Mining the ocean floor, known as deep-sea, for submerged minerals is a little-known experimental industry, but as the demand to make mobile phones, batteries and solar panels increases, the scope of mining of valuable materials like copper,...
The new likely US president Joe Biden when he assumes charge would have to address the question of US forces withdrawal from Afghanistan. With increasing attacks by Taliban in Afghanistan and inroads by Islamic state it would be a hard deci...
Amid the escalating tensions in the Indo-Pacific region stemming from China’s display of military muscle and expansionist design, the spectre of a new cold war with the US and China as the two major combatants is drifting the world to a maj...
As the COVID-19 pandemic and China’s antagonistic strategies have begun to alter political and economic dynamics across the globe, it is only likely that many countries will now adjust their foreign policies and strategies as well. It has b...
Throughout the last decade since Maldives became a multi-party democracy, several changes occurred in the country for greater political integration. During the early years the new constitution gave more powers to the judiciary and legislatu...
Taiwan, the tiny island nation of 23 million people under the leadership of President Tsai Ing-wen, has defied the might of the colossus mainland China to maintain its identity as a sovereign state, despite the latter’s threat of use of for...
North Korea is an enigma. Since its founding following the Korean War, no one has a clear idea about the correct picture of the country. Information filtered is either through the defectors, official propaganda, or just conjecture. Truths a...
Maldives will take a decisive turn along the path of democracy when the potentially important South Asian nation elects over 950 councilors in the forthcoming local council elections. In the ten years since the Decentralization Act was pass...
The suicide attacks on Easter Sunday a year ago by the nine suicide bombers belonging to National Thawheeth Jama'ath (NTJ), linked to Islamic State (ISIS), killing over 270 people and injuring several others, appears to be more closely link...
The outbreak of coronavirus, labeled by the World Health Organisation as COVID-19, in the Chinese city of Wuhan and now spread to more than 70 countries has shaken the world, upsetting the world’s capital markets and severely impacting inte...
