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MORE UNCERTAINTY IN SRI LANKA
THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) of Chandrika Kumaratunga and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) signals a clear parting of ways between President Kumaratunga and the Ranil Wickremesinghe-led United National Front ...

DOMESTIC COMPULSIONS
PRIME MINISTER ATAL Bihari Vajpayee's preoccupations with the snap general election have resulted in his putting off a scheduled visit to Thailand for what would have been the first summit of the Bangladesh-India-Myanmar-Sri Lanka-Thailand ...

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Ban, burn, destroy
By Rajeev Dhavan

Governments no longer seek to defend the constitutional right to free speech... They simply ban books and films, abdicating their discretion to mob pressure and for electoral gains.

Globalisation's last frontier
By Jeff Madrick

THE UNITED States President, George W. Bush's recent proposal to grant temporary legal status to illegal immigrants is not yet fleshed out enough to judge how effective it will be. Six million to eight million illegal workers would qualify, as ...

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