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As Heat Waves Intensify in India, These Inspiring Examples Show How Small Budget Efforts to Conserve Water Made Big Contributions By , June 17, 2025

Heat waves have been intensifying over vast areas of India in recent days and there are also many reports of water scarcity making the conditions worse for people. However the situation can differ significantly in various villages depending on whether …

Convergence and Integration of Several Objectives Needed for Policy on Tribal Communities in India By , June 12, 2025
There has been a lot of thoughtful discussion on policies relating to promoting welfare and sustainable progress of tribal communities in India which is also of much wider relevance at world level.
The Stagnation of Philippine Political Maturity: A Reflection on the Cycle of Personality Politics By , June 12, 2025

The political maturity of an electorate may be broadly conceptualized along a continuum comprising three distinct levels: personality politics, party politics, and platform politics. These stages reflect a progressive evolution in civic consciousness and engagement, ranging from the rudimentary to …

Philippine Senate Abdicates Duty in Duterte Impeachment Trial, Exposing Political Subservience and Institutional Decay By , June 11, 2025
Despite the clear directive of the 1987 Philippine Constitution which mandates that impeachment cases transmitted by the House must be tried by the Senate “forthwith,” the Senate majority voted to remand the case back to the House
Bongbong Politics: Rehabilitating the Marcos Family. Philippine Elections. By , May 08, 2022
Noise Matters: Wind Farms, Nuisance and the Law By , May 04, 2022
Panic in Kooyong: The Threat to the Australian Liberal Party By , May 03, 2022
Australia’s Pacific Neglect: Distractions from Climate Change Security By , May 02, 2022
Cambodia on Middle Path Between China and Vietnam By , April 29, 2022
Fibbing on Anzac Day By , April 26, 2022
Global Hibakusha: The Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki By , April 26, 2022
Analysis: Myanmar’s Gemstone Riches Bring Poverty and Environmental Destruction By , April 26, 2022
China’s Security Pact with the Solomon Islands: The Misbegotten Notion that the South Pacific Is a US Sphere of Influence By , April 25, 2022
Australia: Lawyer Bernard Collaery’s War Against Secret Trials By , April 22, 2022
Taiwan Gives Citizens Survival Handbook in Case of Chinese Invasion By , April 15, 2022
What’s Happening in Sri Lanka and How Did the Economic Crisis Start? By , April 15, 2022
The “China Threat” and the Solomon Islands By , April 14, 2022
Asian Fault Lines of Biden’s War on Russia By , April 13, 2022
US Approves $95 Million Patriot Missile Systems Boost for Taiwan By , April 08, 2022
The Pentagon’s Strategy for World Domination: Full Spectrum Dominance, from Asia to Africa By , April 06, 2022
Thailand to Pay $45M Over Vaccine Side-effects By , April 06, 2022
West Pressures Thailand to Take Their Side Against Russia By , April 06, 2022
A Nine-Year Obscenity: The Australia-NZ Resettlement Deal By , March 31, 2022
India: Massive Strike of 200 Million Workers Draws Attention to Increasing Problems and Apprehensions of Workers By , March 31, 2022
Interpreting Pakistani Prime Minister Khan’s Praise for Indian Foreign Policy By , March 21, 2022
India Should Quit Quad Now! By , March 21, 2022
Japan’s Concern for Ukraine: Crocodile Tears? By , March 21, 2022
COVID-19 Pandemic Sends 4.7M More People into Extreme Poverty in Southeast Asia By , March 17, 2022
The Sado Gold Mine and Japan’s ‘History War’ Versus the Memory of Korean Forced Laborers By , March 11, 2022
India Faces Dilemma in Russia-Ukraine Conflict By and , March 11, 2022
Former Top US Defense Officials Arrive in Taiwan Amid Russia-Ukraine War By and , March 03, 2022
Philippine Frontrunner Marcos Favors China Over US By , February 24, 2022
Bipartisan Consensus as Myth: The Manchurian Candidate in Australian Politics By , February 24, 2022
Canberra Freedom Convoy Demands, ‘Sack Them All!’ By , February 21, 2022
Philippine Vice-presidential Candidate Walden Bello: Why Democratic Socialism Is the Answer By , February 21, 2022
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison Commits $804 Million Over a Decade for the Antarctic By , February 21, 2022
Video: Myanmar’s Terrorists Nominated for “Nobel Peace Prize” to Prop Up Western Regime Change Proxies By , February 18, 2022
Anti-vaccine Mandate Protesters Occupy Streets Outside Australia Parliament By , February 15, 2022
Possession and Use of Chemical Weapons by Sri Lankan Army: Massacre of 147,000 Tamils By , February 14, 2022
A Reminder that Australia Is a Plutocracy By , February 14, 2022
Philippine Presidential Election Campaign Begins: Who’s Running, Who’s Hottest, and What’s Their South China Sea Approach? By , February 09, 2022
US Battling to Swing Thailand Away from China By , February 08, 2022
China’s Belt & Road Already Delivering for Southeast Asia By , February 08, 2022
US Plays QUAD Card During Beijing Olympics By , February 08, 2022
Great Barrier Reef Fantasies: The Morrison Government’s Electoral Ploy By , February 08, 2022
Special Privileges: Charlotte Bellis, Fortress New Zealand and the Taliban By , February 02, 2022
Raid Against Sumatran Official Uncovers Use of Slave Labor on Oil Palm Farm By , February 02, 2022
COVID to be Declared Endemic by Year’s End in Thailand By , January 27, 2022
Japan: Pressure from Populist Right to Scrap ‘Peace Constitution’ after 75 Years By , January 27, 2022
US-Funded “NGOs” Panic as Thailand Prepares New NGO Transparency Law By , January 26, 2022
Japan, Korea, and Northeast Asia – The Abe Shinzo Legacy By and , January 25, 2022
Bongbong Marcos in Legal Clear to Take Philippine Presidency By , January 25, 2022
Nostalgia at the AUKMIN Talks: Britain’s Forces Eye Australia By , January 24, 2022
Rapidly Growing Economic Inequalities in India By , January 21, 2022
Farmer’s Movement in India: Looking at the Larger Picture By , January 18, 2022
In Kathmandu, a Struggle for Water Amid Worsening Floods By , January 18, 2022
South Korea Fires Up Its ‘Artificial Sun’ By , January 13, 2022
Pacific May be Most Likely to See ‘Strategic Surprise’, Says U.S. Policymaker Campbell By , January 13, 2022
Anachronistic Frivolity: Australia’s Recent Tank Purchase By , January 12, 2022
India’s Role in the US Proxy War on Myanmar (and on China) By , January 11, 2022
Tennis Player Novak Djokovic Versus the Australian Commonwealth By , January 11, 2022
The Mauling of Tennis Player Novak Djokovic By , January 10, 2022
Okinawan Coral Politics, Henoko Base Construction and a Japanese Political Strategy of Ignorance By , January 07, 2022
Indonesia Export Ban Puts China in a Coal Bind By , January 06, 2022
New US Embargo on Cambodia over Friendship with China By , January 05, 2022
US Plays Tibet Card as India Seeks Modus Vivendi with China By , January 05, 2022
Japan’s New Right Flexes, Snubs US, at Yasukuni Shrine By and , December 15, 2021
India-Bangladesh Ties at Inflection Point By , December 14, 2021
Protesters Say ‘No’ to AUKUS, Nuclear Submarines and War with China By , December 14, 2021
How to Chill Free Speech: Defamation Down Under By , December 13, 2021
Laos’ Railway Opens: The West Kicks and Screams as China and Laos Move Forward Together By , December 10, 2021
Australia Will Not Return to Lockdown in Wake of Omicron Variant: PM By , December 01, 2021
Illegal Mining Threatens Indigenous Land at Foot of Philippines’ Tallest Peak By , December 01, 2021
Political Dynasties Fight to Run the Philippines By , December 01, 2021
Australia Served US Interests as Anti-China Riots Gripped the Solomon Islands By , November 30, 2021
Off to the Solomon Islands: Australia’s Civilizers Get Busy By , November 26, 2021
Confirmed: Reuters Caught Posting Fake Pictures of US-backed Thai Protesters By , November 25, 2021
The Taiwan Foreign Policy Fetish By , November 25, 2021
Why Do Some Maldivians Want the ‘Indian Military Out’? By , November 24, 2021
Agroecology, Nepal’s Answer to Climate Change By , November 24, 2021
Korea, A Unique Colony: Last to be Colonized and First to Revolt By , November 22, 2021
South Korean Seongnamgate: Will There be a Sequel? By , November 19, 2021
Spiraling Prices, Shortages, Foreign Exchange Crisis in Sri Lanka: Opposition Leads Thousands to Protest By , November 18, 2021
COP26: India Ends Up as Fall Guy By , November 17, 2021