Consumers need to be empowered to save the environment through climate economics.

Some Asean leaders, especially the Thai prime minister, show too much respect for Myanmar’s junta leader.

In the first of a two-part series, Asia News Network looks at the state of Hong Kong in the aftermath of the security law imposed by Beijing.

The  Tokyo Olympics can prove mankind's triumph over the pandemic.

READERS of The Straits Times might recall a column by Olivia Ho that appeared a year ago this week in which she took note of rising racism against Asians in the United States.

Rishi Sunak, the son-in-law of Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy and the MP from Richmond, Yorkshire, since 2015, was virtually unknown even a year ago.

The republic is an interesting example of how visions for the future have driven public policy.

AFTER reading the 10-point “Moral Call for Justice and Truth” from 147 Catholic priests of five dioceses in Papua and West Papua, including a sharp rebuke against the Bishops Council of Indonesia (KWI) for its “reluctance” to speak out in defence of indigenous Papuans, the infamous remark of the Jewish high priest during Jesus’ crucifixion suddenly came to mind (he accused Jesus of blasphemy).

The zeitgeist of the world is infused by the character of the US leader. Biden will bring back the civility and generosity that the American spirit is associated with.

What older politicians lack in idealism they can make up for in experience and wisdom, hopefully.

US economic policy will be less capricious, more predictable and more multilateral.

A promising actor’s suicide exposes Bollywood’s underbelly and the politics over India’s wealthiest state.