The World Trade Organization is expected to continue its negotiations regarding global trade regulation reforms. The international community has shared concerns about outdated global e-commerce laws in ...

In August 2019, Italy’s government collapsed after numerous policy disagreements had divided the ruling coalition between the Northern League (Lega) under Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini and the Five Star Movement (5S) under...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been ravaged by an Ebola virus outbreak since August 2018, when it first emerged in the country’s eastern border provinces of North-Kivu and Ituri. As of July 31, 2019, the World Health Organization reported that...

While the mining industry is often associated with coal and iron, an increasingly varied number of natural resources is used in the production of computer chips, electric vehicles, renewable energy, and high-tech infrastructure. Metals such as ...

On August 10, 2019, an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 protesters backing the political opposition took to the streets in Russia’s capital Moscow after a series of demonstrations against the local government in July 2019. This mass demonstration was the largest since...

On July 12, 2019, an underwater drilling well belonging to Pertamina, Indonesia’s state-owned oil company, started leaking, raising great concern about marine pollution and reminding the international community of the fatal oil spill in...

Following the lead of regional powers India and Pakistan, Bangladesh’s government aims to strengthen its digital economy by sanctioning the “Digital Bangladesh” initiative. This initiative falls under the comprehensive “Vision 2021” strategy, which ...

ASEAN envisages to become the global leader in disaster and emergency management by 2025. As one of the world’s regions most prone to natural disasters, ASEAN countries are aware that natural disasters can be inevitable and unpredictable. ASEAN statistics 2018 recorded that...

At present, electric batteries dominate the market for alternatively fueled vehicles. The comparatively slow success of cars running on hydrogen can be attributed to two issues that need to be resolved. These are ...

Energy in India is mostly generated from fossil fuels. As one of the world’s largest coal consumers, India is heavily reliant on the resource to supply the country of 1.4 billion people with energy. As climate change is increasingly