New Age

Not all quiet on South China Sea

Gerry Brown | Updated at 12:00am on October 12, 2018

THE near collision last week between a US warship and a Chinese destroyer in the Spratlys was more than two naval powers playing cat and mouse on the high sea....
Worrying decline in passport value in global ranking

| Updated at 12:00am on October 12, 2018

BANGLADESH passport has slipped five notches to the 100th position, as the Henley and Partners passport index shows....
Attacks on CPB, Udichi should also be tried

| Updated at 12:00am on October 12, 2018

THE trial of the grenade attack that took place on August 21, 2004 on the then party in opposition Awami League and its leaders,....
World community must walk Rohingya response talk

| Updated at 12:05am on October 11, 2018

THE concern that the Inter Sector Coordination Group expressed about the Rohingya response running the risk of being severely underfunded is gravely worrying....
Inequality slows down macro economic growth

| Updated at 12:05am on October 11, 2018

A HIGHER growth rate often does not bridge the gap of income inequality. So has been the case of development in Bangladesh. As the nation prepares to graduate from low-income to lower-middle income country, the gap between the rich and the poor is widening....
But world fails Nadia’s Yazidi people

Lara Whyte | Updated at 12:05am on October 11, 2018

YAZIDI activist and ISIS survivor Nadia Murad has been named this year’s Nobel peace prize winner, along with Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege, for their efforts to end sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict....
Demonstrating commitment to promise of ‘never again’

Adama Dieng | Updated at 12:05am on October 11, 2018

THIS year we will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Genocide Convention)....
Interview of Bosse Kramsjo, a participant

Farooque Chowdhury | Updated at 12:05am on October 11, 2018

SWEDEN, an amazing economy to many utopians or to the naive about capitalism, is experiencing pains that capitalist economies feel. Capitalist crisis has already torn down that façade of the utopia. Ordinary citizens in Sweden see the dream demolished....
If democracy subverts itself

Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:05am on October 11, 2018

AN OLD-FASHIONED Marxist sobriquet for democracy we pine for and are frustrated by in turn is ‘bourgeois democracy’. Another word for it, which suits the Western palate more readily since the fall of the Soviet Union, is ‘free markets democracy’....
Rueful ruse of govt about Digital Security Act

| Updated at 12:05am on October 10, 2018

THE president has already signed the Digital Security Bill 2018 into a law, amidst genuine concerns of media practitioners and reservations of internet users, after the parliament secretariat forwarded it on October 4 to the president following the bill’s passage in the parliament on September 19....