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Analysis
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Monday, 20 May, 2013
By Andy Jalil — Foreign Correspondent — THERE is increasing fear of a new wave of illegal immigration into Britain particularly after certain eastern European countries declared recently they were on the brink of joining an European Union scheme to allow free movement of people. Concerns were raised
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Sunday, 19 May, 2013
WITH no sign of an end to three mushrooming scandals, the White House acknowledged the rising dangers by launching a concerted effort at damage control. In a whirlwind few hours, the administration moved forcefully to counter criticism of its handling of the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, the se
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Sunday, 19 May, 2013
By Siegfried Modola — ABDU Ibrahim Mohammed was 15 years old when he began trekking with caravans of camels to collect salt in a sun-blasted desert basin of north Ethiopia that is one of the hottest places on earth. Now 51 and retired, he has passed his camels to his son to pursue this centuries-old
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Sunday, 19 May, 2013
By Pat Reber and Feihu Li — DEMOCRATIC leaders in the US Congress added their voice to growing calls for more American firms to join a broadening global coalition to push for building and fire safety in Bangladesh. Only two US firms have signed on to an unprecedented commitment by western, mostly Eu
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Sunday, 19 May, 2013
By Arun Prakash — NO matter what cosmetic gloss (or acne ointment) is put on the recent stand-off between the Indian border police and the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA), India is perceived as having come off second best in test of wiils, as the Chinese intruded across the Line of Actual Control (LAC
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Sunday, 19 May, 2013
By Tom Miles — AS British Prime Minister David Cameron struggles to accommodate eurosceptics in his own party, trade experts warn that quitting the European Union would force Britain not just to rework trade relations with the EU, but also with the EU's trade partners and probably the World Trade Or
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Sunday, 19 May, 2013
By Paul Taylor — TURKEY'S achievement of investment-grade status crowns a decade of rapid growth, financial stability and political reform by a "tiger" economy on the seam of Europe and Asia, but the rising power still faces pitfalls in a dangerous neighbourhood. Moody's Investors Service raised its
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Thursday, 16 May, 2013
By Helen Linvingsonte — AS Britain edges closer to a referendum on its membership of the European Union, the debate is heating up on the benefits and pitfalls that the 27-member club brings. For Britain, unlike France and Germany, the EU is almost solely about trade and the single market — rather th
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Thursday, 16 May, 2013
By Joan Biskupic and David Ingram — HE may have been the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He may have written a book extolling constitutional values in a democracy. And he may have run for president on a civil libe
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Thursday, 16 May, 2013
By Stephen Grey and Douglas Busvine — WHEN the Cyprus bank run began earlier this year, Russians set much of the pace. Documents show that as the Mediterranean island headed towards financial meltdown in March, most notable among companies transferring money from the country's two main banks were Ru
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