Jana Marle-Zizkova/New Straits Times It’s time for startups in Asia to get realistic. Our relationships with marketing clouds — despite their commitment to change, despite promising for years they would deliver what we want and need, despite their claims of progression and forward-thinking — aren’t working out. We think it’s time for us to bite…
Eric J Topol/ The Business Times SOONER or later it was bound to happen. A rogue scientist in China claims to have edited a gene in two human embryos and implanted them in the mother’s womb, resulting in the birth of genetically altered twin girls. We’re no longer in the realm of science fiction. This…
John Wight/Russia Today As long as Ukraine faces Russian hostilities, it will find a steadfast partner in the United Kingdom. By continuing to work together, whether through training programmes or military exercises, we help Ukraine to stand up for our shared values. A Western ideologue unravelling is no pretty sight. It’s like watching a lobster…
C Raja Mohan & Chan Jia Hao/ The Business Times LAST week, the US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the Department of Commerce invited the industries and the public to offer comments on the proposal to establish sweeping export controls over a range of “emerging and foundational technologies”. Washington’s move reflects growing American…
Azeem Azmi/ The Business Times ANNUALLY, over 250 million companies around the world transact goods and services worth US$120 trillion – making the opportunities in international trade tremendous for the businesses involved. The potential for a single business to transact with hundreds to thousands of buyers or suppliers around the world should be the dream…
Yanis Varoufakis/Project Syndicate The real battle in Europe is not between north and south, but between progressives and authoritarians – whether establishment austerians or insurgent racists – in every EU country. Only transnational democracy can counter the sectarian, nationalist narratives that conceal this underlying struggle. Despite its obvious significance, Brexit is a mere sideshow when…
David Nield/Science Alert Could nature’s smallest organisms help us to combat rising CO2 levels and even oil spills? Strange as it might seem, the answer might be yes, with research into newly discovered deep-sea microbes suggesting these tiny critters possess a keen appetite for pollutants. The microbes – collected in the Gulf of California, around…
Kenneth Rogoff/Project Syndicate At one time, it seemed that computers would sound the death knell for chess, not to mention all human mind games. Yet for followers of the game, the just-concluded world championship in London, won by the 27-year-old Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, was as exciting as any great soccer match. With so much angst…
M Humayun Kabir of DOT : Election Commissioner Rafiqul Islam said running any polls campaign at the state residences–Bangabhaban and Ganabhaban will be counted as a violation to the electoral codes and action will be taken if anyone is found to do so. Citing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recently-held meet with ex-army officers at the…
Barrister Dr. Tureen Afroz speaks to DOT : Awami League general secretary has opined that there is no point in separating BNP from Jamaat as they are two flowers in the same stalk. About the BNP-Jamaat alliance, he said the duo has been doing politics and communalism together and BNP is out of order without…