Rights group hits Saudi treatment of domestic help | JAKARTA: Saudi Arabian families are abusing female migrant workers to the point of slavery, and Riyadh needs to respond with sweeping labor and justice reforms, a major rights group said Tuesday. | ... (photo: AP / Tatan Syuflana)The Manila Times
Delhi carries a small stick | By Chietigj Bajpaee | Israel bombs the Osirak nuclear research facility in Iraq in 1981 after it alleges that Iraq is using the facility to develop a nuclear weapons program. China seizes and disman... (photo: AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)Asia Times
Asia's angry monk syndrome | By Megawati Wijaya | SINGAPORE - From Sri Lanka to South Korea, from Tibet to Myanmar, Asia's Buddhist clergy are in unprecedented numbers exerting their moral authority onto politics, abandoning th... (photo: AP / )Asia Times AsianBuddhismLifeMonkPhotos
Greed and dogma fertilize food crisis | By Sameer Dossani | For those following economic trends, the past 18 months are notable primarily for two reasons. First, the US housing market, long seen as overvalued finally went from boom to bus... (photo: AP / Anupam Nath)Asia Times FoodMarketOilPhotosPopulation
Tired Dhoni opts out of Sri Lanka Tour | Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Tuesday took the rare step of opting out of India's Test tour of Sri Lanka due to fatigue, while Sachin Tendulkar returned to the squad after re... (photo: AP / Bikas Das)Independent online CricketIndiaPhotosSPortSri Lanka
India star Laxman to join Notts | Nottinghamshire will bring in Indian batsman VVS Laxman to replace Adam Voges in August. | Voges will play his final game of the season against Durham, starting on 12 A... (photo: AP )BBC News AustraliaCricketIndiaPhotosSports
