South Asia

10 Dec 2012

Chester Bowles, a former US ambassador to India, once called for a single assistant secretary of state to cover the whole of Asia in order to strengthen the US State Department's capacity to think...

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Dhaka slum blaze highlights fire risk across Bangladesh, India and Pakistan

27 Nov 2012

Blazes like the one in Dhaka on Saturday are sadly all too frequent around south Asia. In September, in one of the worst incidents of its kind, 289 died in a fire in Karachi. The same month, 40...

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Something new: balance of trade

30 Sep 2012

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Child mortality halves in 20 years, but persists in Africa and South Asia

14 Sep 2012

The global mortality rate for young children has been nearly halved in the past two decades, but Africa and South Asia have not kept pace, the United Nations said yesterday.

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Molester 'driven to crime by loneliness'

13 Jun 2012

A businessman who took more than 60,000 lewd photos of male models was driven to indecent assault and criminal intimidation out of loneliness and low self-esteem, a court heard yesterday.

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Subcontinental drift: the ups and downs of a nation of extremes

10 Jun 2012

India Rising: Tales From a Changing Nation
by Oliver Balch
Faber and Faber

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Opinion

Workers pay the price for our bargains

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Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

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Garment sector's growth drives economic boom

As a hub for export manufacturing, Bangladesh has obvious attractions for Hong Kong-based companies familiar with the principle and practices of outsourcing production.

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Beyond bazaar

Walking through the centre of Dhaka's old city, Taimur Islam stops to lament the loss of another historical building. From a plastic binder, the architect produces pictures of a stately colonial...

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A bold but distant dream for South Asia

The recent proposal by the speaker of Pakistan's National Assembly, Dr Fehmida Mirza, of a possible South Asian parliament has stirred up a healthy debate.

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Audacity of hope

India: A Portrait - An Intimate Biography of 1.2 Billion People
by Patrick French
Allen Lane, HK$375

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Border issues the key to Sino-Indian trust

First US President Barack Obama went to India. Now Premier Wen Jiabao has paid a three-day visit.

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Water war with India the long-term threat

This may not be the most tactful time to bring it up, with much of Pakistan under water and many millions homeless, but the nation's real problem is not too much water. It is too little water -...

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