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Corruption happens, and it happens in most of the countries. What matters is how governments fight with it. Building and reforming conducive institutions...

We live in an age of tragic health paradoxes. Mass immunization campaigns have eliminated entire diseases, but children in countries like Haiti and...

What the world can expect after the change of American president raises many questions, not least for countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The US...

TOKYO/JAKARTA: Win or lose, Donald Trump's campaign has changed the way countries in Asia view their relationships with Washington. Final polling...

Nobody would ever mistake the Chinese Communist Party for a fleet-footed, democratic organisation responsive to public opinion. But over the decades...

There's a joke doing the rounds on Twitter: Brexit walks into a bar. "Why the long farce?" asks the barman. Unfortunately, it's too close...

Oman, unlike many other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, is lagging behind, when it comes to the shopping mall culture. Barring a couple of malls...

After two and a half years without a president, Lebanon’s Parliament has elected Michel Aoun to the post. Now, Lebanon can turn its attention to oil and...

On October 19, South African President Jacob Zuma’s government delivered documents to the United Nations (UN) signaling its intent to withdraw from the...

India’s tax system is among the most complex of the world -- 157th, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, with about 33 different payments...