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The 1,360-km India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway — agreed in 2002, perpetually delayed and re-announced. India's road to Southeast Asia.

May 28, 2012 · 1 min read

May 2012: Egypt's first-round results pointed to a runoff between the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi and Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq.

May 26, 2012 · 1 min read

Lady Margaret Thatcher. You can quibble with her principles, question her philosophy, or quarrel with her ideology. What you cannot do, however, is to…

May 25, 2012 · 5 min read

PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi once played serious cricket for an all-girls team in Chennai. Her career cost her the sport — and she has named what achievement took.

May 25, 2012 · 1 min read

The 2012 speculation that Obama might swap Biden for Hillary Clinton as his running mate — the electoral logic, the arguments against, and why it never

May 24, 2012 · 1 min read

In May 2012 IBM banned Siri on company devices — voice data went to Apple's servers, and nobody could audit it. The caution turned out to be prescient.

May 23, 2012 · 1 min read

In 2012 Gina Rinehart became the world's richest woman on iron ore wealth — polarizing Australia with her wages politics, media stakes, and a bitter family

May 23, 2012 · 1 min read

In May 2012 a CBI court moved to put Rajesh and Nupur Talwar on trial for the 2008 murders of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj — India's most

May 23, 2012 · 1 min read

Mark Zuckerberg cashed out 30.2 million Facebook shares in the May 2012 IPO — about $1.15 billion, most of it earmarked for the tax bill on his stock options.

May 22, 2012 · 1 min read

In May 2012 the Lok Sabha passed the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Bill — gender-neutral, with special courts, in-camera trials, and

May 22, 2012 · 1 min read

A Gujarat village school made national news in 2012 with air-conditioned classrooms — inspiring, startling, and a window into India's rural education gap.

May 21, 2012 · 1 min read

In May 2012 a French prosecutor in Lille opened a preliminary rape investigation against Strauss-Kahn over an alleged December 2010 incident in Washington.

May 21, 2012 · 1 min read

After years of speculation, Nita Ambani gave Vanity Fair its first look inside Antilia in 2012 — and settled the rumors about whether the family had ever

May 21, 2012 · 1 min read

In 2012 Kabul, Shakila Naderi ran a driving school for women — a small, pointed act of normalization in a city where public space was still deeply gendered.

May 19, 2012 · 1 min read

In May 2012 Facebook tested paid 'promoted posts' in New Zealand — charging page owners to reach their own followers. It was a preview of the end of free

May 19, 2012 · 1 min read

In May 2012 Chipotle disclosed an SEC subpoena probing its hiring practices, employee work-authorization compliance, and the public statements it had made.

May 19, 2012 · 1 min read

April 2012 polls briefly showed Mitt Romney closing the gender gap with women voters. The movement, the spin, and what November actually delivered.

May 15, 2012 · 1 min read

Ethical men earn 3.4% less, a 2012 study found — but ethical women pay no penalty. What Andrew Hussey's MBA research says about character and wages.

May 15, 2012 · 1 min read

Scott Thompson's four-month Yahoo tenure ended in May 2012 over a fabricated degree — and set up the succession battle that brought in Marissa Mayer.

May 14, 2012 · 1 min read

Satyamev Jayate's 2012 episode on child sexual abuse cited a devastating statistic — 53% of Indian children face sexual abuse — and asked parents to listen

May 14, 2012 · 1 min read