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Holy noodles
“ITS time to assign yourself!” So, ungrammatically, a glossy wrappers of Lov Charger cream wafers declare. It is not usually a eager aphorism and a flattering cost (two rupees, or around 3 American...
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Abe agonistes
WHEN Shinzo Abe final called a snap ubiquitous election, usually dual years after entrance to energy in 2012, Japan’s primary apportion saw an antithesis in irregularity and a possibility to connect...
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A family affair
FOR decades domestic instability, a boom-and-bust economy and autochthonous crime warranted a Philippines a moniker of a “sick male of Asia”. But during a 6 years that Benigno Aquino has been boss a...
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Making waves
A waves in a affairs of Kiribati LOUNGING underneath a thatch-roofed pavilion in a encampment of Abaokoro, a late seaman, Tiree Tepenea, points during a bluish firth that stops a few stairs from his...
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Changing lanes
Htin Kyaw and Sister Suu ANOTHER month, another miracle in Myanmar’s approved transition, with a country’s initial giveaway presidential choosing on Mar 15th. The complement is that a top and reduce...
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Bouquets and brickbats
HAPPILY for a members India’s Parliament convenes for usually 3 sessions a year, for an undemanding 100 days in all. In early open a financial apportion traditionally launches a eventuality clinging...
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Gatecrashers
ONE of Vietnam’s domestic gadflies, Nguyen Quang A, posted a minute this week to a authority of Vietnam’s National Assembly. Mr Quang A wrote that he had collected 5,000 signatures from among a...
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Doctored Strangelove
Kim Jong Un gives on-the-spot barb guidance “THE whole indicate of a Doomsday Machine is mislaid if we keep it a secret,” Dr Strangelove tells a Soviet envoy in Stanley Kubrick’s joke on cold-war...
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Imperial lather
THE progenitor of Japan’s majestic line, presumably 2,600 years ago, was female: Amaterasu, enchantress of a sun. But for many of a time since, all emperors have been male. This has exercised a UN’s...
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Short cuts
A SLEEK steel badge could shortly condense by a centre of a collateral of a Pakistani range of Punjab, slicing a length of a commuter’s outing opposite Lahore to only 45 mins from anything between...
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China v a rest
FOR years China has sought to order and order in a South China Sea. It worked tough to forestall a countries severe it over some or all of a absurdly aggrandising territorial claims in a sea from...
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Kindred spirits
The tough highway to China “I HEARD we are all going to a shoe factory,” says one of a shocked teenage girls in a film hopefully, huddled on a building of a sight firm for north-eastern China in 1943....
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The Gambia gambit
TAIWAN and China, that claims a eccentric island-nation as partial of a motherland, used to play a melancholic slogging diversion called “dollar diplomacy”. In it any side competed with lorry-loads of...
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Walls of silence
Enter here, and vanish FROM a air, abounding Chinese drifting into a Philippines to play or Filipinos drifting out to work abroad for a vital can see a particular Solaire Resort and Casino beside a...
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Turnbull’s large gamble
RIGHT after Malcolm Turnbull defenestrated his Liberal Party trainer final September, Australia’s new leader, a fourth primary apportion in 3 years, betrothed “substantial change” and a “different...
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A bombing in Lahore underscores a hurdles of opposed extremism
MEMBERS of Pakistan’s confidence investiture who are charged with gripping sequence in Punjab, a country’s biggest province, have in new weeks trumpeted their successes opposite eremite militancy and...
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Chairman of everything
SHORTLY before a annual event in Mar of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, a National People’s Congress, dual extraordinary articles seemed in government-linked news media. The first, published in a...
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Doubt of a benefit
Seongnam reflects on a amicable pool TO ITS stream occupant, Seongnam’s city hall, a radiant potion structure, stands as an edifice to wastefulness. It was built for 320 billion won ($280m) underneath...
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The conflict for Punjab
YEARS of terrorism have had a narcotic outcome on Pakistan. Most of a scarcely 10,000 attacks a nation has suffered in a past 6 years took merely hours to tumble from a perspective of politicians and...
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Men-at-alms
JUST north of Bangkok, a Thai capital, stands an outrageous golden stupa designed to final 1,000 years. Its radiant extraneous is finished not from well-spoken tiles though from 300,000 tightly-packed...
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