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India moves to streamline taxes

  India seems about to launch the biggest economic reform since a huge deregulation program was enacted in 1991. The upper house of India's Parliament  has passed a bill to streamline and unify taxes on  15 goods and services taxes across the country, which has...

China wants a four-nation alliance against terrorism

  China is trying to create what it calls  an anti-terrorism alliance with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Chinese state media said on Aug. 4. China has faced Islamic terrorism in some of its western region. China envisions a "four-country mechanism" for...

Karzai says NATO should leave or focus on Pakistan

  Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai says that foreign forces should either leave Afghanistan to deal with its civil war, or focus on the Taliban’s foreign backers in Pakistan. And he says that bombing Taliban positions just makes things worse. He told The...

Vietnam as U.S contact point for North Korea?

By LLEWELLYN KING Can Vietnam talk some sense into North Korea, and in so doing make itself the go-to country in Asia for diplomatic fixes? There are those in Hanoi, and quite a few scattered across the foreign policy establishment, who think so. Vietnamese President...

Addressing Attacks on Vietnamese Computer Systems

Addressing Attacks on Vietnamese Computer Systems

Addressing Attacks on Vietnamese Computer Systems By Allan Cytryn, Risk Masters International, LLC; Member of Board of Thinkers, The Boston Global Forum and Prof. John E. Savage, Brown University; Member of Board of Thinkers, The Boston Global Forum We recommend a...

Japan deeply worried about Chinese ‘coercion’

Japan's annual defense review has expressed ''deep concern'' over what it sees as China's ''coercion'' and aggressiveness, particularly in the South China Sea. The review comes amid heightened tension in  East and Southeast Asia less than a month after an arbitration...