Aung San Suu Kyi’s historic victory overshadowed another piece of equally important news: a new exchange rate came into effect, the first step in transforming Myanmar into a more open, market-based economy. Pretty soon, the whole world will be fi
Month: April 2012
More than 750 gays, punks and “emo” youths have been killed over the past six years by radical Shi’ite militias hunting down “deviants” to torture and execute. There is no justice for these killings, which are
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna, who has close ties with Pope Benedict XVI, has overruled a local decision that had blocked a gay man from taking his place on a parish council in a northern Austrian town. Are the winds changing for gays in the Cath
The United States has put up a $10 million reward to help arrest Pakistani Islamist leader Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, suspected of masterminding two attacks on Mumbai and the parliament building in New Delhi.
One L. Goh, the 43-year-old former student of a small Christian university in California who opened fire at the school Monday, has given no motive after his arrest. Officers are still looking for the weapon with which he killed at least seven people.
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12 killed in Moscow market fire
Twelve people have died after a fire tore through a Moscow market warehouse where migrant workers were living.
Following the March 22 coup that ousted President Amadou Toumani Touré, the north of Mali is in the hands of a Tuareg rebellion. It is a rolling series of events that has leaders across the region worrying about similar threats.
Essay: You would think having more women in the boardroom would lead to more cautious management, but a new study finds that female financial executives tend to take more risks than men — sometimes in a troubling attempt to imitate their male counterpart
Aung San Suu Kyi, icon of the Burmese opposition, will finally head to Parliament following historic elections. But this day came only after President Thein Sein’s surprise commitment to reform. Still, true democracy will need Thein Sein to outfo
Analysis: As Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff prepares to arrive in Washington to meet President Obama, a closer look at the bilateral relations between these Western Hemisphere powerhouses shows vast potential, much of it unfulfilled.
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party says it had won at least 43 out of the 44 parliamentary seats that it contested in the southeast Asian country’s parliamentary by-elections.
Unemployment across countries that use the euro edged higher in February to 10.8%, the highest level since the introduction of the single currency in 1999. Spain has the highest rate of 23.6%.
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Russian plane crash kills 31
A Russian passenger plane crashed and burst into flames after takeoff in an oil-producing region of Siberia. Thirteen survivors were pulled from the wreckage and rushed to hospital by helicopter.
Essay: Liuliu, one of China’s best-selling authors and keenest observant chroniclers of modern life, has decided to expose her marriage crisis on her Twitter-like microblog account. It is a plot twist that cannot be undone.
Whether it is to avoid the nursing home, loneliness or rising rents, co-housing is the new trend for a generation of baby-boomers staring at 60 and beyond.
Asia is going through its own so-called “Fordist” phase, as countries are introducing minimum wage standards and multiplying some salaries by five in order to turn citizens into consumers. But what does this mean for the rest of the worl