SANCTIONS DO NOT LEAD TO NUKE ABOLITION IN ASIA

North Korea’s response to the United Nations Security Council's expanded sanctions on January 22 by threatening to resume nuclear tests and last November’s failure by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to persuade the five recalcitrant nuclear powers to sign the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone Treaty (SEANWFZ) have focused attention,

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The Human Dimension

Will we have to buy the air we breathe soon?

There was a story during the rounds recently on the web that a Chinese businessman has bottled crisp and pure mountain air, which he then sold to a populace starved for clean air. As China’s big cities experience more and more pollution and a haze of pollutants cover their landscapes,

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Parliament is right in rejecting Supreme Court judgement

Now that the sound and fury of the brouhaha about the former Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake have subsided it is time look back and assess not only the triumph of the Legislature over the Judiciary but also why the legal pundits who backed the doomed case failed, particularly in cooking up legal fictions to make the guilty look innocent.

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