Commentary

HOBART: Final week, former prime minister Najib Razak was fined RM3,000 (US$728) for flouting Malaysia’s COVID-19 normal working procedures (SOP) guidelines in public.Najib was issued two RM1,500 fines for failing to file his temperature…

COVENTRY: In what's extensively being interpreted as a preferred verdict on Narendra Modi’s dealing with of the COVID-19 disaster in India, voters in West Bengal have returned the incumbent chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, and her…

BERKELEY, California: The current failure to unionise staff at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama is merely the most recent chapter within the lengthy decline of conventional working-class organisations. Has the pandemic made issues…

CHICAGO, Illinois: Financial reporting about China focuses far an excessive amount of on whole GDP and never sufficient on per capita GDP, which is the extra revealing indicator. And this skewed protection has essential implications,…

LONDON: India finds itself within the throes of a humanitarian catastrophe.Till March, case numbers have been low in most components of the nation, main many to assume that the worst was over. Very like in Brazil although, jingoism,…

SINGAPORE: If all the pieces goes to plan, Seize will quickly increase round US$four billion in financing within the largest ever SPAC (Particular Objective Acquisition Firm) itemizing, giving Anthony Tan, the corporate’s founder, a spot…

DENVER, Colorado: Chinese language COVID-19 vaccines have been shipped to greater than 80 international locations for market or emergency use.Amongst them, 53 international locations acquired vaccines free of charge (together with growing…

READING, England: The second wave of the pandemic has struck India with a devastating impression. With over 300,00zero new circumstances and three,00zero deaths throughout the nation every day at current, the overall variety of deaths…

SINGAPORE: The union of Gojek and Tokopedia appeared nearly inevitable after rumours of an on-off wedding ceremony of two of Southeast Asia’s largest ride-hailing corporations, specifically, Seize and Gojek, was lastly known as off.The deal…

NEW DELHI: It's humbling when a columnist should retract his phrases quickly after penning them.Simply two months in the past, after India rushed thousands and thousands of doses of COVID-19 vaccines to over 60 international locations, I…