Strangers In A Strange Land: Sri Lankans In Staten Island
Over the past dozen years or so, the Sri Lankan population in Staten Island has increased by more than sixfold.
Strange Bedfellows: Hungarian Far-Right Jobbik Party Embraces Muslim Nations, Seeks 'Eurasian' Ideal Of Statehood
Jobbik snagged one-sixth of the popular vote, granting them 47 out of the 386 seats in the National Assembly, making them the third-largest party in Hungary
Nelson Mandela Dies: South Asia Mourns Passing Of South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Icon
Mandela had a long association with Indians and Indian people stretching back to his early days as an anti-apartheid activist.
Wrath Of The Khans: Bollywood’s Popularity Rising In Both North And South Korea
Bollywood actors including Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan have become well known on the Korean peninsula.
Nelson Mandela Dies: The Indian Woman He Loved And Almost Married
Mandela proposed to Amina Cachalia, an Indian anti-apartheid and women’s rights activist, soon after he divorced Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
Holy Cow! Australian Beef Exports Set To Surge On Free Trade Deal With South Korea
Total bilateral trade between South Korea and Australia amounted to about $29 billion last year.
Swedish Police Keep Secret Files On Roma (Gypsy) People: Fighting Crime Or Ethnic Profiling?
Roma in Sweden suffer from high unemployment (80 percent), poor education, substandard housing and social isolation and deprivation.
White-Collar Tragedy: Pakistani Man In Dubai Kills Daughters, Himself Over Mounting Financial Debts
The majority of people in the UAE are foreign migrant workers, principally from India, Pakistan and The Philippines
Neo-Nazi Threatens To Kidnap Elisabeth, Crown Princess Of Belgium, Blaming Her Father, King Philippe, For Influx Of Immigrants [CORRECTION]
Elisabeth is destined to one day become the queen herself, as she is first in the line of succession.
Cradle Babies: Is A Government Program In Southern India To Save Infant Baby Girls From Death Only Encouraging Parents To Abandon Their Daughters?
In Tamil Nadu, as in virtually all other parts of India, female offspring are considered a financial burden.
New York City's Camelot: The Legacy Of Mayor John V. Lindsay
John Lindsay emerged on the national scene in the mid-1960s, as New York City found itself in the vortex of myriad urban ills.
Eden Shattered: Peaceful, Crime-Free Iceland Records Its Very First Fatal Police Shooting
Iceland has one of the lowest crime rates in the world, including a near absence of gun violence.
World AIDS Day: HIV Infection Rates Plunging In India, But Many Have No Access To Anti-Retroviral Drugs
In deeply conservative and tradition-based Indian society, people carrying the deadly virus are often ostracized and mistreated.
Happy Thankskilling: Morrissey Savages Obama In Letter To President (FULL TEXT)
British musician Morrissey is a renowned vegetarian.
Meet The New Boss: Pakistan Names New Army Chief, Who Must Face Taliban Insurgency And Other Daunting Threats
Raheel’s selection was somewhat of a surprise, as Nawaz ignored the front-runner, Lieutenant General Haroon Aslam.
Project Beauty: Chinese Officials Pressure Uighur Muslim Women In Xinjiang To Drop Their Veils, Men To Cut Beards
Muslim Uighurs, the largest ethnic group in Xinjiang province, have expressed their resentment over efforts by the state to alter their physical appearance.
Aliyah: French Jews Fleeing To Israel To Escape Rising Anti-Semitism, Muslim Extremism, And Economic Crisis
A European Union report indicated many European Jews try to hide their identity.
Bangladesh Parliamentary Election Date Set, But Opposition Threatens Strikes, Demands Postponement
Opposition leaders are demanding PM Sheikh Hasina resign and form an impartial caretaker government to oversee the election.
Norskrasisme: Tweets By Somali Student Triggers Discussions About Racism In Norway
Norway’s immigrant population has jumped to about 547,000 (11 percent of the total) from about 186,000 (4.3 percent) in 1995.
Marian Kotleba: Slovakia’s New Neo-Nazi Governor Only Latest of Right-Wing Extremists Emerging In Eastern Europe
Kotleba's organization has long agitated against Slovakia’s Roma (Gypsy) minority, branding them as “parasites."
November 1961: John F. Kennedy Welcomes India’s Jawaharlal Nehru To U.S. (FULL-TEXT)
John F. Kennedy welcomes Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at Andrews Air Force Base, for an official state visit
JFK Assassination: How A Young Irish Group From Liverpool Helped Saved The World From Sorrow
On the day JFK died, The Beatles released their second album.
John F. Kennedy And India: A Tale OF JFK, Jackie, Nehru, Indira, Chinese Nuclear Strike, Goa And Saris
Kennedy had a number of important dealings with India at a particularly critical juncture in the South Asian nation’s history.
No Gypsies Please: Sweden Sues Statoil (NYSE: STO) For Discriminating Against Roma
About 120,000 Roma live in Sweden.
Balochistan, Pakistan: Where Children Work, And Do Not Attend School
More than 2.3 million Baloch children, out of a total of 3.6 million school-age youths in the province, do not go to school.
Arrivederci Roma: Italians Desperate To Emigrate, As Youths Staggered By 40% Joblessness
Italy’s unemployment rate reached 12.5 percent in September as the nation remains mired in the longest recession since WWII.
No Direction Home: Unwanted And Unloved, Afghan Refugees Face Bleak, Precarious Future In Iran
Officials allege that some two-thirds of the Afghans in Iran are illegal immigrants.
‘Reunion’: Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Ad Evoking Partition Separation A Big Hit In India And Pakistan (VIDEO)
A new ad promoting Google Search evokes one of the bloodiest and most devastating episodes of South Asian history.
Chinese Tourists Killed In Bali Bus Crash, But Island Resort Increasingly Popular With Travelers From China
Chinese are now second only to Australians in the number of visitors to Bali.
Le Beau Monde: Paris Restaurants Prefer The ‘Beautiful People’, Is It Discrimination?
Prejudice and discrimination against the "ugly" can never be legislated out of existence.