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Army manoeuvres
IT WAS an unusual moment, and seen by many as a happy perfection to a long, mostly bloody and always slashing story: this week Myanmar swore in a new boss as a suggested conduct of a initial...
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A vaccine liaison in China causes an outcry
WANG SHENGSHENG, a counsel who lives in Guangzhou in southern China, is a mom of a baby baby. The province’s health officials suggested her, she says, to have her baby vaccinated not customarily...
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Emergency powers to reject India’s state governments
HOT denunciation erupts from a cold foothills of a Himalayas: a former arch apportion of Uttarakhand says Narendra Modi’s inhabitant supervision is “murdering democracy”. Until Mar 27th Harish Rawat...
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Back at the spinning wheel
THE wheel at the centre of India’s flag is an appropriate symbol. In the world’s largest democracy politics ceaselessly turns yet seldom moves, and then rather slowly. Take West Bengal, the most...
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Back during a spinning wheel
THE circle during a centre of India’s dwindle is an suitable symbol. In a world’s largest democracy politics continuously turns nonetheless occasionally moves, and afterwards rather slowly. Take West...
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Oh mother
Bharat Mata channels Britannia IT SOUNDS harmless adequate for any Indian to wish feat to Bharat Mata, or Mother India. And a aphorism bharat mata ki jai, that means most a same thing, is being...
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No travel in a Park
Waffles in a wind FEW will be contemptible to see a behind of South Korea’s stream National Assembly when a four-year tenure ends in late May—least of all Park Geun-hye, a country’s regressive...
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Line in a sand
A clever executive bent around a median line THOUSANDS of people recently rallied in front of a Australian embassy in Dili, a strand collateral of Timor-Leste, in substantially a biggest proof given a...
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Grey zone
OVER a months Yuichi Okano realised that his aged mom was losing her mind. She stopped showering and started to smell. At night she chatted to her late husband. She would conduct out of a front...
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Of blowhards and bombs
MORALLY, Donald Trump is not like Kim Jong Un. He does not send children to gulags. But a egotistic aristocrat and a hostile oppressor do have some things in common: a robe of self-adulation, an...
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A suitable boy?
THEY seem such a earnest pair, India and America. The dual biggest and noisiest democracies are related by denunciation and blood: 125m Indians pronounce English, and over 3m Americans explain Indian...
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Pulp non-fiction
A LIVELY decoction of tabloid-style sensationalism, learned literary explanation and exposés of total trimming from cocktail idols to politicians, Japan’s publication weekly magazines, or shukanshi,...
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Bad moon rising
Qadri on his approach to his shrine MALIK BASHIR, a late builder, now spends his days sitting underneath a shade of a tarpaulin, supervising a mutation of his son’s final resting place into a...
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Okay, for now
WHEN we cruise a backdrop of diseased tellurian demand, a unsuitable Chinese economy and doubt over American financial policy, afterwards a predictions for South-East Asian economies seem utterly...
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Trawling for trouble
AS A halt it is wasteful, polluting and provocative. But it is also, Indonesia’s supervision insists, frequency effective. On Apr 5th a country’s maritime-affairs minister, Susi Pudjiastuti, watched...
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Look both ways
Spot a pile-up helmet SMOKE belched from a empty of a double-decker manager as it strained over a rail channel a brief stretch from Bangkok, Thailand’s plentiful capital. The vehicle, that was full of...
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Switzerland widens the enquiries into Malaysia’s 1MDB
EARLIER this year authorities in Switzerland pronounced they had begun rapist investigations into dual former officials during 1MDB—a Malaysian state investment organisation from that they trust some...
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The Taliban make a gruesome start to a new fighting season
WHEN a Taliban announced a start of their annual open descent final week, Afghans braced for bloodshed. This week, it came. On Apr 19th, during morning rush hour, a member of a Taliban gathering a...
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High mountains, apart emperors
JUST days after her supervision took bureau late final month, Aung San Suu Kyi, a world’s best-known democracy activist, welcomed her initial unfamiliar dignitary: Wang Yi, unfamiliar apportion of a...
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