Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia, is President of the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York and Chair of the Independent Commission on Multilateralism/Project Syndicate China’s leaders will attempt to re-stabilize bilateral ties and ease tensions in its non-US relationships. At the same time, they are likely to use the next year to…
John Lloyd, Co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford/Reuters Now is the time for all good citizens to put their elected politicians on the rack. Torture is what tyrants visited – and, often, still visit – upon real or presumed enemies among their own people. But subjecting their…
Hindustan Times Eight decades after it first released, its legacy is more than just as a film that brought to life a much-beloved book. Helmed by three directors, scripted and revised by many writers, and having taken two years to cast the two leads, the almost four hour long film is what would now be…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad called on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to put pressure on Myanmar and Aung San Suu Kyi over the Rohingya crisis. He said tough measures should be taken to put the pressure on Myanmar and Suu Kyi to end atrocities against the Rohingyas, according…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT : West Indies defeated the hosts in a convincing manner to make a good start of the T20I series. The Caribbeans registered a comprehensive 8-wicket win in Sylhet, after the Tigers folded for just 129 with one over still to go. Bangladesh won the toss and opted to bat first, but…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Noted human rights activist Sultana Kamal has pledged that rights defenders will continue to be vocal unless rights of the oppressed people are ensured. “Our voice will not be stopped before that. I can stress this out,” she said while addressing a roundtable discussion in the capital yesterday afternoon organized by…
BDnews24 The Awami League says the Jatiya Oikya Front has to be joking with the nation by including the continuation of war crime trials and drives against corruption in their manifesto while they share a platform with anti-liberation forces and those charged with graft. Awami League Joint General Secretary Abdur Rahman made the remarks at…
Sana Hussein/Middle East Monitor A Syrian family gathered in a mosque in the Illinois suburb of Willowbrook two weeks ago today. Supported by their friends and community members they mourned the loss of their daughter, Layla Shweikani, two years after her death. Days before, the Syrian government had confirmed that Layla, a Syrian-American citizen, had…
John P. Carlin,Chair of the Aspen Institute’s Cyber & Technology Program/The Atlantic Convincing Putin that further attacks will trigger automatic, severe responses is the best path to deterrence. A series of explosive Department of Justice filings—outside the special counsel’s probe—makes clear that Russia is a rogue state in cyberspace. Now the United States needs a…
Al Arabiya North Korea has condemned the United States over its latest sanctions measures, warning the policy could “block the path to denuclearization on the Korean peninsula forever”. The warning from the North on Sunday came days after the US said it was imposing sanctions on three senior North Korean officials over human rights abuses….