Category: Asia Economy
Predating pre-teens – Sex with 12-year-olds is legal in the Philippines | Asia
Jan 14th 2021IT IS PERFECTLY legal in the Philippines—but almost now [...]
Strutting sultans – Defunct royal families are making a comeback in Indonesia | Asia
SUAIB SYAMSUDIN SJAH recalls how uneasy he felt as his extended fami [...]
Ploughing on – India’s Supreme Court suspends the government’s farm reforms | Asia
THE STEAM and smoke that billow through the encampments that circle [...]
A war over Battlegrounds – A popular video game sparks a moral panic in Afghanistan | Asia
IN A BASEMENT webcafé in Kabul, Kazem Rahimi directs a scurrying arm [...]
Banyan – Have departing American officials made Taiwan into a booby trap? | Asia
Jan 14th 2021TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, the United States has not had dip [...]
Steppe one – Sadyr Japarov is elected president of Kyrgyzstan in a landslide | Asia
Opponents have labelled him a dangerous demagogueA CAMPAIGN ADVERT f [...]
Steppe one – Sadyr Japarov is elected president of Kyrgyzstan in a landslide | Asia
Opponents have labelled him a dangerous demagogueJan 11th 2021A CAMP [...]
Highland brig – India is still trampling on civil liberties in Kashmir | Asia
SAIFUDDIN SOZ is not under house arrest; he is just not allowed to l [...]
Permanently excluded – Private schools that educate 50% of Indian children are folding | Asia
Jan 7th 2021FIVE DOLLARS buys a month’s education at Rafiq Siddiqui’ [...]
Hiji hajis – The number of Muslims in Japan is growing fast | Asia
EVERY FRIDAY scores of Muslim men and women stream into a mosque in [...]