Asia

How my assistant got into trouble with Beijing’s security apparatus and I got to know the Chinese authorities Taken from: Beijing Journal on a Personal Matter We have held off from publishing this story for a long time: A Chinese…

“White Terror” declaration by students over UndergradUndergrad is the student’s union magazine at Hong Kong University (HKU) and the statement below was issued in response to the Chief Executive CY Leung’s “unfounded criticism of Undergrad in his Policy Address, 14…

PRESS RELEASE MUMBAI: Over a thousand Dawoodi Bohra community members representing over 200 towns and cities across the nation today attended an environment seminar titled I LOVE CLEANLINESS organized by the community-run Burhani Foundation (India), an environment research and awareness institute…

People celebrate  fire in the traditio0nal Lohri Festival in Jammu and Kashmir, 13 January 2015. Lohri is celebrated in Northen India for the harvesting of crops and marks the end of the winter season.   

The interview was carried out on the porch of our home in the Old Village, Mui Wo, Lantau, Hong Kong.   Ling I am Ling, mother of eight month old baby Julia and married to a Bohemian man, Tomas. We…

A decisive new stage in the political life of Sri Lanka has arisen as a result of the people making a political choice, which overwhelmingly affirms the commitment of Sri Lankans to democracy and thereby the rule of law and…

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: AHRC Welcomes People’s Victory and Calls for CJ’s Resignation / Impeachment  A decisive new stage in the political life of Sri Lanka has arisen as a result of the people’s…

We reproduce below the circular of Steve Vickers & Associates (SVA) which is a specialist risk mitigation, corporate intelligence, security and consulting company serving financial institutions, private equity funds, corporations, high net-worth individuals and insurance companies and underwriters around the…

We, as concerned and democratic citizens of India, and the US, welcome the coming together of two of the largest democracies of the world to work together to protect the rights of their citizens and their biodiversity. Both nations were…

There was an article on Countercurrents.org titled: Political Activism, Democracy And Kashmiri Youth, by Imran Khan (5 January, 2015) speaking about Kashmir youth and the place’s political field. “… We all know that from 90s till now all the college…