Having a just legal system Unlike the state of affairs at the start of Deng Xiaoping's "Open Policy" 30 years ago, China now has hundreds of thousands of able and increasingly well-trained legal specialists eager to build a credible legal system - one that can meet the demands of a more sophisticated economy and society...
SURPRISING
Obama's American idea It is precisely the gulf between high principle - not least habeas corpus - and unprincipled actions that has done the most damage to America's image in recent years...
HERITAGE
Tracing missed The legendary musician Sachin Deb Burman hailed from the royal family of Tripura.
ENERGY CONSERVATION
Gaining mileage from pooling A pooling of private vehicles could help avoid traffic jams and save energy, even better than public
transport.
Power transfer... Switzerland’s newly elected federal councillor Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf of Switzerland’s Peoples’ Party is sworn in, after she accepted her nomination to the cabinet, where she replaces rightwing
Peoples’ Party colleague Christoph Blocher. AP
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