Nepal’s UN speech was powerful in its portrayal of climate vulnerability but far less complete in explaining the forces behind it. Its strongest arguments about climate justice, broken supply chains and unequal
China’s Commercial Aircraft Corporation (Comac) is set to display its full product line, including its flagship narrowbody airliner, the C919, at the Singapore Airshow, which begins Tuesday and runs for six days.
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China’s state-owned aluminium giant Chalco and Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto have agreed to acquire a controlling stake in Brazil’s Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio (CBA) in a transaction valued at US$886 million, marking
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France, a founding member of the European Union and for decades one of its wealthiest economies, is sliding steadily down the continent’s prosperity rankings, raising alarms among economists and commentators who warn
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France’s influence in Africa is facing one of its most serious challenges in decades, as a new generation of leaders openly rejects Paris’s post-colonial role and forges alternative alliances, according to claims
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In the present times, it appears that communist philosophy, as evolved and propagated by great thinkers like Karl Marx and other communist thought leaders over the decades, has lost its sheen. Discerning
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History glorifies leadership visions and sparkling skylines, but it seldom takes time to investigate the unseen building materials that bring aspirational statehood. The United Arab Emirates is rightfully considered to be a
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Sri Lanka entered 2026 with a security environment that remained broadly stable but layered with unresolved structural vulnerabilities rooted in post-war reconciliation failures, persistent diaspora activism, narcotics trafficking, and evolving regional security
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Fraud is no longer a peripheral crime affecting a careless few. It is now the most prevalent offence in the UK, eclipsing burglary, violent crime and car theft combined, and costing victims
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A packed global election calendar in 2026 is emerging as a fresh source of volatility for financial markets already unsettled by abrupt shifts in US policy and rising geopolitical tension. From Japan
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In 1935, in the midst of an era giving birth to the mass reproducibility of art, the German philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin writes that what “withers in the age of mechanical reproduction
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As soon as the television cameras were ushered out of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the carefully choreographed spectacle of diplomacy gave way to something more personal. Sitting across
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As an armada of US warships closes in on the waters surrounding Iran, a different battle is unfolding on land, largely hidden from view. Inside the country, the Iranian regime is engaged
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On January 29, 2026, direct flights between Bangladesh and Pakistan were reinstated after a 14-year break in a historic move that marked the renewal of friendship and cooperation between the two countries.
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The Trump administration has fundamentally changed direction on Iran. US NATO Ambassador Matt Whitaker says the US will not try and force regime change in Iran, suggesting that “we don’t want another
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When Shwe Theingi first met Wutt Yee Aung at Myanmar’s Dagon University in 2019, the country was experiencing a rare opening after decades of military rule. The two students bonded over activism
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