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The biggest economic news of the year came almost without notice: China has overtaken the United States as the world's largest economy, according to the scorekeepers at the International Monetary Fund... China takes over as new global leader | Bangkok Post: opinion

The Rape of Nanking and the evil human experiments done by Unit 731 usually come to mind when we think of Japanese war crimes. Unfortunately, those awful incidents weren’t isolated cases. Fueled by racism, fanaticism, and finally desperation as their defeat seemed inevitable, the Japanese in...

Photograph by AFP The Honglujing Stele is housed in Tokyo's Imperial Palace, home to Japan's Emperor Akihito (Corrects the size of the Honglujing Stele in the fourth paragraph.) Islands. Airspace. Antiquities. Until now, China has concentrated its attention on the first two as it fights...

Japan angry at Russian army drills on disputed islands The islands lie off Japan's northern-most island of Hokkaido Japan says it will strongly protest to Russia over military exercises it is staging on disputed islands off northern Japan. The prime minister, Shinzo Abe, said the drills were...

Huawei pokes fun at Apple, Samsung using iPhone, Siri NEW DELHI: Chinese telecom giant Huawei, the third biggest smartphone maker in the world, has trolled rivals Samsung and Apple in its new teaser for Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014. The company has poked fun at the two biggest smartphone...

Chinese New Year, heralding the start of the Year of the Horse, has been celebrated with a Google Doodle The festivities start on the first day of the lunar month Photo: GOOGLE By Alice Philipson 10:24AM GMT 30 Jan 2014 8 Comments Chinese New Year, which in 2014 marks the start of the Year...

For years, Hugo Barra was one of the most visible executives at Google. He was a product manager for its Android team. Every year at Google's biggest conference, Google I/O, Barra would show off Android's latest new features for the whole world. Then, in August of this year, Barra quit Google to...

Neoliberalism has failed the vast majority of India's people. But the spirit that gave the nation independence is stirring A man takes a bath outside his shanty in Dharavi, Mumbai, one of Asia's largest slums. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters In five-star hotels on Mumbai's...

Turkish PM Erdogan has once again said that Turkey wants to join the SCO. This is just part of Turkey’s larger pivot to Asia. During a trip to Russia in November, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again said that Ankara would abandon its quest to join the European Union if it...

In the days of the British Raj, the colonial government used to flee to Shimla, a rickety Himalayan hill town, every three months. Now, India’s elite makes a similar migration, to London, or France or even Singapore. And not just Indians, people from all over the world have abandoned India...

UK and other nations are keen to benefit from China's economic power and seem prepared to push aside human rights concern. David Cameron plays table tennis on his recent three-day visit to China. Photograph: Chinafotopress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images This week it was David...

"It's mind boggling," says the OECD's Andreas Schleicher, describing the ambitions of Shanghai's education system. The Chinese city has not only remained as the highest performer in this year's international Pisa tests in maths, reading and science, it has accelerated even further ahead. So...

Get ready for the massive consumer push by the Chinese over the upcoming years and decades as the government strives to drive the economic engine via consumer spending. The modification to the current one-child policy, which I recently discussed in these pages, will help create an even bigger...

India is ranked sixth in a list of top ten countries with most billionaires but is at a much lower ninth slot in total net worth sweepstakes, a new Wealth report by WealthX and UBS titled “Billionaire Census 2013″ has shown. The country has 103 billionaires, higher than that of Hong Kong ...

According to him, India and China were "almost equal" five years ago and, except in the area of manned mission, "we had everything in place" The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) may have sparked a debate on 'space race' between India and China, but former ISRO boss G Madhavan Nair says Beijing has...

INDIA launched its first Mars-bound spacecraft today at a cost of £45million - while the UK still gives the country more than six times that figure in aid each year. The Asian country, which has widespread poverty, has spent more than £600million in total on its space programme. The UK...

Panaji: A Nigerian consular official warned on Monday that thousands of Indians in his country will be "thrown out on the streets" if the police doesn't stop evicting Nigerians from their homes in Goa, where the government is trying to locate and deport foreigners without valid visas. "There...

LONDON: Some 30 million people are enslaved worldwide, trafficked into brothels, forced into manual labour, victims of debt bondage or even born into servitude, a global index on modern slavery showed on Thursday. Almost half are in India, where slavery ranges from bonded labour in quarries and...

More than 100 Britons were among 1,000 men caught trying to pay a computer-generated child to perform sex acts online, after a Dutch children's charity set up a fake profile. Terre des Hommes carried out a 10-week sting near Amsterdam, posing on video chat rooms as "Sweetie", a 10-year-old...