The 18th – a century of change In 1776 the American colonists threw off the British yoke and many people proclaimed with satisfaction, if somewhat relieved...
The Tokyo Olympic Games, just concluded, were a spectacular success and grateful thanks are owed to our Japanese hosts to make this event so, at a...
It is 100 years since we were supposedly getting over the war to end all wars, World War I, and forming the League of Nations with...
I was attracted by a line from an old Japanese poem ‘’If all the world are brothers, why are wind and waves so restless’’. It made...
On the historic date of March 08th – International Women’s Day, a large number of international affairs specialists gathered for the second consecutive summit in Vienna,...
Most of us were appalled to see what happened in Washington a ten days ago when a ‘mob’, incited by Donald Trump’s address, stormed the Capitol...
When the Brexit vote was taking place in UK in 2016, I was addressing the Jakarta Foreign Correspondents’ Club at a monthly breakfast meeting. When the...
