I got more than the usual nasty letters this week over voicing support for Israel...

The terrorist attacks in Mumbai, which have been dubbed India's 9/11, illustrate the severity of the jihad terrorist threat, the cruelty of terrorists who believe they are fulfilling a divine commandment, and the determination of the jihadists to fight to the bitter end against those they consider infidels - whether Buddhists, Christians, Jews or even Muslims who oppose their extreme, violent version of Islam...

Looming ever larger, its focus ever sharper, is the fabled, enchanted economic entity that is Chindia...

In the same week that the US Treasury Secretary sank to one knee to implore a congressional leader to vote for the $US700 billion ($890 billion) package to save the American economy, Colonel Zhai Zhigang became the first Chinese astronaut to walk in space...