Opinion

Reimagining literacy

EVERY year, International Literacy Day invites us to ask a deceptively simple question: what does it mean to be literate? The traditional answer is: being able to read and write.

Lessons from Japan, South Korea and India

IRAN’S closure of the Strait of Hormuz on March 1, followed by QatarEnergy’s force majeure declaration and matching supply suspensions from Oman’s OQ Trading and Excelerate Energy, cut off roughly

Sammilito Islami Bank makes restoring customer trust its top priority

After a prolonged period of hardship and uncertainty, Sammilito Islami Bank PLC is moving forward with restoring customer confidence and providing relief as its highest priorities. The bank is gradually

Why Bombs and Sanctions Cannot Break Iran

Military might can devastate a country, but it cannot easily break a nation determined to survive. Six months into the military campaign against Iran, a sobering truth is emerging from

Law and order: Government failure or a planned conspiracy?

Public concern and anxiety over the country’s law and order situation have suddenly intensified. Rather than the overall situation alone, several murders and other criminal incidents have left people across

When mountains melt, deltas pay

THE most frightening lesson from Nepal’s recent flash flood is not simply that mountains can collapse. It is that a disaster beginning thousands of metres above sea level can rapidly

When mountains melt, deltas pay

THE most frightening lesson from Nepal’s recent flash flood is not simply that mountains can collapse. It is that a disaster beginning thousands of metres above sea level can rapidly

International response to Myanmar’s crimes

WHEN more than 700,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh in the last quarter of 2017, the world witnessed a humanitarian crisis of an unprecedented scale in Southeast Asia. The UN human