Tag Archives: Asia

When you talk about China’s trade disputes with United States, usually it’s a discussion regarding the artificially cheap Yuan, rare earth metals export restrictions, or even the staggering trade imbalance.  The last thing you’d be worried about is whether or not the Hollywood studios that pumps out the Harry Potter franchise will make its ends [...]

Despite reports of irregularities, confrontations, and all the other drama that comes with an election process in a nation of 67 million people, early results indicate a crushing victory for the opposition Pheu Thai Party, making Yingluck Shinawatra the first female prime minister of Thailand

We were forwarded this video created by a YouTube user which takes a series of compelling images from the violent dispersal of protesters in April and May of 2010 in Bangkok, along with soundbites from Robert Amsterdam’s press conference in Tokyo announcing the application before the International Criminal Court. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post [...]

One year ago, the Royal Thai Government massacred ninety-one people to avoid an early election it feared it might lose. Finally, the general elections for which dozens of Red Shirts gave their lives are on track to take place in June or July 2011. While it is hoped that the elections will be free of [...]

I wouldn’t be the first one to point out the absurdity of the Kyrgyz government’s decision to name a mountain peak after his holiness Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, but given that the U.S. State Department just happened to pass along an award to President Roza Otunbayeva, it would seem that I am not too late. Если [...]