New Delhi has begun a frantic military build-up in the eastern Himalaya, based on the army chief's interests and perceived Chinese deployments in north Tibet.
'Somebody has to stand up,' Salman Taseer had responded in a television interview last December, after being reminded that challenging Pakistan's rightwing Islamists over the controversial
With the release of Aung San Sui Kyi from house arrest in November, there has been a renewed feeling within Burma that progress, however slight, might be being made toward
Chhetria Patrakar is much impressed by the Bangladesh government's ingenuity – or ingenuosness. A private TV station, Banglavision, produces a three-part series on the country's most
As was seen with the War of Liberation, resulting in the birth of Bangladesh, a common religion alone cannot hold different nationalities together. Issues of good governance, economic development, social
Economists have long made the case for diversification as key to a country's export competitiveness. In line with this, Nepal has made considerable progress in diversifying markets for
When Velupillai Prabhakaran perished in May 2009, the long Eelam War ended with him – as did a phase in Indo-Lankan relations. For the best part of three decades, the
The case of Aasia Bibi, the Christian woman sentenced to death under Pakistan's 'blasphemy' laws, and the 4 January assassination of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, who
The Maldives
Taxing new year
Travellers are going to be wishing that they had gone to visit the Maldives last year instead of this, with the Maldivian government having enacted
