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Land Bridge folly
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/09/2025
» Re: "Govt's ambitious land bridge project 'puts residents at risk'", (BP, Aug 29) & "Critics push to review port reports", (BP, Aug 6).
How to rebuild a community following the fire
Oped, Nicole Lambrou, Published on 09/07/2025
» When a wildfire burns through a community, the initial concern is identifying what is lost: businesses, homes, landscape. Reports tally the damage in raw numbers -- hectares burned, buildings destroyed, dollars lost. Similarly, wildfire recovery success is overwhelmingly measured by how closely the post-disaster housing count compares to pre-disaster numbers. But rebuilding, for people displaced by fires, is not measured in claims settled or roofs repaired.
Why faith is indispensable to global development
Oped, Alaa Murabit, Published on 04/06/2025
» For nearly two decades, I have worked at the intersection of development, health, and security. In roundtables with heads of state, emergency briefings, and donor forums, I have noticed a glaring pattern: faith-based actors are often excluded from global strategies. When present at all, they are sidelined, treated as symbolic figures rather than as genuine partners. This isn't just a blind spot. It's a strategic failure.
Can we relocate our climate-threatened cities?
Oped, Michael E Smith, Published on 14/11/2024
» When my crew and I started excavating Calixtlahuaca -- an Aztec city-state capital near the modern-day city of Toluca in central Mexico -- I knew our findings might help answer questions of the past.
It's beyond reason
Oped, Postbag, Published on 19/08/2023
» Re: "Civic groups press for relocation of bizarre statue", (BP, Aug 17).
Beat climate change with divestment
Oped, Zeb Larson, Published on 19/02/2022
» Environmental activist and writer Bill McKibben estimates that climate divestment -- the movement to pressure universities, churches, and other institutions to stop investing in, and thus profiting from, carbon-emitting companies -- has removed close to $15 trillion (482 trillion baht) from investments in polluting companies, marking a significant victory for Planet Earth.
Capitol attack echoes Rome's sacking
Oped, MICHELE RENEE SALZMAN, Published on 20/01/2022
» How should we respond when our capital is attacked? One enduring answer to that question lies in the ways that Romans responded after the sacking of Rome by the Visigoths and their king, Alaric, in the year 410 CE.
Handling crises amid climate flux
Oped, Jörg Haas & Lili Fuhr, Published on 17/12/2021
» A recent report by Goldman Sachs reached a surprising conclusion: Over the past eight years, financial markets have been increasing the cost of capital for big, long-term, high-carbon investments in sectors such as offshore oil and liquefied natural gas.
Forgotten people with no homes or hope
Oped, Tual Sawn Khai, Published on 11/11/2021
» Malaysia is a second home to Myanmar migrant workers, refugees and asylum seekers. In 2020, there were more than 550,000 Myanmar regular migrant workers and an estimated 250,000 are undocumented. Moreover, more than 154,880 Myanmar refugees and asylum seekers registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), including 22,470 Chin ethnic people who had escaped persecution and violence in their home state at the end of September 2021.