• WORLD

  UK man pleads guilty in foiled 2021 crossbow attack on queen

  AFP, Published on 03/02/2023

  » LONDON: A Briton on Friday became the first person in decades to plead guilty to treason, after admitting trying to harm Queen Elizabeth II with a loaded crossbow in Windsor Castle in 2021.

• WORLD

  Americans still confusing Sikhs for Muslims

  AFP, Published on 27/01/2015

  » WASHINGTON - More than a decade after 9/11, Americans who come across a turban-wearing Sikh are still prone to mistaking him for a Muslim, according to a study released Monday.

• WORLD

  Tensions rise in India opposition over Modi leadership

  AFP, Published on 24/03/2014

  » The split between the old and new guard of India's hardline Hindu opposition, tipped to win national elections, burst open Monday after it refused to field one of the party's founders in the polls.

• OPINION

  Asia's bold new security trifecta

  News, Published on 27/02/2014

  » Winter is India’s diplomatic high season, with the cool, sunny weather forming an ideal backdrop for pageantry, photo ops at the Taj Mahal or Delhi’s Red Fort, and bilateral deal-making. But this winter has been particularly impressive, with leaders from Japan and South Korea visiting to advance the cause of security cooperation in Asia.

• THAILAND

  Many Asian countries still 'fighting' historical enmities

  News, Published on 14/12/2013

  » A country's foreign policy is supposed to be aimed, first and foremost, at advancing its national interest. But, in large parts of Asia, the national interest - whether building commercial ties or bolstering security - is often subordinated to history and its hold on the popular imagination. As US Vice President Joe Biden just discovered on his tour of Japan, China and South Korea, the American novelist William Faulkner's observation - "The past is never dead. It's not even past" - could not be more apt.

• OPINION

  Confusion reins as Afghans take next big step

  News, Jaswant Singh, Published on 01/12/2013

  » Despite some last-minute brinkmanship by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the US and Afghanistan seem to have worked out a bilateral security agreement to govern the 8,000 to 10,000 (mostly US) troops that will remain in Afghanistan from next year. But Afghanistan remains a source of significant uncertainty _ and high anxiety _ in an already unstable region.

• OPINION

  Great powers manoeuvre in Asia

  News, Published on 30/09/2013

  » Nowadays, many people seem to be more relaxed than ever about nationality, with the internet enabling them to forge close connections with distant cultures and people. But states remain extremely sensitive about their borders' inviolability. After all, territory _ including land, oceans, air space, rivers and seabeds _ is central to a country's identity, and shapes its security and foreign policy.

• OPINION

  Beijing's moves spark new great game

  News, Jaswant Singh, Published on 26/09/2013

  » Nowadays, many people seem to be more relaxed than ever about nationality, with the internet enabling them to forge close connections with distant cultures and people. But states remain extremely sensitive about their borders' inviolability.

• WORLD

  Hardline Modi set to be frontman of India's opposition

  AFP, Published on 08/06/2013

  » Controversial opposition politician Narendra Modi's hopes of becoming India's next premier could get a big boost this weekend when his party chooses its frontman for next year's general elections.

• OPINION

  India-China border dispute offers warning for others

  News, Published on 23/05/2013

  » A half-century after the Sino-Indian War of 1962, the border between China and India remains undefined and a constant source of friction between the world's two most populous countries. Following three weeks of fighting in 1962, it was agreed to draw a Line of Actual Control (LAC). Five decades later, the map has yet to be delineated. As a result, both sides routinely send patrols up to the point where they believe the LAC should be _ the latest episode being a three-week incursion by Chinese troops into Indian-held territory that began in April.

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