Asia

MEDIA         as reported by Khandaker Himel Rozina Islam, a senior reporter of Prothom Alo, one of the country’s leading Bengali-language daily newspapers, was detained for more than five hours in a room inside the Bangladesh Secretariat…

U.S. President Joe Biden’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year was recently announced, and it requests $715 billion for his first Pentagon budget, 1.6 percent more than the $704 billion enacted under Trump’s administration. The outline states that the…

On March 8, 2021, the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy in Washington published a report, The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention in cooperation with the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights in…

FEATURE         All it took was one cart on a sidewalk filled with vegetables, fruits, rice, eggs, canned food, and other stuff to prevent or fight the onslaught of covid-19. And the scribbled message in Pilipino on…

POEM         Let us build a living space Amidst the barbed wire and rusting fences. Here, from its steel embrace Emerge from ancient sleep Dreams that survive the morning light.   Here, words interlace Spoken from the…

POEM         by Rem Tanauan Though I have not gone out of the house yet, the golden sun now enters the window. It gets through hazy jalousie and filtered by yellow curtain. It blends this twilight, a…

NON-VIOLENT CULTURE         The last month of April marked the third year of the Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification on the Korean Peninsula which was signed in April 2018 by the two country leaders. To…

India’s incompetent, vainglorious leadership, combined with the right-wing belief in magical capitalism, has led to the disaster that the country is now facing. By Prabir Purkayastha While the incompetence of the Indian government is starkly visible in its handling of…

Beijing’s demographic crisis is likely to deepen as the 60+ population grew to 264 million, up 18.7% last year, while people aged between 15 and 59 was 894 million, down 6.79 percentage points. Beijing: China’s population grew by 0.53% to…

FEATURE         Thirteen months after the Covid-19 outbreak in the Philippines and as cases surged, a new kind of morning greeted a middle-class neighborhood in Teachers Village, Quezon City that April 14 which pleasantly surprised a mix…