Indonesia's embattled reformers
The National People's Congress
The war on baby girls
Correspondent's diary
India's Muslims
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The feud in South Korea's ruling party
Feud for thoughtThe defining battle of Lee Myung-bak’s presidency nears its climax
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Thaksin Shinawatra
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Economics focus
On deaf earsDoes India’s government pay any heed to its economic advisers?
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Prudential buys AIA
Grand PruThe insurance industry’s biggest-ever acquisition has prompted the largest-ever rights issue: AIG and Prudential are both playing for huge stakes
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Vietnam's economy
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Tajikistan's flawed election
Change you can't believe inA rigged vote keeps the ruling party in power in a failing state
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Supply chains in China
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Art.view
How China bucked the trend -
Emerging-market sovereign debt
Risk redefined -
Tackling Japan's bureaucracy
Floundering in the foggy fortressThe DPJ is finding that it needs to befriend its bureaucrats, as well as bash them
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India's Naxalite insurgency
Not a dinner partyIndia’s Maoist guerrillas carry out two slaughters, then offer a truce
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Migrant workers in Thailand
Inhospitality
The Chinese are coming
To a sitting room, mobile telephone or supermarket screen near you soon More»
An article on online vigilantism
Democracy put into practice, or shades of the Red Guards? More»
- Pankaj Mishra surveys many of India's problems and finds a unifying theme in the strife that afflicts Kashmir.
- A depressing study by Amnesty International (with PDF) shows that among the indignities suffered by Cambodian victims of rape, "a clear majority" were solicited for bribes by the police to whom they turned for help.
- A report published by the Lowy Institute argues that the relationship between Australia and Indonesia is woefully underdeveloped (with PDF).
- A multi-national team of Asian scientists scours East Africa in search of Ug99, a fungus that threatens to overrun Asia's grain baskets.
- Concerned about the slow demise of the world's wild tiger population, Vladimir Putin tracks a favoured Amur tiger in its trekking around Russia's Far East.
Happy New Year for China's high-speed railways
The Wuhan-Guangzhou line, which has been causing difficulties for China's airlines since it opened in December, has further proved its worth over the (local) holidays More»
China's green facts on the ground
"China boasts the most installed renewable electricity capacity of any country in the world." What has America built in the past decade, aside from McMansions in Florida? More»
In Mongolia, many nomads despair
Having suffered their bitterest winter in decades—and the death of nearly 3m livestock—Mongolian herders are questioning the future of their ancient livelihood... More»
East or famine
Asia’s economic weight in the world has risen, but by less than commonly assumed More»
A country's agonising birth
An authoritative account of Timor-Leste's birth More»
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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»
I suspect these countries with such imbalances will soon learn firsthand of the simple capitalist concept of "supply and demand" ... Eventually...dowries will be going the other way. 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»
China does have to get a much higher share of the revenues from its industries. For too long, China has made only $1.00 on an iPhone that eventually sells for $400. More»
If anybody needs to be dealt with using brutal force (ie, the army), it's the corrupt politicians and bureaucrats, not the poor village tribals. 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»
Next—India forces Europe to stop eating beef. More»