Please disrupt our conference
The disruption of a conference on East Timor by an organised mob in Kuala Lumpur last month may have done the troubled country a favour. Peter Carey reports. Fifteen years ago, when I first became...
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UN hit by vigilantes
The US and UK's unilateral strikes against Iraq have undermined the UN's mission, say Iraq represents a clear and present danger to the United States and the world. These words were invoked...
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Art of turning metal into merit
The Art of Burma
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Let there be Newton
While some pundits doubt whether the 17th-century revolution in science took place, advances in knowledge were undeniably made. Robert Fox surveys an epoch of change, from Galileo's vision of a...
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Herzog calls for radical reforms
German president Roman Herzog has delivered a harsh message to the country's universities: "You are no longer good enough or fast enough." In a hard-hitting speech in Berlin he said "the best heads...
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Citations for the trend spotters
The Unesco conference will note the growing strength of Asian biomedical science. Grant Lewison reports The practice of counting the numbers of scientific papers produced by a country has become a...
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Freedom as an asset
When the University of Buckingham was founded more than 20 years ago, many wondered how long it would last. Others hoped that more private universities would follow to challenge the idea that all...
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Traces on the amber route
Europe Before History
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Open to the worshipper's eye
The Ajanta Caves
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The sleep of reason ... is a female nightmare
* There are 44 million "missing women" in China alone, 36.9 million in India. * In India the "missing women" comprise 9.5 per cent of the number of actual women, in Pakistan 12.9 per cent * When only...
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Tigers, tigers spurning rights
The West may believe that its concept of democracy should be applied universally but many in East Asia insist on an alternative model. Michael Leifer reports. When the Cold War ended the ideological...
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$7.75m help for Asians
An American family foundation has stepped forward to bankroll a multi-million dollar emergency loan programme to help Asian students through their countries' economic crises. The Freeman Foundation,...
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Imperial gambit, modern game
Japan's Total Empire
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Found: city, Mexico area
Following up on local talk, Alan G. Robinson discovered a lost city that may transform our view of a great ancient civilisation. Andrew Robinson reports The dream of any archaeologist must be to...
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Paths that cross in the East
Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy