TOPICS: Cold shower for US-China relations Simon Tisdall A hosepipe fight between US and Chinese sailors in the South China Sea has put a temporary dampener on the feelgood glow created by Hillary Clinton’s recent Beijing visit. China’s foreignministry angrily accused the Pentagon on March... 11 Mar, 2009
TOPICS : Plight of Burmese migrants A scandalous trade in Burmese migrant labour involving Malaysian and Thai officials and international human traffickers is now coming to light. Like thousands of Burmese migrant workers, That Zin Myint travelled overland from Rangoon to Bangkok and... 26 Jan, 2009
What the books are about The Assault on ReasonThe first question many people ask when hearing of a book from Al Gore is, “Is it about the environment?” The answer is yes, but it’s not (or, rather, not only) the kind of environment he wrote about in Earth in the Balance... Travel Abroad 16 Aug, 2008
What the books are about The Enchantress of Florence Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a hall of mirrors. They distort and flatter, and above all, like those mirrors set by exits onto dangerous roads, they reveal what is hidden. Two great civilisations, the Moghul empire of... Travel Abroad 26 Apr, 2008
China’s new oil route along the Mekong As energy hungry China turns the ecologically fragile Mekong river into an oil-shipping route, green activists and environmentalists in South-east Asia worry that spillages could destroy the livelihoods of millions of people residing along the lower... 11 Jan, 2007
China to study alternative fuel Shanghai, August 23 :China plans to spend 800 million yuan ($100 million) over the next decade on studying natural gas hydrates, an alternative fuel Beijing hopes might help to limit its growing reliance on oil imports, the government said today.Trial... 23 Aug, 2006
Let’s redefine the nature of our land Whenever we define Nepal, we include the word “landlocked”. If someone raises queries regarding the reason for Nepal being backward in comparison to other countries, then one of the answers would certainly be its “landlockedness”.We still wish... Travel Abroad 19 Jan, 2005
Stady Table The People’s Republic of China, the third largest country in the world, after Canada and Russia, has an area of 9.6 million sq km, or one-fifteenth of the world’s land mass. The border stretches over 22,000 km on land and the coastline extends well... Travel Abroad 11 May, 2004
