World Affairs: Asia
Lead Feature
Where there is art there is hope
How the disabled - many of them victims of a long-running and bloody conflict - are helping bridge the ethnic divide in Sri Lanka against a background of escalating violence
In asia
Country melodramas
- By Veronica Horwell
- 26 June
The Temple of the Wild Geese and Bamboo Dolls of Echizen
Tsutomu Mizukami, translated by Dennis Washburn
Dalkey Archive Press, 208pp, £14.99
A future for the Chagossians
- By Sean Carey
- 23 June
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is an expert on ethnicity, identity politics and nationalism. Here he talks to fellow academic Sean Carey about UK treatment of the Chagos Islanders
Britain's worst gift
- By Sean Carey
- 23 June
Ahead of a key House of Lords hearing, Sean Carey reflects on the disgraceful way Britain annexed a group of islands and dislodged a people to give the US an airbase
Fatwa against terrorism
- By Ziauddin Sardar
- 19 June
"In Islam, creating social discord or disorder, breach of peace, rioting, bloodshed, pillage or plunder and killing of innocent persons anywhere in the world are all considered most inhuman crimes."
Power v poverty
- By Duncan Green
- 19 June
Privatisation, free trade and market forces . . . the rich world insists poor states play by our rules. But they don't work. Time to let countries determine their own destinies?
Before the age of reality TV
- By Rachel Cooke
- 19 June
A look back to 1988 suggests that we've lost the art of making documentaries
Afghantsi
More4
Feature
Power shifts from the west to the rest
The economic order was transformed not by any altruistic movement or political awakening, but by globalised capitalism
More in asia
It takes a nation of maestros . . .
- By Antonia Quirke
- 19 June 2008
Wall on the wild side
- By Robert Macfarlane
- 19 June 2008
Anger of the earthquake parents
- By Lindsey Hilsum
- 12 June 2008
The big story in Helmand?
- By Brian Cathcart
- 05 June 2008
It could have been me
- By Doreen Lawrence
- 29 May 2008
Burma's socialist road
- By Dorothy Woodman
- 29 May 2008
Spreading the word
- By Claire Provost
- 22 May 2008
