Xi’s Intensive Meetings With World Leaders at G20 Summit in Bali
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with a number of foreign leaders - including some from US allies and major developing...
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How Killing Sparrows Led to Great Famines in China (VIDEO)
In 1958, Mao Zedong ordered all the sparrows to be killed because they ate too much grain… Read more here....
COMMENT: Pak Reactivates Saudi, Kuwaiti Offer For Refinery in Gwadar, Balochistan
To meet fossil fuel demands till 2040, Pakistan has reactivated stalled Saudi & Kuwaiti oil refinery offers in Balochistan. The...
Racism Row: How Asia and Africa Shaped Civilization
When Josep Borrell spoke of ‘privilege’, did that mean ‘white’ privilege? By Tariq A. Al Maeena at Gulf News: As...
Iran’s Protests Are the First Counter-Revolution Led by Women
Robin Wright in The New Yorker: The girls and women of Iran are just bitchin’ brave, flipping the bird at its...
Why Policing is and Will Continue to Remain Political in Pakistan
Because policing has been treated as a project of political ordering and disordering, it allows for the retention and abuse...
Sri Lanka: Three Top State Institutions Merged
COLOMBO TIMES Reports: An extraordinary gazette notification has been issued bringing the Department for Registration of Persons, the Department of...
Was Bajwa’s Advice Reason for Imran Khan Moving Out of PM House?
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa had already warned former prime minister Imran Khan that the PM...
Africa’s Century of Growth?
On Morten Jerven’s The Wealth and Poverty of African States (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Review by Alden Young in the...
Why Iranian Women are Risking Everything By Burning Their Hijabs
Jonathan Guyer in Vox: It was not an isolated incident of police violence in Iran. But the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in...
