COVID-19 and the Politics of Compensation
It would be extremely difficult to hold China responsible for the spread of the pandemic, therefore, the whole exercise is to stigmatize China and nothing else.…
NIICE · 30 April 2020
Category: COMMENTRIES
WHO and Nepal: Filling the Void in Pandemic Preparedness
At time when high income countries around the world are occupied with their own numbers, peripheral countries like Nepal are left with very limited or the…
Sumnima Karki · 30 April 2020
Tight vs Loose Cultures: Decoding Vietnam’s COVID-19 Success
Vietnam’s response to the crisis has earned praise from the World Health Organization. The official statistics clearly exhibit that there are currently more than 75,000 people…
NIICE · 30 April 2020
Combating COVID-19 in Bangladesh: Looking at Public Policy Solutions
Widespread test covering maximum infected people can be one of the solutions. Government is trying to ease the lock down and allows industries, by maintaining appropriate…
NIICE · 28 April 2020
Modi 2.0 in India: What it means for the South Asian Narrative
Due to its geographic location, India’s position has always been in advantageous, but Modi's South Asia policy would depend heavily on India’s economic prowess in the…
NIICE · 27 April 2020
Prioritising Poverty: South Asian Cooperation in a Post-Pandemic World
With the uncertainties of Capitalism and Globalisation growing, there is no better alternative for the South Asian countries than having belief in the shared concern and…
Atul K Thakur · 27 April 2020
Why Disasters are by Choice, not Natural?
We should not blame disasters on nature. Disasters emerge from society’s actions. So, we should prefer not to use the term “natural disaster”. Instead, they are…
NIICE · 27 April 2020
COVID-19 in Afghanistan: Despairing Times for a War-Torn Nation
The need of the hour for Afghanistan is support from the international community and regional cooperation to address the challenges faced by the war affected country.…
Dr. Aradhana Talwar · 26 April 2020
BRI, COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Depressing Impacts on ASEAN
Chinese government attempting to recover from its tarnished image in the world. It may take months to see all the ramifications of the COVID-19 Pandemic that…
NIICE · 26 April 2020
Strengthening the US-Vietnam Relations: Common Battle against China
On 20 March 2020, a teleconference was held among some countries of the Indo-Pacific on COVID-19, which was attended by India, Japan, Australia, South Korea, New…
NIICE · 24 April 2020