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HK students drea, of the future

Bright Hong Kong students may miss out on global opportunities without a stronger focus on English language, the lingua franca of global commerce

English decline in HK must be fixed, and fast

VIJAY VERGHESE
HONG KONG

English is a passport to the world, the language of global commerce, and must be revived in Hong Kong to help this 'World City' find its groove. China's own student long march showed how massive knowledge transfer can be achieved. more…

Super cop US must not flout global rules

Castro lives on in Cuba despite America's attempts to extinguish Communism

Castro and Communism fight on in Cuba as the US bucks UN censure

SHASHI THAROOR
NEW DELHI

The 184-country UN vote censuring the US for its continued Cuba sanctions highlights the case of a super cop gone rogue. more…

The rich-poor gap widens further

Even in the US (and Europe), poverty is not unknown

Even in the US (and Europe), poverty is not unknown

GRAEME MAXTON
TAIPEI

In the book, Reinventing Prosperity, Graeme Maxton and Jorgen Rander suggest radical solutions to fix income disparities. more…

Why it's divide and rule in India

Big Indian smiles get harder to find

India's "unity in diversity" foundation under serious threat

VIJAY VERGHESE
HONG KONG

Who are "We the people," as a Citizenship (Amendment) Bill attempts to refashion Indian citizenship by stealth? more…

Why are we all talking gibberish?

PR-speak is turning our conversations into gibberish

Is this the end of elegant, sophisticated social intercourse?

VIJAY VERGHESE
HONG KONG

We are talking more gibberish these days as PR-speak renders clarity a distant dream and travel becomes inscrutable. more…

Asia has two green thumbs

By late 2019, two surprise candidates at the forefront of the greening of the earth, were China and India. China accounts for 25% of global greening through forests and croplands. Read more

If the money's right

How much do world leaders get paid to shake hands and smile on TV? Quite a bit, it turns out, but not if you're at the helm of the world's most populated country. Read more

Weighty bad loans

Chinese and Indian banks have racked up weighty bad loans. China's Big Four had just under US$112 billion in bad loans - a climb of 4.6% year on year end June 2017. Read more

Whither freedom of speech in India?

Madan Lokur, former Justice of the Supreme Court, India

Madan Lokur delivered the 2020 BG Verghese Memorial Lecture

MADAN B LOKUR
NEW DELHI

India is on a dangerous slide into authoritarianism where people are arrested for sedition on the basis of made-up fairy tales. more…

Israel moves to the right

Netanyahu's return spells further woes for Palestine ... See world opinion

Curse of curation

PR-speak is turning our conversations into outright gibberish... more…