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  • Kashmir falls off the Global Radar
    Shujaat Bukhari    ·   10 Jul, 2013    ·    #4032    ·    Commentary    
    When German Ambassador to India Michael Steiner made his country...
  • China and Russia: The Joint Sea 2013 Exercise
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   10 Jul, 2013    ·    #4031    ·    Commentary    
    The ongoing China-Russia naval exercises code-named Joint Sea 2013, dubbed by the PLA Navy as the ‘single biggest deployment of military force in any joint foreign exercise’, merits attention. The Chinese flotilla comprising of seven...
  • Myanmar: FDI, Local Economy and the Rohingya Conflict
    Asma Masood    ·   10 Jul, 2013    ·    #4030    ·    Commentary    
    On June 27, Myanmar announced that the government awarded a telecommunications contract to Qatari company Ooredo. It sparked a social media backlash in Myanmar. Citizens threatened boycott of its services. The Buddhist community was surprised by...
  • Myanmar: Profiling the 969 Movement
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   10 Jul, 2013    ·    #4029    ·    Commentary    
    Is it an economic nationalist movement, an awakening of sorts, a rabid anti-Muslim movement, or a hate revolution that would eventually consume its own children? Local Myanmarese accounts on the radical 969 Buddhist movement have diverged so ...
  • Myanmar: New Challenges of Economic Transition
    Yves-Marie Rault    ·   09 Jul, 2013    ·    #4028    ·    Commentary    
    Until a few years ago, as roaming services were inexistent, a foreign visitor who wanted to use a cell phone in Myanmar had to buy a local SIM card for the sum of USD1500. However, there are now around 500,000 tourists each year - symbol of the ...
  • IPCS Review
    Pakistan: The Abbottabad Commission of Enquiry
    Rana Banerji    ·   09 Jul, 2013    ·    #4027    ·    Commentary    
    It is hardly surprising that the Abbottabad Commission of Enquiry report on the May 02, 2011 attack successfully eliminating Osama bin Laden (OBL) should finally have surfaced through an Al Jazeera leak, a good six months after it had been submi...
  • China's 'Peace Ark':
    The Navy and Band-Aid Diplomacy
    Kamlesh Kumar Agnihotri    ·   09 Jul, 2013    ·    #4026    ·    Commentary    
    An article titled “Peace Ark: From China with Love and Care”,  in the English version of the popular ‘People’s Daily’ online on June 19, 2013 conveys a lot in addition to the benign and compassionate tone and t...
  • IPCS Debate
    Sri Lanka and the 13th Amendment: Reconciling Differing Viewpoints
    N Manoharan    ·   08 Jul, 2013    ·    #4025    ·    Commentary    
    Number 13 is generally considered unlucky. In the Sri Lankan case, it is more than true. The 13th Amendment to the 1978 Sri Lankan Constitution, an offshoot of Indo-Sri Lankan Accord of 1987, has got mired into controversy since day one. It has ...
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    Sri Lanka: Trafficking, Child Sex Trade and Human Security
    Thiranjala Weerasinghe    ·   08 Jul, 2013    ·    #4024    ·    Commentary    
    The ‘Trafficking in Persons Report 2013’ published by the Department of State, United States of America, provides a lucid analysis of initiatives on anti-human trafficking around the globe and characterises the slow progress that has...
  • IPCS Social Media Analysis
    Myanmar: Unveiling ‘The Face of Buddhist Terror’
    Roomana Hukil    ·   08 Jul, 2013    ·    #4023    ·    Commentary    
    TIME magazine’s recent cover story, ‘The Face of Buddhist Terror’, looked into the Buddhist-Muslim conflict in Myanmar. While the government banned the magazine, it unfurled an extensive campaign across several internet channel...
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