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(The Island) The Nation (Thailand)/ANN Thailand’s Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij and Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva are being investigated for abusing their position when they used their government office to send out short messages, or SMS, via mobile phone service last year. In his and the prime minister’s defence, Korn [...] (The Island – by Kuldip Nayar) FORMER Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral would always say that a solution between Pakistan and India had to be evolved, not presented to the people as if a magician had pulled out a rabbit of the bag. He had a point. The two sides, particularly the politicians and [...] (The Island – by Col. R. Hariharan) A comparison of nuclear capability of India and China cannot be made in isolation. It has to be derived in the backdrop of their strategic vision, global ambitions and political and social ethos that condition their perceptions. Their strategic vision dictates the [...] (The Island – by Kuldip Nayar) BEFORE the entry of the Soviet forces into Afghanistan on the Christmas Day in 1979, I used to visit Kabul regularly. I found President Mohammed Daud in the sixties, a fatherly figure who had no idea of what was happening in his country. [...] (Daily News – by Rajiva Wijesinghe) The Liberal Party of Sri Lanka was delighted by the victory of Benigno Simeon Aquino III in the Philippine Presidential Election. The Liberal Party of the Philippines has always been in the forefront of the struggle for freedom and social justice and this enormous vote [...] (The Island) KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) – Nepal’s communist former rebels reached out to other political parties Thursday to form a new coalition government, a day after the prime minister resigned following months of sometimes-violent protests. Leaders of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) met in the morning and [...] (The Island – by Kuldip Nayar) WITH such positive talks between India and Pakistan at Islamabad, the tragic happenings in Kashmir seem more than a coincidence. That youth in the valley is angry for not getting their due is known to all. Their pelting of stones at the security [...] (The Island ) By Peter Foster in Beijing Zhang Xin spent her childhood in a grim five-storey block on the outskirts of Beijing, eating canteen-produced rice from an iron bowl alongside other offspring of toiling Chinese workers. As a teenager she became a factory worker herself, turning 12-hour shifts in [...] (Daily News – by R Jinith de Silva) We all know that the East and West of Asia was divided by mountain ranges and rivers. In addition to that travelling was much difficult and risky due to deserts such as Gobi and Taklimakan. Even with such hardships trade prevailed between these [...] (The Island – by I. M. Mohsin) The Nation (Pakistan) – ANN The subject of the article is part of a quote from the Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Sergei Ivanov. Attending a seminar in Singapore on regional security, he confided that his government was rendering useful help to the ISAF and [...] (The Island – By Subrata Mukherjee The Statestman/ANN) India’s education sector is the world’s third largest in terms of students, next to China and the United States. Unlike China, however, India has the advantage of English being the primary language of higher education and research. Yet this decisive edge also [...] (The Island – by Andrew Sheng) Last month, I went to visit Chongqing, a city that is now getting very prosperous having grown despite the global financial crisis that hit exports which hurt the Chinese coastal cities quite badly. Being a large city in the Western and inland region, Chongqing is less [...] (TI) The growing influence of China in Sri Lanka, which may upset New Delhi’s geo-political interests in South Asia, appears to have compelled the South Block weigh the pros and cons of removing restrictions on arms sales to the island nation. Official sources said the enhancement of defence ties between India and [...] (TI) CHENNAI: Douglas Devananda is not the first Sri Lankan Tamil militant leader to meet an Indian head of government while facing criminal proceedings in India. The most important one, as many can easily guess, was none other than the slain LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, who met late prime minister Rajiv [...] (ToI) After being sucked unwittingly into the vortex of the Tamil-Sinhala conflict, the IIFA Awards in Colombo saw the seeds of another clash being sown on its opening day. Salman Khan, who’s been the face of this year’s event, lashed out at superstar Amitabh Bachchan for giving the awards a miss despite being [...] |
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