Modi’s Party Doesn’t Control All of India. But He’s Working on It.
It is the final frontier for India’s most powerful leader in decades.
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How celebrating the centenary of Rabindranath Tagore’s China trip can offer New Delhi and Beijing a chance to reset ties
One way of turning things around is to reflect on the times when the neighbours were engaged in the struggle to establish modern states and to take seriously a major thinker of that period, Rabindranath Tagore, who envisioned harmonious relations.
Malaysia drops controversial citizenship plan after backlash: ‘abhorrent and regressive’
The Malaysian cabinet rejected a proposal to amend the constitution that would result in such children having to apply for citizenship, Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution said at a briefing on Friday. The Home Ministry had initially planned to present a bill on the matter to parliament once it gained the cabinet’s approval.
Indian couples are struggling to conceive. Why is the world’s most populous nation facing this challenge?
Sruti Das and her husband were part of the estimated one in six Indian couples who struggle with infertility. While they enjoyed an affluent lifestyle, she made the difficult choice to quit her high-paying but stressful job after she was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome, to focus on one of the condition’s known treatments – getting fit and eating healthy.
South Korea’s notorious child rapist gets new jail term for violating curfew
Convicted child rapist Cho Doo-soon has been placed behind bars again after receiving a three-month jail term on Wednesday, for breaking his court-mandated curfew.
A California city wrestles with its history of discrimination against early Chinese immigrants
ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — In 1939, after attending the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, Alfred Chan and his friends were headed back home to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Many hospitals in China stop newborn delivery services as birth rate drops
HONG KONG: Many hospitals in China have stopped offering newborn delivery services this year, state-backed news outlet Daily Economic News reported, with industry experts warning of an «obstetric winter» due to declining demand amid a record drop in new births.