Andrés Velasco, Former presidential candidate and finance minister of Chile/The Project Syndicate Open societies educate or attract people with varied and valuable kinds of knowhow, and they prosper that way. It is high time that more leaders began highlighting that fact and taking electoral advantage of it. Utter the words “identity politics” nowadays and you…
Tanzim Taqrim A bus wants to change the lives of homeless people. The PanaBus in Caracas, Venezuela offers people a free shower, a shave, a hair cut, food, medical treatment and clean cloths. The bus is has a recruit of volunteers and former convict Sergio. He scans the streets of Caracas and looks for homeless…
Abrar Hussain: US First Lady Melania Trump will reportedly skip this week’s G7 summit in Canada and does not also plan to attend the planned June 12 summit in Singapore with North Korea, according to a statement by the White House on Sunday. The wife of US President Donald Trump attended the G7 meeting in Italy…
Marilyn Thipthorpe An estimated 400,000 flowering plant species exist in the world, and, understandably, it can be difficult to keep track. The vast majority of us can only recognize and name a handful of plants, even if we would like it to be otherwise. If you would like to sharpen your knowledge in the wonderful…
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan/ Al jazeera BBC’s ‘Lost Boys?’ is a lazy reproduction of racist, culturally essentialist stereotypes approved by an ‘insider’. Two nights ago I found myself gripped by BBC Two’s new, “Lost Boys? What’s Going Wrong for Asian Men?” presented by Mehreen Baig. I was initially dubious that a one-hour documentary would be able to…
Tech Explorist: Specia-lists and medical caretakers frequently endorse antibiotics for youngsters with a cough and respiratory disease to avoid return visits, symptoms getting worse or hospitalization. A new study by the scientists at the University of Bristol along with Universities of Southampton, Oxford and Kings College London suggest that antibiotics reduce the risk of children…
Ejinsight: Back in 1985, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee passed a resolution declaring Sept. 10 of every year as Teachers’ Day across China. Coincidentally, it was on Teachers’ Day this year that Alibaba Group chairman Jack Ma Yun announced that he is going to retire next year in order to return to his previous…
Desk Report: About 20 street children who work as porters or ragpickers and live in different shelter houses in the capital were chattering at the Narayanganj Terminal of Kamalapur Railway Station. The place is known to locals and the children as open school for street children. The school has been in operation since June 2016…
AFP: Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan was sworn in at a ceremony in Islamabad on Saturday, ushering in a new political era as the World Cup cricket hero officially took the reins of power in the nuclear-armed country. The ceremony at the President’s House in the capital marks the end of decades of rotating…
Sayeed Muhammad: The UN member states are going to start long-awaited talks today, on a 2020 treaty that would regulate the high seas, which cover half the planet yet lack adequate environmental protection. Four sessions of the dialogues, each lasting two weeks, are planned to take place spanning over two years, with the goal of…