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Bikol Art Group Renews Calls For A Healthy Environment

VISUAL ARTS By Kurit-Lagting Art Collective Members of the Kurit-Lagting Art Collective renewed their calls for a clean and green environment by breaking free from plastic during an exclusive online discussion on Art Making and Zero Waste Lifestyle amidst Covid-19…

Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia can follow the ‘Bangladesh Economic Rise Model’

Present-day, Bangladesh is one of the developing economies of the world. In 2015, Bangladesh graduated from LDC status and became a low, middle-income country. Many Asian and European including American economists hope that soon Bangladesh will become one of the…

Gifted to Give: In the Spirit of Indigenous, Jewish, Christian, Muslim Faith Traditions

by Genevieve Balance-Kupang  There is excitement and unfolding of inspiration as one unwraps the gifts s/he received and amplifies the good. This is true especially if it is done in the presence of others. Such were the feelings experienced last…

Honduran people have an impressive capacity for resistance and hope

In the context of the bicentenary, Honduran writer Julio Escoto argues that the Honduran people have an impressive capacity for resistance, and resistance itself implies hope. “One can enter a stage of illusion with two approaches: the concrete illusion, one…

A milestone worth celebrating: Apo Island is PH’s first Zero Waste Island

18 September 2021, Philippines–After a year of successfully sustaining its Zero Waste efforts, Apo Island—a barangay (village) in Dauin municipality in Negros Oriental, Philippines—is now tagged as the county’s 1st Zero Waste Island Barangay. “The community is proud of what…

International Criminal Court begins the probe into thousands of civilian deaths in Duterte’s “drug war”

by Perfecto Caparas HEEDING victims’ clamor for justice, the International Criminal Court begins its preliminary investigation into thousands of cases of crimes against humanity allegedly orchestrated by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte pursuant to his state policy to wage a so-called…

Winners of ‘Talibanistan’

by Saleem Samad Dhaka, Bangladesh: Outspoken physicist Prof Pervez Hoodbhoy is based in Pakistan. In his popular column in the Dawn newspaper, published from Karachi says that Russia and the United States are squarely responsible for Afghanistan’s tragedy but Pakistan…

African Countries should Support Bangladesh to Solve Rohingya Refugee Crisis

by Pathik Hasan For decades, Myanmar has gone through extreme cruelty to the Rohingya. Never cared about the law. This is the first time that Gambia, a small African country, has taken Myanmar to the International Court of Justice for…

OP-ED: What lies ahead for the Taliban?

Economy, hunger, drought, poverty are challenges the Taliban now faces While world leaders and international organizations are eagerly awaiting for the chicken to hatch from the Taliban’s government, they have begun to implement the Islamic Sharia to govern the nation…

Wicked cleansing

POEM   by Lara Arikan I am washing my face and hands in the bathroom. Yes, my face, my hands. Over and over in the light. I’m washing the backs of my hands first, and then the palms, then the…

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