India has deployed supersonic cruise missiles to Arunachal in the northeast, and China promised counter-measures. India developed the missiles with Russia. “The deployment of the cruise missiles is the latest in what is starting to look like an arms race between the two countries, which have...
New Delhi’s decision to deploy the BrahMos supersonic missile – the world’s fastest anti-ship cruise missile, which can fly at 2.8 times the speed of sound – in the disputed northeast state of Arunachal, has left its rival and neighbor fuming as big...
An internet campaign in the Philippines has shamed politicians on special-interest spending that directs funding to projects in specific districts. The president has taken steps to end legislative discretionary-spending budgets after an internet campaign blasted phony and unnecessary projects...
MANILA – Philippine President Benigno Aquino III's move to abolish lawmakers' discretionary-spending budgets amid a growing corruption scandal points to how Internet campaigns can help root out graft allegations and, business groups here hope,...
Wealthy nations and their citizens donate billions in cash to end AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and some other high-profile problems in the developing world. But with uncoordinated programs, lacking in sustainability and long-term planning, the fast flow of cash could make problems worse, not better...
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In this age of global trade, the logical arena for international anti-piracy efforts would be intellectual property. Yet after a recent incident of maritime piracy in the Strait of Malacca, the world may be forced to recognize that the sea buccaneers of yore are not a thing of the past. Though the...
The attack on a Japanese tugboat Monday in the Strait of Malacca has underlined the threats posed by piracy in that waterway. These incidents are increasing, and the possibility that terrorists might use a hijacked...
In the largest demonstration since Hong Kong passed over to Chinese control in 1997, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the street on July 1. While the protesters are against a planned anti-subversion law, the issue at stake is more than simply free speech - it is also about the continued...
Protesters in Hong Kong on July 1: Article 23 threatens not just freedom of information but economic prosperity.
The Hong Kong Legislative Council is debating legislation that would potentially enable the government...
The number of NGOs continues to multiply worldwide, and competition for funding is intense. US-based foundations that contribute to international endeavors tend to promote human rights and democracy. But recipient programs in China are tightly monitored and controlled by the government, explains...
Top-down help: Chinese Minister of Health Chen Zhu (left) shakes hands with Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, while signing an agreement on tuberculosis prevention and treatment
HONG KONG: Since the end of the Cold War...
A narrative common in the West often pits Christianity and Judaism against Islam. It was not so in an earlier era. Christianity was a militant force during the 16th century. By 1550, Portugal ruled India’s best western ports, and India became a refuge for Iberian Jewish families, also known as New...
Islamic shelter for Jewish medicine man: Garcia da Orta, Jewish doctor from Portugal whose image is engraved on a Portuguese coin (top) found shelter from the Inquisition in the court of Sultan of Golconda in Southern India, Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah...
The self-proclaimed Islamic State terrorist group moved swiftly through Syria and Iraq, committing war crimes in two countries ravaged by civil war and sectarian divide. The group’s evolving name and online maps make no secret of the group’s ambitions for restoring a caliphate. ISIS closes in on...
Unpalatable choice: The West abhors joining force with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who is allied with Iran, seen in file photo with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, top, against brutal enemy – the Islamic State group rampaging through...
