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India and Pakistan edge closer to war

Oped, Published on 08/05/2025

» Yesterday, India launched strikes on Pakistan and Pakistani-administered Kashmir, two weeks after a terrorist attack. The situation follows a long-smouldering fuse which has reignited in the wake of the terrible terrorist attack killing 27 tourists in a region of disputed Kashmir, part of India's territory. Some 25 Indian civilians were apparently targeted because of their Hindu religion.

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Vietnam: Fifty years since the Fall of Saigon

Oped, Published on 30/04/2025

» Fifty years ago, on April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese military units surged into Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, forcibly reuniting the country, thus ending 20 years of conflict.

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Sudan's hell of devastation and despair

Oped, Published on 24/04/2025

» The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are stalking Sudan: brutal civil conflict, widespread devastation, humanitarian disasters, and the displacement of millions of refugees. Now add the Fifth Horseman, the darkness of global indifference.

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Deficits, debt and delusion in US-China trade

Oped, Published on 18/04/2025

» A flurry of accusations, finger pointing and political grandstanding dominate the headlines as the trade war with China escalates. Global markets responded with roller-coaster fluctuations and serious jolts, amid growing economic uncertainty.

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China's 'grey zone' tactics pressure Taiwan

Oped, Published on 10/04/2025

» China's growing naval power is regularly and systematically harassing the waters around Taiwan in what appears to be rehearsal exercises for a future invasion of the self-ruled democratic island. Units of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), as well as swarms of military aircraft, regularly probe the waters and skies near Taiwan, often crossing into the island's sovereign airspace and waters.

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Earthquake shakes Myanmar military regime

Oped, Published on 03/04/2025

» Two powerful earthquakes jolted and devastated Myanmar, causing widespread death and destruction for a country already reeling from the effects of ongoing civil conflict. The M7.7 quakes created stunning devastation in central Myanmar as well as in neighbouring Thailand, killing more than 2,000 people and damaging the storied city of Mandalay.

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The Houthi threat to global shipping

Oped, Published on 28/03/2025

» Amidst the unpredictable arc of crisis shadowing the Middle East, the systemic and sustained merchant shipping attacks in the Red Sea persist. The culprits are a shadowy but lethal Iranian proxy force, the Houthis, who use their control of mountainous parts of the Yemeni coast to launch missile, drone and speedboat attacks on vital shipping lanes connecting the Mediterranean with the Gulf of Aden.

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Taliban rule dims Afghan women's rights

News, Published on 17/03/2025

» The darkening rule of the Taliban regime over Afghanistan continues to dim prospect women's rights as well as any chances for the war-torn country to overcome an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. Currently more than 50 percent of the population, some 23 million people in this South Asian land, require humanitarian assistance and that aid is now decreasing.

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Milking Moo Deng

Oped, Postbag, Published on 08/03/2025

» Re: "Minister rejects criticism over hippo's welfare", (BP, Feb 26).

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What happens after Trump, Zelensky spat

Oped, Published on 06/03/2025

» In a made-for-TV political smackdown in the White House between two uneasy allies, a flood of recriminations followed the incendiary face-off between President Donald Trump's team and the visiting Ukrainian delegation. The fear that the pending Ukrainian peace plan had already gone off the rails haunted world capitals.