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Analysis
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Tuesday, 12 July, 2011
By Jean-Baptiste Piggin -
CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel meets Kenyan leaders today at the start of a three-day swing through Africa where business opportunities, especially purchases of gas and oil, are high on the agenda.
In her weekly video message to the public, Merkel explained: “In Kenya, I’ll be
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Tuesday, 12 July, 2011
By Marilyn Gerlach -
GERMAN firms, lagging European peers in appointing women to board posts, have stepped up their efforts in hopes of averting legal quotas as a campaign to smash the glass ceiling gains momentum.
Deutsche Telekom and SolarWorld each appointed female executives last week, in mov
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Tuesday, 12 July, 2011
By Rebecca Conway -
THE United States is withholding some $800 million in military assistance to Pakistan in a show of displeasure over its cutback on US trainers, limits on visas for US personnel and other bilateral irritants, the White House said.
The move follows weeks of tension between the t
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Tuesday, 12 July, 2011
By Ben Blanchard/Sui-Lee Wee -
ONE of Mao Zedong’s anointed successors was ousted and hounded by Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution. Another died in a mysterious plane crash.
Deng Xiaoping wrested control of China from a third Mao successor, then proceeded to depose his own chosen protege,
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Tuesday, 12 July, 2011
By Ingrid Melander -
TOURISTS are flocking back to Greece’s sun-drenched islands, drawn by sharply lower prices on offer for Aegean holidays, but the crisis-hit country will need tough reforms for the rebound in visitors to last.
Anxious to improve an image tarnished by news footage of bloody str
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Monday, 11 July, 2011
By Andy Jalil, Foreign Correspondent -
It would have been inconceivable that the closure of a highly successful newspaper would come abruptly under such dramatic circumstances.
Britain’s biggest selling Sunday newspaper, The News of the World, — the first of four to be purchased in the UK by medi
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Monday, 11 July, 2011
By Janesara Fugal -
RIDING a wave of support among rural voters, Thailand’s incoming premier plans a raft of populist measures to narrow the rich-poor divide, at the risk of higher inflation and debt.
A rise in the minimum wage, increased rice prices for farmers and free tablet computers for prim
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Monday, 11 July, 2011
By Stephane Jourdain -
WITH the government’s case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn foundering, public criticism of the prosecutor by the alleged victim’s lawyer underscore problems if a trial takes place, legal experts say.
Prosecutors and victims, who usually do not have their own
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Monday, 11 July, 2011
By Penny MacRae -
NOT long ago it was the toast of investors, but India’s appeal has taken a hit, with bearish sentiment building thanks to worries over stubbornly high inflation and widespread political corruption.
Investor ardour for Asia’s third-largest economy has been cooled by a litany of b
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Monday, 11 July, 2011
By Richard Balmforth -
BELARUS President Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994, must find $3 billion by year’s end to prop up his heavily indebted economy. That raises the compelling questions — How will he raise the cash and is his hold on power weakening?
For many Belarussians, a financial
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