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 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
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
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?
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 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…
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- China searches for self-reliance
- Will airline bailouts really fly?
- KL should keep some better Najib policies
- An Aye for an Aye, the online click storm
- Despite blockade Qatar goes big
- Halal travel worth US$220bn
- Finally, a green light for India
- Brand on the run
- Made in China, the fear factor
- Asian consumers are changing the world
- Microfinance in Asia: greed or goodwill?
- DEVELOPMENT
- How to bridge the wealth gap
- Songdo, a city smarter than you
- Ne Win to win win
- China's rise could undermine freedoms
- One size doesn’t fit all
- Pakistan’s gridlocked travails
- India needs rapid economic gain to alleviate Maoist pain
- ENERGY
- Clearing the air on energy matters
- Fukushima nuclear clouds one year on
- Solar energy: more sunny days ahead?
- Oil rush comes East
- ENVIRONMENT
- Just two degrees
- Saving the Earth
- HEALTH
- HK anti-vaxxers bury heads in sand
- Can Covid-19 threat help unite HK?
- Assessing the travel health risks in Asia
- From whence the next outbreak?
- INFORMATION
- Journalism in a time of strident nationalism
- Dunkirk and delusions of empire
- Death of a salesman
- Media moguls to slick clickers
- Print vs Web dust-up: Should we pay for online news?
- SECURITY
- Pakistan's lack of identity is key risk
- Super snoops patrol our unfriendly skies
- SHIPPING
- New shipping laws could make for greener seas
- How the Kra Canal can slash shipping time
- SOCIETY
- Turning Indian citizens saffron by stealth
- Give Peace a Chance
- Saudi women drivers get royal nod
- India, a nation of vigilantes
- Why the UK has designs on China
- India lauds tough Lee model but...
- Faith and fists can move mountains
- Football in the sands: a force for change?
- Voices from the Underground
- Women: Afghanistan’s forgotten second war
- TRAVEL
- Accident by design?
- Marriott's takeover of Starwood
- Airline safety records
- Myanmar poll impact on travel and tourism
- Online travel agents and airlines clash as carriers go direct
- TRENDS
- China sets record for Asian art auctions
- Borderless world in CinemaScope
- One man’s meat is another’s poisson
- POLITICS
- US must follow global rules
- Taliban in Kabul
- Whither freedom of speech in India?
- The Battle of Belonging - book excerpt
- Delhi pogrom tip of Hindutva iceberg
- Quelling street violence in Hong Kong
- Talks are the answer to HK street protests
- The Hindutva attack on science in India
- HK students snub global causes
- Modi-Xi Wuhan reset focuses on trade
- The 21st Century Animal Farm
- Need for Indian judicial reform
- The siege of the Taj Mahal
- Politics of hate and the end of Liberalism
- The inglorious rape of India
- Can Carrie Lam reinvent Hong Kong?
- Nepal's progressive
new Constitution - Tough Rohingya
Rubik's Cube - Rule Brittania and the rape of India
- Localists place HK in Beijing crosshairs
- Sword of the brother enemy - after Uri
- BJP dominant as Congress retreats
- Myanmar lacks clear policies, direction
- Do Modi's foreign tours have substance?
- HK a house divided
- War and peace in Asia
- Mind or muscle in HK's electoral battle?
- Why Britain must pay reparations to India
- Modi motorcade lands in trouble
- Caste and religion take a back seat - AAP win
- Why HK needs good table manners
- Pride not prejudice in Hong Kong stand
- Now you see it, now you don’t
- Jinnah to Osama the search for a soul
- Narendra Modi quells fears of saffron domination
- Aam Aadmi: an uncommon party for the common man
- Nepal's red skies turn blue
- Lessons of ’88 – from Ne Win to win-win
- Nepal: a growing mountain of woes
- India-China war: 50 Years After 1962
- Hong Kong yields to "Western" influence
- A glacial impasse
- Hong Kong: Wolf in CEO’s clothing?
- See the shiny new CEO
- Burma spring signals change
- A Benevolent Big Brother brand
- Politics, parochialism and power in India
- Fast work – Anna’s true Balance Sheet
- Hong Kong freedoms: Now the kowtowing gets serious
- Why the Kashmir story needs retelling
- HK democracy push led by young, Internet-savvy generation
- India caste woes: time to talk about the elephant in the room
- BLATHER
- The world will be as one
- Case of the disappearing GM
- MeToo, a tale of three women
- Say farewell to
laptops inflight - Samsonite in a snit
- Smoke gets in your eyes
- Hitch your wagon to a star
- Dance through any emergency
- Why do good hotels serve bad scrambled eggs?
- Stay fit or fake it
- A fright for sore eyes
- Gorilla case: are your bags tough enough?
- Once in a babymoon and daft buzzwords
- VOICES
- Israel moves right
- Welcome Biden
- Greta Thunberg
- Iran makes a Gulf play
- Kim-Trump summit prospects
- One flag many bumps
- Tackling Asian malnutrition
- Dealing with North Korean nukes
- Outcry over Rohingya 'genocide' inaction
- Muslim ban blasted
- Peres peace a pipe dream?
- Once bitten, twice shy - Zika
- Spat over Spratlys
- PM Lee, end of an era
- Barracking Barack - Bibi's bet
- Clean air and nukes in pivotal US shift
- What IS the world to do with ISIS?
- Where have all the flowers gone?
- Why MH370 matters
- Thailand on the brink
- Voters winners in Pakistan poll
- Calling the shots in North Korea
- An Apple a day brings lawsuits your way
- Egypt’s election sparks jubilation and fears
- Maldives: cold deeds in sunny places
- North Korea options
- Libya introspection
- A post-Bin Laden world
- Khamsin in the desert
- Japan's AWOL atoms
- Darkness in Pakistan
- Syria crackdown
- BY THE NUMBERS
- Greening the world
- Fire in the sky
- Weighty bad loans
- If the money's right
- Guns and oil in the China Sea
- Virulent viruses sweep Asia
- What's that glow?
- Green cars at red light
- Spoiling for a fight
- The greening of Asia
- Of mite and muscle
- Do pilots have cash to flash?
- Asia’s casino gamble
- Smartphones on speed dial
- Asia up in arms
- A global high
- Greenbacks for green
- Math by numbers
- Nuclear safety risks
- Just don’t breathe
- Presidential salaries
- Thailand after deluge
- Commuter pain index
- Soaring suicide rates
- Asian corruption index
- Cyber crooks playtime
- Asia arms race
- Hotels go green
- Battling inflation
- Rare earths fears
- Travel will triumph
- Waste not want not
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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…
