Global Geo-political Series: South China Sea tensions intensify with Duterte land grab
Apr 07, 2017 06:41 am UTC| Commentary
South China Sea row intensified after Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the Philippines military to occupy and fortify islands in the South China Sea amid ongoing territorial disputes between China and other...
Apr 07, 2017 06:06 am UTC| Commentary
Geopolitical tension intensified between the United States and Russia as the United States attacked the Assad regime by launching 59 tomahawk cruise missiles targeting airports in response to an alleged chemical weapon...
Trump-Xi summit is just the start of dealing with thorny issues in US-Sino relations
Apr 06, 2017 07:28 am UTC| Insights & Views
Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet US President Donald Trump for the first time on April 6 and 7 at the latters Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. On the agenda are a number of contentious issues that the two leaders are...
What South Korean president Park’s political demise means for the region's geopolitics
Apr 02, 2017 02:41 am UTC| Insights & Views
South Koreas former president, Park Geun-hye, has been arrested on charges including extortion, bribery and abuse of power over an influence-peddling scandal that led to her impeachment by the National Assembly in December...
Liberating Mosul is one thing – next comes the real challenge for Iraq
Apr 02, 2017 01:44 am UTC| Insights & Views
The battle to fully recapture Mosul from the Islamic State (IS) is in its final stages and it is rapidly intensifying. On March 17, 200 civilians were killed in airstrikes on western Mosul mounted by the US and the...
Trump Gets A China-Made iPhone Despite Calling For An Apple Boycott And Anti-China Stance
Mar 30, 2017 05:45 am UTC| Technology
The American people have been given plenty of reasons to doubt anything that President Trump has to say since his inauguration, with so many of his promises coming to nothing. Now, they can add his call to boycott Apple...
Mar 29, 2017 11:20 am UTC| Commentary
While the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump continues to brand Iran as a terrorist state, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is strengthening ties with the country. The Syrian president Bashar-al Assad...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects