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Tuesday, 09 February 2010
A British court jailed the country's most senior Asian police officer for four years on Monday for attacking a man and trying to frame him in a petty row over money.
Ali Dizaei, 47, was convicted of misconduct in public office and perverting the
  
Saturday, 30 January 2010
I was 16 years old when my father sat me down. In a firm voice, he told me that as long as I studied, he would continue to support my needs. Should I decide against attending university, however, I would be expected to earn my own keep. My father is a first generation
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
The world is justifiably perplexed by how the popular uprising in Iran will shape that country’s future. The increasingly violent contest between the heterogenous opposition and a hardened regime is nothing if not opaque, complex and uncertain.
From Iran’s closest
Saturday, 23 January 2010
Abu Dhabi police arrested seven men for attempting to steal $10.2 billion from the United Arab Emirates' central bank using forged documents, the official WAM news agency reported Saturday.
The three Europeans and four Asians "were involved
Saturday, 02 January 2010
Like most ideas, this one did not have a single genesis. I’ve been thinking, and to some extent writing, about feminism for many years and in many guises.
The word itself is controversial, with some damning it as the force that destroyed the family and others
Friday, 01 January 2010
It was, as Charles Dickens would put it, the worst of times and it was the best of times. The decade that began at the turn of the century and millennium amid talk of coming Y2K catastrophe in the end didn’t experience the chaos associated with computers and
Saturday, 26 December 2009
People across Asia paused Saturday to remember the day five years ago when an undersea earthquake unleashed a devastating wave that killed more than 220,000 people.
A solemn day of prayers and remembrance to mark one of the world's worst natural
Friday, 18 December 2009
In a stylishly decorated restaurant in the heart of Paris, tucked between Bastille and Place de la Nation, Sophia Tabet is perusing a typical French menu, including foie gras, beef fillet and duck confit.
But unlike other French eateries, this one offers no wine
Sunday, 06 December 2009
The draw for the 2010 World Cup Finals in South Africa on Friday avoided certain potential flashpoints by keeping North Korea and South Korea far apart and making it unlikely that Serbia and Slovenia would have to replay the unpleasantness of their 1990 parting of
Tuesday, 01 December 2009
The month-long controversy surrounding the Kerry-Lugar-Berman bill has still not ended in Pakistan. Its opponents fear that this bill – which provides $7.5 billion in non-military aid to Pakistan over five years – will curb the sovereignty of the country, while its
Tuesday, 01 December 2009
The United Arab Emirates economy is in a good condition and will not slip due to the global financial crisis, the Gulf country's president said on Tuesday as Dubai's ruler said the global reaction showed a lack of understanding.
President Sheikh Khalifa
Monday, 30 November 2009
Stock markets in the Gulf emirate of Dubai and its neighboring capital of Abu Dhabi fell sharply on Monday and then ground to a halt amid a lack of buyers after Dubai World's shock proposal to suspend debt payments.
Dubai's benchmark DFM
Saturday, 28 November 2009
Nepal's cabinet will meet in the shadow of Mount Everest next week to highlight the impact of global warming on the Himalayas ahead of United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen, officials said Saturday.
Twenty-six ministers, together with staff,
Thursday, 19 November 2009
How can one strike a balance between individual freedom and cultural and ethnic diversity? It is a dilemma that becomes doubly urgent when certain acts are committed like the one by Nidal Hasan, the U.S. officer of Palestinian descent, who opened fire and killed a
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Hollywood's latest doomsday offering "2012" has caused a storm in Indonesia, with conservative clerics condemning it Thursday as a "provocation against Islam".
Screenings have been sold out across the capital Jakarta following
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
A Muslim family sits across from me in a café in a largely Muslim Asia country. An older woman shyly hunches over and desperately trying to avoid eye contact with the giant plasma screen TV, blazing loud music on the popular music video channel, MTV.
The scantily
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
The United States and China agreed that Iran faced "consequences" if it resisted greater openness on its nuclear program, U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday after talks with China's Hu Jintao in Beijing.
Obama told reporters in a
Monday, 16 November 2009
American President Barack Obama on Monday called al-Qaeda the greatest threat to United States security, as Afghan presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah warned that the Taliban would overrun Afghanistan if international troops were to pull out.
Obama, who was
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Australia's natural resources such as iron ore provide a wealth of assets for sukuk issuance but tax laws have to be amended for its Shariah finance market to flourish, Malaysia's central bank said on Thursday.
Trailing Muslim neighbors such as
Friday, 06 November 2009
My apologies for returning to Rudyard Kipling in every discussion about Afghanistan! But the man, who gave us such enduring classics as “Jungle Book” and an endless repertoire of tales, ballads, ditties and just about everything on the British Raj, remains eminently
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