India has summoned China's deputy chief of mission in New Delhi to lodge its protest over the courtroom manhandling of a diabetic Indian diplomat S Balachandran in Yiwu which resulted in his fainting more ›

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Dozens of Tibetan activists attempted to enter the Chinese embassy in New Delhi on Sunday but were stopped and taken away by Indian police. more ›

Former beauty queen, Alaska governor and Republican VP hopeful Sarah Palin is now on her maiden voyage to India, where she can see Tibet from her hotel room in New Delhi. more ›

India Real Time reviews 5 restaurants where you can do just that, but you'll have to fly your way to New Delhi to sample the new hybrid cuisine. Classic hallmarks of "Chindian", writes Margherita Stancati, are the use of paneer (a type of cottage cheese used as a meat subsitute in India), "Manchurian", a generic gravy that can accompany "anything", as well as cauliflower, coriander and cumin. Mmmmm.... more ›

The Indian government on Tuesday invited six aircraft manufacturers including Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. to bid on a contract for 126 combat planes worth up to $10 billion. more ›

The Youtube video shown here produced by Chinese Malaysian student Wee Meng Chee, 24, triggered torrents of invective from Malays, and support from some Chinese in Malaysia. more ›

Ma Lik, the head of Hong Kong's leading pro-Beijing political party who questioned whether China's Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 should be called a massacre, died Wednesday, an official said. He was 55. more ›

Sri Lanka is fighting against the threatened beheading of a teen maid in Saudi Arabia over the death of an infant. Saving her from beheading has become one of the most urgent issues in a country where nearly everyone has worked abroad or had a relative employed overseas. more ›

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Despite our recent red fog alert, Shanghai can not crack the top five in the rankings of the major Asian cities with the dirtiest air. Here's the top/bottom five: more ›

Mercer Human Resource Consulting just released its annual standard of living report, which ranks the quality of life in the world's major big cities. Shanghaiist has kept up the results the last few years, and there haven't been any major changes. Bloomberg reports: more ›