Sri Lanka has become the cautionary tale when it comes to Belt and Road investment with China. Can Nepal avoid a similar fate?
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Old political rivalries have boiled over in Sri Lanka’s worsening political crisis. Some fear possible violence less than a decade after the end of a brutal 25-year civil war.
Could the country now face a return to civil war?
Evidence shows that outright bans save lives.
Green infrastructure can be a valuable tool in helping vulnerable communities to face the double threat of flooding and drought.
Australian government reports used to determine asylum claims often differ from human rights groups on the current political climate in countries like Sri Lanka.
Fed by colonialism, civil war and online hate speech, Buddhist extremism in Sri Lanka has been on the march for decades.
More and more radical scholars and activists in the West are rejecting human rights. Is this right?
Artisanal fishers in Sri Lanka are throwing away more marine species than they keep.
Ten years after the Saffron Revolution in Myanmar, some Theravāda Buddhist monks are now preaching violence against Muslim or Hindu minorities in the name of “holy war”.
China has become a commanding authority in infrastructure and has the opportunity to shape global development in ways that may define the rest of the 21st century.
The tanker hijacking off the Somali coast will not be an isolated incident unless the international community remains engaged to root out piracy.
The Sri Lankan government has made little progress in providing accountability for wartime abuses.
How are we to understand why people in different parts of the world continue to demand and participate in transitional justice institutions and processes in spite of the shortcomings?
The growth in popularity for larger, supportive underwear has, in turn, led to huge amounts of innovation in the sector and a 70,000 mile supply chain.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott has penned an essay in Quadrant defending his government’s stance on national security. It betrays an extraordinarily open contempt for international human rights law…
The world’s biggest known sapphire was formed and shaped by natural processes millions of years ago.
Sri Lanka’s authoritarian former president failed to persuade his country to have him back. Could it herald a new era of progress?
The tropical island was one of a number of countries that joined the goldrush of prawn farming in the 1980s and 1990s. New research lays plain the results.
Politics in Nepal will hinder relief and recovery efforts following the earthquake and its aftershocks. But look at it the other way around. Could the disaster help to resolve political problems?
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