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Nov 20 Election: Old parties face sink or swim situation,…

With the vote count of November 20 election to the House of Representatives and Province Assembly almost over, the political parties and leaders have intensified their races for formation of new government. Who will be next prime minister and on whose support is intriguing everyone at present. Irrespective of their

No Easy Exit from Zero-COVID

– S. Alex Yang and Angela Huyue Zhang HONG KONG – Following a deadly fire in a residential building in

Book Review: “Egypt Until Democracy”

Globalization, rapid growth of science and technology and, most importantly, communication have challenged and even transformed all the moral and

The Next Global Resource Crisis

LONDON – The West’s dependence on China for so-called critical minerals once worried only a handful of experts and policy

How Developing Countries Can Reach Net Zero

BEIJING – The world’s developing economies are gearing up for a fight ahead of next month’s United Nations Climate Change

Health Solidarity Is Health Security

ABUJA – Kicking off the United Nations’ second annual Sustainable Development Goals Moment last month, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra

The Sirens of Appeasement

TBILISI – Wars are easier to start than to finish, and their finale rarely follows any prescribed script. But if

How to Finance Green Infrastructure

WASHINGTON, DC – To spur development and fight climate change, emerging-market and developing economies (EMDEs) will need huge amounts of

The Implementation COP

ADDIS ABABA – This November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) will come at a time of economic and geopolitical

Fighting Polio to the Finish

WASHINGTON, DC – When I took my children to receive their polio vaccines a few years ago, I thought about