Asia

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After the dawn

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Past the cliff's edge

Mrs Gandhi has found it is easier to shut down a democracy than to start it up again; and perhaps she no longer wants to

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It's later than Mao thinks

China needs pulling together more urgently than its ageing leader seems to realise. We discuss its problems on its 20th anniversary as a communist state.

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Lesson of an Escape

From 1959: On the Dalai Lama's escape from Tibet into India

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Revolution in Siam