Hilary Clinton and her new ‘Asia Pacific’ agenda
by Dr Ferdaus Ahmad Quarishi THE US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, is gracing us with a short visit as part of her tour of the Asia Pacific to bolster what has been described as a giant stride to cement US relations with the countries in the region. Her visit coinciding with that of the [...]
Afghans have been excluded from the judicial process after the shooting that left 16 dead. No wonder anti-US feeling is growing By: Glenn Greenwald US army staff sergeant Robert Bales is accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan villagers, including nine children, and then burning some of the bodies. The massacre took place in two villages [...]
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By Robert Fisk I’m getting a bit tired of the “deranged” soldier story. It was predictable, of course. The 38-year-old staff sergeant who massacred 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, near Kandahar this week had no sooner returned to base than the defence experts and the think-tank boys and girls announced that he was [...]
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by Faiza Mirza on March 12th, 2012 Festivals, whether religious or cultural, have always fascinated me and being a devout advocate of coexistence I enjoy celebrating Christmas, Eid, Navroz and Diwali with my friends — an act which is unfortunately officially ‘extinct’ now. The festival of Holi, which remains one of my favorites, took place [...]
Continue reading …At Davos, Will Asia Be Seen as the Solution to or the Victim of Global Economic Crisis?
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While many Asian nations have shown great resilience to the global economic crisis, the European slowdown is threatening their heavily export-dependent economies. January 25, 2012 By Véronique Salze-Lozac’h and Nina Merchant-Vega From January 25-29, the world’s most powerful leaders from the public and private sectors gather in the Swiss town of Davos to try to [...]
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By Abraham M. Denmark | 06 Dec 2011 The sinking of the South Korean corvette Cheonan by a North Korean submarine in March 2010 has already been recognized as a human tragedy and a significant escalation by Pyongyang in its multi-decade confrontation with Seoul. But in the years ahead, the Cheonan incident may come to [...]
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High profile seminar on info-tech titled eASiA 2011 is going on at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre. A large number of foreign delegates and international IT experts are available at the premise of the conference. Realising Digital Nation is the slogan of the seminar. To commemorate the 40th birth anniversary of Bangladesh and celebrates the [...]
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November 25, 2011: As part of a major effort to modernize the armed forces of Bangladesh, Chins will deliver 16 F-7BGI jet fighters next year. Bangladesh already has 40 older F-7s (a clone of the Russian MiG-21), plus ten MiG-29s, which form the core of their air combat force. China is providing the aircraft at [...]
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By PIERRE BUHLER PARIS — This is the season of summits. It took European leaders several summits to hammer out a rescue package for the euro; then there was the G-20, the new ring of global power. Then President Obama hosted the Asia-Pacific Economic Community meeting in Hawaii, where he was born and raised, and [...]
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By BETTINA WASSENER Published: November 23, 2011 HONG KONG —Asia’s ability to stay resilient amid the West’s economic troubles is slowly waning. For much of this year, the economies of the Asia-Pacific region appeared to be blissfully isolated from the turmoil in other parts of the world. Asian stock markets fell along with those [...]
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Nuon Chea defends actions in Khmer Rouge genocide trial Top Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea has defended his actions at a UN-backed court in Cambodia, on the second day of his genocide trial. A prosecutor said he and his two co-defendants had “murdered, tortured and terrorized” their own people. But Nuon Chea, Pol Pot’s deputy, [...]
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By JACKIE CALMES Published: November 19, 2011 ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Obama and nearly all the leaders at an Asian summit directly confronted China on Saturday for its expansive claims to the resource-rich South China Sea, putting the Chinese premier on the defensive in the long-festering dispute, according to Obama administration officials. President [...]
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