India Ink: From Arunachal Pradesh, a Tribe Offers Lessons in Ecology
Courtesy of Brian Orland Farmers belonging to the Apa Tani tribe transplanting paddy in the Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh.ZIRO VALLEY, Arunachal Pradesh — The end of April is planting time for the women of the Apa Tani tribe. Their 50-square-kilometer valley is a meticulously groomed jewel of green conservation, compared to the flood-beset Más...
Memo From Berlin: Germany Extends Its Success to the Soccer Field
“There is one subject where Germany’s image is certainly bad,” Mr. Moscovici told an auditorium full of students at the Free University in Berlin. “Germany wins too often at soccer, particularly now in the Más...
IHT Rendezvous: A Cash Chokehold on North Korea Gets Tighter
Kcna/Reuters The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, center, visited a construction site of the North Korean army on Tuesday.HONG KONG — The noose is tightening on North Korea. And for the leaders in Pyongyang, Más...
State Dept. Official to Testify on Benghazi Attacks
It will show, they say, what they have been claiming all along: that President Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former secretary of state, did not do all they could to stop the attack, and then misled the public Más...
Hollywood’s Box Office Heroes Proving Mortal in China
Last year, helped by a high-level deal that expanded the number of foreign films for release there, American blockbusters like “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol” led the Chinese box office for 23 straight Más...
Chinese Auto Market Shifts Toward Larger Cars
Gone are the days when buyers in China, the world’s largest car market since 2009, mostly purchased fuel-sipping compacts and subcompacts. Their shift toward larger and ever-more-numerous vehicles is not only Más...
Political Economy: The Gloom Around Greece Is Dissipating
Greece is not yet out of the woods. But there is a credible path that could lead the country back into the sunlight. Although the economy will have a terrible 2013, next year should be better. But the outlook is Más...
IHT Rendezvous: Report Says Myanmar Was Complicit in Anti-Muslim Violence
Ye Aung Thu/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Demonstrators gathered at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon in June after unrest flared in the state of Rakhine, also known as Arakan, in western Myanmar.HONG KONG Más...
Pilgrim in Violent Land, Suspect Found Comfort in Dagestan
“When he came, he talked about religion,” said his aunt, Patimat Suleimanova, who saw him a few days after he arrived in January 2012. It was 15 months before Mr. Tsarnaev would be killed during a wild, bloody Más...
The Lede: Questions for an Expert on North Korean Propaganda
Last Updated, 11:47 p.m. As my colleague Choe Sang-Hun reports, North Korea’s state news agency released the latest in a series of saber-rattling images on Friday, this time showing the country’s leader, Kim Más...