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Pressing on with Asean integration last updated : 2013-04-26 09:58:02 -> 739 view(s)
After the deep divisions which Asean faced last year over its stance on the South China Sea issue, the only way forward for the organisation was an attempt to rebuild unity. That direction was apparent at this week's leaders' summit in Bandar Seri Be ....
The ghosts of Myanmar's past last updated : 2013-04-26 09:57:59 -> 715 view(s)
These past few weeks have been somewhat hectic for the government of Myanmar. First, there was the prestigious peace award given to President Thein Sein by the International Crises Group, recognising his work toward a peace that can be achieved.
The ....
Air and marine patrols must increase vigilance to defend against China last updated : 2013-04-26 09:09:44 -> 590 view(s)
The need to reinforce patrol and monitoring activities on the water and in the air around the Senkaku Islands to respond to China's perilously provocative acts has grown.
Eight Chinese maritime surveillance ships entered the territorial waters off t ....
Sea code: Binding on both sides last updated : 2013-04-26 08:49:25 -> 608 view(s)
Walk softly and carry a big stick. Theodoure Roosevelt’s dictum of practical diplomacy works only if a big stick is handy, like a powerful navy that has just circled the world. In the matter of the territorial disputes in the South China Sea, the P ....
Swinging towards transformation last updated : 2013-04-26 08:38:49 -> 564 view(s)
In life, change is said to be the only constant. In politics change is a given, even mandatory.
If a governing system does not change its style or policies the way people want, then the system itself may be changed. Such change may be democratic o ....
High speed trafficking last updated : 2013-04-25 12:31:04 -> 918 view(s)
A day after police rescued a Nepali woman from employment fraud and drug trafficking at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Aika (name changed) faced me hysterically. Her hopes of living the good life were still there, she said, but had ....
N. Korea's crazy act does not mean it's suicidal last updated : 2013-04-25 12:25:37 -> 911 view(s)
Amazing. A terrorist bomb goes off in Boston, a fertiliser plant explodes in Texas and miraculously, the "simmering tensions" on the Korean peninsula suddenly don't seem to matter any more. In fact, they have evaporated.
But were they really "simmer ....
M'sian women still running behind last updated : 2013-04-25 11:52:09 -> 601 view(s)
Once again, Malaysia is in election mode and once again, candidate lists are checked to see who might be running the country next.
Some old faces are gone, some are still there but there are also many new ones.
Perhaps, there is also more drama thi ....
Revival of US bases a suicidal notion last updated : 2013-04-25 11:43:38 -> 533 view(s)
The suggestion of Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin that US bases be revived here is like suggesting that the Philippines put itself in the line of fire in the event that a Korean war, possibly nuclear in nature, breaks out. It is like running betwee ....
Great 2G scam cover-up last updated : 2013-04-25 11:38:43 -> 498 view(s)
PC Chacko, chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G spectrum, has outperformed B Shankaranand of the Bofors JPC report fame, in whitewashing clean charges against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance minister P Chidambaram, in t ....
Aim for balanced growth in region last updated : 2013-04-25 10:54:10 -> 505 view(s)
Even if it does turn out to be only 6 per cent this year, bullish observers might argue that the region's economic growth will still be an improvement over last year's 5.6 per cent, and at least three times better than those forecast for rich countri ....
Don't let ministers' Yasukuni visits become thorn in diplomatic relations last updated : 2013-04-25 08:47:31 -> 594 view(s)
South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung Se's response must have been unexpected for the Japanese government.
Yun cancelled a trip to Japan that was scheduled for Friday and Saturday. This was a protest against visits by three Cabinet ministers, incl ....
Lagging Vietnam economy needs reform boost last updated : 2013-04-24 13:35:21 -> 1093 view(s)
Once regarded as one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, Vietnam now appears a laggard in a region where, despite the global economic slowdown, rapid growth remains the norm.
Gross domestic product (GDP) grew by just 4.89 per cent in the ....
Philippine environment at the breaking point last updated : 2013-04-24 10:27:07 -> 693 view(s)
A recent New York Times article rhapsodised about the home of Filipino artist Benji Reyes. What’s notable about the house, it said, was that it was “constructed entirely of rare Philippine hardwoods, species so endangered that it is now against t ....
All's not well that ends well: The Chen Shui-bian story last updated : 2013-04-24 10:20:40 -> 504 view(s)
Shakespeare composed “All's Well that Ends Well,” a comedy portraying Helena, daughter of the physician Gerard de Narbon, curing the disease of the king of France. Everything has gone wrong, but in the end Helena gets her wish to wed Bertram. Tha ....
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