News Of Asia

Opinion: Trump’s recognition or not, Israelis aren’t moving to the Golan, But how about use of scarce water resources in MEast!?

1 Apr, 2019 6 views

By Noah Schpigel Plans to develop the region have been promoted for decades, but proved fruitless, and it’s unclear that Trump’s move will do anything for residents With his proclamation Monday recognizing Israeli sovereignty in the Golan …

The West’s problem with the non-Western world

20 Mar, 2019 79 views

By Muhiddin Ataman Terrorist attack in New Zealand against Muslims was the deadliest attack in the country’s history. An Australian citizen, Brenton Harris Tarrant, killed 50 innocent Muslims during Friday prayers in two different …

Opinion of Malaysian Expert: Western ‘Democratic’ Hypocrisy

3 Mar, 2019 7 views

Western ‘democratic’ hypocrisy (File pix) A member of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) directs a woman carrying a child walking with others as they wait to be searched after leaving the Islamic State …

View from Malaysia: Venezuela – beyond regime change and oil

3 Mar, 2019 12 views

By Askiah Adam FIRST it was Operation Desert Storm inflicted under orders of Bush, the father. This was followed by 10 years of sanctions where half a million Iraqi children died from lack of …

American Dominance in Tech Wealth Creation Upended by Asian Wave Asia-Pacific is home to a rise in new self-made billionaires.

9 Feb, 2019 44 views

By Andrew Heathcot 08/02/2019 A shift is underway among the world’s richest young entrepreneurs. Six of the world’s 10 wealthiest self-made billionaires age 40 and under are from the Asia-Pacific region, according to the Bloomberg …

10 of the most populated cities in the world

6 Feb, 2019 30 views

NEWS DESK THE JAKARTA POST n a rapidly advancing world in which people now have access to life-prolonging medicines and mass produced food, modern cities have become the centers for these scientific and technological …

Profiteering at all cost?! U.S. Senator Sanders asks why drug, once free, now costs $375k

4 Feb, 2019 7 views

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders sent a letter to Catalyst Pharmaceuticals on Monday asking it to justify its decision to charge $375,000 annually for a medication that for years has been …

To eat meat or not to eat? This a main question to fight a climate change, believe some. Indian food leads the climate change battle with its meatless diet

4 Feb, 2019 30 views

By Anirudh Bhattacharyya 04/02/2019   We may well be headed towards a phase of militancy where there is a radical espousal of meatlessness. Protests outside restaurants are already common, though not of the sort …

Great Barrier Reef a US$42b asset ‘too big to fail’

26 Jun, 2017 51 views

SYDNEY, June 26 — Australia’s under-pressure Great Barrier Reef is an asset worth A$56 billion (RM182 billion) and as an ecosystem and economic driver is “too big to fail”, a study said today. The …