The regime’s widely perceived corruption has lost the dynasty the love of its home town.
Ruth PollardTeam Leader:Economics & Government
Ruth Pollard is a Bloomberg Opinion editor. Previously she was South and Southeast Asia government team leader at Bloomberg News and Middle East correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Getting a bailout won’t be easy for the financially embattled government, while privatizing key state assets risks more turmoil.
The country is already wracked with shortages. The social order may shatter if the economy isn’t infused with cash soon.
Each summer in India is a fresh roll of the dice on whether a freak event will occur that leads to a vast number of deaths.
A crucial World War II battle was fought in the Solomons. It’s now the locus of the latest Pacific power struggle.
It’s finally being prosecuted as a military atrocity but justice has not been meted out to many masterminds or perpetrators. Will Ukraine be different?
The Rajapaksa family’s leadership over Sri Lanka is collapsing as an economic crisis and street protests worsen. The country cannot go on this way.
The clock is ticking on his leadership, as it seems the military has turned against him.
It was the only democracy to abstain from supporting condemnation of Russia. Now New Delhi is welcoming Lavrov.
The Rajapaksa clan may have defeated the Tamil rebellion, but they’ve lost control of Sri Lanka’s economy after two years of worsening crisis.
Tens of thousands of volunteers are heading for Ukraine to do battle, repeating scenarios that have not ended well in past wars.
What seems like the obvious solution to save lives can often just cause more bloodshed.
With voting under way in state polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party is exploiting social divisions and deep-rooted religious tensions.
The precedents are terrifying, and the same weaponry has moved into Russia’s current theater of war.
With growing talk of a civil war, it’s time for regional bodies such as Asean and powerful neighbors like India and China to step in.
The president’s move to seize the country’s foreign reserves rather than work to resolve the humanitarian crisis has drawn harsh criticism. Rightly so.
Negotiators have worked hard to bring the Iran pact back from the brink — now it’s up to leaders in Washington and Tehran to seal the deal.
Fear of the virus meets fear of foreigners as the treatment of the millionaire athlete reminds others of ongoing cruelty to would-be migrants.
The lessons of the last election season and its attendant wave of Covid infections seem to have been forgotten.
The technology has always had destructive potential, but weaponization has now been honed by burgeoning global commerce.
