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World Affairs: Asia

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Burma’s referendum of the absurd

Despite the terrible cyclone death toll, Burma's military junta is pushing ahead with its spurious constitutional referendum

In asia

Enter the dragon

  • By Flora Bagenal
  • 08 May

Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and sculptor Antony Gormley were drawn to the legendary Shaolin monastery. The reality they uncovered was not what they'd expected

Investing in Me, Inc

  • By Samia Rahman
  • 01 May

Observations on self-improvement

There are other Tibets

  • By Lindsey Hilsum
  • 01 May

In Xinjiang, as in Tibet, the government tries to bend unwilling subjects to its will, rather than accommodate the disparate cultures and beliefs

Forgotten Burma

  • By Rachel Aspden
  • 01 May

Burma is back in the news in the wake of the terrible cyclone. Ahead of this tragedy Rachel Aspden visited the forgotten Burmese resistance. Here is her report.

Sex 'n' drugs 'n' folderol

  • By Toby Lichtig
  • 01 May

Sea of Poppies
Amitav GhoshJohn Murray, 471pp, £18.99

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Power to the people

Power to the people

South Korea has just held its first jury trial,Japan is planning to reinstate juries next year, Russia is experimenting and even China is toying with the idea. And in Britain?

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Understanding the Taliban

  • By Stephen Grey
  • 24 April 2008

Chinese whispers

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  • 24 April 2008

The new Terminal Three

  • By Lindsey Hilsum
  • 17 April 2008

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  • 17 April 2008

A vote for the city

  • By Paul Rodgers
  • 17 April 2008

Terror in the east

  • By Isabel Hilton
  • 17 April 2008

The needle in the sea

  • By Simon Worrall
  • 10 April 2008

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