Renting may be the housing policy Vietnam needs most today
The writer observes that, "With housing prices continuing to outpace incomes, rental housing is emerging as an increasingly important pillar of Vietnam's housing policy, offering…
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Gaza’s tragedy: Dawn
Quoting the editorial: "The people of Gaza have been failed repeatedly; they have been treated not as human beings deserving dignity and protection, but as variables in a…
Finally, a truth commission on the Philippine drug killings
Quoting the writer: "It is difficult to say what the Philippine commission will accomplish in the end. But if, in bearing witness, it restores to the nameless dead their names,…
Crossroads of powers: Interplay of parties, monarchy in Malaysian politics
The writer says: "Amidst political turbulence and an increasingly visible power vacuum, the renewed prominence of the monarchy's role is by no means accidental, but rather a…
China-Pakistan partnership moves beyond infrastructure
At a time of intensifying geopolitical fragmentation and economic uncertainty, the broadening of China-Pakistan cooperation reflects an effort by both countries to build…
Philippine Senate: Time to abolish it?
The writer laments: "The sad circus that is our Senate nowadays is a perfect microcosm of the root cause of Philippine developmental debacle: a deracinated elite body, dominated…
Chinese culture comes to the fore in the 21st century
The writer says: "A state can fund, convene, digitise, translate, and promote; whether it can also call forth the works that will still be performed and read a century hence, only…
Could India’s Gen Z rebellion begin with cockroaches?
The writer says: "As political space continues to shrink and the BJP's dominance grows more assertive, the conditions for public anger also become ripe. For now, it is reasonable…
Neighbour to a superpower
China’s rise has transformed the nature of the Sino-Pak partnership, the writer observes.
The mystique of impunity
The writer says, "If the Filipino people choose to return the Duterte brand to power—knowing now what it costs and having seen where it leads—impunity will not merely survive.…