YADONG – China and India have been in almost continuous dialogue for the past three years on de-escalating tension along the disputed frontiers in the Indian Northeast and Ladakh. They have
DHAKA – "Nobody visits Bangladesh, not even Bangladeshis," is a common refrain. Bangladesh has the dubious honour of being the only South Asian country not mentioned in any serious
BIRATNAGAR – Both the Kosi Project and the Sunsan Morang Irrigation Project (SMIP) take water from the Kosi river as it descends to the plains from the eastern Nepal hills, but
WAGAH – Midway between the two great cities of the Punjab, Amritsar and Lahore, lies the border crossing of Wagah, which is open only to foreign nationals. Indians and Pakistanis have
LAHORE – Being a woman in the male-dominated field of farming in Pakistan is the least of Samiya Mumtaz's problems. This 25-year-old pioneer from Lahore says she faces more
NEW DELHI —When Lee Wang-Fend and Cheu Chulu Kuel were married in a public loo in Taiwan on 14 January, little did they dream that their wedding, splashed in newspapers
