The Tibetan riots have been a miserable experience for those who have been deeply hurt and injured by the way they were treated by Chinese authorities. Women who expressed their sentiments in the rallies against China, along with the monks, have been...
What Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte will tell President Bush is going to make him go red in the face. Bush is not used to changing his mind on any issue. On Iraq, he makes daily proclamations that things are improving and that the US will...
The new Pakistani government under the leadership of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will review Pakistan’s role in the US-led war against terror. Deputy US Secretary of State John Negroponte and Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher have...
In the world of conflict and dispute, its now the time when the countries are competing in the race for 'Which is the most unstable country in the world?'. And the answer to this question seems to be delivered by a Risk Assessment Group, referred...
Parag Khanna is a good writer and like most writers she tends to be more of a disciple of fancy and imagination than of realities and solid historical research. She has set up a tenuous and theoretical parallel between the US and China. In the UK...
Until the 1960s, Bhutan, a tiny Himalayan hamlet, was a happy kingdom with its monarchy rule dating back a thousand years; it’s mainly Buddhist population living in apparent peace and content in their bucolic lifestyle. However, things changed when...
Yousaf Raza Gilani has been appointed as a new prime minister of Pakistan, who will take the oath today on Tuesday, March 25, 08. Gilani, who has been the loyal supporter of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, ordered the release of...
History has a way of repeating itself. And also ways in which events in the world occur synchronously. In 1066 AD the French swamped England and imposed their culture and ethos on the unsuspecting Anglo-Saxons. British culture as we know it today is...
These are hard times for the People's Republic of China ahead of the 2008 Olympics in the summer. After days of violent protests in the streets of the Tibetan capital Lhasa, Beijing is moving towards a massive clean-up of the autonomous region to...
The UK Independent is now crying foul at prostitution in Bangladesh. Johann Hari writes about his own forays into Bangladeshi prostitution rings and what he claims to have found there. As his rambling and drawn out report proceeds, we are convinced...
No one but a few high-profile celebrities and the Tibetans themselves are interested in Tibet. At least, that is how China would like us all to believe. Years after the Chinese Government forced the Dalai Lama to flee his homeland and take shelter in...
What we had been fearing all along is happening. Benazir Bhutto's husband seems most likely to become the country's next prime minister. After Benazir died the question that had arisen was " after Benazir, who?" It was not an easy question to...
With Taiwan going to the presidential polls on 22 March, it seems that who ever becomes the new President of Taiwan will soft peddle the issue of Taiwan’s separate identity from China.
The controversy surrounding the political status of Taiwan...
War is an adventure till bullets pass one by. And of course, one has to be on the winning side. The UK Guardian has reported the Mercian Regiment’s encounters with death in a very breezy, devil-may-dare manner. Everything centres on the British and...
It has been quite evident to the international community that the Sri Lankan government headed by President Mahinda Rajapakse gives two hoots to what the other nations say about it. In the latest development, a panel of international experts...
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