Seeking happiness the Bhutanese way
28 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Is the future truly Asian?
1 October 2019, 18:00 PM
New chapter emerging as East meets West again
28 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Fragile wings, cloudy skies
13 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Tea and wine, and the twain shall meet
11 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Forging community ties, one friendly gesture at a time
9 July 2019, 18:00 PM
King Bhumibol sowed the seeds of a new economic doctrine
27 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Moderation, a wilting hallmark of Malaysia
23 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Thinking about October 1989 in East Germany and North Korea
16 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Asian Editors Circle / The world needs empowered women more than ever
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Myanmar's policy shifts towards major powers
Myanmar has made substantial shifts towards its relations with major powers comprising China, Russia and the United States. They are key regional players in Southeast Asia which will impact directly on peace and stability as well as economic development in Myanmar.
22 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Asia's search for cultural-intellectual rejuvenation
If Asian economies, especially cities, do not begin the search for modernity and moderate values and beliefs in earnest, they will be overwhelmed by the forces of extremism, domestic or imported.
7 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Time to sever ties with Pyongyang
Serves North Korea right. Its Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un wanted his half-brother dead and his lackeys decided to do the dastardly deed in Malaysia.
22 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Just an ordinary journalist
We are inheritors of a glorious legacy and bound by the rigours of a demanding craft. We are not hoodlums who threaten to rape or maim those we don't like or shout out those we disagree with. The best of us err, sometimes grievously, but have learnt that making amends can be uplifting.
10 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Countries should prepare to tackle the new Trump administration
It's official. A new world order, aka, the Trump Order, has been set in motion.
5 February 2017, 18:00 PM
New thinking needed to retain talent
Brain drain seems to be an obstacle in Malaysia's development. Moves by Malaysians leaving home to seek greener pasture have never been stopped.
26 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Six-point Asean secrets Trump should know
New United States President Donald Trump must be “fantastically” happy with a “wonderful” Asean because it is the only “great” regional organisation that has no military might and has not been at war. The problem is, he might not know about the grouping at all.
23 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Cash-starved India assesses its pain
Two months after India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the controversial decision to withdraw currency notes of Rupees 500 (USD 7.4) and 1,000 from circulation his country is still reeling from the effects.
6 January 2017, 18:00 PM
The problems behind Taiwan's 'Nazi parade' scandal
A school event in Taiwan came to the forefront of international media last week. A group of students from a private high school wore self-fashioned Nazi uniforms and wielded swastika banners at their school's “Christmas and Thanksgiving Costume Parade” on December 23.
30 December 2016, 18:00 PM
The Pakistani who missed the Nobel
Looking through the list of Asia's greats who passed away in the year past, it is impossible to escape a sense of awe at their accomplishments even as you are struck by the realisation that ultimately, everyone is mortal.
24 December 2016, 18:00 PM
2017: Time for Asia to take risks
A century ago, the 1917 Russian Revolution marked the end of the First World War, that changed the 20th century into a new divide between different ideologies.
18 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Pakistan's road to China
With investment slumping and exports declining, Pakistan is increasingly banking on the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to drive future growth.
26 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Will Xi Jinping's visit to Bangladesh be a regional game changer?
How much of a game changing impact will Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent visit to Bangladesh, 30 years after the last such visit, have on politics of this region and beyond?
13 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Myanmar: One year after the Nov 8 election
On November 8, the United States will host an intriguing election. As the date draws closer, the results of the election appear harder to forecast.
5 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Duterte's American fixation
Duterte's war on drugs is an American invention. It is an American travesty of justice, which Duterte seems intent on imposing on his own country. Not least, it is an American failure, with which Duterte is unaccountably fixated.
30 October 2016, 18:00 PM
Selling a brand named nationalism
It’s time to worry when an utterly illogical proposition begins to sound half-way logical because it has been repeated over and over again, and because glaring gaps in reason have been plugged with dollops of nationalism.
22 October 2016, 18:00 PM
Toxic Trump and his trumped up foes
One newspaper called him a “most unlikely pretender to high office”, a “dunderhead” with a “big mouth”, known for his “scattershot, impulsive style”.
17 October 2016, 18:00 PM
Asia: Heading towards a seismic shift
In a decade's time, visitors to Asean, South and North Asia may find their personal experiences in their respective destinations differ quite drastically.
24 September 2016, 18:00 PM
A threat more urgent than global warming
The United States and China won much world acclaim when they formally ratified the Paris agreement to curb climate-warming emissions on Saturday.
9 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Asia's chase for gold at the Olympics is on
Shock and awe just about sums up the stunning achievement of young Singaporean swimmer Joseph Schooling at the Rio Olympics.
18 August 2016, 18:00 PM