One of the impacts of environmental destruction, climate change and a globalized economy is the increasing tendency of diseases in animals to jump to humans to cause major pandemics and health issues. Whether it was AIDS in the past or COVID-19 now and the latest being monkeypox, we will have …

SHANGHAI – A tough decision to lockdown Shanghai, China’s largest city, shocked the world. After six weeks, and despite a sharp decline in infections, Shanghai’s lockdown has imposed enormous costs on the city and its residents. Given that the Omicron variant has a low mortality rate among the vaccinated, and much of …

Sri Lanka is in the midst of much economic turmoil. Not long ago, it was South Asia’s fastest growing economy with the highest per capita income. However, a combination of populist tax cuts which halved the value added tax rate just before the pandemic, heavy borrowing for two decades, pandemic …

Tracing from a projecting image (literally from a projector) of an old drawing (by a Traditional Artist) onto a canvas and tracing it to paint as your own is plagiarism. Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into …

Bhutan’s press freedom rankings have moved up quite a bit from 65 in 2021 to 33 in 2022. This is a cause for cheer as it shows how we are doing compared to other countries. This is not due to any special effort by the government, but it is more …

CAMBRIDGE – As Russian missiles pound Ukrainian cities, and as Ukrainians fight to defend their country, some avowed realists might say, “So much for soft power.” But such a response betrays a shallow analysis. Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want. A smart realist …

The stabbing of an ACC Director of Investigation and the assault on an ACC Commissioner in the Supreme Court in full view of the full bench of the Justices is a dark day for our democracy. It is not only a dark day for the incident that happened but what …