The world, since the end of December 2019, has been battling the global pandemic COVID-19 which has left the global financial situation in a flux. Most of the world economies have been in a state of stagnation and looking for ways of recovering their economies post-COVID. There has been a scramble f...
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The deadliest suicide bombings in Sri Lanka’s recent history occurred one year ago on Easter Sunday shocking the island nation and the governments around the world. In the space of half an hour from 8:45 AM on April 21, 2019, nine suicide bombers belon...
Climate change and severe weather events is causing environmental catastrophe in the South Pacific region. The region as a whole has experienced innumerable changes in weather patterns that have posed fundamental threats to lives and livelihoods of the Pacific Island Countries (PICs). Over the ...
Even when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was forced to announce a state of emergency on April 7 to contain the spread of novel coronavirus from assuming the proportion of threat never seen in Japan’s history, Barak Kushner, Professor of East Asian History at the University of Cambridge reminded us...
South Asia’s largest nation, India, a regional superpower gradually moving towards being a world power is already pushing for greater maritime security engagement, with its southern island neighbors Sri Lanka and the Maldives under its “Neighborhood First†foreign policy doctrine....
As citizens around the world are advised to stay indoors to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, the North Korean government seems to be taking a different approach towards social distancing. The month of March, 2020 saw an alarming rise in the number of coronavirus cases around the globe. B...
China has blocked a proposed meeting in the United Nations Security Council to discuss on the new coronavirus disease (Covid-19). It argued that Covid-19 crisis is not linked to global security. But President Donald Trump recently had a word with President Xi Jinping on how to defeat Covid-19, and a...
The Novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has thrown the eight South Asian countries into turmoil. As many as 5200 confirmed cases of coronavirus have been reported so far across the region with 110 people succumbing to the&nbs...