Provides the latest RSS feeds for Asia Editorials. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page India Gazette.com http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/cat/ed68ecccb9e5520c/ en-us Sat, 18 May 2013 16:04:30 -0400 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:04:30 -0400 30 In all discussions about national issues, Singaporeans point to a possible shift in political power during the general election. In particular, is the current government still good enough to helm the ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214593989/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c Fri, 17 May 2013 20:33:33 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214593989/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c Elephant-beaten-by-ant ending an inspiration for others as corrupt official is investigated by the Disciplinary Inspection Commission. The Caijing magazine deputy chief editor, who lodged a complaint on his microblog last December alleging that Chinese National Development and Reform Commission deputy director Liu Tienan forged his university diplomas and helped companies which his wife and son ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214593990/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c Fri, 17 May 2013 20:33:32 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214593990/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c I WOULD like to congratulate Datuk Mary Yap on her appointment as the Deputy Education Minister. It is said that only a teacher can understand the ups and downs in the profession. We hope that with her appointment, the teaching profession will be free from politics and education will be the priority in nation building. I hope good policies like PPSMI will continue hand in hand with MBMMBI, as ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214593992/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c Fri, 17 May 2013 20:33:31 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214593992/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c THE Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) congratulates the seven women appointed as ministers and deputy ministers in Prime Minister Datuk Sri Najib Tun ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214593991/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c Fri, 17 May 2013 20:33:31 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214593991/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c IT is the norm these days to see people driving old and new cars with heavily tinted windows and windscreens. Tinted glass for cars was banned in the 70s by the Road Transport Department (RTD) and the police. What happened? Lax enforcement? A few years ago the RTD was supposed to launch a large scale nationwide crackdown on vehicles with heavily tinted windows but this was postponed indefinitely. ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214593993/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c Fri, 17 May 2013 20:33:30 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214593993/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c The assembly vote, not surprisingly saw 107 in favor of the resolution which saw support from most of the Arab world, the United States and Europe and much of Asia. Twelve countries opposed the resolution including Russia and Mainland China, the Assad regime's staunchest backers as well as the Islamic Republic of Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela. There were 59 abstentions including nearby Lebanon, ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214589277/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c Fri, 17 May 2013 15:57:44 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214589277/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c By John McBeth -- During the four years I spent in the Philippines in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I developed a healthy distaste for the ruling elite, exemplified by the inept leadership of President Corazon Aquino, who dragged her feet on key reforms and left us without power for 10 hours a ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214589278/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c Fri, 17 May 2013 15:57:43 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214589278/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c Certainly, it makes good sense to encourage contending parties to resolve neighborhood spats by themselves, failing which they could be asked to approach a Community Mediation Centre. But since this step is voluntary, people can choose not to do so, weakening the dispute resolution framework. The numbers cause discomfiture: 30 percent of cases handled by the center have not been resolved ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214589280/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c Fri, 17 May 2013 15:57:42 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214589280/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c NEW YORK -- U.S. companies are hiring more workers and home prices, stock markets and energy production are climbing. But a sudden narrowing in the U.S. budget deficit could trump all that -- and provide another leg up for U.S. asset ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214589279/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c Fri, 17 May 2013 15:57:42 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214589279/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c Taiwan has issued a new round of sanctions against the Philippines over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman. The Chinese society as a whole should lend Taiwan a hand, so as to ensure its ultimate victory in the latest crisis.Such a victory is of great significance. It will rebuff Manila's arrogance and lift Chinese status in maritime conflicts. There has long been a stereotype over the ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214584779/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c Fri, 17 May 2013 12:12:49 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214584779/scat/ed68ecccb9e5520c