Asia’s shifting balance of power
The world this week
Leaders
Asia’s shifting balance
The region is about to get harder to manage, not easier
Hunting corporate criminals
Greater accountability for individuals, not just firms, would help to reduce catastrophes
The price of paying ransoms
More ransoms
Old world, new economy
Europe’s economies are starting to wake up
South Africa’s role in the world
Thabo Mbeki would like his country to be influential. The place to start is his own doorstep
What? Sell the exchange?
The tussle for the control of the London Stock Exchange is part of a broader battle: to create a truly global market in shares
Letters
Briefing
A ticket to prosperity
As in Europe, migrant labour is indispensable to southern Africa. And its effects, for good and bad, are even greater
Britain
Highlands
A hardy lot
Yorkshire
Tale of two cities
Education
Cash for questions
Public health
Better than cure
Interest rates
Touch and go
United States
The Americas
Asia
Myanmar
Roadblock
Andhra Pradesh
The state that would reform India
Hong Kong
Angrily to the polls
Immigration in Japan
The door opens, a crack
International
Business
E-business in China
From scratch
Russia’s infrastructure
Crumble, bumble
Deregulation in Singapore
The other half
German retailing
Cheap and cheerless
Sudan’s oil
Fuelling a fire
Finance & economics
Investment banking
Broker thyself
Japanese insurers
Endgame
Science & technology
Culture
Opera on film
From Tosca to Oscar
New fiction
Dot love
Literary table-talk
Guess who came to dinner
American politics
Mr Senator
Wall Street dramas
Lesson learned?
Religions in history