Olympic flame casts light on cultural understanding

Half an hour’s drive to the southwest from the 2008 Olympics’ venue, the Bird’s Nest, the Capital Museum is quietly stealing some of the glamour from the quadrennial games. The Ancient Greek Olympics has unveiled its curtain there, accompanied by four other exhibits featuring ancient Chinese civilisation.

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SAARC: World focus on South Asia

The 15th SAARC Summit has concluded in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, with the signing of the Colombo Declaration. The Colombo Declaration, like the past declarations, has principally agreed to collectively address various issues that confront our society

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The evolution of suicide terrorism

There are two important questions to consider in studying suicide terrorism. First, why has suicide terrorism emerged in the last few decades as such a potent weapon? Second, why is it that some terrorist groups use suicide terrorism,

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