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The mooncake has received a bashing. But there’s more to this confectionery than sugar and lard.
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Pakistan should focus on helping its millions of flood victims right now, instead of launching political dynasties.
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As BP is told to compensate for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, where is justice for the victims of the world's worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, India?
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As the male ego is hurt, murder gains acceptability and is even glorified once you call it honour killing.
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Why studying History is good for something other than your GCE O'Levels.
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In a situation similar to that of the Uighurs, Mongolians react, sometimes with violence.
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The city takes you as its own even though you’re speaking in a strange accent, clutching a brand-new A-Z, and asking for directions to the nearest Peranakan restaurant.
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The heaving metropolis of Mumbai is the Indian city of dreams, but in this realm of dreams exist nightmares, too.
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The film portrayed silenced Muslim females shrouded in black, sentenced to shove one French fry at a time underneath their veil. Poor, hungry, Muzzy women.
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Is being “uncouth”, as manifested through various acts of distastefulness (spitting, liking Paulo Coelho, remarking about other people’s weight), synonymous with being Indian?
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Hindu fundamentalism and European proselytizing are threatening secular Nepal.
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More Americans are working for Chinese bosses – and some are fuming.
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