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Most of the time, the troops just busy themselves with field exercises in the local farms and orchards. But every so often, things heat up. This summer, China pressured the board of the Asian Development Bank to block a $2.9 billion loan to India, arguing that part of the money would go to a flood-control project in Arunachal Pradesh. The governor of the state, a retired army general named J.J. Singh, then announced that India would deploy 50,000 more troops up there, though he tells TIME the additional troops were planned well before any hint of tension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Vs. India: Will Rivalry Lead to War? | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

Both sides will probably try to cool things down at the coming summit of Southeast Asian nations in Bangkok. Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao are expected to meet on the margins of the meeting, although one conversation is unlikely to sort out their complicated history. Both countries are still absorbed in a game played in miniature: recently, for example, a Kashmiri student was given a Chinese visa that was stapled rather than pasted into his passport, an implicit questioning of Kashmir's status as a state of India. Indian authorities, Guruswamy says, then quietly suggested they might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Vs. India: Will Rivalry Lead to War? | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...didn’t know what to expect,” said Jason Y. Shah ’11, chair of South Asian Men’s Collective. “I was impressed by the level of candidness [with which] everybody spoke, given our different ethnic backgrounds. It was uniquely productive and very anecdotal...

Author: By Jessie J. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hillel Speaker Talks About Holocaust Denial | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

Screening of Asian Horror Film “Shutter?...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Halloween Happenings | 10/31/2009 | See Source »

Foreign fighters aligned with al-Qaeda make up a large component of the fighters that the army is taking on in South Waziristan. The military's chief spokesman, Major General Athar Abbas, said that some 1,500 Central Asian fighters, mainly Uzbeks, were among the 5,000 to 8,000 fighters that the offensive was targeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Passports of Jihadis Found by Pakistani Army | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

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