Opinion

Oman has a large demographic window of opportunity in the youth population but the Sultanate needs to accelerate its efforts for the socio-economic...

The UK Treasury's paper on the economic costs of Brexit seems competent and thorough, as you would expect -- and says those costs would be high, as...

In a continent lashed by deadly flash floods and still reeling from a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Ecuador, the collapse of an elevated bicycle path in Rio...

We have entered the age of migration. If all the people who live outside the country of their birth united to form their own – a republic of the rootless...

When General Raheel Sharif recently called for “across the board accountability”, political pundits saw it as a veiled threat to the civilian government...

Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the first American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906. His passing bell was tolled...

Three years after the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 factory workers, the rights and safety of workers are in greater focus,...

The pattern is a familiar one. In February, the Malaysian government proposed allowing 1.5 million Bangladeshi workers into the country to seek employment....

J. Randolph Evans, an expert on Republican nominating rules, is the kind of person who in past years would toil in obscurity and rarely see the light of...

Have you ever been mistaken for someone else? It can be very embarrassing. Only last week, a man waved at me as I was coming out of a shop. I could not...