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Analysis
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Sunday, 12 May, 2013
By Stuart Grudgings — Malaysia's racially divisive election result has sparked a battle within the country's ruling party that is likely to slow Prime Minister Najib Razak's drive to reform the economy and roll back policies favouring majority ethnic Malays. Najib's Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition r
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Sunday, 12 May, 2013
Preeti Jha — AS night begins to give way to dawn, 40 high-performance cars pull up on an empty Hong Kong backstreet. While the city sleeps, their revving engines fill the air with a heavy smell of petrol. The drivers huddle together to set the route, always at the last possible minute. One of them s
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Thursday, 9 May, 2013
By Anna Smolchenko — Vladislav Surkov, who left the government in a stunning move yesterday, was often described as the Russia's third most powerful man after President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. As first deputy head of the Kremlin administration, Surkov was credited with des
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Thursday, 9 May, 2013
By John Irish and Daniel Flynn — CHAD'S President Idriss Deby, a survivor of countless rebellions, has stepped into a void left by Africa's traditional heavyweights and turned his desert nation into a powerbroker as France disengages from its former colonies. The success of Chad's 2,000 battle-harde
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Thursday, 9 May, 2013
By Cecil Morella — It is close to midnight and Imelda Marcos is dancing in a trademark pink butterfly gown at a small Philippine town fiesta with adoring voters who still revere her dead ruler husband. At an age when many others are in nursing homes, the tireless 83-year-old is on the campaign trail
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Thursday, 9 May, 2013
By Laura Mannering — AN army of road sweepers and refuse collectors keep the streets clean in the heart of Hong Kong — but on the outskirts, growing mountains of waste are testament to what campaigners say is an environmental crisis. While the city may look well-kept, its three huge outdoor landfill
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Thursday, 9 May, 2013
By Ethan Bilby — Addressing an audience of dignitaries in Luxembourg in 2005, Bulgaria's then prime minister extolled the virtues of European Union membership, declaring his nation ready to take its place at the heart of the continent. "Bulgaria is returning politically to the family of European nat
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Thursday, 9 May, 2013
By Mira Oberman — TEN years after watching Amanda Berry walk out of work for the last time, Darrell Ford stood transfixed behind a US police barricade picturing the horrors she must have endured. "For 10 years — what was he doing to her?" Ford asked on Tuesday as FBI forensic experts scoured the hou
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Wednesday, 8 May, 2013
THE battle for gun control in the US just got a whole lot tougher. Just weeks after the nation's powerful gun lobby succeeded in defeating a widely-popular gun control bill, weapons advocates were cheering again on Monday after a plastic gun made by a 3D printer successfully fired its first test sho
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Wednesday, 8 May, 2013
MIAN Hussain is fighting for his political life from a deserted party headquarters, where two telephones sit silently beside him and the footsteps of a tea boy echo down the corridor.
One of Pakistan's most high-profile anti-Taliban politicians, Hussain hasn't been to a single public event since ca
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