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50 reasons why one must visit Mumbai. (12 Sep) - Indians have voted Singapore as the world's best city followed by Mumbai, New York, London, and Abu Dhabi which make it to a list of top five, according to a study by market research company Ipsos. Respondents chose from a list of 48 major cities and asked which ones were the... 

(12 Sep) - Taiwan's Defense Ministry said Thursday it will delay for two years a plan to end military conscription and create a professional army in 2015. Spokesman Maj. Gen. David Lo told a press conference that while the military originally planned to replace the conscription-based service with an all-volunteer military force... 

A history of the Chinese revolution 1945 - 1957 (10 Sep) - IN THIS week’s print edition we review “The Tragedy of Liberation”, a new book by Frank Dikötter, a Dutch-born historian at the University of Hong Kong, about Mao’s murderous “land reform” in the early days of Communist rule. It is the latest of several...