Bright Hong Kong students may miss out on global opportunities without a stronger focus on English language, the lingua franca of global commerce
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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
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
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…
Netanyahu's return spells further woes for Palestine ... See world opinion
PR-speak is turning our conversations into outright gibberish... more…