The following book consists of articles written in the Daily Star column "Window on Asia" 1990 to 2000. The writer was one of Daily Star's first columnists and it was his fervent wish that some of his articles be compiled and published as a book. In nearly ten years, the author wrote over four hundred articles for the Daily Star. These are but a few of his contributions. When trying to bring together articles for this book. the author himself had grouped his articles in files and readied them for publication. So, it took little effort for us to put this book together.