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(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... 

(11 Sep) - Singapore, a hot spot for tourism in Southeast Asia, may begin to feel the heat of the currency turmoil afflicting neighboring economies as the cost for regional visitors to vacation in the island nation skyrockets. The Indonesian rupiah, Malaysian ringgit and Indian rupee have tumbled between 4 and 14 percent against...