Manjit Bhatia

The Hicks verdict was aimed at saving Bush's face and that of Australia's prime minister John Howard.

The general's new fight is with the judiciary. In particular, Pakistan's Supreme Court chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.

The reason why Malaysians are averse to signing up with opposition political parties is that they're too lame. They're all talk.

The Chinese economy is in a colossal mess. It's riddled with rampant corruption throughout society and state institutions.

After years of wrangling with successive US administrations and missile testing, North Korea's ruler Kim Jong-il enters into a historic deal with Washington. But is this the real deal?

The Mecca Accord has heightened the power struggle between warring Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah and it could also undermine attempts to revive the stalled peace Roadmap.

LJ, in 'Murder trials: Sub judice rule may also apply before start' is right, but I was never in doubt that Jacob George was not indeed referring to the question of sub judice in the upcoming trial of Razak Baginda.

The idea that a 'surge' of another 21,500 American troops deployed throughout Iraq will bring the violence to an end is ludicrous.

For the most part national governments haven't learnt the lessons from the collapse of the Asian dragon and tiger economies in the late 1990s.

The former premier was right to scowl at the conduct of the execution. But he was dead wrong that the hanging had the conspiratorially imperial designs of the US and its allies.

It's going to be the worse bloody bedlam and anarchy in Iraq. And expect the US to cut-and-run just like they did out of their Vietnam ignominy.

The one big problem in Southeast Asia, including Thailand, is not democracy. It is corruption.

Junichiro Koizumi retires next week as Japan's prime minister with the reformist extraordinaire tag, but does he deserve such an accolade?

As it stalks, monetarists will now be found scratching their heads or navel-gazing. Was this their original plan?

As the Middle East order tips into potentially greater disorder, so too will the global oil market.

Somewhere in the west's and Asian reactions to North Korea is a line that smacks of sheer hypocrisy and policy wonkness.

The world has a moral and ethical duty to protect all marine life from callous human predators.

The Lee political dynasty continues but its paternalistic authoritarian arrogance could be the harbinger of its own self-destruction.

The republic's top three leaders may try to spin their way out of blame but their policies and ineptitude are the root cause of growing dissent among East Timorese.