TIBET
Battle of the tongues
In the spirit of International Mother Language Day, on 21 February the Free Tibet Campaign called on China to pass legislation that would make Tibetan
When activists with the Hindu Rights Action Front (Hindraf) marched on the streets of Kuala Lumpur on 25 November 2007, hoping to highlight the plight of the poorer sections of
Definition kills, say some, but without it we are lost jokers, roaming astray through a deck of numberless cards. A set of rules is necessary for any game, of course,
March has always been a tense time in Tibet. This year, however, what could have been just another demonstration by a group of monks in Lhasa on 10 March 2008
Following the Bharatiya Janata Party's electoral successes in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh during the recent assembly polls, India's national press seems intent on trying to impress
General Ne Win, the founder of military authoritarianism in Burma, was secretly trained during World War II by the fascist-allied military regime of Japan. Four decades later, during the
There is a certain claustrophobia that can crop up from being in one place, or one situation, for too long. It is not necessarily a closing-in from the outside:
Three years ago, on the back of the election of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, there was a subtle but perceptible change in India's regional policy. This
Bombay is one of the world's great cosmopolitan cities, and is the largest Southasian metropolis. Measured by the diverse cultures and plethora of communities – and not only from
Nepal has teetered on the brink of the election-or-no-election ledge for the last two months. Twice postponed, the elections for the Constituent Assembly, scheduled for 10 April,
Sri Lanka's defence secretary, Gothabaya Rajapakse, has publicly stated his support for media censorship, the criminalisation of defamation and the prosecution of two media institutions for "critical
