Editorial

Real sense of obligation We learned from news that a rail company in Japan has apologised after one of its trains departed 20 seconds early....

Rufus Pollock :Too often we focus on technology and forget the structures of law, ownership and power that technology operates within. Dazzled by the astonishing...

David Ignatius :As President Trump ends his Asia trip, he might sum up the 12-day journey with a revision of the remark attributed to Julius...

Daniel Gutman :The IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour, which drew nearly 2000 delegates from 190 countries to the Argentine capital,...

WC Football 2018 The four Asian representatives in the galaxy of 32 in the World Cup (WC) Football 2018 are Iran, Japan, Saudi Arabia and...

Tutu Alicante :A French court’s decision on 27 October to convict (in abstentia) Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue (commonly known as “Teodorin”), the vice-president of Equatorial...

Friday Phiri :As negotiators meet in Bonn to put together a deal to implement the Paris Agreement, John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at...

Paul Callan and Karim Aziz :From New Delhi to Cairo, pedestrians and drivers have long suffered from poor road conditions with dangerous consequences. According to...

FIVE foreign ministers from top Asian and European countries including a few high-ups of the European Union have started arriving in Dhaka since yesterday for...

RAPIDLY increasing air and water pollution threw pollinators in the Sunderbans on the verge of extinction threatening the world’s largest mangrove forest’s flora. Severe air...

Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram :Economists of all persuasions recognize the critical role of finance in economic growth. The financial sector’s stability and depth...

Pascal Laureyn :In Laos, the lush forests are alive with the whines of drills that pierce the air. On the Mekong, a giant concrete wall...