Malaysian politics
Thailand's political stalemate
Challenging Ichiro Ozawa
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Australian politics
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Rising prices in Asia
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Democracy in Afghanistan
Wise councilVillage-development councils are taking on more serious roles
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Life insurance in Asia
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China and Rio Tinto
Let bygones be bygones?A big African deal signals a partial thaw in Rio Tinto's relations with China
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Homosexuality in China
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Child pornography in Japan
Outraged innocenceA belated attempt to curb a pernicious form of child pornography
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Myanmar's opium crop
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Hiring practices in Japan
A new ice age
A matter of life and death
Setbacks for opponents of capital punishment, but they are making more progress than meets the eye More»
The head of the UN mission has now met with the Hezb-e-Islami of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of the most unsavoury of Afghanistan's warlords. But he is talking to Hamid Karzai's government, while the Taliban do not
Aung San Suu Kyi rejects the registration of her party, the National League for Democracy, in Myanmar's scheduled elections—which are to be virtually rigged anyway. The deadline for registration is March 29th and parties that do not register are to be dissolved by fiat
Climate change, or a rising tide anyway, seems to have solved a diplomatic problem for India and Bangladesh. A disputed islet among the Sunderbans has been submerged
It's not easy seeming green
A backlash against New Zealand's vow of purity More»
Will China ever fulfil the forgotten dream of a distinctly Asian modernity?
Reflecting on the tensions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, where violence has been flaring between local tribals and ethnic-Bengali settlers
Not reading but watching: Barack Obama describe his love of wayang, Hanuman and the Mahabharata
Girija Prasad Koirala
The death of G. P. Koirala adds more uncertainty to Nepal’s peace process More»
Tricky Dick's goldbricks
Does Nixon have anything to teach Barack Obama about the yuan? Or China about the dollar? More»
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Political partisans in the People's Alliance for Democracy have arrogated the royal yellow to themselves and still face no sanctions under the lèse-majesté laws. More»
The New Economic Policy which was supposed to help the indigenous people was hijacked by those in power to enrich themselves. Now it is not only the non Malays who are unhappy, the majority of Malays are also not satisfied. More»
As a Thai born and raised in Thailand, I appeal to those with legislative duties to repeal the lèse-majesté law soonest. Why should we Thais learn of our royal-palace affairs second-hand, from those who live outside Thailand? More»
...Since Thaksin became the PM until he was ousted, the SET index increased by 161%...[Mr Thaksin's] shares outperformed the market by only 5%! More»
Don’t be so presumptuous…“Australia’s prime minister, Kevin Rudd, despite being a Mandarin-speaking sinophile”. Are…suggesting that English-speaking foreign leaders are necessarily Anglophile? More»
Thank goodness we have Libya to thank for protecting the interests of the poor, helpless, abused Bluefin tuna sushi gourmets worldwide. *roll eyes* More»
It's easy to blame "democracy". A lot of Indonesia's problems were inherited from the Suharto period. Corruption for one. The distrust of the Western policy prescriptions is a hold-over from Suharto's reaction to the IMF in 1998. More»
It is the Asian countries that must be the most careful... Success brings the greatest threats. China still has one of the largest populations of people living below the poverty line in the world. India meanwhile has the largest. More»