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Kashmir Family Aid, founded in 2005 and based in Bend, Ore., works to counter poverty and terrorism while promoting women's rights by providing secular education to quake-affected children.
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It is evident that the India-United States civilian nuclear deal is a victim of oversell as a
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An interesting facet of the Sino-African project is the issue of standards diplomacy in the context of the evolving relationship between booming China and not-so-booming Africa.
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Pat Eatock, a Goomiegyrie and a grandmother of the Kairi (or Gyrie) nation from central Queensland, Australia, looks at Aboriginal dispossession since the 1967 citizenship referendum.
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India currently faces three major problems that are stalling the bandwagon of its normal routine: inflation, the Gujjar agitation, and the Gorkha (Gurkha) agitation.
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The 1,500 residents of Carteret Island, an atoll of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, are fast becoming the world's first climate change refugees.
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As General Petraeus takes over Central Command, America's options in Pakistan become much clearer when examined through the lens of the American experience in Iraq.
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The symphony of South-South cooperation at the recent conclave of foreign ministers of BRIC was jarred by China's refusal to endorse India's bid for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council.
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An old shop front verandah in Singapore's Little India is "home" to a group of about 50 migrant workers who have been spat out by an economy that relies heavily on so-called "guest workers."
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China is indeed a dragon on the uplift; any clumsiness could have devastating consequences in those regions of the world most susceptible to its influence, such as Africa.
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The latest deportation and the blatant indifference of the military-backed regime to the court orders against deportations has raised serious concerns about the rule of law.
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The Australian government justified its intervention, which came within months of the invasion of Iraq, by labeling the Solomon Islands a "failed state" and a potential source of terrorism.
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Every year since 2004, the United Nations has refused to issue press credentials to journalists from Taiwan, rendering them unable to cover the annual meetings of the World Health Assembly.
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Corruption is rampant in India and now, without doubt, it is a matter of concern for all of us as it puts a question mark on the very existence of a respectable life and on our national character.
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The Chinese government package, which supposedly included a travel permit and a ride on a government-approved bus sounded like a little too much supervision for my liking. I decided to find my own way.
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In making the decision to withdraw from Iraq, Canberra was faced with the sticky logistical and human question of how to protect local Iraqis who had risked their lives by helping the Australian troops.
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Under former Prime Minister John Howard, military spending averaged around 2 percent of gross domestic product a year. Labor's policy calls for increasing the annual spending to 3 percent per year.
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At the March 26 meeting, ministers formed a contact group consisting of Australia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga, and Tuvalu to review progress on restoring democracy in Fiji.
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As food prices continue to skyrocket throughout Asia, many governments are intervening to try to stabilize their domestic rice prices for fear of acute shortages and possible food riots.
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Deepak Verma's book is a poignant, straight from the heart account of what he and his wife experienced as parents of an only son who lay critically injured thousands of miles away in South Carolina.
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The overwhelming success of a breakaway faction of the L.T.T.E. in the March 10 local government elections has prompted the group to seek additional victories at provincial level.
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International terrorist plots with the invariable Pakistani hand draw upon a rich resource base for jihad that has taken root in the social system of Pakistan and is beyond the control of the Pakistani state.
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The demonstrations reflect a convergence of longstanding grievances and more-temporal issues ranging from recent tension over Tibetan cultural practices to China's rising demand for raw materials.
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With a very small job market and barely any scope for self-employment, rural people are swelling the ranks of the city's economic migrants. And they are not just victims of Cyclone Sidr.
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Among climate backsliders, the argument is a familiar one: for developed countries to curb emissions is futile so long as Chinese and Indian emissions continue rising rapidly.
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The fear that India will be left lagging in one more global arms race and pay a heavy ex post price looms on the minds of the country's strategic elites.
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Enraged by a series of reports in the media, the interim government in Fiji deported Fiji Sun publisher Russell Hunter on Feb. 26, raising serious concerns about press freedom.
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Despite reservations by the Pentagon and by Afghan President Karzai, the State Department, backed by the White House, is quietly pushing the expansion of aerial poppy eradication into Afghanistan.
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