In Taining, Fujian There are journeys that take us from one destination to another, and there are journeys that quietly return us to ourselves. My experience on the bamboo raft along Shangqing
In Taining, Fujian There are journeys that take us from one destination to another, and there are journeys that quietly return us to ourselves. My experience on the bamboo raft along Shangqing
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Sudan’s electricity network is facing the threat of collapse following a series of drone attacks on critical power infrastructure since early October, with the destruction of substations and generating facilities disrupting essential
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Aviation was more than a career ambition for Nathalia Filgueiras. It was a passion that had shaped her life from childhood, taking her from watching aircraft at a local airport to becoming
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The government serves as the primary governing institution responsible for providing public goods, enforcing law and order, ensuring economic stability, and advancing national development goals. To carry out these wide-ranging economic and
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A decade after securing an agreement that brought Colombia’s longest-running armed conflict with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to an end, former president Juan Manuel Santos believes the world is
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Generative artificial intelligence has become a practical tool in terrorist and violent extremist activities, supporting attack planning, weapons acquisition, target selection and the preparation of ideological material, according to a new analysis
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A Buddhist monk has opposed a recommendation by the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka to allow Muslim female health workers to wear religiously prescribed clothing, including the hijab, in addition to
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Peru’s human rights prosecutors have closed the criminal case against 52 former officials over the forced sterilisation of thousands of women during former president Alberto Fujimori’s government, declaring criminal liability extinguished despite
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There are a hundred and fifty people – and they are all men – who run the world …Chamath Palihapitiya There is an abiding paradox in the history of human civilization. The
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Pension systems worldwide are facing mounting financial pressure as people live longer and birth rates fall, leaving retirement funds responsible for paying benefits over extended periods while the pool of workers contributing
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Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian human rights activist awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, says decades of repression have failed to extinguish demands for democracy, equality and freedom in Iran. “Iranian society no
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When Ayumi’s two daughters left home, the 62-year-old resident of Kawasaki began to see her marriage differently. After more than two decades together, she and her husband had little left in common,
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Money, technological success and the promise of personal freedom have failed to deliver happiness to the billionaire family at the centre of Philipp Oehmke’s new novel, Papenburg. In a review published by
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Sri Lanka is unlikely to pursue new barter trade arrangements in the foreseeable future as its tea-for-oil agreement with Iran approaches completion, with the Sri Lanka Tea Board citing exporters’ liquidity concerns,
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Sri Lanka has suspended the formal declaration of newly identified forest reserves in the Northern Province until outstanding land ownership and boundary disputes are resolved, while moving ahead with plans to release
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