New US Maritime Strategy: Why It Matters
Synopsis
The United States has just issued a new maritime strategy. It tells a good deal about Washington's current concerns in what it calls the Indo-Asia-Pacific Region and provides an agenda to which China and other countries in the region will have to respond.
A Food Secure Asia by 2025: Addressing Vulnerable Groups
Synopsis
Despite numerous international and regional conversations on food security of late, the problem of hunger and malnourishment still persists in Asia. There is a need to relook existing strategies to secure food for affected groups in the region if the vision of a food secure Asia is to be realised by 2025.
Islam and Buddhism: Preserving Harmonious Relations
Synopsis
The creeping Muslim-Buddhist tension and the recent alliance forged among hard-line Buddhist nationalist movements in the “saffron crescent” countries of South and South-east Asia will undermine inter-religious relations in the world today. Islam and Buddhism have always co-existed throughout history and enjoyed a special relationship.