Editorial

Bjørn Lomborg :According to popular wisdom, 2016 was a terrible year. Horrific terror attacks struck many countries. The Syrian crisis claimed tens of thousands of...

Lowering municipal holding taxes Dhaka South City Corporation (DSSC) has been reassessing household, commercial and industrial units under the corporation areas to increase holding tax....

Jeffrey Frankel :Around the world, several countries are currently undergoing “demonetization,” or currency reforms in which the government removes banknotes of a certain denomination from...

Tan Hui Yee :Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak broke with the spirit of Asean camaraderie by joining a recent march protesting against Myanmar’s treatment of...

Mark Carney and Michael Bloomberg :From rising sea levels to more severe storms and more intense droughts, climate change will present serious risks to, and...

MEGA projects are costing the nation too much in terms of cost and time over-run. Ill-conceived projects, faulty cost estimates initially on low side to...

AGAINST the backdrop of showing extreme defiance to electoral law, an orchestrated thin participation, almost no enthusiasm and an indiscriminate spending of cash, the country...

Blowing up crime shows in TV Nowadays crime TV shows broadcast by almost all TV channels in our country are very popular. But have we...

Mohammed Alsaud :To solve the Syrian refugee crisis the EU will have to take a leadership role and work effectively with refugee and diaspora communities...

Guy Verhofstadt :The United States FBI and CIA have both concluded that Russia ran a hacking and disinformation campaign aimed at influencing the US presidential...

Duncan Green :Is this time really different? That’s the argument whenever people want to ignore the lessons of automation-headlinehistory (eg arguing that this particular financial...

THE New Nation reported on Friday citing BBC online news that Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte faces probe over his claims of extra-judicial killings. The country’s...