Tag Archives: Aung San Suu Kyi

Twelve reporters have been killed so far this year and 172 are in jail, according to a new report on press freedom worldwide. The US places 48th of 180 countries ranked, down two spots from 2018.

The Sri Lankan government may fear that the opposition political parties and Buddhist nationalist groups will come together if it cracks down on the perpetrators of religious violence. But the government must act decisively. If this problem is permitted to go on unchecked, it will only get worse.

It is high time for the international community to take stringent and decisive measures to halt the ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity perpetrated against Rohingya Muslims.

Myanmar’s November 8 election will be different in many ways from all such exercises of the past and are expected to prove to be one more essential step towards political reforms.

Greater economic openness will have a fundamental effect on the structure of the Myanmar economy. But substantial and strategic investment in infrastructure is needed to support the development of its domestic markets and their integration into the international economy.

Literally missing by inches being named the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize, the young Pakistani girl who achieved international fame after being shot in the head and neck on a school bus in the Swat Valley by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on October 9 last year, Malala Yousufzai felt she had not yet done enough to earn …