Independent Analysis and Reportage
Once described as the ‘Balkans of central Asia’, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have managed ethnic and territorial tensions with great success.
Most autistic people support genetic research but fear how the findings might be used. Their concerns are becoming harder to dismiss.
Scarred lungs make it harder for the body to cope with extreme heat, dehydration and air pollution.
Hosting the FIFA World Cup games can prove a propaganda win for authoritarian nations. But the data suggests the tournament favors democracies.
Everyone knows Robin Hood – but almost no one has heard of the medieval outlaws who may have inspired stories about him.
The way a police interview is conducted affects the credibility of everything that follows in the criminal justice process.
How to place disabled people, who are some of the most vulnerable, at the centre of climate change negotiations.
Melville was 14 when her father went down with the ship in April 1912.
Medicine may slow decline for some, but dementia care must also protect dignity, identity and story when speech begins to fade.
ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean Across my social media platforms, I encounter daily a particular brand of ignorance that I find increasingly impossible to ignore. Iran is dismissed as a crazy country ruled by medieval mullahs, its people caricatured as fanatics who chant “Death to America” for no coherent reason. And from that caricature flows a
European countries are struggling to work out a unified approach.
COMMENTARY: By Jale Moala It’s interesting how readily many people in Fiji embrace the work of the United Nations when it supports local programmes such as climate resilience, development, governance and social inclusion. Yet when the UN publishes reports critical of Israel’s military actions in Gaza, some of the same voices suddenly dismiss it as