Across Pakistan, a sex industry has begun to boom. Spilling from dark alleys and red-light haunts, prostitution is more common and ever-more exploitive. Profiteering foreigners are preying on a demand for sex that far outstrips supply. If the issue remains
Opinion in Russia today on Iran is divided over whether or not to engage the country. This same division existed in the late 19th century, the era on which the author focuses, using the writings of Russian travelers to Iran.
US President George W Bush and the man who hopes to replace him, Senator John McCain, have divulged to the world their beautiful dreams, in which Middle East weapons have become ploughshares, bitter enemies lie down together as lambs and
China's insistence that it will not hold back economic growth to assuage concerns about the impact that expansion is having on the world's climate has attracted the opprobrium of many in the West, such as US presidential candidate John McCain.
Investors in Asian stocks can head for the golf courses in a happy mood this weekend after the best five days so far this year, although the chatter and mood on the way to the first tees will have little
Microsoft's long-awaited release of software to fix bugs in its Windows XP operating system met with the expected response - complaints over installation woes, compatibility, and worse. It is almost enough to make consumers switch to Microsoft's newer and much-shunned
Inflation is no longer just a nasty little thing that might or might not raise the "concern" of the US Federal Reserve, it is a horrible storming fact of life, climbing out of low single digits way up into the
Though Asia in general had a bad week, India's problems stand out as the most intractable and subversive, harking as they do to the dominance of age-old communist thinking that has bred a cesspool of corruption. Other Asian countries also
With the international community looking on in stunned disbelief, Myanmar's humanitarian crisis has intensified as the military government pilfers foreign aid and the UN dithers through dead-end talks. Only the US military now has the power to avert a wider
The reaction to the flareup in Lebanon has left Saudi Arabia (and its United States ally) with no doubt that there are not many takers in the Arab world for anti-Iran, anti-Hezbollah ploys. This leaves the George W Bush administration
Hezbollah's display of strength in Lebanon leaves its backer, Iran, emboldened. Tehran is now in a stronger position to negotiate a deal with the United States pertaining to its nuclear file. Or it could do something radical, such as trade
Do not think to by petrol or diesel car just yet. The price of petrol will probably hit 40 THB per liter by the end of May month. It not much we can do to stop it because the mass
The UN thinks that as many as 120 000 people have died during the storm that hit Burma last week.The government of Burma does not help things by blocking foreign aid and confiscating aid shipments and selling it for profit.Many
SINGAPORE, 15 May 2008 - Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCCI) and IBM Singapore will launch the IBM Mobile Express at the 10th Annual SMEs Conference 2008 on 15 May, at the Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre.
A P20/day additional take home pay for Metro Manila workers was announced by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. This was immediately met with disapproval by labor union Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) who is demanding no less than a P125/day salary hike.
