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Author: Peter Drysdale, Editor, East Asia Forum After decades of struggle to overcome political repression and deprivation, Myanmar appears on the way to democracy. This achievement...
Author: Madhu Purnima Kishwar, CSDS ‘Development’ and ‘underdevelopment’ are politically loaded terms. Most ‘underdeveloped’ societies have a colonial past in which their people and resources were...
Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Security guards at the Great Hall of the People on Sunday, the eve of the National People’s Congress The Dow Jones Newswires-Wall Street...
Author: Kirill Muradov, HSE With the conclusion of the APEC meetings in Honolulu in November, another yearly cycle is about to draw to a close. Soon...
Author: Andrei Lankov, Kookmin University and ANU Until some 10 years ago, defection from North Korea implied that the person’s connections with his or her homeland...
The latest rise in China’s inflation rate immediately spurred predictions of tighter credit by the People’s Bank of China. Yet, higher rates might not have the kind...
For the first time in the short history of the Man Booker International Prize, two Chinese writers have made the list of 13 finalists. Su Tong...
Author: Mathew Joseph, ICRIER Food inflation is reaching new heights in India, petrol prices have seen a hike for the second time in a month and...
Author: Thee Kian Wie, LIPI, Jakarta The Indonesian economy continued to grow strongly at 5.8 per cent (yoy) during the third quarter of 2010, which was...
