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Leaders face constitutional challenges
News, Published on 02/07/2015
» In what some thought could be a game-changer in the Myanmar political landscape, a move for constitutional amendment was unsurprisingly voted down in the Union parliament last Thursday.
Fight for jumbos
News, Published on 01/12/2014
» Although your Nov 23 editorial on the Animal Welfare Bill was excellent, you left out one important word: Elephants.
Postbag: HRW is ill-informed
News, Published on 18/10/2014
» The front-page report, “Protesters jeer Prayut outside Abe talks”, Oct 17, continues to demonstrate the level of ill-informed opinions on the situation in Thailand.
Middle East is falling apart for a reason
News, Published on 28/08/2014
» The horror stories emerging from northern Iraq, as well as the continuing slaughter in Syria's civil war, point to a tectonic shift in the Middle East. Almost 100 years after World War I (WWI), the regional state system established after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire is unravelling.
The end of the Arab nation state
News, Published on 05/08/2014
» In a region where crises seem to be the norm, the Middle East’s latest cycle of violence suggests that something bigger is afoot: the beginning of the dissolution of the Arab nation-state, reflected in the growing fragmentation of Sunni Arabia.
The end of the Arab nation state
News, Published on 04/08/2014
» In a region where crises seem to be the norm, the Middle East's latest cycle of violence suggests that something bigger is afoot: the beginning of the dissolution of the Arab nation-state, reflected in the growing fragmentation of Sunni Arabia.
US spying fallout puts tech firms at risk
News, Published on 27/08/2013
» In a 2011 report, which was declassified on Wednesday, then Chief Judge John Bates of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court expressed concern at US government surveillance programmes. He asserted that "the volume and nature of the information [that was being collected as of 2011] is fundamentally different from what the court had been led to believe".
Silly 'Arab' soap opera lights the fires of mistrust
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 24/08/2013
» The Middle East becomes a scene of a great romance. The people are cool. The camels are cute. The sky is blue, boundless, and the smooth ridges of the sand dunes are as seductive as the chiselled face of the beardless Muslim sheikh, whose handsome head is wrapped in a chequered keffiyeh.
Lighting up dark politics
News, Published on 20/08/2013
» Re: ''Big questions linger over reform assembly'' (Opinion, Aug 19).
Military must reinstate Morsi to ensure Egypt stability
News, Jeffrey D Sachs, Published on 17/07/2013
» Putting an end to Egypt's deepening polarisation and rising bloodshed requires one urgent first step: the reinstatement of Mohamed Morsi as Egypt's duly elected president. His removal by a military coup was unjustified. While it is true that millions of demonstrators opposed Mr Morsi's rule, even massive street protests do not constitute a valid case for a military coup in the name of the "people" when election results repeatedly say otherwise.