India Should Preserve Forest Animals Or Forest Peoples?
It's easy enough to just confirm priors here over whether India should be preserving forest dwelling peoples or forest dwelling animals. Unfortunately, such knee...
To Explain Brunei’s Anti-LGBT Laws Including Stoning For Being Gay
Brunei has just introduced strict sharia law which is what has people like George Clooney demanding that we all boycott the Dorchester. Easy for...
Pakistan’s Sewage Works Show How Far We’ve Still Got To Go With Polio
Here in the rich countries we hardly even think of polio these days. Back when oldsters like me were young it was still a...
A Bangladeshi Parking App Might Not Look Like Much
So, we've a little smartphone app that allows you to find a parking space in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Or, to rent out your parking space...
Indonesia’s Sulawesi Gold Mine Disaster – The Value Of Global Capitalism
That an illegal and artisanal gold mine on Sulawesi in Indonesia has collapsed, killing perhaps 100 people, is a tragedy. It's at minimum 100...
How Does This Work? Indonesian Ride Hailing Scam Discovered
Four men have been arrested for a ride hailing scam in Indonesia. The difficulty is in working out how the scam worked. For they...
Indonesia’s East Belitung To Try Tin Mining Tourism – Why Not, Poldark Works
Bangka and Belitung are the centres of Indonesia's tin mining industry and one part, East Belitung, is hoping to trigger a boom in tourism...
Nasa And India Confirm The Environmental Kuznets Curve As World Greens
A standard finding in economics has just been confirmed by Nasa - the world greens as it gets richer. The latest studies show that...
How Silly Is This? Malaysia Subsidises Sugar So Much People Smuggle It
Most of the world is desperately trying to reduce the amount of sugar people eat. There are calls for taxes on anything which does...
Extremely Sensible – Jaitley Says India Will Move To Single GST Rate
Arun Jaitley has intimated that India will try to move to a single GST rate - somewhere between 12 and 18% - which is...