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Is the Philippines Finally Reawakening?

Is the Philippines Finally Reawakening?

  • The decades of decay that Ferdinand Marcos delivered may be ending Read more...
South Korea Fishes in Illegal Waters

South Korea Fishes in Illegal Waters

  • Search to replace local depleted fishing stocks takes South Korean trawlers across the planet Read more...

Indonesia's Islamic Thugs and Street Theatre

  • The Islamists who shut down the star’s performance in Jakarta expose deep problems in the country

ASEAN Lawmakers Call for Continued Myanmar Sanctions - Too Late?

  • AIPMC warning comes as Obama administration says it will lift restrictions on US business

International News and Malaysia's Censors

  • Five-minute time lag allows extra bits to be snipped out to preserve "sensibilities"

India: Greeting Daughters With Fruit Trees

  • A way to slow India's appalling female infanticide rate

Book Review: A veteran journalist looks at China

  • China Airborne by James Fallows. Random House, Hardcover, 288 pp, available from Amazon, US$17.12, Kindle, US$15.99

Impeachment Revelations Could Doom Philippine Chief Justice

  • Ombudsman springs unexpected details of bank accounts

Lady Gaga Meets Radical Islam in Jakarta

  • And loses, at least for now

Two-year Talks Impasse Frustrates Exiled Tibetans

  • Beijing appears to be waiting for the 14th Dalai Lama to die
 
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SPECIAL REPORT

Vietnam's Contentious Land Law

David Brown, a retired veteran US Foreign Service officer with extensive knowledge of the politics and economics of Vietnam, takes a look at corruption in land sales that drives farmers off the property their families have tended for generations, creating rising problems for the ruling Communist government in Hanoi. His four-part series of land corruption is presented here:
part 1 part 3
part 2 part 4


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