The Japan Times: During a summer camp in Daisen, Tottori Prefecture, children screamed with excitement as they ran toward incoming waves at a beach. They were no different from other kids enjoying themselves except that they had diabetes. Type 1 diabetes, previously known as juvenile diabetes because it often develops during childhood and adolescence, requires…
Farhan Bokhari, Pakistan-based commentator who writes on political and economic matters/ Gulf News It is all too obvious now that Prime Minister Imran’s opponents, having failed to find a more substantive fault in his background, are desperate to pick on a side issue For a country on the verge of seeking an international financial bailout,…
Wang Wenwen /Global Times The rape and murder of a female passenger by a Didi driver in Wenzhou, East China’s Zhejiang Province, has been dominating headlines this week. The girl had used the carpool service of Didi Chuxing, China’s ride-hailing giant. The tragedy ignited a public outcry against Didi’s Hitch system, as this was the…
Pavan Malreddy, Ashok Kumbamu/Aljazeera Since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took the reigns of power in New Delhi in 2014, assaults on public intellectuals, humanists, rationalists and secular forces have reached a feverish pitch. By the time the BJP completed its fourth year in office, prominent public figures such as scholar Govind Pansare, academic MM…
Farid Hafez/Daily Sabah, Turkey When the Christian-democratic conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) together with the right-wing populist Freedom Party (FPÖ) formed a coalition government last December 2017, a new regulation was announced. The government argued that it would ban the hijab for Muslim pupils from kindergarten to elementary school (until the age of 10). Such…
Ajay Mankotia /Daily O, India The songs that you hear in your early years, when memories are just beginning to form, stay with you forever. From the age of four till seven (till 1964), I was in Calcutta, and heard amazing songs on radio and the 45-rpm records that my parents played on the record-changer….
Ben Shapiro, Newsweek Columnist/Newsweek In 2003, The Boston Globe won a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting on a massive sex abuse cover-up inside the Roman Catholic Church, led by the archdiocese of Boston. The Pulitzer board praised the newspaper’s “courageous, comprehensive coverage of sexual abuse by priests, an effort that pierced secrecy, stirred local, national…
Gordon Duff//NEO, Japan The United States and Turkey, as of the second week of August 2018, are ready to break off diplomatic relations as a result of broad US sanctions on Turkey. However, not only is Turkey a full NATO member, an organization whose charter legally prohibits President Trump’s actions under its “mutual assistance” tenets,…
BRAC Bangladesh has enjoyed considerable economic growth over the past few decades, however its employment driven opportunities have been sluggish. Such proliferation of ‘jobless growth’ is a result of inadequate opportunities for the large wave of young people who are prepared to enter the workforce but cannot seem to do so. Playing its part to…
Desk Report: Popular singer Fahmida Nabi’s latest mixed album titled ‘Kansuta 002’ was launched on Friday at a programme held at Chhayanaut auditorium in Dhanmondi, reports Financial Express. The album contains fifteen songs, among which five songs Dhusor kono, Aboron jorajon, Dukkhobodher chhade, Motamuti meghla bole and Tumi jekhaney have been recorded by Fahmida Nabi.