India’s government claims to subsidise farmers, but actually hurts them
INDIA’S farmers should be the happiest in the world. For decades governments have showered them with perks including a blanket…
Turkey struggles to keep the peace in Afrin
THE scene in the centre of Afrin, a Kurdish city in north-western Syria, hardly inspires confidence in the future. A destroyed…
Burnt votes and an election recount might plunge Iraq into crisis
WHAT would politicians the world over like to do when they lose an election? Annul the results and burn the ballots, of course….
NGOs in Lebanon want to dig up mass graves from the civil war
print-edition icon Print edition | Middle East and Africa Jul 5th 2018 | BEIRUT LINA MAHFOUZ was six years old when Lebanon’s…
Mali goes to the polls amid huge insecurity
print-edition icon Print edition | Middle East and Africa Jul 26th 2018 A DECADE ago elections in Mali brought a carnival atmosphere…
South Korea craves foreign approval of its claim to two tiny rocks
print-edition icon Print edition | Asia Sep 27th 2018 | SEOUL THE two countries of the Korean peninsula may have many disagreements…
India’s national government and the city of Delhi are feuding
AMONG the world’s megacities, Delhi, India’s capital, has a good claim to several dubious distinctions: foulest air, hottest…
A deal between China and the Vatican stirs anxiety in Taiwan
ONCE, the Catholic church in China was not underground. In the 17th century Jesuits were favoured advisers to the emperors of…
Japan’s habits of overwork are hard to change
YOSHIHISA AONO could be a model for Japanese executives. The offices of Cybozu, his software company, would appear staid were…