Police officers wearing radioactive protection gear search through debris for missing people in the Ukedo area, 7km from the Fukushima plant, on 19 February, 2012. - Photo: Getty Images
Why Fukushima
still polarises
nuclear debate
CHRISTINE LOH, HONG KONG
Debate, protest, and radiation leaks continue unabated as countries decide which side of the nuclear power fence they are on. A year after the quake and tsunami, the Fukushima disaster continues to polarise public opinion and cramp government policy. more…
Does China's rise stunt freedom?
Chinese labourer in Bata, Equatorial Guinea. - Photo: Getty Images
GRAEME MAXTON, SINGAPORE
China's hunt for the planet's remaining resources could be undermining democratic government and stunting the future prospects of African and Asian countries. more…
See the shiny
new CEO
Hong Kong chief executive candidate Henry Tang. - Photo: Getty Images
STEPHEN VINES, HONG KONG
The Hong Kong chief executive ballot is a SAR-Beijing ballet without much nuance or subtlety. After “daddy” annoints its man, what then? The dilemma for HK. more…
One size really
doesn’t fit all
Return of the Raj: Mounted ceremonial guard parade in New Delhi.
SWAPAN DASGUPTA, NEW DELHI
One immutable Centre. One straitjacket time zone. It’s time for India to flex some federal muscle, fix the clocks and improve cricket Why States need more power. more…
More sunny
days ahead?
Chinese production surplus has brought solar panel prices crashing.
BILL BARNES, LONDON
Surplus Chinese solar panels create a price-drop ripple effect from Asia to Europe. Who benefits most? And what becomes of the industry as prices plummet? more…
Math by numbers
Indian students flunk math, but what about the rest of Asia? Shanghai, Singapore and Hong Kong top the Asian list when it comes to numbers aptitude. Read more
Nuclear safety risks
A new report ranking countries on a nuclear safety places Asian giants China and India at the bottom of the heap when it comes to risk. Read more
Presidential salaries
At the top of the pack in 2011 was Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong with an annual salary of over US$2.2 million. In distant second was HK chief executive Donald Tsang? Read more
Politics, power, and
parochialism in India
Anna Hazare ends his fast August 2011 in New Delhi. - Photo: Getty Images
RAMACHANDRA GUHA, BANGALORE
Improving the quality of democratic institutions will require more than just a Lok Pal. India must nurture moral idealism and shun petty parochialism. more…
- BUSINESS
- Made in China, the fear factor
- Asian consumers are changing the world
- Microfinance in Asia: greed or goodwill?
- DEVELOPMENT
- Ne Win to win win
- China's rise could undermine freedoms
- One size doesn’t fit all
- Pakistan’s gridlocked travails
- India needs rapid economic gain to alleviate Maoist pain
- ENERGY
- Fukushima nuclear clouds one year on
- Solar energy: more sunny days ahead?
- Oil rush comes East
- ENVIRONMENT
- Saving the Earth
- HEALTH
- Assessing the travel health risks in Asia
- From whence the next outbreak?
- INFORMATION
- Print vs Web dust-up: Should we pay for online news?
- POLITICS
- See the shiny new CEO
- Burma spring signals change
- A Benevolent Big Brother brand
- Politics, parochialism and power in India
- Fast work – Anna’s true Balance Sheet
- Hong Kong freedoms: Now the kowtowing gets serious
- Why the Kashmir story needs retelling
- HK democracy push led by young, Internet-savvy generation
- India caste woes: time to talk about the elephant in the room
- SHIPPING
- New shipping laws could make for greener seas
- SOCIETY
- Voices from the Underground
- Women: Afghanistan’s forgotten second war
- TRAVEL
- Myanmar poll impact on travel and tourism
- Online travel agents and airlines clash as carriers go direct
- TRENDS
- One man’s meat is another’s poisson
- BLATHER
- A fright for sore eyes
- Gorilla case: are your bags tough enough?
- Once in a babymoon and daft buzzwords
- VOICES
- Maldives: cold deeds in sunny places
- North Korea options
- Libya introspection
- A post-Bin Laden world
- Khamsin in the desert
- Japan's AWOL atoms
- Darkness in Pakistan
- Syria crackdown
- BY THE NUMBERS
- Math by numbers
- Nuclear safety risks
- Just don’t breathe
- Presidential salaries
- Thailand after deluge
- Commuter pain index
- Soaring suicide rates
- Asian corruption index
- Cyber crooks playtime
- Asia arms race
- Hotels go green
- Battling inflation
- Rare earths fears
- Travel will triumph
- Waste not want not
- HOME
- BUSINESS
- DEVELOPMENT
- ENERGY
- ENVIRONMENT
- HEALTH
- INFORMATION
- POLITICS
- SHIPPING
- SOCIETY
- TRAVEL
- TRENDS
Cold deeds sunny isles
An abrupt end to the tenure of Maldives’s first democratically elected president leaves the fate of this fledgling democracy hanging in the balance. See world opinion
Once in a babymoon
Daft buzzwords make the travel lexicon more complicated than ever. more…
