Myanmar’s Kachin State: The new geopolitical flashpoint in China’s backyard
The timing could hardly be worse for China. Beijing has spent billions building oil and gas pipelines from Myanmar’s ports to mitigate the risk of shipping through the Malacca Strait.
21 September 2025, 05:00 AM
21 September 2025, 05:00 AM
The 'six tigers' that drive China's AI geopolitics
China's four dragons—Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and ByteDance—play a vital role in nurturing the AI startup ecosystem.
19 August 2025, 07:40 AM
19 August 2025, 07:40 AM
How the Liangzhu model is challenging Silicon Valley’s AI dominance
The Liangzhu model benefits from coordinated support from both large corporations and the government.
29 July 2025, 05:00 AM
29 July 2025, 05:00 AM
How Iran's authoritarian rule became its greatest vulnerability
The regime's brutality towards its people has created a reservoir of resentment that foreign powers can exploit.
18 July 2025, 07:00 AM
18 July 2025, 07:00 AM
Operation Rising Lion and its wider fallout in Israel-Iran conflict
The operation revealed Israel’s strategic shift from traditional methods to a new era of advanced, tech-based intelligence warfare.
2 July 2025, 05:00 AM
2 July 2025, 05:00 AM
Not your average BMW: Decoding Dhaka's rickshaw kings
The true kings of Dhaka's roads aren't the buses, cars, or traditional rickshaws—they're the battery-powered rickshaws.
19 May 2025, 10:30 AM
19 May 2025, 10:30 AM
China’s bold move to bypass Western tech dominance
Washington’s continued restrictions on exporting chip technology to Beijing may soon prove futile.
13 April 2025, 06:00 AM
13 April 2025, 06:00 AM
Dhaka's traffic through a visitor's eyes
Slowness aside, what baffled her most was the complete unpredictability of Dhaka's vehicular movement.
6 April 2025, 07:00 AM
6 April 2025, 07:00 AM
US controls advanced chips, but China has another card
Beijing has control over a vital resource essential for weapons, petroleum and electronics.
9 September 2022, 15:00 PM
The Taiwan Question: China-US battle for semiconductor supremacy
Taiwanese fabrication plants dominate the semiconductor fabrication or foundry market, earning over 60 percent of global revenue.
31 August 2022, 14:00 PM
Peace is good for all, but why do some still prefer conflict?
The incumbent superpower is now ominously sliding towards a military confrontation with the rising one.
12 August 2022, 03:00 AM
Pelosi’s Taiwan visit: An ominous sign of how the superpower rivalry might unfold
It could lead to an unimaginable catastrophe that the world can’t afford
8 August 2022, 09:40 AM
We need to talk about the World Bank
Has this above-the-law institution lost relevance in today’s world?
20 July 2022, 13:00 PM
To Washington’s glee, Ukraine war hits Turkiye’s military ambitions
The last decade has witnessed a spectacular boom in Turkiye’s defence industry.
4 July 2022, 12:00 PM
Why Bangladesh should adopt Agriculture 4.0
Technologies are getting more affordable with time, allowing farmers in Bangladesh to adopt Agriculture 4.0, which offers much greater efficiency and production potential.
2 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Europe’s colonial history and double standard
Commemorating Europe Day, European mission heads in Bangladesh jointly penned an opinion piece published by The Daily Star on May 9.
18 May 2022, 18:00 PM
How Moscow helped Washington win a strategic battle against China
But it exposes Washington’s desperation, typical of a declining power
13 May 2022, 13:44 PM
Time for another non-aligned movement?
I was watching the BBC during the US’ 2003 Iraq invasion when one statement especially caught my attention.
29 April 2022, 18:00 PM
To leapfrog, Bangladesh must adopt AI
The year 2019 was a turning point in Bangladesh’s history when it achieved self-sufficiency in rice production, more so considering that rice provides over 70
8 April 2022, 18:00 PM
Is Ukraine collateral damage for the US?
In 1985, at the height of the Cold War, Hollywood produced a movie called “Rocky IV”, a typical good-American-bad-Russian story.
29 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Race with the machine
The other day, a technician came over to fix my internet connection. He was a computer science graduate. But this is a job that any vocationally-trained person could do well—it doesn’t require a four-year university degree.
28 February 2022, 18:00 PM
How to secure jobs amid looming automation
On December 19, The Daily Star published a refreshing story that offered a window into the changing landscape of our job market. Electronics manufacturers, according to the report, are scrambling for graduates from the polytechnic institutes, often recruiting them straight from the campus.
15 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Can Bangladesh leapfrog into the future with 4IR?
American geographer Jared Diamond makes an interesting point in his bestseller “Guns, Germs, and Steel.”
27 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Why Bangladesh should invest in artificial intelligence
In the 1970s, American sociologist and economic historian Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-2019) proposed an approach to view the global economic system as an interplay between three groups of countries: core, semi-periphery, and periphery countries.
11 October 2021, 18:00 PM
How the US’ War on Terror played out on its social divide
On June 23, 2010, a rocket-propelled grenade shattered the skull of US Army Private First Class Russell Madden in Afghanistan, where he was fighting his country’s war against terror.
14 September 2021, 18:00 PM
How can today’s graduates prepare for future jobs?
The world has seen more changes in the last two years than in the previous two decades. The ongoing pandemic has taught us the hard way that everything we hold dear or take for granted is actually fragile and transient.
9 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Can AI improve our budget implementation scenario?
On July 25 this year, the Prothom Alo English edition published a news item about a bridge being built somewhere on the outskirts of Dhaka that led to nowhere.
31 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Online education and artificial intelligence
As we all know, Covid-19 struck Wuhan on New Year's Eve in 2019, and the city embraced total lockdown. Soon, the rest of China and the world followed. But what many don't know is Chinese education never went into lockdown.
31 July 2021, 18:00 PM