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 9 Sep 2011 @ 22:16
I wish not to speak in alarmist fashion, but the facts do tell so glaringly that at least 10 million people are badly suffering from the drought affecting Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda. I have already echoed news updates about the matter, yet there is much to discuss regarding the astronomical impact of the drought that it deserves added peregrinations from analysts and development experts. More >
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9 Sep 2011 @ 22:15
Going back to the topic of floods, the question arises thus: should people always run away from their homes ones the latter are engulfed by floodwaters? What long-term intervention remedies can be applied, aside from the already known remedy of installing colossal flood control facilities all over a big city? More >
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7 Sep 2011 @ 22:41
Fungi have been stereotyped as curse species and should be destroyed as much as we can destroy them. Now, how about reflecting on the research fact that “rice inoculated with fungi grew five times faster” as per report from a Philippine-based food base research? More >
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7 Sep 2011 @ 22:40
Toilets can be re-engineered, rendering them less wasteful in water and assortment of hygiene accessories. This is the challenge posed upon all member states of the United Nations, most specially as the 2015 deadline for the Millenium Development Goal or MDG nears. More >
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6 Sep 2011 @ 22:56
If there is any common denominator between Bangladesh and the Netherlands, it is this: floods! This is not to say that both countries are a-cursed by nature to be flood impounds of sorts, which is as ridiculous a hubris as it can get.
Both countries are prone to geo-hazards, and it remains as a gargantuan challenge for both to shift from flood mitigation to flood control. The Netherlands has been addressing the flood dilemma for centuries now, from the heydays of the Holland’s United Provinces (when Holland was Europe’s most powerful financial center) to the current post-industrial Netherlands. More >
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6 Sep 2011 @ 22:51
Genetic research & development (R&D) has gone a very long way since the time of theorizations of the same in the 19th century. Genetics applied to human health had benefited immensely from genomics, albeit the samples utilized for the studies were largely of European (White) descent. More >
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5 Sep 2011 @ 22:33
Instituting regulatory reform frameworks within the ASEAN is truly a tough job to perform. Being an evolving economic union, the first set of regulatory frames is naturally the trade regimes. This can move on to the financial-monetary regimes, which will be capped by the formation of the ASEAN Central Bank comes 2015 union. More >
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5 Sep 2011 @ 22:32
ASEAN-China relations has been warm all along, save for the nuisance obtaining from the disputed territories. China’s flexing of its muscles by releasing its first aircraft carrier—indicative of its naval evolution from ‘brown water’ to ‘blue water’ navy—worked to escalate the tensions and insecurities of China’s neighbors particularly ASEAN, Taipeh, and Japan, tensions that have undermined the cooperative ethos already building up among East Asian neighbors. More >
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5 Sep 2011 @ 02:02
I am a strong believer in ASEAN unity, even as I’m strongly convinced that socio-economic and institutional development of its member nations will be accelerated by many folds should they forge an economic union at the least and a political union at the max. More >
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5 Sep 2011 @ 02:01
All is well that ends well. Let us hope that this holds true for the territorial conflicts in the South China Sea or ‘West Philippine Sea’. The brewing conflict can erupt into a full-scale war if it remains to linger in hot caldrons of uncertainties, unresolved using diplomatic tools and methods.
Below is an update news about the landmark deal between ASEAN and China regarding the disputed territories. More >
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