The long march out of the closetImagineChinaSing if you're happy that wayAS A boy of 15 in north-eastern China, Dylan Chen knew he was gay. I grew up thinking I was the only gay person in all of China

Slow progress against snail-feverPAINT flakes off the signs that dot the shore of Poyang lake, rendering the faded red characters unreadable. But local villagers know the message all too well: Danger!

Thuggery mars a burgeoning friendshipAFPMaking a stand in MumbaiBELYING its name, Harris Park is neither leafy nor green. It is a gritty western Sydney suburb, where Indian students have recently take

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The regional dimension to the insurgencies in Afghanistan and PakistanCENTRAL ASIA’S militant Islamists have been popping up in some unusual places. Pakistani officials say that Uzbek fighters h

Suspicions that Islamist extremists are regrouping in the valleyJUST as Uzbekistan has once again become a transit route for supplies to American and NATO forces fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, t

’Tis a pity, but she won’t go awayIN EERIE, deserted silence on the outskirts of Phnom Penh sits the Prey Speu detention centre. Barely legible on its grimy walls a few weeks ago were crie

And still popular, against the oddsHUNDREDS of thousands of people in south-western Bangladesh remain homeless after a cyclone which struck in late May, killing at least 200 people. Much of the disast

The big two emitters try to stop finger-pointing and save the planetReutersTHOUSANDS of officials from all over the world this week neared the end of two weeks of difficult talks in Bonn under the Uni

Dreadful economic results in Japan suggest that things will only get gloomier NO ONE expected good news. Yet Japan’s GDP data for the final three months of last year, published on Monday February 1

Indian troops have been searching a landmark Mumbai hotel, hours after killing the last gunmen holding out. Commandos said they had killed three militants inside the Taj Mahal Palace in an assault o

Около 25 террористов за несколько часов парализовали финансовую столицу Индии Мумбаи и перевернули с ног на г

THE sheer scale and audacity of the assault were staggering. Gangs of well-armed youths attacked two luxury hotels, a restaurant, a railway station and at least one hospital. Gunfire and explosions ra

Thousands of frustrated travellers were stranded in Thailand today after protesters shut down the main airport in a major escalation of their four-month campaign to oust the prime minister. Demonstr

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Japan -- the world's second-largest economy -- is in a recession, government officials announced Monday. Japan's Cabinet Office confirmed that its economy fell another 0.1 percen