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America’s troops withdrawal from Afghanistan is on hold
BARACK OBAMA is belatedly seeing his infantry advisers amid deteriorating confidence in Afghanistan. This was recently dramatised by a shocking, if short-lived, tumble of Kunduz to a Taliban—the...
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Catching adult with China
EVERY so mostly a nation comes along whose mercantile mutation has a immeasurable impact on a world’s meridian system. For a past era that nation has been China. Next it will be India. Given India’s...
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Almost home
IN A grill in Qiaogang, a city in a southern range of Guangxi, a vast print of Mao Zedong—entitled “Red Sun”—hangs next one of a Vietnamese island where Wu Guangsui, a restaurant’s owner, was born. He...
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Superscript
“LIKE perplexing to fit a block hoop into a turn hole” is how Sejong a Great, a Korean king, noticed a use of regulating hanja, exemplary Chinese characters, to register Korean. Hanja recorded...
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Horses in midstream
IN THE final scurry towards Taiwan’s presidential elections on Jan 16th, a opinion for a statute party, a Kuomintang (KMT), is grim. The celebration was drubbed in metropolitan polls in Nov by a...
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Postman expat
Georgius rexit HONG KONG is dirty with reminders of a majestic past. Prisons, schools and parks bear a names of British monarchs. There are still open statues of them. The island’s harbour, a hilly...
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Manual drive
“GOOD presidents make history. Bad ones make story textbooks.” This aphorism from South Korea’s categorical antithesis celebration is splashed opposite campuses and widespread by teachers and pupils...
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Mr Oli’s winter challenge
USUALLY thick with smog, a sky above Kathmandu is strangely clear. For weeks a besiege during Nepal’s limit with India has strangled a capital’s supply of fuel. The nation relies roughly wholly on a...
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Back to a chief zone
The uninformed atmosphere of Naraha THE stink of debase and rodent excrement fills a vital room of Yoshiei Igari, one of thousands of residents who fled a city of Naraha on Mar 12th 2011 after an...
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Central Park
AMERICA has no closer allies in Asia than Japan and South Korea, and no critical antithesis other than China. So it has pained American officials that over a past 3 years a allies have hardly been on...
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Hot water
YOU competence have suspicion an American advance of China was underneath way. A warship had “illegally entered” waters in a South China Sea melancholy “China’s supervision and confidence interest”,...
View ArticleDodging genocide in paradise
OVER a years a clear waters of a Maldives, an Indian Ocean archipelago dear of high-spending, beach-loving tourists, have mostly been muddied by internecine politicking. But even cloyed...
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Noodles of longevity
China’s mercantile arise is well-known. But a immeasurable alleviation in a health and longevity of a people—despite abominable levels of pollution—is reduction so. A new investigate published in a...
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Ham-fisted handouts
A CONCRETE lane meanders past nurseries of hunger saplings and sheep extending on stubble, petering out during Dayinghan, a poorest, many remote encampment in a hard hills of executive Shanxi, a...
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Temples of doom
Where are a pilgrims and punters? FAR from priesthood avoidance from conceivable pleasures, a Buddhist priests behind a conflicting of Vowz, a Tokyo bar, inspire a opposite. There are opposite paths...
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Change in a air
THOUSANDS waited for hours underneath a blazing object on a football margin in Taungup, a tiny city nearby a Bay of Bengal in Rakhine state in Myanmar’s west. Most wore a red T-shirts of a National...
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South-East Asia is choking on Indonesia’s timberland fires
THE annual obscurity that blankets swathes of South-East Asia customarily starts to incline in October. This year however a smoggy conditions—caused by fires set to transparent farmland in farming...
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China allows all couples to have dual children
IT HAD been a prolonged time coming. Chinese demographers had been worrying aloud for years about China’s fast ageing race and plunging birth rate and a impact these trends would have on a country’s...
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An American warship sails by doubtful waters in a South China Sea
South China Sea United States Asia China THE nonplus about a penetration on Oct 27th by an American warship into what China regards as a waters in a South China Sea is not that it took place....
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For a initial time, Vanuatu jails hurtful legislators
FEW inaugurated politicians compare a insolence of those who oversee Vanuatu, in a Pacific islands. On Oct 22nd 14 of them, including dual former primary ministers, were jailed for corruption. The...
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