JAKARTA - In October 2004, extensive reforms to the military were passed by the Indonesian Parliament, ahead of retired general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono coming into office as president.
Mr J.D. Vance isn’t wrong about all of us. While most childless lives don’t conform to his cliche of atomised self-regard, mine does, more or less. Home is a rented
Japan’s artists have given the nation an outsize influence around the globe, with manga, anime and other cultural exports producing some of the world’s most beloved figures – while its once-dominant technology sector sputtered.
It was the aroma of Indian masala that did it. After 10 years of working in America, the unexpected fragrance of home-cooked dhal wafting from a rundown motel on the Kansas border in 2010 made me decide it was time to return home, to Singapore.
When I read that Singapore was Asia’s second-friendliest city, while another list said it was the world’s fourth-friendliest city, the introvert in me thought anxiously: “I hope it’s not true.”
Singapore has stolen her daughter, my Korean best friend laments as she prepares to send her one and only child back to the city state for her university education.
Researching a recent column on China’s economic ties with India, I reached out to a person in New Delhi who, I knew, would have the contact numbers for the top India executives of China’s SAIC, maker of MG cars.