Indonesia at a crossroads in pursuing spaceport dream
Redefining Indonesia’s foreign policy stance, particularly in relation to outer space activities, will give the country more choices and opportunities in developing its space…
The massacre in Bucha
In the aftermath of this massacre in Bucha, many countries, most of them allied with Ukraine, have expressed their shock and grief over what happened there.
Why Imran’s self-serving pseudo sense of national pride is an injustice to Pakistan
It appears an official routine communication has been manipulated to stir anti-American hysteria for short-term political gains.
War In Ukraine will not fray Indo-Pacific strategy
The writer says that the view floated by India's leading geopolitical thinker Brahma Chellaney that the Ukraine war will put America's Indo-Pacific strategy in jeopardy, is flawed.
Taiwan’s fatal attractions
The writer says Taiwan should focus on strengthening a status quo that has enabled it to prosper, and it should politely decline future overtures from craven opportunists and…
Why the no-trust motion was as serious a ‘sin’ as the NA deputy speaker’s legal acrobatics
The writer proposes that political stability and some basic rules of transition have to be agreed upon, if the politicians and the unelected stakeholders do not want an economic…
What East Asia can learn from the crisis in Ukraine
The writer says every effort has to be made to prevent East Asia from being fragmented into blocs or becoming a chessboard of geopolitical rivalry.
Teep or Hijab: Why not both?
The writer says the age-old conflict of "Muslim first or Bengali first" emerges once again in the psyche of Bangladeshis who have failed miserably at grasping the concept of dual…
Malay for Asean
The paper says Malaysia should only have to convince Asean that the proposal will do more good than harm, which will certainly not be easy.
Dhaka, for all intents and purposes, is dead
The writer says Dhaka's aggressive development is rivalled only by the progressive decline in almost all other parameters of urban life.