KATHMANDU, NEPAL — The constitution here guarantees the right to marry anyone, but that didn’t matter when Manoj Kumar Ram, a 22-year-old Dalit, married a woman from a higher caste. Instead, his wife’s family accused him of kidnapping her, and Ram landed in jail. Ram’s wife, Babita Isar, says her father wanted to marry her … Read more
Ginebra import Justin Brownlee against San Miguel in the PBA Governors’ Cup.–PBA IMAGES Barangay Ginebra has yet to see its off-season gambit of reeling in new talent in exchange for veteran presence pay off, but one of its pillars knows that such a scenario is just around the corner. “It’s a little challenging, but we’re … Read more
This article is part of the US-China Dynamics series, edited by Muqtedar Khan, Jiwon Nam and Amara Galileo. Since the end of the Cold War, the position of the United States (US) as the existing hegemon in the international order and its relations with other hegemonic actors and rising challengers have been popular topics of … Read more