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Globalisation at work
The Indian financial sector's growing integration with the rest of the world is perhaps best illustrated by recent happenings in the domestic equity markets. Over last week (June 4 to June 8) the Sensex lost 500 points, its biggest drop in four ...

To pardon or not
United States President George W. Bush appears to be caught between a rock and a hard place after a federal court sentenced Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to a 30-month prison term. If he pardons Mr. ...

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Financial accountability at the U.N.
By Ramesh Thakur

The United Nations does not need lessons in public ethics from the American corporate sector. Nor from the administration in Washington on due diligence in the expenditure of public money or ethical behaviour of public officials.

News Analysis

Asean looks to India, China to free Suu Kyi
By P.S. Suryanarayana

The search now is for an Asian solution, different from the west's prescriptive approach to democracy.

The unseen literary world
By Maya Jaggi

Chinua Achebe's long wait for recognition highlights the invisibility of non-western writers.

Management firms have data but are starved of knowledge
By Simon Caulkin

You phone a call centre to complain about a bill — but you still get a threatening reminder through the post a week later.

Fooled by visions of the future
By Christine Evans-Pughe

Our expectations of technology are borne out of Cold War spin, according to a new book.

Corrections and Clarifications
* In a report "Russian President calls Bush's bluff" (Op-Ed, June 12, 2007), a sentence was: "The Gabala radar, which Russia rents from Azerbaijan, is one of the biggest in the world", while in "Putin and missile defence" (Editorial, June ...

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