Asian countries have enhanced their capabilities to fend off risks, writes Li Keqiang...
Pete Pattisson in Kathmandu and Doha The Guardian, Wednesday 25 September 2013 Dozens of Nepalese migrant labourers have died in Qatar in recent weeks and thousands more are enduring appalling labour abuses, a Guardian investigation has found, raising serious questions about Qatar’s preparations to host the 2022 World...
Occupied Times: In 1968, Henri Lefebvre first introduced the concept of “the right to the city’’. He advocated the ‘rescue of man as the main protagonist of the city he has built…the meeting point for collective living.’ You have referred to this collective right...
KATHMANDU, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) — In order to make the upcoming second Constituent Assembly elections scheduled in November free, fair and credible, the Election Commission on July 22 issued an Election Code of Conduct. However, the Commission, which is the sole constitutional authority to...
By Brandon Toy August 09, 2013 Change will not be hoisted on us from above—at least not the change we desire. It will come from us, those who have given our consent to the state. Until we take back our explicit or tacit support...
Dr Baburam Bhattarai The issue holds a special significance because the core of development challenge today...
LI KEQIANG China and India are destined to be together. They should work hand in hand if Asia is to become the anchor of world peace We live in an age of change, but there are always certain things that are enduring, forever refreshing...
by Carlos Borrero “A critical question for the working class is who controls these vast sums of money that are combined in pension funds and for what purpose” The news that Detroit has declared bankruptcy, the largest North American city to do so thus...
by Raul Zibechi – La Jornada Some days ago a meeting was held in Caracas to debate the relationships between movements and states, and how autonomy and popular power can build alternatives to development that is dependent on the extraction ...
Wayne MADSEN Strategic-Culture.org The Obama administration’s «Asia Pivot» is playing out in earnest in joint U.S.-Indian-Israeli intelligence operations in the Himalayan region. The actions by the three cooperative nations’ intelligence agencies are aimed at limiting Chinese influence here. The strategy in the mountainous area...