Shada Islam
Asia’s top leaders appear to be getting serious about patching up relations and sidestepping long-standing animosities.
Published 28 Apr, 2018 11:42am
DEEP down inside, whether we admit it or not, we’re all looking for a hero. Male or female, adult or child, cynic...
Published 21 Apr, 2018 07:09am
WHEN the world takes another nasty turn, there is another terrorist attack, more innocent people are killed in...
Published 31 Mar, 2018 06:01am
It can sometimes feel like Britain and rest of EU are not just separated by the Channel, but inhabit parallel universes.
Updated 31 Jan, 2019 11:48am
Gwt ready for more European tough talk, stricter policies and much hand-wringing on migration in the coming months.
Updated 17 Mar, 2018 10:38am
While the tragedy in Syria unfolds it’s the “steel war” that is picking up momentum.
Updated 10 Mar, 2018 12:10pm
Women’s rights are now on the agenda of even the most conservative societies.
Updated 03 Mar, 2018 11:20am
DEMOCRACY isn’t in the best of shape these days.
Updated 24 Feb, 2018 10:43am
Asma’s legacy is not just confined to South Asia.
Updated 17 Feb, 2018 09:01am
IT’S an aspect of Brexit that few in Brussels talk about. But it’s worth some reflection. Once Britain leaves ...
Published 10 Feb, 2018 07:16am
THANK you, Donald Trump. Uncertainty over the global impact of US president’s America First policy has unleashed ...
Published 03 Feb, 2018 07:08am
It's not easy being the only adult in the room.
Updated 27 Jan, 2018 11:05am
CALL it “insult fatigue”. Only a few months ago, abusive insults and rants hurled at Muslims by Europe’s...
Published 13 Jan, 2018 06:52am
ASK any European policymaker and she/he will tell you it’s been a difficult year, a rollercoaster ride of peaks ...
Published 16 Dec, 2017 07:11am
THEY had absolutely nothing in common, probably never met and possibly wouldn’t have liked each other even if they...
Published 09 Dec, 2017 07:00am
SANTA and I go back a long way. My mother has pictures of me as a little girl looking up adoringly at Santa Claus as...
Published 03 Dec, 2017 07:07am
AFRICAN and European leaders meeting for their fifth summit next week will focus on ways of providing the...
Published 25 Nov, 2017 07:05am
IT was a coincidence of course. But as US President Donald Trump was touring Asia last week, romancing the ...
Updated 17 Jan, 2019 04:21pm
FOR just a minute, forget the border quarrels and conflicting territorial claims and imagine a super-connected...
Published 11 Nov, 2017 07:13am
EUROPEAN Union leaders were determined to stay out of the crisis in Catalonia, hoping against hope that the Spanish...
Published 04 Nov, 2017 06:41am
