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  • Laos: Liberalisation at the Crossroads
    Aparupa Bhattacherjee    ·   03 Apr, 2013    ·    #3867    ·    Commentary    
    The arcane disappearance of a Laotian citizen, award-winning activist, Sombath Somphone has baffled the world. The Laos government is facing criticism from their neighbouring countries, and especially from the US, due to their inability to probe...
  • J&K: Let the People Decide
    Shujaat Bukhari    ·   03 Apr, 2013    ·    #3866    ·    Commentary    
    Problem of Jammu and Kashmir is so intricate, that even 48 small or broad “roadmaps” given by different entities since 1947 have failed to resolve it. Three full fledged and one “undeclared” war further distanced India an...
  • China: Environmental Degradation and Government Response
    Namrata Hasija    ·   31 Mar, 2013    ·    #3865    ·    Commentary    
    The thick smog covering Beijing and the great swathes of territory in the north and east, has led to the declaration of "Code Yellow," meaning the highest level of air pollution. Almost 11000 carcasses of pigs have been removed from th...
  • India, China & the Brahmaputra: Riparian Rivalry
    Roomana Hukil    ·   31 Mar, 2013    ·    #3864    ·    Commentary    
    China’s proposed strategic interests behind the building of the run-of-the-river dams along the middle reaches of River Brahmaputra, provides insignificant data over the nature of the project in the future course of time. As the Indian gov...
  • Bangladesh: Is it the Shahbagh Spring?
    Suvolaxmi Dutta Choudhury    ·   31 Mar, 2013    ·    #3863    ·    Commentary    
    The present political upsurge in Bangladesh has brought the 150 million-strong nation to the throes of a revolution. Certain commentaries have compared Shahbagh, the seat of the uprising in Dhaka, to Tahrir Square. Is the Shahbagh upsurge herald...
  • Sri Lanka: Tamil Nadu and India’s Foreign Policy
    Prof. V. Suryanarayan    ·   31 Mar, 2013    ·    #3862    ·    Commentary    
    There is a huge divide between Chennai and New Delhi on how both see Sri Lanka. What remains the primary problem in India’s approach towards Sri Lanka, and why is there a divide within? Periphery and the Core: Problems of India’s ...
  • Naxal Violence: The Peoples' Liberation Front of India (PLFI) in Jharkhand
    Deepak Kumar Nayak    ·   29 Mar, 2013    ·    #3861    ·    Commentary    
    The activities of the Peoples' Liberation Front of India (PLFI), a splinter group of the Communist party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), have forced the state police to intensify operations against them in the Gumla district in Jharkhand. Thou...
  • China & North Korea: Will Beijing Arrest the ‘Rogue’?
    Rana Divyank Chaudhary    ·   29 Mar, 2013    ·    #3860    ·    Commentary    
    For the second time in 2013, China has voted in favour of a UN Security Council Resolution on North Korea (DPRK) that came hot on the heels of Pyongyang's latest nuclear test. Resolution 2094 is the fifth in a series of sanctions - 2006, 200...
  • The Netherlands 2014 Nuclear Security Summit: An Agenda
    Debak Das    ·   28 Mar, 2013    ·    #3859    ·    Commentary    
    A year has passed since the last Nuclear Security Summit took place in Seoul in March 2012 and it has been announced that the next summit shall be held in the  Netherlands in 2014. What should be the important concerns for the 2014 summit i...
  • Cambodia: Ieng Sary and the End of an Inhuman Era
    Prof. V. Suryanarayan    ·   27 Mar, 2013    ·    #3858    ·    Commentary    
    The death of Ieng Sary (24 October 1925 – 14 March 2013), one of the founding fathers of the Khmer Rouge, brings to an end an inhuman chapter in the history of modern Cambodia. When the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1978, Ieng Sa...
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