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India: Food grains rot in India while millions live with empty stomachs 0
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- November 21, 2018
Thursday 22 Nov 2018 India has enjoyed a bumper crop, with record high agricultural production in 2017–2018. India is the world’s largest producer of millets and the second largest producer of rice and wheat. But this doesn’t help a family living in a slum on the outskirts of Trivandrum, deep in the southern state of Kerala. Thankamani
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The growing attention on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands 0
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- November 21, 2018
In recent years, these islands have been increasingly recognised as militarily important. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) By Aarti Betigeri 21 November 2018 Ecologically fragile The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a group of 572 islands, roughly equidistant from both Kolkata and Chennai, about 1,200 kilometres each way to the mainland. Just 37 islands are permanently inhabited, by
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Modi and Abe: judgement waits on India-Japan ties 0
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- November 14, 2018
THURSDAY 15 NOV 2018 Forging a close and trustworthy relationship (Photo: Kyodo News via Getty) BY Purnendra Jain 9 November 2018 India and Japan have forged a special strategic and global partnership over the years, and Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe have developed a personal and special relationship, propelling the relationship between the
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Elections a sham in Rakhine State 0
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- November 7, 2018
By Melissa Crouch 1 November 2018 People go to the polls on Saturday in Myanmar, or at least some of them do. On 3 November 2018, the Union Election Commission will coordinate by-elections across 13 electorates. Most are to fill seats from vacancies due to deaths of senior members of parliament. There are two reasons these elections
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China: re-engineering the Uighur 0
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- November 7, 2018
Thursday 08 Nov 2018 | SYDNEY An ethnic Uighur man has his beard trimmed: religious observances such as having an “irregular beard” have become seen as “expressions of extremification” Business Insider By Louisa Lim 7 November 2018 These chilling words are stated in an internal document, reported by news agency AFP, and encapsulate Beijing’s policy towards its ethnic Uighur
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The Rohingya are stuck 0
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- September 6, 2018
by Nicholas Farrelly 5 September 2018 This is the second of a series of three articles on the Rohingya crisis, featuring Morten Pederson on the domestic drivers of conflict, and Andrew Selth on the potential danger from transnational terrorist networks. Most of the Rohingya who were forced from their homes in Myanmar last year now find themselves stuck, perhaps
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The threat within: Pakistan’s ties to China 0
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- September 6, 2018
The aftermath of a 11 August suicide attack on a bus carrying Chinese engineers in Dalbandin region, Balochistan province in Pakistan (Photo: youtube) BY Adnan Aamir @iAdnanAamir 5 September 2018 Last month, a suicide bomber in Pakistan’s Balochistan province attacked a passenger bus transporting 18 Chinese engineers from Saindak town in the southwest to Dalbandin Airport. The engineers
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India: don’t blame WhatsApp for the lynch mobs 0
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- August 8, 2018
Thursday 09 Aug 2018 | 10:07 | SYDNEY A victim of one of the mobs. Photographer: Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images By Niraja Gopal Jayal* 2 August 2018 On 17 July, the Supreme Court of India was moved to condemn the recent spate of lynchings across the country as “horrendous acts of mobocracy … which cannot be allowed
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Pakistan: the tough road ahead for Imran Khan 0
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- August 8, 2018
By Adnan Aamir * 6 August 2018 The first major challenge Imran Khan will face as the next Prime Minister of Pakistan is from the opposition parties. In the general elections, his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party managed to win 115 of 272 general seats in the National Assembly. This is short of the 137 seats needed to form
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Sri Lanka failing on human rights 0
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- August 1, 2018
THURSDAY 02 AUG 2018 | SYDNEY BY Taylor Dibbert* Sri Lanka’s ethnic tensions remain predictably grim nearly a decade since the end of the country’s brutal 26-year civil war. The Special Rapporteur’s report is another reminder that Sri Lanka’s coalition government has performed terribly. A new report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion
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India: a “major power” still below its potential 0
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- July 25, 2018
by Alyssa Ayres* 25 July 2018 India is ranked a “major power” in the Lowy Institute’s new Asia Power Index. The Index sifts through more than 100 indicators across eight different measures to create a unique ranking of the relative power of 25 Asian countries. And for New Delhi, the analysis by and large looks good, with
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Kashmir: walking the line 0
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- June 13, 2018
BY Stuti Bhatnagar* 7 June 2018 Perhaps the biggest casualty of the current state of India–Pakistan relations has been Kashmir, where issues regarding territory, autonomy, and cross-border confrontations have been a long-standing flashpoint between the two countries. Recent times have seen total disregard for the 2003 ceasefire at points known as the Line of Control, which
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Gunfights” in Bangladesh 0
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- June 13, 2018
Gunfights” in Bangladesh Members of Rapid Action Battalion, RAB, in Dhaka, Bangladesh BY Syed Badrul Ahsan* 13 June 2018 In the past three weeks, no fewer than 130 people have died in what Bangladesh’s security forces have described as “gunfights”. The police and other forces, such as the Rapid Action Battalion, used this term to
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Rohingya: UN takes a cautious step forward in Myanmar 0
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- June 6, 2018
BY Aaron L Connelly @ConnellyAL 7 June 2018 For months, Myanmar has sought a deal with the United Nations, to validate its assertions that is prepared to facilitate the “safe, voluntary, and dignified return” of Rohingya refugees in camps in Bangladesh. In an arrangement struck late Thursday night, two UN agencies agreed
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