Opinion

HO CHI MINH CITY — Since late 2013, China has been engaged in the frenzied creation of artificial islands and the militarization of the South China Sea. This amounts to an alarming quest for control over a strategically crucial corridor through which USD$5.3 trillion in trade flows each year. But what is even more shocking – not to mention dangerous – is that China has incurred no international costs for its behavior.

By Pravit Rojanaphruk
Senior Staff Writer

From the Editors of Khaosod English.

By Pravit Rojanaphruk
Senior Staff Writer

By Pravit Rojanaphruk
Senior Staff Writer

By Ian Buruma
Project Syndicate

NEW YORK — There are many roads to political disaster: greed, hubris, the charisma of the demagogue, and, perhaps most dangerous of all, fear.

By Pravit Rojanaphruk
Senior Staff Writer

Shlomo Ben-Ami
Project Syndicate

MADRID – The general consensus emerging since last month’s carnage in Paris seems to be that the Islamic State, or ISIS, can be defeated only by a ground invasion of its “state.” This is a delusion.

In a military-ruled society where junta leaders preach a gospel of anti-corruption, hearing its army chief tell the media and designated graft-busters they shouldn’t...

Across the world, violence against women and girls remains one of the most serious — and the most tolerated — human rights violations, both a cause and a consequence of gender inequality and discrimination.