Leap over the Great Wall
By stating that there is need to build trust between New Delhi and Beijing, China's National Peoples Congress chairman Li Peng has identified the fundamental issue.



Body Watch
There is a naggingly familiar, and worrisome, ring to Information and Broadcasting Minister Sushma Swaraj's ire against Fashion Television. The minister is reportedly upset at the telecast of leggy models parading flimsy and flimsier apparel every day, day after day, on the 24-hour free-to-air channel.



Hawking loyalty
Best place to feel the power of the communist regime in Hanoi is the marketplace or the mausoleum. And the policeman is the standard bearer of Ho Chi Minh's legacy. In the market first.



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