Category: Opinion
North Korea is ruthless and desperate, but not crazy
Editor’s note: Following commentary is written by Denny Roy who is Senior Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, specializing in Northeast Asia security issues. North Korea seems to […]
The Iron Lady of Kuwait: Axe on expats
Last Thursday I called Kitty, the house maid whom I get her help in cleaning my residence in Kuwait, asking her to come on Friday. To my surprise, she told […]
Nepali women challenge traditional menstrual practice forced to them
Kathmandu – Women in Dailekh district, in western Nepal, are slowly giving up the Chhaupadi tradition, a system in which the women are forced to stay in the cow sheds […]
Can India’s government empower its people?
Commercial forestry: A legacy of British rule The Indian politician and the bureaucrat have struggled for the past 65 years to shed the legacy and the mechanisms of British rule […]
IPAF Surprise: Younger and less popular novelists stand out
The shortlist for the International Prize for Arabic fiction (IPAF) has been announced in Tunisia. It came as a surprise as many famous novelists who were included in the long […]
Nepal’s former minister is now rearing pigs
Kathmandu – Former Minister Shiva Raj Joshi who spent almost 15 years at the Singh Durbar, the central secretariat of the Nepal government, as a parliamentarian and a minister, is now […]
Knowledge collaboration: Indonesian students in Korea to hold conference
Indonesian Students Association in Korea (PERPIKA) this year presents Conference of Indonesian Students in Korea (Cisak) the 6th. Cisak 2013 will be held in Daejon, South Korea on July 7. […]
The memory of ‘boat people’ lingers
Editor’s note: On April 30th, 1975, Saigon fell to North Vietnamese Communist forces which marked the end of the Vietnam War. Before the 38th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, […]
Barrakgate: The country of chaos?
No one to believe the news coming from the peaceful country of Kuwait; as the first democracy in the Gulf is facing problems, and they are too big to be […]
Realm of status quo heading towards change in Pakistan
Contemplating facts behind low socio-political and economic growth reveals shadows of bad governance anywhere in the world. The same can be considered valid for prevailing conditions in Pakistan as governance […]