Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Saturday 3 April
Changes to military service
In 1990 when I did my German civilian service – working in a hospital – it took 15 months, three months more than the military conscription option
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Affairs / Manufacturing
Uniform approach
Outsourcing has a bad name – a way of cutting labour costs by employing people in India and China (over three million US jobs will be lost to this trend by 2015). But there’s also a growing move for nations to outsource…
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Friday 11 February
Egypt’s military might up there with the big boys – for now
Of the more arresting images beamed around the world from the streets surrounding Cairo’s Tahrir (Liberation) Square was footage of protesters facing stationed tanks.
Business / Defence
Monocolumn
Sunday 15 August
China cheats itself
China is famously hungry for resources and knowledge of all kinds – but military high technology whets the country’s billion-man appetite more than anything else.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Wednesday 17 April
Burying the truth
On the day that the UK lays to rest one of its most divisive leaders – Margaret Thatcher – there's a sense that the bombast surrounding the funeral is distinctly un-British.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Thursday 31 December
2010: America’s war policy
If 2009 was the year that liberal Democrats realised that President Barack Obama was more hawkish than the man they thought they had elected, 2010 will bring a bigger political adjustment.
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Sunday 31 January
Haiti according to Médecins Sans Frontières
Haiti has raised a lot of questions about how the world helps when disaster strikes.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Sunday 9 January
The EU’s urge to be friends with Beijing
With half the Christmas presents opened in Europe last month having started life on Chinese production lines, it seems only fair that the European Union should want to sell more of its own goods to the moneyed Chinese and…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Monday 5 September
9/11 – The view from Pakistan
When Pakistan allied itself with America after 9/11, the country was rejuvenated.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 3 November
Obama looks for friends in the East
Feeling unloved at home after a walloping in yesterday’s mid-term elections, US President Barack Obama is heading to Asia – as far from America as you can get – in search of a sympathetic audience.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Monday 22 August
Libya – Tripoli’s fall bolsters Syrian rebels
There was no coverage of Libya’s rebel forces taking over great parts of Tripoli in the Monday edition of Syria’s Tishreen, the national daily.
Affairs / Aviation
Monocolumn
Monday 8 March
Welcome to the Stansted of Japan
It is currently only known for its juicy watermelons, energy companies and martial arts heritage.
Affairs / Investments
Monocolumn
Wednesday 21 October
Iraq opens for business
American troops are leaving Iraq, but the engineers, hotel architects and database managers are heading in.
Edits / Recipes
The meat of battle
It is a country renowned for its neutrality, but there is nothing hands-off about Swiss Army life where their in-demand food is concerned.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Saturday 13 February
The trouble with Thailand
Ordinary Thais may be resigned to the army’s habit of running elected prime ministers out of Bangkok.
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Thursday 18 February
The plot thickens
The Mossad or not the Mossad – that is the question on everyone’s lips here, following the identification by the police in Dubai of at least seven Israeli citizens who also hold European passports as suspects in the killing…
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Wednesday 8 August
South America’s unsung political hero
Contrary to popular belief, the best leader in the world is not Barack Obama. Sorry to break it to the Germans but it’s not Angela Merkel either. François Hollande? Not a chance.
Affairs / Defence
Defence briefing
This month’s military news round-up, looking at conscription in Austria, budget cuts in the US and smaller-scale deployments in Guatemala.