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Tuesday 08/August/2017 16:37 PM

Pakistan’s democracy will survive

The decision by Pakistan’s Supreme Court to remove from office Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who had a comfortable majority in the National Assembly, is...

Tuesday 08/August/2017 16:26 PM

Controlling cyber conflict

When cyber-security professionals were polled recently at their annual BlackHat conference in Las Vegas, 60 per cent said they expected the United States to...

Monday 07/August/2017 16:16 PM

The new socialism of fools

According to mainstream economic theory, globalisation tends to “lift all boats,” and has little effect on the broad distribution of incomes. But...

Monday 07/August/2017 16:05 PM

Asia’s evolving security order

During his visit to Huế, Vietnam’s former royal capital, earlier this year, Japanese Emperor Akihito and his entourage were reminded of their...

Monday 07/August/2017 15:54 PM

What makes a human?

Last month, moviegoers flocked to theatres to see War for the Planet of the Apes, in which an army of retrovirus-modified primates wage war against...