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Nieuws Desk Het eiland Publicatiedatum: 15-05-2013   De tweede ronde van politiek overleg tussen Sri Lanka en Vietnam werd onlangs gehouden in Hanoi. Karunatilaka Amunugama-secretaris, externe zaken…

News Desk The Island Publication Date : 15-05-2013   The Second Round of Political Consultations between Sri Lanka and Vietnam was held recently in Hanoi. Karunatilaka Amunugama Secretary, External …

Rejaul Karim Byron The Daily Star Publication Date : 14-05-2013   Bangladesh witnessed a high rate of loan defaults in the first quarter of 2013, due mainly to political unrest. “Loan defaults tend …

Editorial Desk The Nation Publication Date : 13-05-2013   Any Thai who marks the anniversaries of the May 1992 "mobile phone mob" uprising and May 2010 red-shirt uprising with the same sol…

Neal H. Cruz Philippine Daily Inquirer Publication Date : 06-05-2013   It is exactly one week to election day but many voters, believe it or not, are still not certain whom to vote for, judging from…

News Desk The Daily Star Publication Date : 18-03-2013   Wednesday might be the only workday in Bangladesh this week as a 36-hour hartal called by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e…

Former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has announced that he will not run in the December 16 House of Representatives election, long after his leadership was harshly and incessantly called into questi…

Japan stands at a crossroads. The direction it takes will be critical to determining whether Japan can remain one of the world's leading nations. As political gridlock continues and the economy …

Outgoing Chinese President Hu Jintao has prescribed a conservative developmental model called the Scientific Development View (SDV) for the country's next-generation leadership. The SDV, which h…

Tired of politicians switching parties at the drop of a hat? A bill seeking to punish “political turncoatism” in the Philippines has been passed on third and final reading in the House of Representa…

Tired of politicians switching parties at the drop of a hat? A bill seeking to punish “political turncoatism” in the Philippines has been passed on third and final reading in the House of Representa…

The Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday said it was powerless to stop political dynasties because Congress had yet to pass an enabling law for the constitutional prohibition. But …

In a recent interview, Thailand's newly appointed National Security Council (NSC) chief, Lt-General Paradon Pattanathabutr, said his goal is to strengthen coordination between the military-led I…

Sixty years after the Sino-Indian border hostilities several articles and information have found way in the media. Former Army Chief, General JN Choudhary’s introduction to the Henderson-Brooks repo…

Starting next year, Malaysia may require donations to political parties to be held in externally audited accounts, as the first step towards regulating the country's opaque political financing. …

Sixty years after the Sino-Indian border hostilities several articles and information have found way in the media. Former Army Chief, General JN Choudhary’s introduction to the Henderson-Brooks repo…

Many Japanese companies are very serious about investing in Bangladesh, but are scared of business impediments, including political uncertainty, Japanese Ambassador Shiro Sadoshima said yesterday. T…