With Singapore allowing in a million foreigners in the past 10 years, it just had to happen. Recent police crackdowns on hot spots was an eye-opener on how deep organised crime has dug in DO not be...

The economic miracles in Shanghai and Beijing do not reflect the realities in the country as a whole and much needs to be done before it can be counted among the developed nations LAST year Chinese...

Chinese students are flocking to the US, forming one of the largest groups of international students who contribute US$17.8bil (RM58.8bil) to the economy A SPECIAL Chinese tour group arrived in the...

THE Housing and Local Government Ministry recently stated that the number of fines issued to developers under the Housing Development (Control and Licensing Act 1966) last year had increased by...

PRIME Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is the latest to point out that major hotels should charge five-star rates as under-pricing will distract high-end tourists who are prepared to pay a premium...

Paula Sengupta has, in the past, spun off several exhibitions from the Westernized lifestyle of certain Bengali families in Calcutta during the raj. This time, her focus has shifted to what in...

L ife and death go hand in hand in the garden at the back of my house. This can be best seen in the first half of March. First, the mulberry tree growing alongside my boundary wall that had been...

Five years after he began the surveillance operation that finally guided a ten-man death squad through the streets of Mumbai in November, 2008, Pakistani-American jihadist David Headley has entered...

In his Budget speech, the Finance Minister proposed the setting up an apex regulator for the financial sector, which would enable the government “to strengthen and institutionalise the...

One has lost count but the present round of talks between the Centre and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland led by Isak Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah (NSCN-IM) must be the 66th or 67th, not...

The SIT's interest in questioning Narendra Modi for the Gujarat riots underlines the reason why the new Communal Violence Bill must embrace the command responsibility...

The International Monetary Fund has called for a European “fire brigade” funded by the finance industry to deal with the collapse of banks that operate in several countries. Managing...

The champions of the highly flawed women's reservation Bill are facing a tough challenge from leaders of the Muslim community and castes designated as backward. They argue that only upper caste ...

The Indian Premier League (IPL), which has retuned home for season three, is going great guns. Fans across the country as well as in cricket-loving nations abroad are having a blast. The excitement...

Is the IPL overreaching itself? The latest plan unveiled by Lalit Modi is to have a second IPL tournament which will travel to the US and Middle East, among other places. Sure there might be an ...

Psychiatrists track five stages of human emotion after someone has been told of terminal illness starting with denial, passing through anger, bargaining and depression and ending in acceptance....

The power of love is so overwhelming that even its skewed form, lust, impels two incompatible people to come together in the name of love. Genuine love essentially commits itself to first giving or...

The state of India's main rivers reflects the callousness and ineptitude with which we approach the issue of managing our natural resources. Thanks to a lack of long-term river conservation or...

Singapore is an obsessively orderly and tidy society. You begin to feel the difference as soon as you disembark at the Changi airport and smoothly glide through Immigration for a taxi that zips ...

To judge by the tenor of the public debate, it is to look after those who can look after themselves. To misquote John F. Kennedy, ask not what you can do for yourself, but what government can do for...

TENNIS is in a fight to the death. Once one of the major sports and pastimes in the nation, it has slipped down the sporting agenda so dramatically that it battles for space and profile with...

Apparently this apocalyptic nymphogeddon is way worse than anything that has happened to women before because, until the invention of the pimpographic mass media, there weren't any representations of...

Bob Carr, Peter Beattie, Steve Bracks and Mike Rann - their names alone would guarantee re-election for their party.The premiers of NSW, Queensland and Victoria each retired on top. But the last one...

COMMUNICATIONS Minister Stephen Conroy's admirable determination to build an open access, fast-speed broadband network is in stark contrast to his plans to extend the free kick to free-to-air...

TONY Abbott is a phenomenon, a former trainee priest who wears his conservative Catholicism on his sleeve; Abbott is an experiment for our politics, public attitudes and media...

Despite all the rough waters in the Australia-China relationship in recent months, Liang's visit was a happy one. He was there to thank and praise the government of Kevin Rudd.Canberra had...

It was a typical modern grouping of women, but a scenario about which politicians and the professional, glamorous new feminists don't really have a clue.This is today's fashion in family...

AT this time last year, the Australian Fair Pay Commission was facing an unenviable task. Should the federal minimum wage be increased and, along with it, the pay scales of more than one million...

Thanks to Michelle Chantelois and her estranged husband Rick Phillips, the campaign trail had so much weirdness, the days when there wasn't any seemed weird.But other words fairly describe the...

AFTER decades about the evils of racism, discussion of the Aboriginal question invariably puts this word to centre stage, but it is not a useful one and never has been.Culture is more appropriate....

THERE is a mood for change. The signs in South Australia today point to an all-too-familiar tale of a once-popular, long-term leader on the nose with...