and the true nature of the CPC is crucial to national security.
Explaining the popularity of Duterte and Marcos
The writer says the concept of command responsibility is non-existent and is instead about faith in political will.
Our rulers must realise that the world is no longer ready to help those who don’t help themselves
The writer says unless politicians and policymakers take and act on hard decisions, the world will no longer step in to rescue Pakistan.
More heatwaves are coming our way. Are we prepared?
While Bangladesh has a lot of experience in tackling cyclones and floods, we have not taken heat stress into consideration until now.
Heatwave: Inside the boiling pot of inequality
The cost of extreme heat from climate change is disproportionately borne by those least culpable.
A tax won’t fix tourism
The paper says a tax would do little to change the behaviour of tourists or to keep out rowdy ones.
History rewritten is not really history
The paper says moves to rewrite history would prevent the younger generation from becoming inclusive or feeling empathy for the diversity that India is known and admired for.
Before an all-out catastrophe becomes imminent, Pakistan needs its key leaders to sit and talk
The paper says the threats facing Pakistan right now are far more serious than the financial and moral corruption our ‘leaders’ keep accusing each other of.
Concerns remain about Japan’s emergency warning system
The paper says the problem is that there has been no detailed explanation from the government as to what information the initial warning was based on and why it was corrected.
Another attack on the Philippine justice system
This is not the first time that lawyers, and even judges, have experienced harassment and police profiling.