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Publication: Banyan - The Economist

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Bye-bye, Burma, bye-bye

TO THE regret of some of its stick-in-the-mud writers, The Economist has long followed a strict policy of using official names for places. No East Timor for Timor-Leste, no Ivory Coast for Côte d'Ivoire, and of course, no Peking (heaven forfend!) ... [Published Banyan - The Economist - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Myanmar/Burma, Thein Sein, East Timor, Aung San Suu Kyi, Côte d'Ivoire

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Pakistan)

A killing in Karachi

THE police in Karachi say they still have an open mind about the murder, late on May 18th, of Zohra Shahid Hussain, a senior politician with the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), or Movement for Justice. The three young men on a motorcycle ... [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 19 2013]

Entities: Karachi, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Pakistan), Altaf Hussain

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

The man with a plan

Shinzo Abe's plans for structural reform are welcome. But in a region sensitive to Japanese nationalism, revitalising Japan's military will demand delicacy, say our correspondents ... [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 16 2013]

Entities: Military/Armed Forces

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Ebb and flow

THE world’s most densely populated country of any size also happens to be home to the world’s fastest-growing city. By the middle of the 21st century, Bangladesh, whose landmass could be fit 58 times into Brazil’s, will be home to 195m people—that ... [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 16 2013]

Entities: Bangladesh, Eclampsia, Dhaka (Bangladesh)

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Raring to go

Soon India will have a fifth of the world's working-age population. It needs to make 100m new, good jobs fast, or it risks squandering a once-in-a-generation demographic advantage ... [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 15 2013]

Entities: India

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Muhammad Nawaz Sharif

Chez Sharif

IT IS still not official, but everybody knows Nawaz Sharif is set to become Pakistan’s next prime minister. Foreign leaders have dialled in congratulations. Pakistan’s bigwigs sniffing for jobs queue at his residence in Lahore. Three days ago everyone ... [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 13 2013]

Entities: Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Raiwind (Pakistan), Lahore, Imran Khan, Pakistan

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

An emphatic win

AS POWER is peacefully handed from one democratically elected government to another for the first time in Pakistan's history, our correspondents ask what the results mean for the future of the country ... [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 13 2013]

Entities: Pakistan

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

Third time lucky?

THROUGH the night in Lahore, and early in the morning of May 12th, cars raced, honked and revved their engines, young men sprawled out of windows to wave flags and mobs of happy Punjabis shouted: “Lion!”, the party symbol of their successful leader. ... [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 12 2013]

Entities: Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan, Imran Khan, Lahore

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Bloodied, not beaten

IT WAS a television image that many feared seeing in an election campaign beset by terrorist attacks. A prominent party leader, aspiring to be prime minister,was shown bloodied, unconscious and being carried from a rally. Late on May 7th Imran Khan, ... [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 08 2013]

Entities: Imran Khan, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Pashtun, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan Muslim League (N)

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Violence on the streets

THE ARMY was still counting the dead from Bangladesh’s biggest industrial disaster , when a massacre of hardline Islamic demonstrators unfolded in the early hours of May 6th. It took place in the commercial district of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital. ... [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 07 2013]

Entities: Bangladesh, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Dhaka (Bangladesh), Religion

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

A tawdry victory

IT’S more of the same in Malaysia as the ruling Barisan Nacional (BN) has been re-elected in the country’s 13th general election. Voting on May 5th , with a record turnout of 80%, gave the BN a majority of seats in parliament, 133 out of 222, ... [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 06 2013]

Entities: Malaysia, Coalition, Anwar Ibrahim, Pakatan Rakyat

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Kicked in the teeth

I AM in Malaysia for the election on May 5th, and up here in the north of the country quite a lot of the political to-and-fro is about political Islam. The opposition Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (better known as PAS) is strong up here in states like ... [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 03 2013]

Entities: Rohingya People, Myanmar/Burma, Rohingya Muslims, Anti-Muslim

Quotes

...to have amassed largely during their 19th-century heyday, before donating it to the deity, and it warns against allowing the government a role: "Increasingly in this country, political parties and certain members of the political class look for priceless treasures in temples."

Render unto Padhmanabhaswamy [Published Banyan - The Economist - Feb 19 2013]

...Certainly it was ecstatic: "I just don't know how to express my joy about the news," a waitress gushed. "I cannot imagine how happy [the late] General Secretary Kim Jong Il will be after hearing this wonderful news."

Space cadet [Published Banyan - The Economist - Dec 12 2012]

...Mr Moon was a democracy activist once imprisoned by Mr Park’s regime. Of Miss Park, he once said, "when I was fighting against dictatorship, she was at the heart of it" . Now the fight really begins. (Picture Credit: AFP)

Ahn bows out [Published Banyan - The Economist - Nov 23 2012]

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Bye-bye, Burma, bye-bye [Published Banyan - The Economist - 16 hours ago]
A killing in Karachi [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 19 2013]
The man with a plan [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 16 2013]
Ebb and flow [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 16 2013]
Raring to go [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 15 2013]
An emphatic win [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 13 2013]
Chez Sharif [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 13 2013]
Third time lucky? [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 12 2013]
Bloodied, not beaten [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 08 2013]
Violence on the streets [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 07 2013]
A tawdry victory [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 06 2013]
Kicked in the teeth [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 03 2013]
Striving for a meritocracy [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 01 2013]
High stakes [Published Banyan - The Economist - Apr 30 2013]
The Penang effect [Published Banyan - The Economist - Apr 28 2013]
The new collapsing building [Published Banyan - The Economist - Apr 25 2013]
Just a glimmer of anger [Published Banyan - The Economist - Apr 24 2013]
When praying is not enough [Published Banyan - The Economist - Apr 21 2013]
The customer is sometimes wrong [Published Banyan - The Economist - Apr 19 2013]
Musharraf interrupted [Published Banyan - The Economist - Apr 19 2013]
Stuck in the middle [Published Banyan - The Economist - Apr 12 2013]
No day to stay dry [Published Banyan - The Economist - Apr 12 2013]
Fisherfolk fight [Published Banyan - The Economist - Apr 05 2013]
Rahul speaks [Published Banyan - The Economist - Apr 04 2013]
Elegy for an urban graveyard [Published Banyan - The Economist - Apr 01 2013]
Mixed fortunes for the daughters of Travancore [Published Banyan - The Economist - Mar 28 2013]
Revenge of the migrants' employer? [Published Banyan - The Economist - Mar 26 2013]
Return of an erstwhile king [Published Banyan - The Economist - Mar 24 2013]
Showdowner [Published Banyan - The Economist - Mar 21 2013]
Behaving badly [Published Banyan - The Economist - Mar 18 2013]

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Bye-bye, Burma, bye-bye [Published Banyan - The Economist - 16 hours ago] TO THE regret of some of its stick-in-the-mud writers, The Economist has long followed a strict policy of using official names for places. No East Timor for Timor-Leste, no Ivory Coast for Côte d'Ivoire, and of course, no Peking (heaven forfend!) ...
A killing in Karachi [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 19 2013] THE police in Karachi say they still have an open mind about the murder, late on May 18th, of Zohra Shahid Hussain, a senior politician with the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), or Movement for Justice. The three young men on a motorcycle ...
The man with a plan [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 16 2013] Shinzo Abe's plans for structural reform are welcome. But in a region sensitive to Japanese nationalism, revitalising Japan's military will demand delicacy, say our correspondents ...
Ebb and flow [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 16 2013] THE world’s most densely populated country of any size also happens to be home to the world’s fastest-growing city. By the middle of the 21st century, Bangladesh, whose landmass could be fit 58 times into Brazil’s, will be home to 195m people—that ...
Raring to go [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 15 2013] Soon India will have a fifth of the world's working-age population. It needs to make 100m new, good jobs fast, or it risks squandering a once-in-a-generation demographic advantage ...