Since their first child was born 16 years ago, Hiroyuki Ozaki has taken care of
the household, relinquishing his traditional role as the main breadwinner while
his wife held on to her career in the travel industry.
Since their first child was born 16 years ago, Hiroyuki Ozaki has taken care of
the household, relinquishing his traditional role as the main breadwinner while
his wife held on to her career in the travel industry.
Rasik Rasheed’s (not his real name) hefty Internet bills
hardly bother his family. Cooped up at home due to curfews and
strikes here for nearly three months now, youngsters like him
have been busy not just with their studies but with waging
what they call the Kashmir struggle on the Internet.
With its thick forest cover and abundant wildlife, the Dawna
mountain range in south-eastern Burma is coming in the way of
a flagship highway project being pushed by one of Asia’s
premier financiers of roads.
Good news has become harder to come by these days in
Afghanistan, especially as the war-ravaged country gears up
for the parliamentary election scheduled on Sep. 18.
Wearing a floppy cotton cap for shade, an exhausted Sarawut Kunrapang enters
the compound of a mosque in the blistering afternoon sunshine. It is the latest
stop for this 27-year-old Thai Buddhist in his walk for peace since mid-July
from Bangkok.
It was supposed to help right old wrongs as well as protect India’s forests, but
four years after it took effect, a landmark law recognising the forest rights of
scheduled tribes remains the subject of acrimonious debates among the
country’s government officials, environmentalists, and rights advocates.
While Hollywood blockbusters and state-funded historical epics continue to
dominate China’s box office, a vibrant independent film scene is quietly
growing.
President Barack Obama’s refusal in a White House briefing
earlier this month to announce a “red line” in regard to the
Iran nuclear programme represented another in a series of
rebuffs of pressure from Defence Secretary Robert Gates for
statement that the United States will not accept its existing
stocks of low enriched uranium.
Green activists have various ways of pushing their causes, from enlisting movie stars to launching protests, but India’s campaigners have also been quietly using legal weapons to try to get the projects they oppose, such as thermal plants, stopped or reversed.
After all the turbines in the Xiaowan hydropower station sputtered to life this
week in China’s south-west Yunnan province, the Asian giant was able to lay
claim to having the world’s largest hydropower capacity.