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Netherlands appears to be showing the world an elegant way of tackling semetic intolerance, especially of Islamic type. Two developments in recent weeks confirm this interesting developments. In the first week of June, a Dutch court reaffirmed their support to allow public debate over Islamic religion, which is typically avoided around the world fearing backlash from Muslim adherents. In the last week of June, Dutch government initiated a ban on the ritual slaughter of animals, withstanding the pressure from Jewish and Islamic relgious quarters.

Lobsang Sangay(42), international law expert, has been elected as the prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile on Wednesday, 27th April 2011. Lobsang Sangay was born at Lamhatta in a Tibetan refugee settlement in the eastern Indian hill town of Darjeeling. His parents had fled Tibet in 1959, following the Dalai Lama as the Chinese clamped [...]

The US and European nations targeted Muammar Gaddafi’s forces with airstrikes and dozens of cruise missiles, shaking the Libyan capital with explosions and the sound of gunfire early Sunday. The Libyan leader vowed a long war “with unlimited patience and deep faith.”  State television said 48 people had died in the strikes, which marked the [...]

RIKUZENTAKATA came into being on January 1, 1955. But in less than a minute on Friday March 11, 2011, it was gone. The might of nature has no respect for history nor the 24,000 people that called the coastal city home. Horrified people all over the world watched news footage of the wall of muddy [...]

Talking about his rebirth in 1996, the Dalai Lama quoted one of his favourite prayers: “So long as space remains and suffering of sentient beings is there, I will remain in order to serve.” Then he contradicted himself. “Regarding the institution of the Dalai Lama, whether that institution should remain or not is not my [...]

So far, events have followed the script. On March 10, an emotional day for Tibetans in exile because it was the 52nd anniversary of a failed uprising in Lhasa, their head lama announced he would abdicate political responsibility. The announcement was followed by sentimental appeals for him to stay on as political leader. Some supporters [...]

A new, smaller group of Cabinet ministers took an oath of office Friday in Pakistan, where the ruling party recently agreed to shrink the prime minister’s circle of advisers to save the cash-strapped country some money.       The swear-in ceremony was carried live on state-run Pakistan Television, and most of the incoming ministers [...]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned during his meeting yesterday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Jerusalem that the continued upheaval in Egypt may bring to power radical Islamic elements, a repeat of the scenario that occurred during the Iranian revolution in 1979. Netanyahu relayed a similar message in a telephone conversation with U.S. President Barack [...]

The rumblings of a popular discontent threatening to overthrow the 30-year-old autocratic government of Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak is being acutely felt in China whose communist dictators fear that the uprising could fuel calls for reform at home. The word “Egypt” has now joined the rank of censored or blocked terms on the internet in [...]

Government officials yesterday claimed that life in Cairo was returning to normal, after two weeks of action that has paralysed the city. State TV said that banks and courts would reopen today, the start of Egypt’s working week, though daily bank withdrawals would be limited to $15,000 and the stock market would remain shut, at [...]