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Predicting the outcome of national elections can be a mug’s game. Polls are often wrong, and second-guessing how people will vote months down the line can leave even the most savvy election specialist with egg on their face. In short, there are too many unknowns – the state of the economy,… Read
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg spoke recently of his fear that the war in Ukraine could spin out of control into a full-blown confrontation between Russia and the West. “If things go wrong, they can go horribly wrong,” he told Norwegian broadcaster NRK. Stoltenberg’s remarks came on December 9, a few days after… Read
Real-world technology is often foretold by science fiction. In 1927, characters in the film "Metropolis" made video calls to each other. "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry hung flat-screen color monitors on the walls of the Enterprise decades before we did the same in our living rooms. The most obvious examples of technology… Read
The recent climate talks in Egypt have left us with a sobering reality: The window for maintaining global warming to 1.5 degrees is closing fast and what is on the table currently is insufficient to avert some of the worst potential effects of climate change. The Nationally Determined Contribution targets… Read
Ten years ago, the Asia-Pacific region came together and designed the world’s first set of disability-specific development goals: the Incheon Strategy to “Make the Right Real” for Persons with Disabilities. This week, we meet again to assess how the governments have delivered on their commitments, to secure those gains and… Read
The man would have loved it. The 19 gun salutes, the attendance of the imperial family, the foreign VIPs and the two-hour ceremonies testify to his impact on contemporary Japan. Nothing like it has been seen for decades and you can bet your boots that it will be a mighty… Read
It seemed like it happened half a million years ago and was never to be repeated. Yet it remains indelibly fixed in my memory box of how a well-scrubbed schoolboy was told to behave and wait patiently for the arrival of the woman in the Rolls-Royce. Similar tales are being… Read
Most of the 2.1 billion-strong workforce in Asia and the Pacific are denied access to decent jobs, health care and social protection but there is an array polices and tools that governments can use to remedy these deficiencies and ensure that the rights and aspirations of these workers and their… Read
Asia and the Pacific is the most digitally divided region of the world, and Southeast Asia is the most divided subregion. The COVID-19 pandemic detonated a “digital big bang” that spurred people, governments and businesses to become “digital by default;” a sea change that generated vast digital dividends. These benefits… Read
The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shocked the world, especially in a country like Japan where firearm shootings are mostly absent. This event led many to examine the contribution of Abe, be there in terms of economic scale, international relations or geopolitical level. Still, little was said about… Read
