10 Asian Environmentalists to Watch
With our physical environment increasingly threatened, it has become essential to recognise that even a single person is capable of making a big difference.
DEBBY NG
Friends of the conflict
Even if you don't agree with Israel, you can probably understand why it insists on perpetuating its internationally-unpopular occupation of the Palestinian people. But what about the United States?
DAN-CHYI CHUA
Li Na – Rewriting Chinese Competitive Sports
Her victory at Roland Garros has proven that Chinese players can defy the state system – and still win.
王学进 WANG XUEJING
Li Na Dreams the Dream of a Nation
A Chinese blogger ponders the Grand Slam win of compatriot Li Na and wonders how much the tennis champion owes to China's national sporting policy.
RACHEL HUANG
Where Are the Tiananmen Leaders Now? (Part 2)
Some discovered Jesus, and others wealth and success on Wall Street. A handful is on Twitter where one of them tells of how he was entrapped by his wife, a Chinese undercover spy. Here are the 21 most wanted leaders of the Tiananmen uprising, 22 years later.
DAN-CHYI CHUA
Where Are the Tiananmen Leaders Now? (Part 1)
Some discovered Jesus, and others wealth and success on Wall Street. A handful are on Twitter where one of them tells of how he was entrapped by his wife, a Chinese undercover spy. Here are the 21 most wanted leaders of the Tiananmen uprising, 22 years later.
DAN-CHYI CHUA
Tiananmen on My Mind
A man crippled by the tank that rolled over his legs. A 15-year-old who demands the truth. Here’s a collection of Chinese voices on the 1989 government crackdown on pro-democracy student protestors, known to them simply as June 4.
The asia! team
For Independence, stop at New York
Decades of peace talks have led nowhere. Now the Palestinians plan to take their case to the United Nations, where they believe they can get majority support for an independent Palestine. The question is: Will it work?
DAN-CHYI CHUA
US-Pakistani relations: Mutual BS*
A Pakistani writer looks at the ties between the two countries and decides to call it what it is.
KALSOOM
India Woos Afghanistan as Influence Wanes
Can New Delhi protect its strategic interests and keep Kabul on its side in an unfriendly and volatile neighbourhood?
AUNOHITA MOJUMDAR
Making a Play for the Indian Sub-Con, Post-bin Laden
The death of the world’s most wanted terrorist has started a new act in geopolitics in the India-Pakistan neighbourhood, with the U.S. and China jostling for a starring role.
DAN-CHYI CHUA
Come again, Mr President?
Good heavens, did President Obama just make the most radical foreign policy proposition yet in his Middle East speech last night?
DAN-CHYI CHUA
Will this be the year that Israel accedes?
Popular protests by the Palestinian people.Their feuding political parties coming together in the name of national unity. Does Israel stand a chance against this growing impetus for the creation of a Palestinian state?
DAN-CHYI CHUA
The Joy of Sixx
The nine members of Singaporean band, Sixx, are coming soon to an MRT station near you.
DARIUS SIT
While you were watching the devastating quake in Japan
Something hideous happened in Israel. A family of five were murdered in their home and that was just the beginning.
DAN-CHYI CHUA