China and North Korea will officially open the New Yalu River Bridge on Thursday, ending a 12-year delay that left the major cross-border infrastructure project unused despite its completion in 2014. The
China and North Korea will officially open the New Yalu River Bridge on Thursday, ending a 12-year delay that left the major cross-border infrastructure project unused despite its completion in 2014. The
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With talks stalled since 2021 and NSCN (IM) leader Thuingaleng Muivah warning against surrender, India faces a narrowing window to rescue the Naga peace process. The failure to build trust, disclose the
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Data centres that support online banking, transport applications, cloud computing and artificial intelligence are increasingly being targeted in military operations, with attacks by Ukraine, Russia and Iran demonstrating how damage to physical
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Brazil’s presidential election has strengthened the political movement founded by former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, with his son Flávio entering the run-off against incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after securing 47
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Global efforts to reduce hunger and halt deforestation are falling short of international targets, with new reports documenting worsening food insecurity in dozens of countries and continued destruction of millions of hectares
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Bank of America has been ordered to pay more than $1.21 billion in penalties over failures to meet US anti-money-laundering and sanctions requirements, in an enforcement action that the Treasury Department described
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India’s diplomatic efforts during the Russia-Ukraine war appear impressive from a distance but have yielded limited tangible results. While India aspires to be recognized as a rising power and credible peacemaker, its
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The latest campaign on Balochistan in Geneva shows how easily a complicated conflict can be reduced to a few emotionally powerful words. Occupation, repression and freedom carry immediate political weight. The Baloch
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When Politics Fills the Cells. Since 5 August 2024, Bangladesh has been mired in a profound democratic crisis, characterised by mass arrests, overflowing prisons, and mounting concerns over civil liberties, the administration
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We use the vernacular term “porak” in Sri Lankan politics to describe anyone but a Leftist, Marxist-Leninist politician. How naïve we were. Our collective perception seemed to dictate that they (the JVP
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Allegations that JVP insurgents attacked the Sri Dalada Maligawa in February 1989 to seize the Sacred Tooth Relic continue to circulate on social media. However, evidence presented in this account points to
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The article challenges the growing reliance on disruptive street protests as a means of forcing political change, arguing that public grievances should be addressed through lawful debate, constitutional procedures and elections rather
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Editorial Sri Lanka’s economic recovery is entering a more demanding phase, with growth expected to moderate over the next two years as geopolitical conflicts, energy-market disruptions and restrictive global financing conditions threaten
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Leif Erikson and his Norse crew reached North America around the year 1000, establishing an outpost in present-day Newfoundland nearly five centuries before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in 1492. Yet while
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Asia has seen a surge of “Gen Z protests,” led by a generation tired of accepting the status quo and increasingly using social media to drive change in deeply entrenched political systems.
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