Pakistan expands prison terms for online defamation to 5 years
New York, February 22, 2022 – Pakistan authorities must immediately revoke a recently enacted ordinance that further criminalizes freedom of...
January 10, 2022
Security not economics is likely to drive US trade engagement in Asia
It was a year of transition for US trade policy in 2021. The Trump administration’s trade representative Robert Lighthizer was...
October 13, 2021
Afghanistan tackles the Islamic State
Photo-Wikipedia By Vijay Prasad* On October 8, a terrible blast struck the worshippers attending Friday noon prayers at the Gozar-e-Sayed...
June 25, 2021
State of the Nation 2021 : Asian Ambassadors stress importance of cooperation in the Indo-Pacific
Photo grab- CEDA live There was a panel discussion on ‘Australia and Asia – what does a mutually beneficial relationship...
May 29, 2021
NEWS ANALYSIS: A caring world needs a sharing world to end the COVID-19 pandemic
Photo-ANI, A virus that mutates forever is a perpetual money-making machine for Big Pharma. Everybody else wants the world’s population...
May 29, 2021
Pakistan: Taliban donations, recruitment on the rise
By S. Khan ISLAMABAD, 28 May 2021: Concerns have been growing in Pakistan over intensified clashes in Afghanistan, with some...
April 2, 2021
Bangladesh at 50: From ‘basket case’ to rising economic star
By Zobaer Ahmed At the time of independence in 1971, Bangladesh’s economy was in tatters, a result of the bloody...
March 26, 2021
A hard time for democracy in Asia
By Larry Diamond, Stanford University Under the presidency of Donald Trump, concerns about democracy and human rights were demoted in...
March 15, 2021
BOOK REVIEW: Addressing modern slavery, Justine Nolan and Martijn Boersma
Photos- amazon.com.au Dr. Harpreet Kaur Addressing Modern Slavery provides important insights into the complexities that perpetuate slavery in a contemporary...
July 27, 2020
VIEWPOINT: Even if Joe Biden wins in a blowout, the ‘Global Economy’ Is not coming back
By Marshall Auerback* COVID-19 has not only presented the global economy with its greatest public health challenge in over a...
