Bangladesh people hit hard with commodity price hike in Ramadan
Dhaka–With the advent of Ramadan, the religious month of fasting for the Muslim community, the common people of Bangladesh, a Muslim majority country have been hit hard by the price spiral of the essential commodities. Apart from daily essentials, demand of certain commodities like, edible oil, onion, meat, fish, pulses, sugar, fruits and some vegetables […]
[London Olympics] ③ In the love of Shakespeare
*Editor’s note: This is the third of six-part stories on the London Olympics When we were studying English literature at university there were two different editions of each Shakespearean work: a deluxe, medium-format British one printed on glossy paper, with additional explanations, on the first pages of which appeared the pictures of the work’s screen […]
Myanmar Media Law Reform A Key Test of Non-Partisan Press-1
*Editor’s note: This is the first of two part stories on Myanmar Media Law. Calling your bluff seems to mark the dealings between the censor and journalists as Myanmar set about to reform its Press system as part of efforts to burnish its democratic credentials. The quasi-democratic government plans to replace its outdated 1962 Registration […]
[London Olympics] ② The world revives London’s architecture
*Editor’s note: This is the second of six-part stories on the London Olympics That’s how Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, wished the new tower to be a success as he unveiled it in the Olympic Village garden. Zaha’s icon and this tower have something in common: The engineer who built it is also of a […]
A (Multi) Polar Bear? Russia’s Bid for Influence in Asia
*Author, Stephen Blank is a professor at the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College. The views expressed here are his own. Russia’s call for a multipolar world, where power doesn’t reside with a single hegemon such as the US, is a veiled bid to exert Russian influence in Asia and the world at a […]
Is Pyongyang changing?
South should help North shift to reform, openness Peeking inside a reclusive, authoritarian state is never easy. If the regime is an Orwellian communist dynasty, the job is harder still. Such is the analysis of what’s going on in Pyongyang now. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un took the title of marshal Wednesday, just two days […]
Under ‘guidance’ in N. Korea
PYONGYANG – You don’t come here looking for news about North Korea. On the day after “Respected Leader” (that’s what we’re supposed to call him) Kim Jong-un and his mystery lady attended a show featuring Walt Disney characters on stage, our minders were fonts of ignorance. They professed to know nothing about an event we’d […]
[London Olympics] ① Revival of art
*Editor’s note: This is the first of six-part stories on the London Olympics Sport lovers probably expect me to tell them about the records that will be broken during the Olympic month in the British capital that starts on Friday (July 27), predicting, e.g., the winning of Ethiopian runner Kenenisa Bekele against his Somali competitor […]
Withdraw renomination
Rights panel head is big disgrace to nation President Lee Myung-bak appears set not to retract his renomination of Hyun Byung-chul, the controversial head of the National Human Rights Commission. Lee’s decision will disappoint most if not all Koreans but astonish few. Had the President any intention to listen to the loud outcry from his […]
Vatican’s conflict with China
Once again, the Roman Catholic Church is in conflict with the Communist Party of China, with the newly ordained auxiliary bishop of Shanghai having publicly repudiated the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, which was established by the Chinese government to exercise supervision over the nation’s Catholics. Ironically, the consecration of the new bishop, Thaddeus Ma Daqin, […]
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