It seems that President Barack Obama's first trip to Asia has signaled a turning point in relations between a weakened American eagle and the fiery Chinese Dragon that senses its time has come to ignore on human rights and restrict it to economics only.

It was so wonderful to learn about the long awaited judgment on the Bangabandhu murder case. The Supreme Court of Bangladesh unanimously upheld an earlier judgment that found all those 12 rogue officers of the armed forces guilty of the worst crime in the history of Bangladesh.

Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA)’s promotion of the ‘Ramayana trail’ package came in for heavy criticism at a Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) meeting at Colombo recently.

UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Sir John Holmes who is on a three day visit to Sri Lanka addressing the media personnel at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Colombo said that he is satisfied with the government’s proceedings with the resettlement and infrastructure development process.

Indian political leaders, writers and media analysts and intelligence agencies are past masters in creating doubts and misgivings between groups, communities, political parties and institutions to fan ethnic and sectarian tensions, political polarization and foment fissiparous tendencies in neighboring countries.

All India Anna DMK general secretary J Jayalalitha has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to move Union Minister and senior DMK leader A Raja out of the Telecom Ministry to enable an impartial enquiry by the CBI into the multi-crore scam in the allotment of second generation services licences to mobile telephone operators on a first-come-first-served basis.