The November 2025 Bihar state poll - where women played a major role - has further distanced the right and the left. Is there space for a centrist liberal narrative? .
Why India needs centrist liberalism to heal politics
SHASHI THAROOR
NEW DELHI
A case for homegrown Centrist Liberalism and how it can offer constructive solutions to current problems with the reintroduction of much-needed moral values and humanism to a fractured political discourse. more…
HK needs better English proficiency
HK's Pottinger St: The need for better English persists
VIJAY VERGHESE
HONG KONG
English appears to be getting short shrift in Hong Kong. This could profoundly impact global business in this ‘World City’. more…
Myanmar border a fence too far?
Will a tightened India-Myanmar border offer any real solutions?
GAUTAM MUKHOPADHAYA
NEW DELHI
Ending the Free Movement Regime with Myanmar could backfire on India and spark further tribal unrest. Why the change? more…
New opportunities for HK youth?
Youth Blueprint hopes to engage more youngsters
VIJAY VERGHESE
HONG KONG
HK Youth Blueprint offers a fresh start. Whether this encourages dialogue or dogma depends on the execution. more…
Manipur must dig deep to heal wounds
Manipur Kuki tribes stage protests against killings, August 2023
RUPA CHINAI
MUMBAI
Manipur's tragedy will only be resolved when all communities come together to heal and stop looking to Delhi for solutions. more…
Asia has two green thumbs
By late 2019, two surprise candidates at the forefront of the greening of the earth, were China and India. China accounts for 25% of global greening through forests and croplands. Read more
If the money's right
How much do world leaders get paid to shake hands and smile on TV? Quite a bit, it turns out, but not if you're at the helm of the world's most populated country. Read more
Weighty bad loans
Chinese and Indian banks have racked up weighty bad loans. China's Big Four had just under US$112 billion in bad loans - a climb of 4.6% year on year end June 2017. Read more
Whither freedom of speech in India?
Madan Lokur delivered the 2020 BG Verghese Memorial Lecture
MADAN B LOKUR
NEW DELHI
India is on a dangerous slide into authoritarianism where people are arrested for sedition on the basis of made-up fairy tales. more…
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- Why HK needs better English for business
- China searches for self-reliance
- Will airline bailouts really fly?
- KL should keep some better Najib policies
- An Aye for an Aye, the online click storm
- Despite blockade Qatar goes big
- Halal travel worth US$220bn
- Finally, a green light for India
- Brand on the run
- Made in China, the fear factor
- Asian consumers are changing the world
- Microfinance in Asia: greed or goodwill?
- DEVELOPMENT
- How to bridge the wealth gap
- Songdo, a city smarter than you
- Ne Win to win win
- China's rise could undermine freedoms
- One size doesn’t fit all
- Pakistan’s gridlocked travails
- India needs rapid economic gain to alleviate Maoist pain
- ENERGY
- Clearing the air on energy matters
- Fukushima nuclear clouds one year on
- Solar energy: more sunny days ahead?
- Oil rush comes East
- ENVIRONMENT
- Just two degrees
- Saving the Earth
- HEALTH
- Wily RNA viruses remain a menace
- HK anti-vaxxers bury heads in sand
- Can Covid-19 threat help unite HK?
- Assessing the travel health risks in Asia
- From whence the next outbreak?
- INFORMATION
- Journalism in a time of strident nationalism
- Dunkirk and delusions of empire
- Death of a salesman
- Media moguls to slick clickers
- Print vs Web dust-up: Should we pay for online news?
- SECURITY
- India-US ties grow warmer
- Pakistan's lack of identity is key risk
- Super snoops patrol our unfriendly skies
- SHIPPING
- New shipping laws could make for greener seas
- How the Kra Canal can slash shipping time
- SOCIETY
- Manipur must look within to heal
- One Indian feminist activist's story
- HK youth outreach a new start
- English decline in HK must be reversed
- Turning Indian citizens saffron by stealth
- Give Peace a Chance
- Saudi women drivers get royal nod
- India, a nation of vigilantes
- Why the UK has designs on China
- India lauds tough Lee model but...
- Faith and fists can move mountains
- Football in the sands: a force for change?
- Voices from the Underground
- Women: Afghanistan’s forgotten second war
- TRAVEL
- Wily RNA viruses remain a menace
- Accident by design?
- Marriott's takeover of Starwood
- Airline safety records
- Myanmar poll impact on travel and tourism
- Online travel agents and airlines clash as carriers go direct
- TRENDS
- China sets record for Asian art auctions
- Borderless world in CinemaScope
- One man’s meat is another’s poisson
- POLITICS
- Centrist Liberalism as a salve, solution
- Indian democracy wins the 2024 poll
- An India-Myanmar fence too far?
- US must follow global rules
- Taliban in Kabul
- Whither freedom of speech in India?
- The Battle of Belonging - book excerpt
- Delhi pogrom tip of Hindutva iceberg
- Quelling street violence in Hong Kong
- Talks are the answer to HK street protests
- The Hindutva attack on science in India
- HK students snub global causes
- Modi-Xi Wuhan reset focuses on trade
- The 21st Century Animal Farm
- Need for Indian judicial reform
- The siege of the Taj Mahal
- Politics of hate and the end of Liberalism
- The inglorious rape of India
- Can Carrie Lam reinvent Hong Kong?
- Nepal's progressive
new Constitution - Tough Rohingya
Rubik's Cube - Rule Brittania and the rape of India
- Localists place HK in Beijing crosshairs
- Sword of the brother enemy - after Uri
- BJP dominant as Congress retreats
- Myanmar lacks clear policies, direction
- Do Modi's foreign tours have substance?
- HK a house divided
- War and peace in Asia
- Mind or muscle in HK's electoral battle?
- Why Britain must pay reparations to India
- Modi motorcade lands in trouble
- Caste and religion take a back seat - AAP win
- Why HK needs good table manners
- Pride not prejudice in Hong Kong stand
- Now you see it, now you don’t
- Jinnah to Osama the search for a soul
- Narendra Modi quells fears of saffron domination
- Aam Aadmi: an uncommon party for the common man
- Nepal's red skies turn blue
- Lessons of ’88 – from Ne Win to win-win
- Nepal: a growing mountain of woes
- India-China war: 50 Years After 1962
- Hong Kong yields to "Western" influence
- A glacial impasse
- Hong Kong: Wolf in CEO’s clothing?
- See the shiny new CEO
- Burma spring signals change
- A Benevolent Big Brother brand
- Politics, parochialism and power in India
- Fast work – Anna’s true Balance Sheet
- Hong Kong freedoms: Now the kowtowing gets serious
- Why the Kashmir story needs retelling
- HK democracy push led by young, Internet-savvy generation
- India caste woes: time to talk about the elephant in the room
- BLATHER
- The world will be as one
- Case of the disappearing GM
- MeToo, a tale of three women
- Say farewell to
laptops inflight - Samsonite in a snit
- Smoke gets in your eyes
- Hitch your wagon to a star
- Dance through any emergency
- Why do good hotels serve bad scrambled eggs?
- Stay fit or fake it
- A fright for sore eyes
- Gorilla case: are your bags tough enough?
- Once in a babymoon and daft buzzwords
- VOICES
- Future of Gaza
- Israel moves right
- Welcome Biden
- Greta Thunberg
- Iran makes a Gulf play
- Kim-Trump summit prospects
- One flag many bumps
- Tackling Asian malnutrition
- Dealing with North Korean nukes
- Outcry over Rohingya 'genocide' inaction
- Muslim ban blasted
- Peres peace a pipe dream?
- Once bitten, twice shy - Zika
- Spat over Spratlys
- PM Lee, end of an era
- Barracking Barack - Bibi's bet
- Clean air and nukes in pivotal US shift
- What IS the world to do with ISIS?
- Where have all the flowers gone?
- Why MH370 matters
- Thailand on the brink
- Voters winners in Pakistan poll
- Calling the shots in North Korea
- An Apple a day brings lawsuits your way
- Egypt’s election sparks jubilation and fears
- Maldives: cold deeds in sunny places
- North Korea options
- Libya introspection
- A post-Bin Laden world
- Khamsin in the desert
- Japan's AWOL atoms
- Darkness in Pakistan
- Syria crackdown
- BY THE NUMBERS
- Greening the world
- Fire in the sky
- Weighty bad loans
- If the money's right
- Guns and oil in the China Sea
- Virulent viruses sweep Asia
- What's that glow?
- Green cars at red light
- Spoiling for a fight
- The greening of Asia
- Of mite and muscle
- Do pilots have cash to flash?
- Asia’s casino gamble
- Smartphones on speed dial
- Asia up in arms
- A global high
- Greenbacks for green
- Math by numbers
- Nuclear safety risks
- Just don’t breathe
- Presidential salaries
- Thailand after deluge
- Commuter pain index
- Soaring suicide rates
- Asian corruption index
- Cyber crooks playtime
- Asia arms race
- Hotels go green
- Battling inflation
- Rare earths fears
- Travel will triumph
- Waste not want not
- HOME
- BUSINESS
- DEVELOPMENT
- ENERGY
- ENVIRONMENT
- HEALTH
- INFORMATION
- POLITICS
- SECURITY
- SHIPPING
- SOCIETY
- TRAVEL
- TRENDS
Gaza force gets nod but peace still imperilled
Huge differences remain in the perception of Gaza's future structure ... See world opinion
Once in a babymoon
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