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China: Love story surprise bestseller

12 Nov 2008, 0004 hrs IST, Michael Sheridan ,Sunday Times, London The story of an Anglo-Chinese couple who met at Oxford University and survived purges and imprisonment to become eminent translators of the classics has become a...

OPINION: Chinese Farms A Growing Challenge

For decades, researchers and policymakers have raised a worrying question about the world's most populous country: "Who will feed China?" Today, while concern about reaching 1.3 billion mouths remains paramount, the phrasing...

Do academics influence their students' politics?

Communist portraits and busts of Stalin and Mao Zedong. Fresh research carried out in the US on America's universities has produced results purporting to show that students' politics are not formed by their tutors. Although...

Doors open on a hidden corner of Forbidden City

When restorers opened the door on the Qianlong Emperor's favourite studio in the Forbidden City, dust three inches thick on the exquisitely carved surfaces bore testament to decades of abandonment. "It felt like the last...

How to build a good talent pool

Vikram Bhalla & Rahool Panandikar The breakneck economic growth experienced by India and China may run out of steam, or, more precisely, talent, if nothing is done to address some imminent human resource challenges. A few...

High expectations for new immigration minister

When Conservative MP Jason Kenney was tapped by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to become the state secretary for multiculturalism and Canadian identity in 2007, it broke Ottawa’s tradition of putting a visible minority on the...

Why Shar Pei Dogs Have So Many Wrinkles

Researchers have discovered the origin of the mucinosis present in Shar Pei dogs, a hereditary disorder responsible for the characteristic wrinkles found in this breed. The research report appears in the journals Veterinary...

Geographically Centered

Objects in the hotel room that provide a locational center of gravity, a greater sense that you're here and not somewhere else: Chinese Checkers; the local variant of Monopoly - "advance to Hanyang, if you pass go collect 2,000...

But maybe we're learning...

clipped by: earnricclipper's remarks: It seems like a group of people still long to be led by the ignorant... but those amongst us who don't know what they don't know: the scariest of all. The world is a complicated place... we...

(s)He was a Crook

The defeat of Helen Clark at the weekend, and her inevitable resignation, reminded me of a eulogy Hunter Thompson once wrote for Richard Nixon. Many of his sentiments ring true for our own fallen leader, and while I’ll always...