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  • Are You Going to Scarborough Shoal?

    The prize is a seemingly worthless colony of uninhabited jagged rocks and reefs that barely rise above water level; they are known collectively as Scarborough Shoal... Read more

  • And a Blind Man Shall Lead Them

    Chen Guangcheng, the blind lawyer and human rights activist currently languishing in a Beijing hospital after nearly a week of refuge in the US embassy, must be allowed to leave China. Read more

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    COLOMBO — Topping the headlines was President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s declaration that Sarath Fonseka, the country’s jailed war hero, could soon be released. Read more

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And a Blind Man Shall Lead Them

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Asia's Classroom Divide

Our country survey of after-school tuition in Asia shows an industry producing results, not all o... Read more

Weapons of Mass Instruction?

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.” So said Socrates. No education ... Read more

Marching On With the Times

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    The idea of compulsory education was mooted in Asia as early as in 1960, when a regional meeting of 17 Asian member states of UNESCO came up with the Karachi Plan. Read more

  • Asia's Lost Generation

    Globally, young people are three times as likely to be unemployed as older people, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO). The odds are worse in Asia... Read more

  • Learning its Lessons

    Attracted by Australia’s high-quality tertiary education and the chance of converting their student visas into residency permits, students from all over the world have flocked to Australia since the 1980s. Read more

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    For many of us, our classroom memories would have only occasionally been positive ones. Depending on the subject, studying was often a skull-cracking, unhappy affair. Read more

  • To Each His Own…Child

    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. Read more

  • Going Old School

    The villagers who live in the shadow of the rolling hills of Rajbir, in India’s poorest state of Bihar, have had little change to their way of life since the time of the Buddha.  Read more

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    What if America had decided to invade Japan in 1945 instead of unleashing the atomic bomb? What if the US had lost all of its aircraft carriers in the Pearl Harbor attack? And what if... Read more

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