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by Zahida Parvez Chhanda (Dhaka Bureau) On Tuesday, with the rising sun of the New Year, Bengali New Year-1433 was celebrated across Bangladesh with unique enthusiasm. This year’s festivities were not limited to welcoming the season; they evolved into a…

The planet’s climate system has turned erratic. Scientific reports over the past 24 months signal trouble ahead as forecasts become impossible with a helter-skelter system. It’s almost like the planet is regurgitating the anthropogenic (human) input of the past couple…

by Asif Shaowkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh is preparing to unveil its largest-ever national budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year, as policymakers attempt to balance ambitious political commitments with mounting economic pressures at home and abroad. Officials at the finance…

As the country celebrates Earth Month, Nurse Susie, the official mascot of the Philippine Healthcare and Mercury Wastes Management Project (HCWM Project), visited Cagayan Valley Medical Center (CVMC) in Tuguegarao City, as part of a series of hospital roadshows advocating…

So many were duped by Alt-Media charlatans over the years into thinking that this economic-financial group is also a security bloc when it never was, still isn’t, nor ever will be one. Indonesia and the US announced a “Major Defense Cooperation Partnership”…

Far from curbing nuclear proliferation, the offensive against Iran and the strategic impunity of armed powers are consolidating a brutal conclusion for the rest of the world: those who do not possess extreme deterrent power are exposed to coercion, punishment…

Despite the two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, the world still stands at the precipice of war crimes to destroy an entire civilization, and possibly even nuclear war. From every nation, every sector must act, and act now. We…

This Arab-Israeli peace movement never ceases to amaze us. Week after week it is reclaiming the streets, with a large number of demonstrations taking place at the same time on the evening of Saturday, April 11: beside the main protests…

From Thought to Form. You can experience how abstract ideas take tangible form in In-Sight—an exhibition by the SeekArt Collective at the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Gallery, running from April 13 to 30 in Intramuros, Manila.…

By: Angel de Castro III April 12, 2026. A Sunday like so many others. The day began the way resistance often does—not loudly, but quietly. A heaviness in the body. A reluctance not to the work itself, but to the…