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Grace in mourning
Oped, Postbag, Published on 30/10/2025
» Re: "Tributes continue to pour in for late Queen", (BP, Oct 28).
A paradigm shift for animal tests
Oped, Peter Singer & Sankalpa Ghose, Published on 17/10/2025
» Even in an era of intense political polarisation, there are still moments when a bipartisan consensus can emerge around important ethical issues. One such moment is happening now. Last April, the United States Food and Drug Administration released its "Roadmap to Reducing Animal Testing in Preclinical Safety Studies". The FDA said that it was taking "a groundbreaking step" that would advance public health and limit wasteful expenditure by replacing animal testing with "more effective, human-relevant methods".
Future utopias stumble over governance
Oped, Joe Mathews, Published on 20/08/2025
» In 2020, the rapper Akon declared he would build his own eponymous city on the site of the coastal village of Mbodiène, Senegal.
Conflict undermines cooperation
Oped, David Jay Green, Published on 05/08/2025
» The long-standing border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand has again escalated to actual conflict. Dozens of people have been killed, more have been injured, and more than 170,000 people have had to flee their homes. Cross-border trade and tourism are on hold. As I write this piece, a fragile ceasefire is still in place, but we need more than this; we need an end to hostilities between the two countries.
New IMF debt deal needs a rejig
Oped, C P Chandrasekhar & Martín Guzmán & Jayati Ghosh & Charles Abugre, Published on 03/10/2024
» Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka's president, recently lost his re-election bid after voters overwhelmingly rejected the debt-restructuring deals he negotiated with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other creditors. Instead, Sri Lankans elected Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the left-wing National People's Power (NPP) alliance and a vocal critic of IMF-imposed austerity measures, who has vowed to renegotiate the country's agreement with the fund.
Journalists shouldn't be neutral on climate change
Oped, Perry Parks, Published on 30/08/2024
» Last year was the hottest summer on record in the Northern Hemisphere. Earth's ocean surfaces were warmer in the first month of 2024 than any previously recorded January. And by the end of this year, global climate-related deaths since 2000 could exceed 4 million people, according to one estimate.
Just for defence
Oped, Postbag, Published on 10/06/2023
» Re: "Defence body eyes reform", (BP, June 2).
Can journalists play the role of neutral activist?
Oped, Jan-Werner Mueller, Published on 12/04/2023
» Should journalists say and write what they think? Recent controversies have given new urgency to old questions about journalists' professional ethics and political role in democracy.
The silence of the Senate
Oped, Editorial, Published on 22/02/2023
» As all parliamentary meetings will officially end on Feb 28, members of the Upper and Lower Houses are rushing to deliberate draft laws and wrap up their proposals and probes into corruption.
Senate probe must be open
Oped, Editorial, Published on 31/12/2022
» Last week, the Senate's ethics committee completed the long-awaited probe which could either help or hurt the Upper House's image.