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Americas empire of grift: When public power becomes a private cash machine

Bangladesh, Aug. 29 -- Americas institutional decline is often described in grand terms: political polarization, rising debt, bureaucratic dysfunction, declining public trust and the erosion of confid... Read More


Singapores scam crackdown expands as police probe 231 suspected scammers

Bangladesh, Aug. 28 -- Singapore is stepping up its fight against increasingly sophisticated scams, with police investigating 231 people suspected of involvement in hundreds of fraud cases that caused... Read More


Ismail Sabris asset case: Another test of Malaysias fight against political corruption

Bangladesh, Aug. 27 -- Malaysia has spent years trying to rebuild public confidence in its institutions after a succession of political scandals damaged the countrys reputation for clean and accountab... Read More


India and Chinas border dialogue offers a fragile path toward strategic stability

Bangladesh, Aug. 26 -- The latest round of border talks between India and China offers a cautiously encouraging sign that the two Asian powers are trying to move beyond the confrontation that has defi... Read More


Saudi Arabia and France: Building a strategic partnership for regional stability

Bangladesh, Aug. 25 -- Relations between Saudi Arabia and France have developed far beyond a traditional diplomatic partnership. Over the past several decades, Riyadh and Paris have built increasingly... Read More


China-Indonesia ties advance despite geopolitical noise

Bangladesh, Aug. 24 -- The relationship between China and Indonesia is entering a new phase of strategic maturity, marked by deeper institutional coordination, expanding economic cooperation and growi... Read More


Europe can win the AI race without spending a trillion Euros

Bangladesh, Aug. 22 -- Europe does not need to spend a trillion euros to become an AI power. It needs something more difficult: a strategy that can succeed under radically different technological futu... Read More


The real threat behind the capitol plot: Radicalization, resilience, and Americas security challenge

Bangladesh, Aug. 21 -- The alleged plot to bomb the New York State Capitol is a disturbing reminder that the threat posed by jihadist extremism in the United States has not disappeared. It has changed... Read More


Makkah agreement and the rise of a new regional self-reliance

Bangladesh, Aug. 20 -- The signing of the Makkah Joint Defense Agreement by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye has triggered intense debate over the future of regional security. Governments and a... Read More


South Koreas peace overture to North Korea faces a nuclear test

Bangladesh, Aug. 16 -- The Korean Peninsula has lived for more than seven decades under the shadow of a war that never formally ended. The guns fell silent in 1953, but the Korean War concluded with a... Read More