EDITORIAL Disclosure needed on bribery claims
The public expects the judiciary to get to bottom of allegations and deliver justice without fear or favour
THAI TALK Take Thaksin and generals out of political equation
No polls will ever show it. Nobody will tell you straight to your face. But my suspicion is that if you really engaged an "average Thai" (if you could find one who has survived the political nonsense so far) in a real conversation these days, you would come away with a very clear conclusion: we should all be fed up with the ongoing confrontation and obsession with the "Thaksin syndrome".
Caste-based hiring widens divide in India
Caste, once again, is casting its shadow over India's politics. Caste-based "reservations" (reserved places) in education and government employment are supposed to benefit India's most deprived, but in reality they have hardened, rather than eroded, India's ancient system of discrimination.
