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DEVELOPMENT-ASIA: Region Seeks ‘Asian Voice’ at G-8 Summit
Asian countries are hoping their voices will be heard at this week's Group of 8 summit in Japan, their aspirations boosted by Tokyo's speaking up to air views different from western powers.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: International Humanitarian Law Under the Spotlight
One year after the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, intervention against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) over Kosovo, human rights activists are still debating whether the move was in violation of international humanitarian law.POLITICS-US: World Smiles, Pentagon Uneasy at Korea Breakthrough
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori compared it to the "collapse of the Berlin Wall," while the foreign ministry in Beijing called it a "major event of historic significance."//CORRECTED REPEAT//POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Election Results Send Mixed Signals
President Milo Djukanovic may struggle to achieve his dream of an independent Montenegro judging by the results of the local elections held over the weekend.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Election Results Sends Mixed Signals
President Milo Djukanovic may struggle to achieve his dream of an independent Montenegro judging by the results of the local elections held over the weekend.SRI LANKA: Jaffna Crisis Won’t Dent President’s Popularity — Analysts
Preoccupied with a bloody conflict with rebels in Sri Lanka's northern region, President Chandrika Kumaratunga has little time to think of an upcoming national battle with political rivals.SOUTH PACIFIC: Copycat Coup in Solomon Islands Tests Democracy
The copycat coup attempt in the Solomon Islands on Monday may well mean that the apparently successful takeover in neighbouring Fiji has become a model for other countries in the South Pacific region.EDUCATION: Germany Loses Decades-Long Lead in Science
Germany's reputation for turning out top- class scientists and engineers has taken a severe knocking.SRI LANKA: Jaffna Crisis Won’t Dent President’s Popularity — Analysts
Preoccupied with a bloody conflict with rebels in Sri Lanka's northern region, President Chandrika Kumaratunga has little time to think of an upcoming national battle with political rivals.SOUTH PACIFIC: Copycat Coup in Solomon Islands Tests Democracy
The copycat coup attempt in the Solomon Islands on Monday may well mean that the apparently successful takeover in neighbouring Fiji has become a model for other countries in the South Pacific region.MEDIA-INDONESIA: After the Euphoria, Press Under Attack
There are few more dramatic indicators of how things have changed in Indonesia in the last two years than events in the local media.POLITICS-IRAN: Reformists Dominant, But Know Limits
Iran's first reformist-dominated parliament since the 1979 Islamic Revolution has got down to business, bracing for the challenge conservatives appear set to mount from within and outside the legislature.POLITICS-FIJI: Coup Reverses Path to Multi-racial Democracy
Friday's coup against the Fijian government dashes the optimism that the Pacific island nation was finally on the road to a model multi-racial democracy.POLITICS-PAKISTAN: Musharraf Takes Cue From Military Predecessors
There were no surprises in Pakistan military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf's announcement of a timetable for local government elections.FINANCE-GERMANY: Bank Megamerger Changes Rules of the Game
The announced merger of Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank to create the world's largest bank in asset terms - worth 1,2 trillion United States Dollars - is yet another sign of the increased need for large companies to fall back on economies of scale to compete on the global market place.FINANCE-POLITICS: IMF Hearings – A Spectacle on Capitol Hill
US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers' latest defence of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) before its Congressional critics has left it unclear whether he intends to praise or bury the global economic watchdog.MIGRATION-GERMANY: Germany Accepts That It Needs Foreign Labour
For the first time since Germany put a stop to labour imports in 1973, the country has acknowledged that its economic growth depends on importing skills from India and Eastern Europe.DEVELOPMENT-ASIA: UNCTAD Meet May Trip Over Too-High Hopes
This week's meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Thailand is being bruited about as a sequel to the debate on globalisation, played out at world trade talks in Seattle last year.POLITICS: Nuclear Threats, as India-Pakistan Spar
Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, flanked by the chief ministers of four northern states, including Jammu and Kashmir, on Sunday delivered a sinister nuclear warning to Pakistan.RIGHTS-BURMA: Rebels Wage War Against Irrelevance
As the dust settles from last week's dramatic but failed seizure of a Thai hospital by radical Burmese students and Karen rebels, attention is now shifting to the future of the entire armed resistance movement based along the Thai-Burma border.EAST TIMOR: ASEAN’s Commitment to New Nation Tested
Previously hostile toward East Timor, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) now faces a serious test, this week, in its commitment to the newest nation state in the region.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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