2024
Ukraine war in two years
World Tourism in Maldives
2023
Wildfires – natural or antropogenic phenomenon
2021
September 21, 2021
Vaccine Hesitancy
The Fall of Afghanistan
On August 30, a day before the ‘Taliban red line’ US Army withdrew from Kabul after many dramas. Over a period of 20 years of occupation, they killed nearly 100,000 Afghans and injured nearly a million, and made 40 million homeless people.
July 31, 2021
Why are the global freight charges rising?
In this episode of East West, Philip Shaw and Dr. A. K. Enamul Haque discussed about the rising freight charges in global shipping lines.
June 30, 2021
The Global WAR on Supply Chain
In this episode of East West Dr A K Enamul Haque, Philip J Shaw and Andrew Pan discussed the ongoing global war on supply chains in the world led by US.
May 27, 2021
Economic Way of Thinking
This month Philip Shaw and A K Enamul Haque discusses how to make economics teaching at the university level attractive and useful for all. How to think the economic way.
March 31, 2021
The Political Economy of Uyghur conflict – China vs the West
Treatment of Uyghur people in China has been on the news more frequently than many other news. in this episode Philip Shaw and Dr. A.K. Enamul Haque discussed the political economy of the news reports and our take from the reports. The debate is to educate people on the issue more neutrally than the mainstream media.
February 19, 2021
Cryptocurrency vs digital currency – the future
This month on East West A K Enamul Haque hosts Philip Shaw and discussed the future of cryptocurrency and explains how it differs with digital currency.
January 11, 2021
2020 with Covid and 2021 with vaccine
This week on East West Philip Shaw hosts A K Enamul Haque and discussed the year that was in 2020 and the year ahead and provided their insights on Covid pandemic and the future of vaccines.
2020
East West Debate 7/20: US Election 2020
Implications of US Election on the world.
In this episode of East West Philip Shaw and Dr A.K. Enamul Haque debates on the US Election 2020 and its implications on the world.
East West Debate 6/20: Is 5G the next technology?
In this episode of East West Philip Shaw and Dr A.K. Enamul Haque reminds us how technology has evolved over the past 40 years and has made the mankind better off. What is in the future?
East West Debate 5/20: Is 5G going to rescue us? [AUGUST]
This month Dr. A.K. Enamul Haque and Philip Shaw debated on the future of the economies under COVID19 – is 5G going to rescue the economies under new normal?
East West Debate 4/20: Debate on Corona battered economies [JULY]
This month Dr. A.K. Enamul Haque and Philip Shaw debated on how the economies of the world are coping with the Corona crisis.
East West Debate 3/20: Debate on the New Cold War [JUNE]
This week Dr A.K. Enamul Haque and Philip Shaw debated on the looming new Cold War between China and US and its implication for the global economy.
East West Debate 2/20: Debate on Life with COVID-19 in Bangladesh and in Canada [MAY]
This month Dr. A.K. Enamul Haque and Philip Shaw debated on the life of people living in COVID19.
East West Debate 1/20: WHO’s role in Dealing with COVID-19 (duration: 6 mins) [APRIL]
This month Dr Haque and Mr. Shaw debated on the WHO’s role in dealing with the pandemic.
Two University Friends – Philip Shaw and Dr. A.K. Enamul Haque have been debating global issues among them every month since 1993. It was part of their strategy to learn from each other because they grew up in a different socio-political environment – one in Canada and one in Bangladesh. We agreed to make this debate public through this podcast and videocast.
Our primary objective is to inform societies across the world that despite we live far apart, our issues are similar and that sometimes we address them differently because of differences in our society and culture and sometimes it is similar. This is our human society. Let us respect each other.
