- Buy local, eat slow
Austin Hu is chef and owner of Shanghai's New American cuisine restaurant Madison, nestled in the heart of the former French Concession area. When he began his search for quality domestic produce in C .....
- Pandemonium in the air
Recently, I was on a flight where most of my co-travelers were South Asians -- the majority being Bangladeshis headed for the job market. The check-in process was an ordeal of pushing, shoving, queue .....
- Int'l community fears violent confrontation in Bangladesh
With the sharp deterioration in Bangladesh's political situation, the international community fears the country is again heading into confrontational politics. The dispute over how the forthcoming ge .....
- First Bangladeshi woman on Everest
A 31-year-old accountant has become the first Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. Nishat Majumder reached the summit at 9:39 a.m. Bangladesh time yesterday, Enam U .....
- China on high alert over Philippine 'patriotic' trip
The planned âpatriotic voyageâ by former Philippine Marine Capt. Nicanor Faeldon to the disputed Panatag Shoal (Scarborough Shoal or Bajo de Masinloc) has prompted China to go on âhigh alertâ .....
- 20 May 2012
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou yesterday summed up four major failures over his past four years in office as thousands of people took to the streets in Taipei protesting some of the government's recent .....
- Little bites of heaven
American cupcakes have overrun Bangkok patisseries in the last couple of years. But this year the US invader is losing the war to a French secret weapon, the macaroon. Where once you could only taste .....
- Red shirts call for justice in Thailand
Thaksin Shinawatra, the Thai fugitive ex-premier, last night phoned in to the red-shirt rally in Bangkok's Ratchaprasong area and suggested that the country should head towards the path of reconciliat .....
- China seeks export recovery
China is now losing an increasing number of export orders to other emerging countries because of rising costs at home. That's driving the government to consider supportive measures including tax rebat .....
- Taiwan president admits to failures as thousands take to streets
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou yesterday summed up four major failures over his past four years in office, as thousands of people took to the streets in Taipei protesting some of the government's recen .....
- 19 May 2012
Leaders of the opposition are staging massive demonstrations against Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou, who is to be inaugurated into her second term tomorrow, reports The China Post. Pakistani Prime Mi .....
- Beijing on 'high alert' over Huangyan
Beijing has vowed to remain on "high alert" over Huangyan Island in case of any provocations, after Manila yesterday postponed a protest trip to the island. Analysts said Manila's last-minute cance .....
- On the mend
The move by the White House to quash an attempt by some in Congress to add new restrictions on aid and reimbursements to Pakistan is yet another sign that the two states are cautiously edging closer t .....
- Ignorance is bliss
It is remarkable to think that it has been three years since the mother of all military operations in Swat forced more than two million people from their homes down into the plains of the Peshawar val .....
- Chinese nuclear projects ready to power ahead
China is expected to resume the expansion of its nuclear power sector next month, with many plans reaching the final approval stage, according to Xu Yuming, deputy secretary-general of the China Nucle .....
- Confusion persists over EU package for Pakistan
Confusion prevails over the fate of European Union preferential package for import of 75 items from Pakistan after the lapse of three-and-a-half months and officials in the commerce ministry are still .....
- Nato tanker operators await green signal
Drivers of Nato oil tankers are eagerly awaiting official announcement for resumption of supplies to Afghanistan for Nato forces, but some of them are not hopeful after governmentâs twisting stateme .....
- India's centre-state ties lesson for federal Nepal
The India tour of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier this week again triggered a flurry of discussions on centre-state relationship and unprecedented influence of regional forces in New Del .....
- No decision yet on Nato supply lines: Gilani
The Pakistani prime minister said yesterday the country has yet to decide on the issue of restoring ground supply lines to Nato troops in Afghanistan; however, a ecision would be announced after talks .....
- Pakistan president ready to leave for Nato summit
As Thursday inched towards midnight, President Asif Ali Zardari prepared to leave for his much anticipated US trip to participate in the Nato summit only with an agreement in principle on reopening th .....
- Philippines 'willing to share' Spratlys bounty
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III is willing to share with other countries in the region the benefits of the natural gas deposits in the disputed territories in the West Philippine Sea. But he s .....
- Laos' 2011 visitor numbers slip below target
The year 2011 was not a remarkable year for Lao tourism because the total number of tourists increased by only 8 per cent over 2010, according to the latest report from the Ministry of Information, Cu .....
- China launches earthquake warning service
Scientists in China's Sichuan province successfully managed to send an early earthquake warning in Wenchuan county, site of a disastrous earthquake four years ago. Though the warning was only for an .....
- Pakistan signs regional power supply agreement
Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic yesterday signed a protocol for the early completion of a regional electricity transmission project for which Russia has offered a financing f .....
- A director's journey of discovery
Come hell or high water, Cannes-winning Filipino filmmaker Brillante Mendoza was determined to shoot his latest film, Thy Womb in Tawi-Tawi, in the southernmost point of the Philippines. Fortunately .....
