Opinion

No Big Bang, but the Budget sets a positive tone, says HSBC. Detailed, pragmatic – but it misses on infrastructure, says BBVA . . . 

ATI Magazine June-July 2014 issue

NARENDRA MODI can cut his own cloth on policy – and the implementation of that policy . . .

ATI Magazine June-July 2014 issue

THE interpretation that Thailand’s political conflict is a tiny Bangkok-based royalist elite and the democracy-loving rural poor is too simplistic – and ultimately a distortion . . .

BUSINESSES and NGOs have an important role to play in successful implementation of the New Colombo Plan scholarships through internships and mentoring opportunities . . .

INDIA’s new Prime Minister embraces paradox – a quiet, introverted writer of poetry, and a powerful and flamboyant political leader . . .

A KEY thrust of China’s interest in securing an FTA with Australia is the export of Chinese workers for Chinese-owned and funded projects in Australia . . .

THE disappearance of North Korea’s Kim Dynasty is likely to result in an overwhelming sense of intellectual and cognitive dislocation and politico-cultural alienation for North Koreans as their entire existing world view vaporises in a swirl of disbelief . . .

ATI Magazine February/March 2014

TAIWAN has been playing an intriguing lead role in the dispute between China and Japan over the Senkaku Islands. Simultaneously, the level of cross-Strait contacts between Beijing and Taipei has been escalated by China’s new President, Xi Jinping . . .

LAYERS of resentment have emerged in the traditionally warm relationship between the Burmese and the Chinese . . .

ONLY socialism can save China – and only reform and opening up can develop China, says Xi Jinping of his Third Plenum reforms . . .