New York – India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives in Washington this week for the first state visit of the Obama administration, prompting policy and media circles in the U.S. ...
As U.S. President Barack Obama visits Tokyo on the first stop of his inaugural trip to Asia, he may unknowingly step into a looming crisis in the alliance with Japan. But it is not the ...
A strategy for the so-called Af-Pak region must start with a definition of the Taliban today. No longer the Islamist group that aided the al Qaeda attackers of 9/11, the Taliban now is ...
Just days before his party took power in September, Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) lawmaker Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi stated that missile defense was “almost totally useless.” That week, ...
India\'s pluralistic nature is perhaps the biggest threat for Islamic extremists. Not only does India have the world’s third-largest Muslim population, despite domestic differences with ...
In a May 6 statement, the World Health Organization and the U.N. Environment Program announced that their goal is \"to achieve a 30% cut in the application of DDT worldwide by 2014 and ...
KABUL, Afghanistan — The result of Afghanistan’s Aug. 20 presidential vote could not be worse: victory for an incumbent government that will likely be even more corrupt and dysfunctional ...
Taipei — Take an exiled spiritual leader seen by Beijing as a “splittist.” Add an island Beijing sees as a wayward province. Flavor with a strong dose of political posturing and ...
Comments from some Democratic Party of Japan leaders have caused concern in America that the DPJ will seek to radically change the nature of the U.S.-Japan Alliance after the Aug. 30 ...
Mae Sot, Thailand – The verdict has been handed down: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is “guilty” as charged. The scenes in court were very dramatic. First, the long expected three-year sentence ...