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Analysis
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Saturday, 2 July, 2011
By Jeremy Clarke - Stephen Lugga’s office is a converted cargo container. An air conditioner rattles away while the undersecretary for telecommunications does his bit to get South Sudan ready for independence on July 9.
With days to go before the south splits from the north, his tasks include regis
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Saturday, 2 July, 2011
By Peter Apps and Julie Crust - Critics say it doesn’t go far enough, has been watered down, may barely be enforced and its terms have — perhaps deliberately — been left vague.
But Britain’s Bribery Act — which covers overseas operations of firms doing business in the UK — becomes law on July 1, an
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Saturday, 2 July, 2011
By Can Merey - In Mazar-e Sharif, northern Afghanistan, life appears decidedly normal. Cranes soar in the blue skies over traffic-filled streets and well-stocked markets, while builders toil on new multistorey houses springing up around the city.
The capital of Balkh province is deservedly known as
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Saturday, 2 July, 2011
By Pratap Chakravarty - Apublic outcry over stratospheric pass marks needed to enter Indian universities has highlighted the deep malaise in an education system that is failing to keep pace with rapid economic growth. The trigger for the uproar was the announcement by one of Delhi University’s most
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Wednesday, 29 June, 2011
By Salil Panchal -
INDIA’S billionaire Ambani brothers are struggling to rediscover their Midas touch after a year in which they have been battered by investigations and investor scepticism about their businesses.
Mukesh and Anil Ambani took over their father Dhirubhai’s conglomerate after his de
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Wednesday, 29 June, 2011
By Marianne Barriaux -
A FOREST of buildings and cranes rises through thick fog above roads jammed with cars in a Chinese city the size of Austria and home to more than 32 million people.
The southwestern megacity of Chongqing is bursting at the seams as authorities struggle to keep pace with its
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Wednesday, 29 June, 2011
By Fabrice Randoux -
SOCIALIST leader Martine Aubry cut a modest and unassuming figure even when she announced her bid to assume one of the most powerful and high-profile jobs in Europe, that of president of France.
Sober in dress and in rhetoric, the 60-year-old mayor of Lille is at first sight
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Wednesday, 29 June, 2011
By Didier Lauras -
THE divisions that plague Thai society will deepen further after Sunday’s election unless arch-enemies within the political realm agree to respect the verdict of the polls, analysts say.
Ahead of the July 3 vote which is crucial to the future of the country, few observers expec
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Wednesday, 29 June, 2011
By Nidal al Mughrabi -
TWO months after announcing a surprise reconciliation deal, Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah remain at loggerheads, unable to implement even the easiest parts of their accord.
A senior Hamas official blamed Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas for the deadlock, accusing him
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Wednesday, 29 June, 2011
By Joshua Howat Berger -
THE brutal fighting between the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party has ended, but other than that the place in Thokoza where Greg Marinovich was shot hasn’t changed much.
Residents of Thokoza, a poor township on the outskirts of Johannesburg, are no l
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