Trial to open for Maria Ressa, the Philippine journalist critical of Duterte

HIGH-PROFILE Philippine journalist Maria Ressa's libel trial opens Tuesday in a case that press freedom advocates see as government retaliation for...

North Korean leader inspects new submarine as talks with US stall

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a new submarine, paying special attention to its combat weapons systems, a week after the...

Why isn’t Australia in deep space yet?

LAST weekend marked 50 years exactly since humans first walked on the Moon. It also marked Australia’s small but significant role in enabling NASA...

Dva Epsteina

Doslej sem poznal le enega Epsteina, Jeana, francoskega režiserja, avtorja skoraj 40 filmov, ki pa se je v filmsko zgodovino zapisal zlasti z dvema,...

Iran and Saudi Arabia's Proxy Wars Have a New Battlefield: Indian-controlled Kashmir

From 'Ending Iran' to 'No More Endless Wars': Trump's Incoherent Iran Strategy Unravels

Brexit: Irish Border and Britain’s Fantasy of Taking Back Control

[Lyndall Stein] The burden of history is weighing heavily on Britain as it battles with its fantasies of "taking back control."

These Children Are Israeli

The shameful operation to deport Filipina workers and their children who were born and educated in Israel has begun. At 5 A.M. on Sunday, Interior...

Khan-Trump meeting – will Islamabad deliver to Washington?

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's meeting with US President Donald Trump went smoothly. But the future of US-Pakistan ties depend on...

Writing Not to Them, and Not-writing to Them

What Mahathir’s call for Malay unity means for Pakatan Harapan – and the opposition

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s recent calls for Malay unity may have seemed spontaneous and even off the cuff, but closer inspection...

Update overdue for Diet building to accommodate everyone’s needs

Eita Yashiro, a paraplegic Upper House member, intended to maneuver his wheelchair up the chamber’s center steps to the platform to ask his first...

Battle at WTO

International cooperation is key to overcoming Japan The World Trade Organization (WTO) General Council meeting has been opened to review trade...

Big data platforms

Key lies in how to develop lasting business models The Ministry of Science and ICT officially launched big data platforms and centers Monday to...

Opposition bloc needs to build on success in Upper House elections

The ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and its junior partner, Komeito, won more than half the seats that were contested in the July...

Rodrigo Duterte gives defiant State of the Nation Address

US repentance on China

By Lee Seong-hyon For the U.S., from a strategic point of view, the most important event that occurred since World War II was the rise of China as...

Uniká nám dedičstvo, lebo nedbáme o úrodnosť pôdy

Tá tohtoročná viac než ktorákoľvek predtým nástojčivo pripomína, že naše poľnohospodárstvo nie je v dobrej kondícii. Ak nepodnikneme...

Japan's third invasion

By Choi Sung-jin Last Sunday, a movie channel reran, perhaps for about the 10th time, "Roaring Currents," a 2014 film on how Admiral Yi Sun-sin...

A surreal crisis in a sinking country

Commentary. The Italian crisis defies the laws of political physics: the government is non-functioning, but it keeps going, while the country slips...

Hong Kong and the broken promise

The Special Administrative Region is in turmoil. For weeks, activists have been protesting against a now withdrawn extradition bill. But the...

Why UK is in 'Brexit bind' over Hong Kong

By Andrew Hammond Relations between the United Kingdom and China are cooling sharply in the wake of the worst political unrest in Hong Kong for...

Age of technology

By Lee Hyon-chol In the age of smartphones, some knowledge we learned at school seems to have become outdated and has faded. That's why a...

Trump's racist tweets designed to divide the nation

President Trump's racist tweets and comments last week show how low he plans to go and how deeply he intends to divide the nation in order to try...

Boris Johnson's clowning glory

The UK got the news on Tuesday that Boris Johnson is the next Tory party leader and is now set to become the country's new prime minister. Rob...

You’d have to be mad to think Boris Johnson is the answer to Britain’s problems

Getting his sole challenger Jeremy Hunt’s name wrong has become a national obsession. Mind you, he got his own wife’s nationality wrong when he...

Boris Johnson’s ‘can-do spirit’ and mystery tech won’t solve the Brexit border problem

Comparing the impasse over the Northern Ireland border to the 1969 moon landing, Johnson calls for a “sense of mission” to solve the crisis,...

The new moon race could define our future

LONDON - Fifty years after Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins blasted off for the moon, a new space race is on. It is one that may...

Trump has been (partly) good for U.S. foreign policy

WASHINGTON - The best U.S. presidents are transformational, not transitional. They do not simply shake up the old status quo; they create a better...

The last prime minister of the United Kingdom

LONDON - Boris Johnson is what you would get if U.S. President Donald Trump had been educated at Eton and Oxford. Trump’s shtick would fail as...

U.S. intervention can’t break the Tokyo-Seoul impasse

WASHINGTON - The body language between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in said it all. Instead of using the Group of...

Voter disillusion tempered by realism

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has won a majority of the seats contested in Sunday’s Upper House election along with...

Artists’ silence is collusion with Israel’s occupation

There was silence yesterday from Nick Cave. There was silence from the members of Radiohead. Musicians who in recent years defied and derided the...