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Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe’s visit to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka highlights Beijing’s deepening security engagement with South Asian countries.

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South Korean president backs US war plans in summit with Biden South Korean President Moon Jae-in traveled to Washington last week for a summit with US President Joe Biden. The meeting on Friday was Moon’s first trip abroad since the COVID-19 pandemic began, as well as Biden’s second in-person summit with a foreign leader, following Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s visit in April. Biden’s emphasis on US alliances with Japan and South Korea at the beginning of his term is indicat...

Biden’s Korean foreign policy is little more than a repackaging of the failed approaches of previous administrations.

Gal Gadot accepts Critics Choice Awards Honor with inspiring speech Gal Gadot has been the top trend in the US, India, and UK Twitter and sadly not for the right reasons. The Wonder Woman actress is the latest victim of the internets cancel culture amid the Israel-Palestine conflict that has got the world leaders divided.  On May 12, Israeli actress Gal Gadot strongly advocated peace when she took to Twitter to share her concern over the crisis taking place in her country.  "My heart breaks. ...

Beirut: the Arab playground where a bottle of bubbly can buy you a prostitute Hands reach out to touch, but here in one of Lebanon’s so-called super-nightclubs a girl’s company is paid for in bottles of champagne. A man will get 15 minutes for one bottle of the standard bubbly – “Pure diesel,” laughs one of the pimps on hand – or an hour for the expensive stuff being popped by the Iraqi at the corner table, adorning himself with half-naked, high-heeled women. Although illegal,...

Redefining roles March 12, 2019 Fleeing conflict, leaving one’s home, and settling in a strange—and often unwelcoming—environment is challenging. For female refugees these challenges can be compounded, as many experience a shift in their accustomed gender roles. Many women in Syria played the role of housewife, but in Lebanon they must assume a new role—that of breadwinner.  The 2018 Vulnerability Assessment of Syrian Refugees (VASyR), a report compiled annually since 2013, estimates t...

An injured journalist receiving treatment after clashes between security forces and demonstrators during a protest in Beirut, Lebanon on January 14, 2020. © 2020  Hussam Chbaro/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Mariam Seif Eddine is a Lebanese journalist known as a staunch critic of Lebanon’s corrupt ruling elite and of Hezbollah’s role in the country. Since the nationwide uprising began on October 17, 2019, Seif Eddine has been subjected to a vicious cyber...

Freedom of speech in Lebanon is under threat May 3, 2021 Share Mariam Seif Eddine is a Lebanese journalist known as a staunch critic of Lebanon’s corrupt ruling elite and of Hezbollah’s role in the country. Since the nationwide uprising began on Oct. 17, 2019, Seif Eddine has been subjected to a vicious cyberbullying campaign — insulted, threatened, and accused of being a foreign agent. Armed men, including one of her own family members who she said is a member of Hezbollah, twice a...

“Death by a thousand cuts”: Syrian refugees face dire conditions as Lebanon unravels May 3, 2021 Share Kamel, a native of Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province who uses a pseudonym to protect his identity, says he has been working in Lebanon’s sanitation and agricultural sectors ever since he completed compulsory military service in Syria more than 15 years ago. Like most Syrian seasonal and migrant workers, he spent part of the year in Lebanon and the rest with his wife and childr...