Olive ridley sea turtles are amazing creatures. Every year between December and March, hundreds of them swim home to lay their eggs on the beaches of the coastal metropolis of Chennai, aka Madras, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Deng Xiaoping announced in 1992 that ‘to get rich is glorious’, opening up the floodgates of economic expansion but also exploitation, inequality and corruption.
The appearance of IndoLeaks, Indonesia’s very own version of WikiLeaks, has led to speculation that documents may emerge to throw light some of the darkest periods of Indonesia’s history.
Like the old philosophical conundrum about the noise made by a tree falling in a deserted forest, so the recent election in Burma raised the question: if a country goes to the polls and no international observers are there to see it, how does the outside world know elections have taken place at all?
India is using space development as a way to advance a stronger geostrategic position in the region and globally. The U.S. defense industry is facilitating this military expansion with its aggressive move in to South Asian markets to supplement reductions in their Pentagon contracts.
Opportunistic speculators are eying Nepal’s burgeoning hydropower potential. Does wealth or woe lie ahead for the poverty-stricken nation?
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