Asia burning

Are Japan and China inching closer to each other to start a new era of political and diplomatic bonhomie? The inhumane Japanese atrocities on the Chinese during the Second World War had embittered the Chinese towards Japan. However, with time being...

The latest G8 Summit at Hokkaido is supposed to address (besides other issues) the problem of global food scarcity. Ban Ki-moon rightly urged the world leaders to be generous and give immediate food assistance to the poorest nations of the world....

The US military base at Okinawa in Japan is proving to be a great threat to the local people of the island. The US Marines have become a security threat to the residents of the region. In a recent incident of misdemeanor, a US Marine Tyrone Hadnott...

Pro-democracy riots in Burma have a clear message: people don't want military bondage anymore. But, their demand fell on deaf ears. Military suppressed the revolt with iron hands to continue its stranglehold on power. Well, deaf needs a bang to hear..

The bitter rivalry between the ruling Liberal Democratic Party(LDP) and the opposition Democratic Party (DPJ) is set to continue after the Ichiro Ozawa led DPJ rejected a grand coalition offer from the Japanese PM Yasuo Fakuda. The ruling LDP has...

The regional space race is heating up in Asia with China having launched its first lunar probe on Wednesday. This marked a step closer of Communist Party to fulfilling its ambitions of reaching on the moon. The Chang'e-1 satellite, named after..

The row over nuclear issue between N. Korea and IAEA ends, as it seems, with the Beijing summit. However, Japan will continue with its economic sanctions at least for the next six months as imports and ship entering Japanese boundary will remain...

The whole Asian continent is going through a tough phase now-a-days. Political and violent upheavals are the marked features of this week. As Pakistan is to face the presidential elections, Burma remains under sharp UN vigil whereas violent incidents...

The whole Asian continent was marked with the upheavals this week - be it political or violent. The continent is witnessing the wide ranging problems as Pakistan and Burma are toiling hard to get rid of their Military rulers. Afghanistan is marked...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party seems to have decided to go back to wisdom and solidity after the youth and charisma of Shinzo Abe failed. It has elected old hand Yasuo Fukuda as the new Japanese prime Minister. Fukuda's first job will be to clear...