China is facing a double whammy of Covid infections and economic crises, which are interlinked, and one gets worse if another is tried to be addressed. The number of new Covid cases is rising rapidly while businesses and industries are...
“Come back Jafar! It’s safe now.” Never would he have thought, that the message might hide a trap, since it was coming from Naser, his trusted friend, who was asking him to return to the city after Jafar had ran...
The “Blank Paper Revolution” rocked mainland China less than 100 days after the re-election of Xi Jinping during the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October. The uprising has focused in a way not seen since...
Unprecedented unrest has engulfed China over the country’s strict COVID-19 measures. Massive anti-blockade protests broke out simultaneously across China, especially in major cities such as Zhengzhou, Urumqi, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Xinjiang, and Chongqing. It is the largest nationwide mass...
In a bizarre development, Pakistan’s censor board has banned movie Joyland, the country’s official entry for the next year’s Oscars. The movie has been praised internationally and even received top global awards, including the Queer Palm, which is the Cannes Film...
The rumours of an exit from the costly ‘Zero-Covid’ policy that had sent Chinese stocks soaring last week turned out to be unfounded.The government announced its unwavering commitment to stick with it despite mounting public frustration, fueling unrest and misery...
This article appeared first on “The New York Times” as an op-ed. Inside Overs strongly thanks The New York Times and Professor Quamenn for giving the opportunity of publishing it. The Covid-19 pandemic has been a lesson in speed —...
We think of pandemics as something out of the ordinary, a dangerous disruption to everyday life; but the reality is that they are a recurrent, even normal, feature of human history, viewed across the millennia. The process of industrialisation during...
The corona pandemic did not pass over Israel, and like other countries of the world it was hit hard. 4,667,287 Israelis have been infected by the disease (out of a population of approximately 9.2 million) and the number of dead...
As Lebanon entered 2020, the centennial of its establishment by France, the country was entitled to ask whether its 100th birthday would be among its last. In November of the previous year, the economy had collapsed, the result of an...
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