The COP27 marks the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 30 years ago at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, and the Paris Agreement that was agreed upon seven years ago at COP21. The 'Conference of the Parties...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), an international grouping of eight member states (China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan), four observer states (Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran, and Mongol...
It can be seen that one of the factors that have a strong impact on the cultural development of ASEAN is the source of the region's cultural identity. Since its establishment, ASEAN has focused on enhancing cultural exchange activities, imp...
China's rapid economic growth has incurred huge environmental costs and pushed China into the limelight when it comes to climate change. China's most highlighted environmental problem is air pollution which contributes in accelerating clima...
On August 18, 2022, Union Minister of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal left for Iran on a four-day visit. He evaluated the first phase of the Chabahar port's development, connected with the top officials from Central Asian ...
Earlier this week, Iran's court said it would undertake public hearings for up to 1,000 persons imprisoned during the anti-hijab rallies in Tehran and over a thousand more outside the city. The decision comes as international worry grows ab...
Hungary, a country in Eastern Europe, has come full circle from autocracy during the Cold War period to democracy in the post-communist world post the fall of the USSR and the end of the Cold War again back to autocracy under its current pr...
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has added Myanmar to its category of “high-risk jurisdictions subject to a call for action” popularly referred to as the “Blacklist”. The statement from FATF stated that Myanmar continuously showed a l...
North Korea's latest missile tests have created a lot of commotion around the world, not just in East Asia. Numerous types of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and hypersonic missiles are now being tested. Kim Jong Un, the leader of Nort...
In 2005, Ayman al-Zawahiri as the second in command of al-Qaeda wrote a letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi stating that “We are in a battle, and more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media” [1]. Earlier, terror...
The demise of Queen Elizabeth II last month was no ordinary event in contemporary global politics. Among other pertinent debates regarding the survival of the political integration of Great Britain, it has also sparked the already raging de...
For a few days now, news about the Chinese Party Congress has been making the rounds. This is because China's governing communist party is convening its 20th national congress from October 16 to October 22 at the Great Hall of the People on...
