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There is no one perfect way to raise model children I must admit I am terribly scared of leaving my one-year-old daughter alone with my wife. And I blame Yale Law School professor Amy Chua for my paranoia. My little one was born barely three months after Chua horrified the Western world with her parenting memoir, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, which unapologetically presumed the superior efficacy of...
For the young activist in Malaysia, idealism has acquired a sheen of pragmatism For much of the month of April, student groups in Malaysia marched in the streets of Kuala Lumpur, demanding the abolition of the National Higher Education Fund (PTPTN), a student loan scheme that the protesters criticised as an exploitative, anti-poor commercial scheme. Instead of loans with high interest rates, they wanted free...
India allays fears over its latest ballistic missile launch A week after successfully testing its maiden Long Range Ballistic Missile (LRBM) Agni-V, India sought to downplay the regional security implications of the launch by dubbing the missile as a “weapon of peace”. “We were asked to develop a national deterrent as part of a government policy and we did it. That’s it. These are weapons of peace. If...
China and India lead boycott of Europe’s carbon tax regime Asia is taking the global trade war to the skies. Following the outcry over the January 1 decision by the European Union (EU) to levy carbon taxes on all airlines serving EU airports, China and India are leading a boycott of what they call a trade levy disguised as an attempt to fight climate change. Uniting a group of 27 other countries in the Russian...
India’s food bill is nothing but a political move to woo poor in blatant re-election bid India’s corruption-tainted federal government may just have found a way to resurrect itself in the eyes of the country’s largely poor electorate. Ahead of the 2014 federal elections, the Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance government is preparing to introduce a Food Security Bill that seeks to provide cheaper...
Myanmar emerges from the ravages of military rule to celebrate democracy Pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi hailed a “new era” for Myanmar after her National League for Democracy (NLD) party won a landslide victory in the April 1 parliamentary by-elections. Myanmar’s election commission confirmed on April 2 that Suu Kyi’s NLD won 40 out of the 45 seats contested, with five yet to be called. Speaking...
