Coordinated laws vital to combating cross-border crimes
The persistence of cross-border crimes such as telecom scams has significant implications for regional stability and China's border security. Telecom scams not only violate the…
OPINION
Empowering women entrepreneurs, MSMEs can drive inclusive growth in ASEAN region
Although women across ASEAN have access to basic digital tools, many lack the skills or confidence to scale their businesses, protect and use their intellectual property, enter…
The cost of travelling on Balochistan’s highways
Protests, insurgent attacks and multitude of checkpoints make road journey longer, more risky.
Malaysia’s leadership on trial: Why corruption keeps winning
When news breaks of yet another corruption scandal, the reaction is often a resigned sigh rather than outrage, the writer says. It's a grim reality. A troubling number of…
Trade with Pakistan can help achieve 2047 goal
Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants India to become an advanced nation by 2047, exactly a hundred years after Independence.
The Trumpian worldview
Leaders like US President Donald Trump, the writer says, "do not just sell a worldview; they also present themselves as the only ones who can fix what is wrong."
Can NATO remain relevant?
Under globalisation’s paradoxical impact, the twin aspects of nation-states and welfare states in Europe are rapidly getting eroded, leading to a pervasive continental crisis…
Mob justice is not justice
The rule of law is the bedrock of any civilised nation.
Creating a regime of fear in Nepal
The government is criminalising dissent in the name of regulating social networks.
Trump and the ghosts of colonialism: A lesson for Indonesia
What Mr. Trump has done to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy bears similarity to colonial economic arrangements, in which a weaker nation must grant the powerful access to its…