Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 04/02/2015 - 07:08
Paper No. 5904 Dated 02-Apr-2015
Guest Column by Prof. Charles Sarvan
This is a difficult document to read. Speaking figuratively, Shakespeare’s Macbeth said that he had eaten too much of horrors. So it is with reading one testimony, one horror, after another: an emotional revulsion sets in; a wish to set a mental distance, if not escape.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sat, 03/07/2015 - 06:32
Paper No. 5888 Dated 7-Mar-2015
By Dr. S. Chandrasekharan
Latest media reports indicate that Indian Prime Minister Modi will be skipping Maldives in his tour of the island nations in the Indian Ocean. Had his visit taken place earlier in February, it would have had some meaning but now with the Yameen administration intent upon destroying whatever that is left of democracy, it is wiser to skip Maldives. It will be a signal to Yameen that India does not approve the strong arm undemocratic methods of Yameen.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 02/24/2015 - 02:08
Paper No. 5876 Dated 23-Feb-2015
Guest Column by Kazi Anwarul Masud
Perhaps the leaders of the world may wish to look back to the events of a century back that caused the world millions of lives and untold misery of the First World War (Oxford University International History Professor Margaret Macmillan-Rhyme of History).
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 02/19/2015 - 09:18
Paper No. 5873 Dated 19-Feb-2015
Guest Column by Dr. V. Suryanarayan
The recent decision of the Malaysian Federal Court to uphold the judgement of the lower court and punish Anwar Ibrahim in the sodomy case has sent shock waves throughout Malaysia. The judgement has also saddened the upholders of human rights throughout the world.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 01/28/2015 - 04:52
Paper No. 5865 Dated 28-Jan-2015
By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan
The signs are getting stronger- Maldives appears to be moving towards despotism. The latest in the series is the sudden and hurried sacking of the Defence Minister after a raid of his premises by the Police.
What should be worrying is not of President Yameen consolidating his position but the sinister way by which he is going about it by disregarding all constitutional norms.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 10/16/2014 - 10:41
Paper No. 5805 Dated 16-Oct-2014
By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan
It may be recalled that the Judiciary in Maldives on the eve of the parliamentary polls in March this year framed charges against the Chairman of the Election Commission and his deputy with contempt of court and went on to dismiss them from their jobs.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 10/13/2014 - 09:28
Paper No. 5802 Dated 13-Oct-2014
Guest Column by Dr Kumar David
Bright young faces, technically savvy, nimble of mind, polite and controlled in protest; 30 years of intimacy with Hong Kong, nearly 25 in universities in HK and China had not prepared me for this fortnight. I have not before seen the youthful flower of Hong Kong’s future bloom so bright; but not without its share of blunders costing it the public support it had initially garnered.
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