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Traditional media under pressure last updated : 2013-04-27 10:40:37 -> 727 view(s)
You must have seen the Chinese television journalist who, dressed in full bridal finery complete with a veil, reported the strong earthquake that struck near her town in Sichuan province last week?
In a video that went viral on the Internet and appe ....
A monument of greed last updated : 2013-04-26 10:47:50 -> 756 view(s)
There are a lot of factors that could contribute to any given accident, but more often than not, hey happen due to one or more of three reasons: human folly, willful neglect and atrocious arrogance. After an nine-storied building came crashing down i ....
Aceh’s war survivors: Their questions won’t go away last updated : 2013-04-26 10:35:16 -> 878 view(s)
“The children never cease asking for their parents and siblings. Families continue to dig up mass graves in the search for their relatives for years.”
This description came from Murtala, a resident in Indonesia's North Aceh who set up an or ....
The whirligig of time last updated : 2013-04-26 10:01:51 -> 603 view(s)
Every general election in Pakistan is an exercise in self-flagellation. It provides an occasion for adult voters and their elected representatives, like contrite sinners, to scourge themselves in an attempt to atone for sins past.
The sins of t ....
Pressing on with Asean integration last updated : 2013-04-26 09:58:02 -> 718 view(s)
After the deep divisions which Asean faced last year over its stance on the South China Sea issue, the only way forward for the organisation was an attempt to rebuild unity. That direction was apparent at this week's leaders' summit in Bandar Seri Be ....
The ghosts of Myanmar's past last updated : 2013-04-26 09:57:59 -> 701 view(s)
These past few weeks have been somewhat hectic for the government of Myanmar. First, there was the prestigious peace award given to President Thein Sein by the International Crises Group, recognising his work toward a peace that can be achieved.
The ....
Air and marine patrols must increase vigilance to defend against China last updated : 2013-04-26 09:09:44 -> 578 view(s)
The need to reinforce patrol and monitoring activities on the water and in the air around the Senkaku Islands to respond to China's perilously provocative acts has grown.
Eight Chinese maritime surveillance ships entered the territorial waters off t ....
Sea code: Binding on both sides last updated : 2013-04-26 08:49:25 -> 599 view(s)
Walk softly and carry a big stick. Theodoure Roosevelt’s dictum of practical diplomacy works only if a big stick is handy, like a powerful navy that has just circled the world. In the matter of the territorial disputes in the South China Sea, the P ....
Swinging towards transformation last updated : 2013-04-26 08:38:49 -> 553 view(s)
In life, change is said to be the only constant. In politics change is a given, even mandatory.
If a governing system does not change its style or policies the way people want, then the system itself may be changed. Such change may be democratic o ....
High speed trafficking last updated : 2013-04-25 12:31:04 -> 902 view(s)
A day after police rescued a Nepali woman from employment fraud and drug trafficking at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Aika (name changed) faced me hysterically. Her hopes of living the good life were still there, she said, but had ....
N. Korea's crazy act does not mean it's suicidal last updated : 2013-04-25 12:25:37 -> 899 view(s)
Amazing. A terrorist bomb goes off in Boston, a fertiliser plant explodes in Texas and miraculously, the "simmering tensions" on the Korean peninsula suddenly don't seem to matter any more. In fact, they have evaporated.
But were they really "simmer ....
M'sian women still running behind last updated : 2013-04-25 11:52:09 -> 593 view(s)
Once again, Malaysia is in election mode and once again, candidate lists are checked to see who might be running the country next.
Some old faces are gone, some are still there but there are also many new ones.
Perhaps, there is also more drama thi ....
Revival of US bases a suicidal notion last updated : 2013-04-25 11:43:38 -> 524 view(s)
The suggestion of Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin that US bases be revived here is like suggesting that the Philippines put itself in the line of fire in the event that a Korean war, possibly nuclear in nature, breaks out. It is like running betwee ....
Great 2G scam cover-up last updated : 2013-04-25 11:38:43 -> 490 view(s)
PC Chacko, chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G spectrum, has outperformed B Shankaranand of the Bofors JPC report fame, in whitewashing clean charges against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance minister P Chidambaram, in t ....
Aim for balanced growth in region last updated : 2013-04-25 10:54:10 -> 493 view(s)
Even if it does turn out to be only 6 per cent this year, bullish observers might argue that the region's economic growth will still be an improvement over last year's 5.6 per cent, and at least three times better than those forecast for rich countri ....
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