Le cyclone Ditwah a frappé le Sri Lanka fin novembre 2025, tuant près de 500 personnes et déplaçant plus de 1,5 million d'habitants, dans la pire catastrophe naturelle que le pays ait connue depuis le tsunami de 2004. Alors que les équipes de secours continuent de retrouver des corps dans les communautés isolées des hauts plateaux, des questions difficiles émergent concernant les défaillances de la préparation aux catastrophes, les alertes diffusées uniquement en cinghalais, et une industrie (…)

Cyclone Ditwah struck Sri Lanka in late November 2025, killing nearly 500 people and displacing over 1.5 million in the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami. As rescue teams continue to uncover bodies in remote highland communities, difficult questions emerge about disaster preparedness failures, warnings issued only in Sinhala, and a tourism industry that downplayed the storm's severity. Balasingham Skanthakumar argues that this catastrophe must serve as a wake-up call (…)

Thailand's ruling class reproduces itself through institutionalised palace-military factions that persist across generations and reign transitions. Understanding why these networks exist — and why they prove so durable — requires examining the material interests they protect. The Thai monarchy is a major economic actor. The Crown Property Bureau (recently renamed the Privy Purse Bureau, reverting to its absolutist-era title) manages royal assets estimated anywhere between US$30 billion (…)