Outta here
After a decade in Afghanistan, the United States rushes for the exit(101)
Saturday February 4th 2012
America’s retreat from Afghanistan
Political visions in Japan
Generational warfare
Two rival political visions emerge for reviving Japan. Will they clash?(24)
East Asian trade
Another big noodle
Suddenly an abundance of possible connections between the region's three biggest economies(46)
Australia's aborigines
You say Australia, I say invasion
Popular voting will determine whether to recognise that the continent was never actually terra nullius(227)
Taiwan's presidential race
It’s all right, Ma
Taiwanese democracy catches on—in mainland China(186)
Kazakhstan's election
Multi-party pooper
Little to celebrate in the country's nominal return to parliamentary democracy(2)
Grameen’s business empire
Grabbing Grameen
Property rights in peril in Bangladesh(26)
Energy in India
The future is black
Power is essential for India’s long-term growth. But electricity is unlikely to flow fast enough(71)
Change in Myanmar
Follow my lead
The government moves, and gets its rewards(18)
Feature
Riding India's railways
All aboard the Vivek Express
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A new rail service connects India’s north-east directly to its southernmost tip
Banyan, the blog
Our columnist is joined by other correspondents in surveying Asia's political, business and cultural landscapes
The China page
The mainland has broken out from the rest of Asia with a page of its own. We offer our rationale, as well as a place nearby in which to find most all of our current China coverage
Banyan
A Jimi Hendrix stymied
The dictatorship snatched away his best years, but it is not too late to hear him play More »
Babbage
The second coming
A totally drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis may have emerged in India More »
What we're reading
Pakistan the unreal
(Foreign Policy)
Aatish Taseer thinks the country is best suited to fiction
Your guide to the Man Asian Literary Prize Shortlist
(The Millions)
The battle over Pakistan's schools
(Guernica) Can a small group of reformers modernize Pakistan’s schools?
The Andamans and mass tourism
(The Guardian)
The Jarawa people are existentially threatened by the affluent masses
Highlights
Booming Mongolia
Mine, all mine
The country that is likely to grow faster than any other in the next decade, and how it is changing, for better or worse
Exams in South Korea
The one-shot society
The system that has helped South Korea prosper is beginning to break down
Conservation in India
Frog-hunters of the Western Ghats
Growth damages the environment. It also produces people who mind about that
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