The Times Is the British Museum the greatest museum on earth? | In an age when it can feel as if trash is about to breach the levees and flood the entire cultural landscape, two announcements have offered evidence of the surprising healthiness of the nation's ap... (photo: WN / guillaume)
Inquirer Key agreements at G8 summit | TOYAKO -- Leaders of the Group of Eight major powers on Tuesday found common ground on climate change, the global economy and a host of political crises at a summit in Japan. | Here are some of the ... (photo: Foto: REGIERUNGonline/Bergmann)
The Philippine Star Gov't to revise growth target this year | The government is revising its economic growth target for the rest of 2008, Finance Secretary Margarito Teves said yesterday as the country battles high inflation and slowing world growth. | But Tev... (photo: AP / Aaron Favila) FinanceGrowthInflationPhilippinePhotos
The Manila Times Chummy US-NK upsets Seoul | Seoul, most especially, and Tokyo and Beijing got upset and jittery when President Bush announced that he was taking North Korea off the list of countries labeled as "s... (photo: AP Photo/Korea Pool via Yonhap) N KoreaNuclearPhotosS KoreaUS
The Manila Times Where do we go from here? | [Excerpted from The New York Times editorial of published July 7, 2008] | The alarming resurgence of al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan makes it even ... (photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris) AfghanistanDefenceIraqPhotosUS
The Australian Jihadis break cover | US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher, the Bush administration's point man on policy in South Asia, is a highly regarded and experienced diplomat seldom given... (photo: AP Photo ) IslamPakistanPhotosTerrorismUS
The Australian George Bush falls in line on climate challenge | THE G8 group of industrialised nations has set a goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 under a pact that for the first time ties the US to a global target. |... (photo: AP / Itsuo Inouye) ClimateEmissionsG8PhotosUS
Asia Times G-whatever, China is here | By Francesco Sisci | BEIJING - It will be a strange meeting. Officially, the gathering that begun on Tuesday at Toyako, on Hokkaido in northern Japan is a Group of Eigh... (photo: White House / Eric Draper) ChinaG8JapanPhotosPolitics
Asia Times Delhi carries a small stick | By Chietigj Bajpaee | Israel bombs the Osirak nuclear research facility in Iraq in 1981 after it alleges that Iraq is using the facility to develop a nuclear weapons pr... (photo: AP Photo/B.K. Bangash) DefenceIndiaPhotosPoliticsTerrorism
Asia Times Asia's angry monk syndrome | By Megawati Wijaya | SINGAPORE - From Sri Lanka to South Korea, from Tibet to Myanmar, Asia's Buddhist clergy are in unprecedented numbers exerting their moral authorit... (photo: AP / ) AsianBuddhismLifeMonkPhotos
Asia Times Greed and dogma fertilize food crisis | By Sameer Dossani | For those following economic trends, the past 18 months are notable primarily for two reasons. First, the US housing market, long seen as overvalued... (photo: AP / Anupam Nath) FoodMarketOilPhotosPopulation
Asia Times A tale of two downturns | By Martin Hutchinson | British observers have in the past year indulged in a considerable amount of schadenfreude about the US subprime crisis, the excessively expansio... (photo: AP Photo) EconomyMarketPhotosUKUS
