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Modi’s new broom aims to sweep India clean
Narendra Modi enlists the Mahatma in his ambitious campaign to make India a clean place in five years, ROBIN JEFFREY and ASSA DORON report. Narendra
Time for radical rethink on language policy
An Australian institute of languages could do for language learning what the Australian Institute of Sport has done for sport, JOHN INGELSON believes. For many
Mutual fears and suspicions continue to impede Korea reunification talks
HYUNG-A KIM sees glimmer of hope for bridge-building between North Korea and South Korea in 2015 following North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s new year declaration
Haiyan’s lingering aftermath
Fifteen months after super typhoon Haiyan battered the Philippines, life on the devastated Visayan Islands struggles to return to normal, reports JAMES FRANCIS WARREN. On
Portrait of a pragmatist
Hun Sen’s Cambodia. By Sebastian Strangio. Yale University Press, 2014. 322pp. During a recent conversation, a foreign affairs official confided to me his views on
Sri Lanka opts for normality with Rajapaksa ousting
DAMIEN KINGSBURY analyses the surprise election of Maithripala Sirisena as president last month and sees it as reflecting a desire for a more open, less
Gender inequality persists in Japanese politics
Despite professed enthusiasm from the Abe government to increase the number of women in the workforce and in leadership positions, writes EMMA DALTON, the statistics
A fearful symmetry
Members of the privileged families of the party–state are escaping China’s current anti-corruption campaign, writes GEREMIE R. BARME. Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests
Laos foots the bill for power-hungry Bangkok
Bangkok’s ever increasing electricity consumption is perpetuating injustice in Laos, writes DANNY MARKS. Seven months ago, in May, Bangkok’s latest shopping mall, Central Embassy, celebrated
A missed opportunity: environmental education in Indonesia’s new curriculum
Indonesia’s new school curriculum, writes LYN PARKER, disappoints when it comes to environmental education In 2013, Indonesia introduced its second new school curriculum since the
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