Competition to get into college in China is so intense that an illicit industry has sprung up selling high-tech devices to students sitting entrance examinations. Cheats are offered such aids as transmitters embedded in pencil erasers and high-definition cameras shaped

Attacks on Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's budget this week focused largely on the apparent dearth of plans to sell state holdings and other reforms. Yet now it appears large stakes will be sold - the budget was just "not

Challenge and Strategy. Rethinking India's Foreign Policy by Rajiv Sikri India will get nowhere in its quest for global recognition if it continues piggybacking on other nations while bowing before the United States and China, says the author. Instead, New

The general Asia-wide breather in equities looks set to continue another week, and if a couple of exchanges, such as the indefatigable Shanghai market, seem still to have some energy left, their endurance will soon be challenged. R M Cutler

Google's plan to challenge Microsoft by producing its own Chrome operating system will please many computer users desperate to be liberated from the world of endless patches, reinstallations and tedious upgrades. But even this public has to be persuaded that

It is often said that the test of a guru is the quality of his devotees. They certainly do tend to reflect his teaching and example, and I might add, this also implies that they do not always act in

Does Sathya Sai Baba really transform people? Sathya Sai Baba has said (to V.K. Narasimhan) that one thing he cannot do is make people be good. So the question as to whether Sai devotees undergo more sound or permanent self-transformation

Armenia commands the statement of the presidents. The Armenian Foreign Minster Edward Nalbandyan stated this on July 11 during his meeting with the Deputy Secretary of State, James Steinberg, assessing ...

The Defense Minister of Armenia Seyran Ohanyan received today Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russian to Armenia Nikolai Pavlov. The Russian Ambassadors mission is due ending. The Defense ...

The investigation to search for black boxes of Air France lost jet A330 will be continued. French investigative ship equipped with listening devices will be searching for the black boxes. Note that the ...

From July 6 to 10, banks purchased $48.997.583 at 361.95 Drams/1 Dollar and sold $ 50.350.593 at 363.78 Drams /1 dollar. Over the same period, NASDAQ OEMEX Armenia carried out sale-purchase transactions ...

During the meeting with Ukrainian Prosecutor General Alexander Medvedko, First Deputy Interior Minister Mikhail Klyuev, and Deputy Chair of Ukrainian Security Service Vasily Gritsak President Victor Yushchenko ...

Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Hovik Abrahamyan received the outgoing Ambassador of Russia to Armenia, Nikolay Pavlov. During the conversation the Armenian Parliament Speaker expressed gratitude t...

Member of ARF Dashnaktsutyun parliamentary group Vahan Hovhannisian said he shares concerns of former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, who presumed that the Nagorno Karabakh issue can become an article ...

The United States hopes for serious progress in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement process, a U.S. senior official said. "We are looking forward to the next meeting between the Presidents of Azerbaijan ...

Conference on the "Armenian-Turkish Relations and the Artsakh Issue" was held in Stepanakert today. Addressing the conference, NKR President Bako Sahakyan said: "Respected participants of the conference, ...

Iranian born Afruz Amighi has won the new Jameel Prize for her art titled "1001 Pages," with Sevan Býcakcý, a Turkish artist of Armenian origin, named as one of nine finalists, Hurriyet reports. Hundreds ...

On July 11, RA Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan met Russian Ambassador to Armenia Nikolai Pavlov in connection with his diplomatic mission's completion. According to RA Defense Minister's Press Secretary, ...

USA approves of steps directed at Armenian-Turkish rapprochement and opening of borders, US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg stated at a joint news conference with RA Foreign Minister Edward ...

G8 Summit launched in Italian LAquila has been the most comprehensive and multilateral. According to foreign media publications leaders of 30 countries and representatives of 8 international organizations ...