Japan’s habits of overwork are hard to change

No one is happy with Japan’s workstyle, but it is proving hard to change

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Why the mayor of Seoul sleeps in a shack

He wants to learn how the hard-up live

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How will Imran Khan govern?

Perhaps he will surprise

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A controversial register of citizens in north-east India

Some 4m worry they may become stateless

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Japan’s habits of overwork are hard to change

No one is happy with Japan’s workstyle, but it is proving hard to change

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Why the mayor of Seoul sleeps in a shack

He wants to learn how the hard-up live

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How will Imran Khan govern?

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A controversial register of citizens in north-east India

Some 4m worry they may become stateless

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A truck bomb in the Philippines tells peacemakers to make haste

A new law could resolve some of the grievances of Muslim separatists

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A truck bomb in the Philippines tells peacemakers to make haste

A new law could resolve some of the grievances of Muslim separatists

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How badly are sanctions hurting North Korea’s Kim Jong Un?

Not as much as people think

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A “slight correction on democracy” in Cambodia

Abolish the opposition, silence criticism and call it a fair election

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A dam disaster in Laos

A deadly flood and a torrent of criticism of Laos’s hydroelectric ambitions

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Why South-East Asia is fertile ground for mini-Trumps

Thaksin Shinawatra, who wrote the book on South-East Asian populism, ponders its next chapter

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How badly are sanctions hurting North Korea’s Kim Jong Un?

Not as much as people think

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A “slight correction on democracy” in Cambodia

Abolish the opposition, silence criticism and call it a fair election

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A dam disaster in Laos

A deadly flood and a torrent of criticism of Laos’s hydroelectric ambitions

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Why South-East Asia is fertile ground for mini-Trumps

Thaksin Shinawatra, who wrote the book on South-East Asian populism, ponders its next chapter

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Why the Cook Islands fears rich-country status

How not to blow your own trumpet

MOST political leaders play up their country’s economic performance. Those on the Cook Islands, a collection of 15 islets spread over 2m square kilometres in the South Pacific, are doing the opposite.

At issue is whether the country of 17,000 people has become wealthy enough to warrant a reassignment by the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, from upper middle-income to high-income status. The rub is that “graduation” would make it more difficult for the country to claim it qualifies for aid. This amounted to NZ$33m ($22m) in 2016, or just under 8% of the islands’ GDP. However, New Zealand, the biggest donor country to date, has said it will continue to give an unspecified amount of financial assistance if the Cook Islands graduates. 

Henry Puna, the prime minister, has acknowledged that achieving high-income status would be a source of national pride. It would be a first for a Pacific-island...Continue reading

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Violence and claims of election-rigging overshadow Pakistan’s election

“FOR the first time in our history, fair elections are going to be held,” insisted Fawad Chaudhry, a spokesman for the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, this week. Unfortunately, this view is not universally held. The national and state elections on July 25th, in which 100m people are registered to vote, should mark a further stage in the country’s progress towards democracy, for the transfer of power thereafter will be only the second from one civilian government to another in the country’s seven decades of coup-studded history. But the poll takes place amid accusations that the powerful military establishment is tilting the field in favour of the PTI and its leader, a former cricket star, Imran Khan (pictured, on the flag).

There is another dark cloud over the campaign: violence. On July 13th a suicide-bomber, alleged to have links with Islamic State, killed 149 people in an attack on a rally in Mastung, a town in the south-western province of Balochistan. It was the...Continue reading

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