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  Rethinking politics, populism and platforms

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 21, 2021

  JEAN-JACQUES Rousseau, a powerful 18th-century polemicist and a radical democrat, thought that political dispute would have no place in the ideal society. Given the right...

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  Power of the youth in digital era

  Joy Qiao | Updated at 12:00am on April 21, 2021

  IN A mixture of plain rationality and vivid optimism, former US president Franklin D Roosevelt once said, ‘We cannot always build the future for our...

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  Is an ineffective lockdown affordable?

  Zubair Khaled Huq | Updated at 12:00am on April 21, 2021

  IN THE last few days, we are seeing new records being broken. The upward trend of the new strain of novel coronavirus is wreaking havoc....

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  Power language of the powerless

  Obaidul Hamid | Updated at 12:00am on April 21, 2021

  CAN the language of those with less power have more power than the language of those with more power? Can the less powerful make more...

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  Pakistan at the crossroads, again

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 20, 2021

  SEVERAL recent events in Pakistan are indicative of trouble brewing in the land of my birth once again. A couple of intertwined regressive discourses have...

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  A most political, and perfidious, pandemic

  Todd Smith | Updated at 12:00am on April 20, 2021

  ‘ARE we under Martial Law? …Nobody knows what’s going on! …It’s madness unleashed by human error!’ — Quotes taken from the trailer to George Romero’s...

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  A lost war, a profitable war

  Farooque Chowdhury | Updated at 12:00am on April 20, 2021

  AFGHAN-CHESSBOARD is difficult. Now, with the US president’s latest Afghan-move, the chessboard is going to be more difficult, and more complex. It’s now neither a...

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  Britain must learn from Burma bloodbath

  Phil Miller and Matt Kennard | Updated at 12:00am on April 19, 2021

  IT WAS not long ago that general Min Aung Hlaing, the leader of the recent military coup in Burma (also known as Myanmar), was being...

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  Skills development, employment of the youth

  Rayhan Ahmed Topader | Updated at 12:00am on April 19, 2021

  GLOBAL mega trends such as the rising role of technology, climate change, demographic shifts, urbanisation, and the globalisation of value chains are changing the nature...

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  COVID-19 capitalisation

  Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:00am on April 19, 2021

  A PRAGMATIC purpose came up, calling for a change in the capitalisation of the word COVID-19. We at New Age have written the word in...