Category: General Interest

Dubai-based company Seclink Technologies Corporation (STC) has emerged as the highest bidder for the project to give Mumbai’s infamous Dharavi slum a $4 billion make-over. In this situation, how could the government of Maharashtra ensure that the interest of key stakeholders are protected when this redevelopment project commences?

According to Thomson Reuters Foundation, Indian garment factories are offering unlabelled drugs to female workers to ease their pain periods, resulting in serious side effects on their health. Manufacturers should be extremely mindful of their female workers health and ensure such pain killers are not prescribed to ensure higher productivity. How can government ensure that…

With an increasing demand for land and sea resources juxtaposed with climate change, rising sea levels, pollution and invasive species, Singapore is warming up to the threat of food security. Currently importing as high as 90% of its food requirements, will this small island state – ranked in 2018 as the most food secure country…

After hitting a record high in March, payment transactions via Unified Payments Interface (UPI) declined second time in a row in May 2019. Can the UPI meet the Reserve Bank of India’s Vision 2021 for payment systems for a ‘cash-lite’ society.

Julian Assange, co-founder of Wikileaks has been charged with 17 counts under the Espionage Act for receiving and publishing information from Army intelligence analyst in 2010. Does Assange fit the definition of ‘journalist’? Should a journalist be exempt from the Espionage Act?

ExxonMobil’s shareholders have rejected several proposals that would require greater oversight over the company’s environmental policy. Activist shareholders have also pushed for a separation of the company’s CEO and Chairman positions. Why do these shareholders believe that this separation would aid in forming ExxonMobil’s climate change policies?

Climate change poses a severe threat to planet Earth. Interest groups in the US are in constant denial that humans are primarily responsible for these aberrations. The Trump administration has withdrawn the US from the Paris climate accord and begun a campaign to subvert the science that proves humans are responsible for global warming. Why…

SpaceX recently launched satellites for its Starlink broadband service. Why are private space companies attempting to provide global internet coverage?

China, reeling from the effects of the Asian Swine Flu virus, is affected by an infestation of the fall armyworm. Is China’s food security in serious jeopardy considering increased pressure from the US-China trade war?

Malaysia will send back non-recyclable plastic waste to the developed country that exported it, in the wake of an amendment to the Basel Convention that regulates the plastic waste industry. Will the amendment introduce transparency to the global plastic waste trade?