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Tackling dengue threat together
News, Prasert Auewarakul & Vanessa Daniel, Published on 14/06/2025
» In the face of a changing climate, now is the time for Asean member states to develop a cure for dengue.
Lesser spotted leopards in peril
News, Vanessa Amoroso, Published on 05/05/2025
» In light of Saturday's International Leopard Day, we need to raise an urgent question: How long can we "celebrate" an event that now marks a countdown to the day these majestic creatures go extinct and become a thing of the past?
The long-lost art of collaboration
Oped, Vanessa Badré, Published on 01/01/2025
» At a time of rising international tensions and deep polarisation in many countries, trust-building and cooperation seem like forgotten arts. To reconnect with them and devise creative solutions to shared challenges, it is worth seeking insights from artists themselves.
Business lessons to be had from the fall of Icarus
Oped, Vanessa Badré, Published on 02/04/2024
» Balancing corporate social responsibility (CSR), which implies a long-term vision of how businesses can contribute to the broader social good, with a company's daily operations is a formidable task.
It's the energy system, stupid
Oped, Vanessa Nakate and Rachel Kyte, Published on 17/11/2022
» Ordinary people around the world are suffering from two massive, overlapping problems: surging living costs and the fallout from a rapidly warming climate. In the Horn of Africa, 22 million people are at risk of starvation, owing to the failure of four consecutive rainy seasons and soaring global grain prices.
Let's save gender equality gains
Oped, Khadyja Sy and Lindsay Glassco, Published on 18/08/2022
» Sudanese protester Alaa Salah became a symbol of her country's revolution after standing atop a car, dressed in white, and singing to her fellow demonstrators. Ugandan climate-justice activist Vanessa Nakate went from protesting alone at the gates of her country's parliament to demanding action from world leaders at the United Nations. Senegalese activist Oumou Kalsoum Diophas harnessed digital tools to start taboo-breaking conversations about intimate health, sexuality, contraception, and period poverty.
Honouring Assange, who is (almost) free at last
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/01/2021
» On Monday morning, a British judge finally rejected the US attempt to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and jail him forever (or at least for 175 years in a high-security 'supermax' prison) on the grounds that he is, as Joe Biden once called him, a "high-tech terrorist".
Hassles over hijabs
News, Postbag, Published on 24/05/2018
» Re: "Time is up for hijab ban", (Editorial, May 21).
Moral 'cyber warriors'
News, Postbag, Published on 18/05/2018
» Before being let loose to monitor their fellow citizens, applicants for the position of "cyber warrior" should be required to pass an exam to establish their solid understanding of the salient moral and practical considerations that apply (Editorial, May 17).
Clinging to power
News, Postbag, Published on 16/05/2018
» Four years after the junta seized power and promised to transform the nation through comprehensive reforms, that process has made either no or slow progress