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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad wasted a golden opportunity in an interview to explain to the Western public, even briefly, why petro-monarchies Saudi Arabia and Qatar, plus ...
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The development of violent outbursts against Mynamar's Muslim population has brought Burmese Buddhists to a crossroads in which they need to initiate conversations about the ...
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While atrocities in Syria, such as the cannibalism viewable on YouTube, transfix the West, the real horrors of war are still to come in the Middle East. Americans, whose ...
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Scapegoating of Chinese in the wake of its disappointing recent polls reflects the degree to which the United Malay National Organization, leader of Malaysia's ruling Barisan ...
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Myanmar President Thein Sein is poised to receive red carpet treatment today at the White House in Washington even as his army wages war against Kachin inside his country and ...
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Steady gains by regime forces by no means indicate they are about to win the Syrian civil war, even as the reversals suffered by the rebel forces and their penetration by ...
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A billion-dollar loan from a Chinese firm to Portugal and a free-trade deal between Beijing and Iceland's government have one thing in common - both potentially open the door ...
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At this stage of an inflationary asset market boom, it's perfectly rational to double-down with the "house's money" and play for the spectacular big win, using unprecedented ...
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Those Pyongyang watchers who insist there is a calculated strategy behind its escalation of tensions likely find it hard to explain the rationale behind its closure of the ...
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Forget about the Pentagon "pivoting" to Asia; nothing compares with the catfight developing between the United States and European Union over a free-trade pact proposed by ...
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"Irritating Japan" is well on its way to replacing "Rising China" as the meme favored by the United States as Abe Shinzo's new nationalism exploits US backing to advance its ...
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Pakistan's Prime Minister-elect Nawaz Sharif has his hands full with domestic challenges, let alone find time to pursue his stated goal of better relations with India. ...
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The culinary delights of bugs and insects are well-known to Asians for their flavor and nutritional value, but, with notable exceptions, tend to disgust Westerners. They ...
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A reversal of India's downward trend in industrial production in the most recent quarter will provide some sense of comfort for the government of Prime Minister Manmohan ...
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Philippine voters have granted approval to President Benigno Aquino's three-year-old reform agenda. Their by-elections mandate gives his administration enough popular steam to ...
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An unexpectedly significant outburst of anger from China's elite at North Korea's brazen provocations may be enough to require that Beijing try to harmonize public opinion and ...
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Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has presided over a thousand economic bubbles. Rather than ushering in investors who could help turn around economies, he and his ilk ...
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A distinct relationship that's developed between the US and Iranian wrestling organizations is culminating in the two sides teaming up to try and prevent the sport being ...
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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has established an enlarged cabinet, though with reduced representation of the ethnic-Chinese vote, to bolster his position and ...
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Hundreds of Afghan and foreign Taliban insurgents are said to be building up a presence to attack the Kajaki dam, a flagship of international reconstruction efforts in ...
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An attempt by hundreds of members of a crime syndicate to join Taiwan's opposition Democratic Progressive Party, seemingly designed to manipulate a vote to elect the DPP ...
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Protests across peninsular Malaysia after a general election marked by allegations of irregularities and vote-buying and the erosion of popular support for the ruling Barisan ...
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Vietnam faces tough choices over two putative region-wide trade pacts - one US driven and excluding China, the other including the Asian giant but absent the US. The country's ...
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A deal to exchange crude Mongolian oil for refined products processed in China's Inner Mongolia will undercut Russia's dominance in the Mongolian market while improving the ...
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Like post-Second World War Austria, North Korea is a strategic crossroads for clashing great powers. To replicate Vienna's emergence as a stable and prosperous power, ...
