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Four things that both the Marcos family and Najib are rather similar.

Lee Kuan Yew, that extraordinary nation builder who, within just a span of 30 years (1970-1990), transformed Singapore from a lowly third world nation to

By Hasala Perera It is often said that Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) once considered Sri Lanka as a development model, but no one has questioned the veracity of this claim, and it will be interesting to see what he has said about Sri Lanka. LKY’s views about Sri Lanka have been published in three books, […]

If we are to look at all the indexes typically used to gauge the level of a society's socio-economic development

Friday 18th February, 2022 An interesting court order in respect of the Tamil Nadu Election Commission (TEC) has been reported while the Election Commission (EC) of Sri Lanka is making arrangements for a meeting with the heads of political parties. The EC meeting to be held next week has given rise to speculation that the […]

Family formation is not simply a matter between two individuals who are in love; it instead is framed by culture

My first charge to my new friends is to profess their purpose in the political farmland and actively participate to actualise it.

We have just come through that time of the year again. The annual shutdown, with a virtual Santa Claus flying past well-stocked malls. Ag pleez Santa, not another black out. It is time for writing and reflection, on pandemic, politics, and power.

Former dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s son ‘Bongbong’ is on course to become the president of the Philippines in May 2022.

In the shadows of Einstein and Galbraith Mustapha Temidayo By  Segun Ayobolu At  the beginning of the new millennium in Y2000, leading writers and editors in the stable of the defunct Concord group of newspapers were assigned to write full page discourses on who they perceived to be the most influential man or woman of the preceding millennium. Mr. Tunji Bello, who was Daily Editor of the newspaper at that time, chose the great, Nobel Prize winning physicist, Albert Einstein, ...