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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
Monday, 02 November 2009
Nepal is to hold a cabinet meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the impact of global warming on the Himalayas ahead of next month's climate change talks in Copenhagen, a minister said Monday.
The entire cabinet will travel to Everest base camp at an altitude
Monday, 02 November 2009
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has delayed until the end of the school year the expulsion of 1,200 children of foreigners working illegally in Israel, his office said on Sunday.
"Children of foreign workers who are having lessons in state-run
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Indonesia’s decision to stop sending domestic helpers to Kuwait citing concerns over abuse and exploitation stirred indignation among Kuwaitis, while an official at the Indonesian embassy said he was not aware of the reasons behind the decision.
The ban is seen as
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Afghan opium is unleashing a "devastating" impact across the world, according to a new U.N. report, funding the Taliban and other terror groups and killing thousands in consumer countries.
Afghanistan produces 92 percent of the world's
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Even as the controversies surrounding the presidential elections in Iran and Afghanistan refuse to subside, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was sworn in for a second five-year term as president of Indonesia this week. The relative ease with which he assumed office again not
Monday, 19 October 2009
Environmental activists have an above-ground and a below-ground view of the world. Energy sources harnessed on or close to the surface, such as wind, wave, tidal, solar and hydro power, are good. They are renewable and do not emit carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse
Sunday, 18 October 2009
Pakistani troops backed by fighter jets launched a major operation against the Taliban in South Waziristan on Saturday, sparking deadly clashes with heavily-armed rebels, officials said.
The mountain district is part of a tribal belt on the Afghan border that U.S.
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
As Israeli bombs fell on Gaza Strip during its one-sided war between December 27, 2008, and January 18, 2009, millions around the world took to the streets in complete and uncompromising outrage. The level of barbarity in that war, especially as it was conducted
Tuesday, 06 October 2009
There is no doubt that the presence of Muslims in many European countries has changed the demographic and religious landscape of the West.
The arrival of Muslims in large numbers to Europe since the 1950s and 1960s and their permanent settlement through citizenship
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Malaysia's government, which has struggled to attract foreign investment, and Saudi Arabia's PetroSaudi International have set up a fund to invest in the southeast Asian country in the first of a series of deals with rich countries
Malaysia's
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
The most significant aspect of the current slowdown in world trade is the synchronized nature of the decline in exports and imports of major developed and developing economies since September 2008. Trade is one of the important channels spreading the contagion of the
Saturday, 26 September 2009
Richard Dawkins, the British scientist who popularised evolutionary biology, but is now better known as a high-profile critic of organised religion, was the first person to apply the word “memes” to cultural elements that can be reproduced. He explained memes as ideas
Friday, 18 September 2009
The United States is juggling four critical and increasingly linked foreign policy issues in Palestine/Israel, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan. But it seems to be making little headway as we approach critical junctures in all four. A different approach seems worth
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