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'Scapegoat' who helped find Bin Laden still in jail
Asia focus, Published on 10/05/2021
» ISLAMABAD: Dismissed as a traitor in Pakistan but lauded as a hero by the United States, Shakeel Afridi is paying a heavy price for his role in bringing an end to Osama Bin Laden.
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Jeff Immelt on the Humbling of GE
Business, Published on 22/02/2021
» In the summer of 2001, weeks before Jeff Immelt became CEO of General Electric, he was playing golf with friends at a country club near Chicago when a club member asked him what he did.
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Globalization Is Down but Not Out Yet
Business, Published on 30/04/2020
» Globalization was on the ropes when the pandemic delivered a gut punch. Barriers to trade and immigration, already on the rise, have been joined by travel bans, border closures and restrictions on medical exports. Trade volumes are in free fall.
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Fear of Coronavirus, Rather Than Virus Itself, Hits Economies
Business, Published on 26/02/2020
» The body's immune response to infection is often more painful than the infection itself. The same is true of epidemics and the economy.
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On guard against terror
Asia focus, Published on 03/02/2020
» When President Donald Trump ordered American troops to withdraw last October from northeastern Syria, critics said the decision would play into the hands of terrorists, with ramifications beyond the Middle East.
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Kashmir calculation
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 11/03/2019
» Air strikes by India on alleged terror bases in Pakistan last month may not have hit their targets as claimed, but they have added to the pressure that was already mounting on Islamabad to deal decisively on militants operating from its soil.
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Unfortunate fallout from Qatar
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 12/06/2017
» It annoys me deeply when political leaders embark on big power plays without taking into account the well-being of their own people. A case in point is the fallout from the escalating showdown between Qatar and states led by Saudi Arabia, the biggest political crisis in the Middle East in years.
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After Jakarta, time for more vigilance
Asia focus, Published on 18/01/2016
» Once again the Islamic State is in the headlines and this time the event making news is uncomfortably close to home for all of us in Southeast Asia.
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Indonesia tracks terrorist funding to Australia
Asia focus, Published on 11/01/2016
» Indonesian financial intelligence specialists are lobbying their Southeast Asian counterparts to adopt a stronger regional approach to tracking the flow of terrorism funding, based on an existing cooperation model between Indonesia and Australia.
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Globalisation under threat, warns Citi economist
Business, Chiratas Nivatpumin, Published on 29/09/2014
» Policymakers across the world will face growing challenges from the threat of secular economic stagnation in the advanced economies, especially in the euro area, demographic changes and a retreat from globalisation, according to Willem Buiter, the chief economist for Citigroup.
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