Author: synergia
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Europe expected to counter China
European countries are expected to increasingly engage China over the South China Sea. The South China Sea is at the heart of a territorial dispute between China, a number of Southeast Asian nations and members of the international community including the US and various countries of the European Union (EU)…
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US airstrikes kills civilians?
For years, the Pentagon has maintained that no civilians have been killed in American airstrikes and raids in Somalia. Amnesty International, in a new report released on March 19 2019, put the death toll at 14 since 2017 alone. The Pentagon, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington…
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Germany cuts on defence spending again
Berlin had already announced that it will fall significantly short of NATO’s defence spending goals, annoying the United States. It now risks provoking Washington further by failing to reach even its own reduced defence spending target. Germany is a country in Central and Western Europe…
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India’s economic woes
India’s economy expanded by 6.6 percent during October-December, the lowest in five quarters, on weak consumer demand and investments, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he seeks a second term in office at a general election that kicks off next month. India is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh…
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Wayfinding in Times of Change
The Synergia Foundation in collaboration with the Government of Karnataka (GoK) organised a roundtable discussion on “Wayfinding in Times of Change” by Kenneth Mikkelsen on March 13, 2019. The event was chaired by the Chief Secretary, GoK at the Vidhana Soudha. The attendees of the forum…
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Economists criticize data misuse
Top economists and social scientists studying India have published an open letter expressing alarm at the politicisation of economic data by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, highlighting the growing debate over the credibility of India’s official growth estimates. The 2019 Indian general election..
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Japan revamps its immigration system
Buoyed by hopes of higher wages yet burdened by loans, Vietnamese youth will be among those most affected by a new scheme to let in more blue-collar workers that kicks off in April 2019. Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of …..
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Slovakia elections underway
Zuzana Caputova, an anti-corruption lawyer who entered politics only a year ago, comfortably won the first round of Slovakia’s presidential election, the first such election since the country was rocked by the murder of an investigative journalist. Slovakia is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north…
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South Africa’s Blackout Problem
A tropical cyclone in Mozambique that caused the death of over 140 people and also the destruction of electricity and phone infrastructure has affected the power supply in South Africa. The Mozambique government is currently working on fixing their infrastructure as soon as possible. South Africa is the southernmost country..
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US applies pressure on multilateralism
The US, viewing its sovereignty as above reproach, seeks to delegitimize the relevance of the ICC and other international institutions. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a permanent international tribunal located in The Hague in the Netherlands. The ICC seeks to “bring to justice…