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Time to clean up our environment
News, Editorial, Published on 03/12/2017
» Environmental issues are under the global spotlight as thousands of environmentalists including policymakers and non-state actors from more than 100 countries around the world gather in Kenyan capital Nairobi this week for a high-profile forum due to start tomorrow. The two-day forum, titled the Environment Assembly, is being organised by UN Environment, formerly the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
Lost opportunity on human rights
News, Editorial, Published on 12/11/2017
» Once US President Donald Trump lands in Manila to attend the East Asia Summit on Sunday, national leaders from half the Asean member states can be at ease without worrying about being chided by the US leadership over human rights abuses and waning democracy in their countries. During the 31st Asean Summit and related meetings that end on Tuesday, leaders from Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines are unlikely to be pressed on issues that have traditionally concerned the US.
The trouble with Korea
News, Editorial, Published on 01/11/2017
» The North Korean crisis continues to escalate, without any sign of imminent relief. Japanese voters have renewed the mandate of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, this time to amend the national constitution's prohibition against war. US Defence Secretary James Mattis said last weekend Pyongyang engages in outlaw behaviour. He vowed the US will never accept a nuclear North Korea. South Korean Defence Minister Song Young-moo was at his side.