To address these issues, governments in East Asia have been introducing a variety of measures, primarily focused on financial incentives and policy reforms. Singapore’s Baby Bonus scheme offers up to SGD 13,000 for families with multiple children, while Japan and South Korea provide comparable monetary benefits. Despite their generosity, these me

the switchover of private and commercial vehicles to cleaner fuels, the introduction of electric vehicles, the mechanised sweeping of roadsides, the installation of solar power systems, and the installation of air quality monitoring stations Previous and ongoing interventions have helped in addressing the issue to some extent, but the magnitude of

that additional waves of refugees will cross the Turkish-Syrian border, which spans over 900 kilometers Secondly, Türkiye’s longer-term strategic interests and objectives could be hampered if Syria experiences a ‘Balkanisation’—the breakup of the state into ethnically cohesive pieces—which would make it more difficult for the country to

Historical experiences with the moderation and de-radicalization of previous radical Islamist groups reveal a complicated and varied landscape. The situation of the Muslim Brotherhood (Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimeen) in Egypt, for example, exemplifies a stance of moderation, as the organization has opted against violently toppling the regime. Instead, they

It is important to note that several ministerial “glass ceilings” remain unbroken. The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs continues to be a “male bastion,” the same holds for the Estonian Ministry of Defense. Only Latvia can claim to have “cracked” each political glass ceiling, as the country has had women heading every ministerial