BANGLADESH/INDIA
Thai excess
All illustrations by BILASH RAI
Yet another tragic story of migration has recently begun to unfold in Southasia. Over 300 Burmese Rohingya 'boat people'
Bangladeshis are currently basking in the rays of a finally-held election, with many breathing a sigh of relief at the defeat of the centre-right four-party alliance led
The euphoria is dying somewhat quickly in certain parts of our neighbourhood. The photogenic 44th president of America already managed to ruffle feathers in Islamabad, where officials were not too
The mortality rate of journalists is high across Southasia, with harassment, threats and beatings commonplace. Even so, the two brutal murders this month, of editor Lasantha Wickrematunga in Sri Lanka
In May last year, newspapers in Bangladesh reported that a teenager had been killed along the country's northwestern border with India. Sixteen-year-old Hasibul Islam was shot
On the morning of 28 January 1754, an exceptional Englishman sat down at the desk in the library of his gothic mansion, Strawberry Hill, to attend to his correspondence. It
The fraud charges against the Hyderabad-based Satyam Computer Services – India's fourth-largest software firm – has shocked international businesses, rattled India's stock market, jolted regulators and
"Resources are not well-enough spent. We all see it and we should address it," Kai Eide, the UN Secretary-General's new Special Representative to Afghanistan,
Burma/China
Best left untravelled
Even for Burma's miniscule tourism industry, 2008 was a particularly bad year. With the devastating Cyclone Nargis (in May) coming on the heels
Citing fantastic evidence, Prof A.D.T.E. Perera writes in the Colombo Island that Jerusalem´s famous Dome of the Rock, holy of holies to Islam and Christendom, is
