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(New Delhi) - Indian doctors have reported the country's first cases of "totally drug-resistant tuberculosis," a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease. It's not the first time highly resistant cases like this have been seen. Since 2003, patients have been documented in Italy and Iran. It has mostly... 

It was so good to see members and supporters of four opposition parties and several independents like myself coming together at the CNY walkabout in AMK yesterday. I was also pleased to see Lily Zubaidah Rahim joining us at the gathering. Lily is a Singaporean professor at Sydney University. In the attached online Straits Times... 

(South Korea, 16 Jan) - ACCORDING to our sister organisation, the Economist Intelligence Unit, South Korea ranks as the world’s 22nd strongest democracy, and as the second strongest in Asia. Its mainstream media, however, is a weak link. An American think-tank, Freedom House, labels the South Korean press only “partly free”,...