By Staff blogger - 24 September 12:35
By New Statesman - 21 September 11:53

Fighting chance.

By New Statesman - 21 September 11:12

At its first conference for a generation, the ruling Workers Party is expected to anoint Kim Jong-il

By Isabel Hilton - 21 September 9:07

Negotiating with North Korea was never simple — but as threats of confrontation with the South ease,

By Arundhati Roy - 11 September 10:26

Arundhati Roy’s searing indictment of modern India continues.

By Arundhati Roy - 11 September 10:25

A powerful indictment of Indian democracy by the Booker Prize-winning novelist and activist.

By New Statesman - 07 September 12:56

Kosuke Tsuneoka claims he was captured by a 'corrupt military faction'.

By New Statesman - 27 August 11:18

Sumo training centres will be equipped with iPads to improve communication between sumo wrestlers an

By Tom Phillips - 24 August 12:05

Across this ex-Soviet belt, women are being kidnapped and forced into marriage. How has such a custo

By Akbar Ahmed - 23 August 8:53

The vision of Pakistan’s founding father was a land of many faiths and cultures united in a common p

By Issam Ahmed - 23 August 8:52

Pakistan offered shelter to Kashmir’s dispossessed Muslims as they fled sectarian violence. But with

By Fatima Bhutto - 23 August 8:52

The floods destroying Pakistan’s infrastructure are against a backdrop of corruption, impunity at th

By William Dalrymple - 23 August 8:49

The Pakistani state has a long history of nurturing
jihadis as a means of dominating Afghanistan a

By Mehdi Hasan - 20 August 11:49

“David Cameron should not have owned Tony Blair’s war”

By New Statesman - 17 August 18:03

North Korea opens Twitter and YouTube accounts as the propaganda war moves online.

By Michael Brooks - 16 August 9:13

China, driven by a desire for prestige and its own Nobel laureates, could soon lead the world in sci

By New Statesman - 12 August 9:53

Punjab and Sindh provinces are feeling the full effects of the over-flowing Indus River as Monsoon d

By Sholto Byrnes - 09 August 9:20

Up until 2005, Indonesia seemed sure to succumb to a wave of Islamist terror. But, in the post-Suhar

By Staff blogger - 05 August 0:36

With Pakistan's government unable to cope, Islamic groups both mainstream and extreme have filled th

By Sholto Byrnes - 26 July 16:48

Never forget: the terrifying normality of Comrade Duch -- by the prisoner who survived.

By Staff blogger - 24 July 13:06

Harsh words sparked by planned US military exercises.

By Caroline Crampton - 23 July 14:21

A firefighter drowns while trying to clean up a spill -- this one in Dalian, China.

By Mehdi Hasan - 19 July 8:53

Secularism became a vital part of the Indian constitution after independence, but it is now under th

By Tina Burrett - 13 July 12:30

Just six weeks into the job, poor election results have put Japan’s prime minister at risk of losing

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