China's labour market
Afghanistan leaked
Australia's election
Cambodia's war-crimes trial
Looking back on Tibet
Japanese mergers and acquisitions
Maoist insurgents in India
Democracy in Thailand
North and South Korea
Governing Japan
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China's financial markets
Premium puzzleEnthusiasm for Chinese companies abroad but not at home (4)
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Protests in Indian Kashmir
Stony groundA new round of anti-government unrest (211)
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Corruption in Taiwan
Confirming the worst suspicionsThe arrest of three senior judges sparks renewed debate over corruption (3)
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Australian politics
Snap to it?The new prime minister may turn to the voters soon (12)
Scylla and Charybdis on the Sea of Japan
Japan's plans for defence are all too likely to cause offence More»
A special relationship
High time for India to teach Britain a thing or two More»
Character deficit
Entertaining the notion that the Romanisation of Chinese may be inevitable More»
Tie it to growth
Another reason for Hillary Clinton to urge Vietnam towards granting free access to the internet More»
India looking to the rain gods
Last year's weak monsoon sent the RBI on a rate-raising spree More»
Holy rollers
Sadhus in Kathmandu may have renounced the world, but they do not lack a sense of style More»
A deep blue reservoir of meaning
When Japanese “realise their obligations to the ocean” or regret a lost empire, depending on temperament More»
Dark secrets in China's mine shafts (Caixin)
Illegal coal mines set the stage for real-life film noir
"Strategic reassurance" or just a rollback?
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Relations between China and America have lurched into zero-sum calculations
Rethinking South Asia's longest war
(Open Society Institute)
Watching, not reading, a panel discussion about Kashmir
North Korea's health-care system
(Amnesty International)
Hospitals void of medicines and malnutrition-induced epidemics
High executioners
China executes many more people than anywhere else. Changes to its laws may reduce a grim total More»
Leaving Asia's shade
Asia does exist. And this columnist greatly regrets his going from it More»
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Western powers, as well as many others, like China and Japan, may not welcome Pakistani control of the whole state of Kashmir. Nor do they see an independent Kashmir as a possibility in the near future. More»
Hong Kong remains rich, but the cultural boil has been slowed to a simmer. John Woo, who re-defined action cinema with his flamboyant and electrifying gangster films, now makes ponderous historical epics for the Chinese government. More»
Pushtunisation will never succeed in Afghanistan—and yet that is what all of the country's Pushtun client-governments have tried since the 1930s...And Karzai and his close aides are dreaming of it again More»
In the international arena everything has its own price. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Every penny that is invested in Sri Lanka, China expects more in terms of return or benefit in kind. More»
For native Papuans, there's no hope that they'll ever gain independence. Indonesia will be changing BRIC to BRIIC soon...Jakarta will have all the money they need to transform West Papua however they see fit. More»
Why should a self-respecting sovereign nation such as India sign the NPT as a non-nuclear power? The NPT divides the world into haves—that is, the P5 (US, UK, France, Russia, and China)—and have-nots (rest of the world). More»
Democracy is not some kind of export commodity that can simply be airmailed into a country and expected to function properly. It is a complex societal system with numerous prerequisites, few of which seem to exist in Central Asia. More»
The wisdom of Henry Ford will benefit China greatly. Only when the workers have enough money to buy their own stuff (cars, computers, iPhones) can the vast potential of the Chinese consumer market be realized. More»
Classic case of as you sow, so shall you reap. For the sake of the common man in Pakistan, I hope the government stops distinguishing between acceptable terror and not-acceptable terror. More»