The visually appealing Colombo city skyline has experienced dramatic change in the past few years, surrounded by iconic skyscrapers, high-rise residential condominiums and construction cranes hovering in different parts of the&nbs...
Once one of the world’s few remaining free-flowing rivers, the Mekong makes its way through six different countries. Flowing from China to Vietnam, it is not only seen as a river but rather as the lifeline of mainland Southeast Asia. The ...
The devastating socio-economic nature of climate change and severe weather events is irrefutably felt across the spectrum. From the destructive Australian bushfires, to the hurricanes sweeping through the US and torrential rains that caused...
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 l...
While the rest of the world teeters on the edge of freefall decline, China tells the world it is fine. Is it though? Just as the initial outbreak of the virus had been covered up, so also it would seem that China is now covering up the numb...
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 A...
India and Vietnam have a long-standing cooperation which originated through historical, cultural and religious exchanges. This relationship was developed extensively by their two great leaders- President Ho Chi Minh and Prime Minister Jawah...
The debate about India's strategic thought starts from post-independence phase and thereafter different policy initiatives and approach are deciphered to look for the template of that approach. The major debate therefore hinges on India's i...
In China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) schools have spread across in many provinces. There are a large number of military schools as well as party colleges in China. Xi Jinping, the President of China once said, “Around the world, th...
Survival is the utmost priority for any state in the world and in the present multipolar world after globalisation, where threats come in different forms and are not just limited on land, air and water. It could be economic and technolog...
In many socialist welfare governments, the challenge is to bring about structural adjustments, address loopholes, and create facilitating environment so that the social and economic benefits reach masses. Incidentally, within India under di...
