The year 2008, for many reasons, is likely to go down in the annals of recent Tibetan history as a watershed year. This was the year when Tibetans in Tibet,
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With a global recession still in full swing, airlines the world over have been experiencing tough times. In Sri Lanka, not only are people travelling less,
With the LTTE and tens of thousands of civilians penned into an area of around 17 square km, the plight of civilians in the northern area of Sri Lanka known
Another World Press Freedom Day rolls along on 3 May. Seminars and rallies are to be held, prizes distributed and reports released, all to bemoan the lack of press freedoms
There was a long-held myth that the only manmade object visible from space was the Great Wall of China. Yet astronauts have since confirmed that Chinese cities at night are
Sri Lanka is home to an array of ethnic groups, the smaller of which live partly outside the mainstream of society. Undoubtedly, the best known of these are the Veddah,
In March 2008, Bhutan ended its century-old system of absolute monarchy in favour of parliamentary democracy. This was a significant decision for a state that had always fought against democracy,
Being Pashtun does not have to mean being Taliban, a writer finds in faraway Karachi
Have you read Rehman Baba's poetry?" Dr Ibrahim Yusufzai asks us in
The general elections to the Lok Sabha in India are arguably the greatest show on earth. The exercise, involving half-a-billion voters, millions of party cadres, thousands of candidates and an
Yet again, the situation surrounding the ethnic Rohingya community of Burma has burgeoned from a national disgrace to a regional shame. Despite what had appeared to be a coincidence of
After the war ends in Sri Lanka, it is the Pashtun region of Southasia that will remain the most violent corner on earth. The depredations of the Taliban and al-Qaeda
