The Asian Insider

PART I: HOW ASIA REALLY WORKS Asian Family Connections PART II: GOVERNMENT, THE RULE OF LAW AND DEMOCRACY IN ASIA Is Democracy Always Good? Paying Peanuts: Politicians' Pay in Asia Police Corruption and the Rule of Law in Thailand Executions and Extrajudicial Killings Government Statistics and Other Lies Thaksin Berlusconi and Silvio Shinawatra The End of Indonesia PART III: SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA Why Singapore is Different: The Babas of Singapore Reinventing Singapore? Singapore Inc. or Singapore Sink? Singapore's Thriving Sex Industry Diversity and Decency in Malaysia Rumours and Gossip in Malaysia Meet Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary PART IV: ISLAM, BUSINESS AND ASIA Allahu Akbar! in Asia Where do Asia's Muslims Fit in? Southeast Asia's Arabs Pax Islamica: Malaysia and the Middle East PART V: JAPAN, CHINA, INDIA and KOREA: ASIA'S MONOLITH ECONOMIES Land of the Setting Sun: The Inevitable Death of Japan Law, Order and China Is Booming China a Threat to Asia? Shanghai: China's Financial Capital And Then There is Beijing The Dalai Lama eats Meat The Indian Way The World's Biggest Democracy Mumbai: India's Financial Capital India's Great Software Revolution India: Back Office to the World Stunning Korea The Insider