Opinion

During most of the roughly three decades since climate change became a global concern, governments optimistically assumed that a green transition would...

In recent years, tremendous progress has been made in the battle against malaria. According to the World Health Organsation, the number of deaths from the...

To begin with, let us be clear that the Panama disclosures are not a genuine ‘leak’. Beginning with ‘scandals’ like Watergate, Iran-gate and so on,...

Discussions of a possible UK exit from the European Union often centre on how the move would affect the UK. itself. It's only natural, since British...

Once again, Greece is at an inflection point. With its cash balances severely stressed, it seems unlikely to be able to pay the cascading debt payments that...

Asia’s water woes are worsening. Already the world’s driest continent in per capita terms, Asia now faces a severe drought that has parched a vast...

Five years ago, I stood before several thousand mostly native Japanese speakers and addressed them in English. From now on, I told them, Rakuten –...

Oman has a large demographic window of opportunity in the youth population but the Sultanate needs to accelerate its efforts for the socio-economic...