Humanitarians

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Annan reveals little of his personality

23 Sep 2012

Interventions: A Life in War and Peace

by Kofi Annan

Penguin

Charley Lanyon

Talking points

29 May 2012

Our editors will be looking ahead today to these developing stories ...

Jerome Lau hears verdict on indecent assault charges

Talking points

28 May 2012

Our editors will be looking ahead today to these developing stories ...

Asean eyes on Chinese minister's visit to Singapore

Growing pains

21 Mar 2010

Jose Ramos Horta, the president of East Timor, is finalising plans for the country's first professional bicycle race with advisers over an afternoon drink at the Hotel Esplanada's pleasant...

Order prevails

27 Aug 2007

The paint is peeling off a three-storey grey building in a run-down part of Calcutta teeming with beggars and disabled street children. But busloads of western tourists flock to the spartan house...

Opinion

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

Tom Holland

Signs of nightmare scenario in China's latest economic data

An Ordinary Man - An Autobiography

by Paul Rusesabagina, with Tom Zoellner

Penguin, HK$105

Local filmmakers out of frame

Does this tell us something about our standard of creativity?

Asia can help East Timor stand on its own two feet

Jose Ramos Horta's first task as the new prime minister of troubled and isolated East Timor is to guide Asia's newest nation towards a fresh start.

Millions still suffer violence, poverty

The United Nations Children's Fund says violence, poverty and exclusion still dominate the lives of millions of children in Europe and Central Asia, despite progress on legal and institutional...

East Timor's shaky foundations need long-term support

Australian armoured vehicles patrol the streets of East Timor's capital, Dili, amid the burned-out shells of houses and food warehouses looted by marauding gangs, who for weeks have laid waste to...

Master of tact who's been racked over Iraq

When United Nations' Secretary-General Kofi Annan's term ends - presumably on the stroke of midnight on December 31 next year, but maybe sooner if the Iraq oil-for-food scandal gets the better of...