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An interview with the first Prime Minister of Singapore
For two centuries Asians have been bystanders in world history, reacting defenselessly to the surges of Western commerce, thought, and power. That era is over ...
Japan is arguably today's most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products are ...
The few dozen tourists and a few journalists who come to the North Korean capital of Pyongyong are accompanied by guides and allowed to see ...
Beginning in 1947, when 'India and Pakistan were born to conflict', renowned India scholar Stanley Wolpert provides an authoritative, accessible primer on what is potentially ...
Soon China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more 'Western'. Martin Jacques' book overturns conventional thinking about the ascendancy ...
In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic step of reopening relations between China and the West, and since then has been more intimately connected with ...
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It opens with a double kidnapping . . .
Madame Choi, South Korea's most famous actress, is lured to Hong Kong, drugged and smuggled out on a ...
Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor people of any country ...
Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North ...
According to current projections, India will overtake China to become the most populous country on Earth by 2050. Its 1.6 billion people will live ...
The Siege by Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark - a searing account of the 2005 terrorist attacks at Mumbai's famous Taj Hotel. On 26th November ...
From two of India's leading economists, Jean Dreze (Hunger and Public Action) and Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen (The Idea of Justice), An Uncertain Glory ...