Opinion

Xi does well in Central Asia, Taiwan in US senate

Mel Gurtov: Limits of ‘no limits’ IN THE course of his Central Asia tour, Xi Jinping met with Vladimir Putin for what some analysts thought would be a reprise of

Decolonising the mind

by Margaret Kimberly: It requires a rejection of what passes for news and conventional wisdom, writes Margaret Kimberly IT IS vital to free ourselves from belief in the systems of white

Iranians unite in rage, mourning

The violent death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini has achieved something the entire opposition has failed to do during the 43-year rule of the ayatollahs in Iran: almost the entire Iranian

Afghan refugee confronts his past

Jane Esher: FLIGHT does not end when you arrive in another country. ‘Flee’ presents this conclusion already in its title, with the verb in the present rather than the past

Tatmadaw, ARSA, Arakan army, Yaba economy

Afsan Chowdhury: BANGLADESH is in a spot as far as Myanmar is concerned. Not that Myanmar is doing much better having to fight just about every ethnic group in the

Climate crisis, GDP and working people — III

Farooque Chowdhury: IDENTIFYING the GDP’s limitations help find the losses the working people have to make, untold yet, due to climate crisis, although it’s the working people that bear the

Climate crisis, GDP and working people – II

Farooque Chowdhury: AS IS known, the gross domestic product, dating back to the 1930s, and innovated by Simon Kuznets, appraises the value of goods and services produced in an economy

Climate crisis, GDP and working people – I

CLIMATE crisis takes its costs from gross domestic product. A recent study (BA Bastien-Olvera, F Granella, FC Moore, 2022, ‘Persistent effect of temperature on GDP identified from lower frequency temperature