Provides the latest RSS feeds for Asia Editorials. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page China National News.com http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/10/id/ed68ecccb9e5520c/ en-us Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:47:08 -0500 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:47:08 -0500 30 When I first arrived in Taiwan I clearly remember predicting after six months of intense language practice, I would be triumphantly returning home to the U.S., flexing my fluent Chinese tongue to ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203380662/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:56:21 -0500 The China Post http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203380662/ Dickens' works were called social novels, scathing commentaries on poverty in Victorian England. His novels should be made required reading for English classes, made more relevant for Filipino ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203380663/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:56:20 -0500 The China Post http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203380663/ The eurozone crisis appears to have swept this post-war caution aside. Two years into the debt disaster, Germany looks increasingly confident in the role of economic superpower, pushing its model of ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203380661/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:56:19 -0500 The China Post http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203380661/ The country's rise as an economic power has been one of the hottest topics in the world. Catching the trend The Economist published a special section on China in its Jan. 28 issue, the first ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203380664/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:56:17 -0500 The China Post http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203380664/ While Banerjee kept the political pot boiling throughout the cold winter, Kumar chose to spoil the spring for the BJP, which had a golden past but is now faced with a bleak future in UP. Apparently, ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203372284/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:03:03 -0500 The Telegraph http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203372284/ Relief comes in the form of Karma, a rambunctious and irreverent old man. Called an avatar of the divine madman, Drupka Kunley, Karma embarrasses Anand and Tara by singing a provocative Drupka song ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203372283/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:03:01 -0500 The Telegraph http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203372283/ shadow and so displeased with his own footsteps that he determined to get rid of both. The method he hit upon was to run away from them, so he got up and ran, but every time he put his foot down, ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203372282/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:08:29 -0500 Times of India http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203372282/ The cops are beefing up and increasing their numbers. But the thieves are increasing in numbers, too. While these are the bad guys, the bigger enemy are those who would egg them on by buying the ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203372276/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:08:06 -0500 The Star http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203372276/ It is being asked at every gathering. This fixation on the date of the elections has totally and completely eclipsed policy arguments. THE final long weekend of the beginning of the year will have ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203372277/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:08:04 -0500 The Star http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203372277/ MINDA Malaysia (an umbrella body representing family support groups of people with mental illness in the country) and the Malaysian Mental Health Association (MMHA) read with ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203372278/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:07:59 -0500 The Star http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203372278/ I REFER to the report on the capture of the 200kg male tapir which somehow strayed into Kg Tun Abdul Razak, Bukit Katil in Malacca recently (The Star, Feb 2). The tapir is also the animal on the ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203372279/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:07:54 -0500 The Star http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203372279/ IT is difficult to rationalise why Malaysian households have to wait indefinitely for the recruitment of Indonesian maids when there are other options to employ maids from countries like Thailand ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203372280/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:07:52 -0500 The Star http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203372280/ IN a free enterprise market, a glass of water may be priced at 50sen to RM1.50, depending on what type of water you drink and where you go. You consume it if you want it. You ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203372281/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:07:45 -0500 The Star http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203372281/ China has had a long run of luck in recent decades. Few countries can match China's momentum of development. Holding such good cards, if China should falter, several Chinese generations would ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203362119/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:02:58 -0500 Global Times http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203362119/ Filmfare awards - for his movies. The German embassy in Delhi recently showcased Akhtar's film Don - The King Is Back, about to be screened at the ongoing ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203362118/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:35:10 -0500 Times of India http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203362118/ While celebrating the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, the best way to honour him is to examine yet again his relevance for the world today. His relevance for the subcontinent to ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351379/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:05:37 -0500 The Telegraph http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351379/ UNITED NATIONS -- Russia's veto of a Security Council resolution on Syria goes far beyond mere protection for a close ally and arms buyer -- it showed Moscow's determination to crush what ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351375/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:19:55 -0500 The China Post http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351375/ BEIJING -- China's hard-line political stance, as shown by its veto of a U.N. resolution on Syria at the weekend, is increasingly clashing with the Asian powerhouse's efforts to improve ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351376/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:19:54 -0500 The China Post http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351376/ JERUSALEM -- Israel is pursuing a studied ambiguity on whether it will attack Iran, keeping its options open on how to rein in Tehran's alleged nuclear weapons ambitions, Israeli experts ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351377/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:19:53 -0500 The China Post http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351377/ SHANGHAI -- When it comes to China, Facebook should consider itself forewarned. Cracking the world's biggest Internet population might seem an obvious ambition for the social networking giant ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351378/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:19:52 -0500 The China Post http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351378/ Malaysia appears to be too preoccupied by domestic challenges to give foreign policy the kind of serious attention it ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351369/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:08:04 -0500 The Star http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351369/ Granting autonomy to a few of our public universities looks wonderful. But it will be an exercise in futility if each faculty or department is not free to determine its path. A FEW public ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351370/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:08:01 -0500 The Star http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351370/ Many Cambodians, who work two jobs in their homeland to make ends meet, see Malaysia as a country where life is good and where one can earn a lot of money. MY guide Sey, an affable but quiet ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351371/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:07:59 -0500 The Star http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351371/ THE disinterest in science among students has been a long-standing issue since well into the 1990s. The Education Ministry had identified the problems then. Among the reasons cited in the report ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351372/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:07:52 -0500 The Star http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351372/ MY romance with the East Coast roads of West Malaysia began as early as the mid-70s when, as a student, my friends and I drove all the way up to Kota Baru. It was both fun and challenging to ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351373/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:07:50 -0500 The Star http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351373/ THE demands on working mothers are punishing. Every morning, we kiss our children goodbye, thrust our children into the capable (or not-so-capable) hands of our maids/nannies/mothers, plunging into ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351374/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:07:48 -0500 The Star http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/203351374/