05/08/2013 | Frente Externo
Thailand - Tension for Yingluck in Thailand
Tensions have been rising again in Thailand, with 4,000 protesters taking to Lumpini Park in Central Bangkok Sunday in what might be considered a preemptive strike against any possibility that Thailand's parliament might produce amnesty legislation that would allow Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's fugitive brother, Thaksin, back into the country.
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15/02/2011 | Frente Externo
Malaysia Getting Election Fever?
Sarawak assembly should be the last big one before national snap polls later in the year.Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud Friday is expected to call for the dissolution of the East Malaysian state's assembly, according to local media.
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26/01/2011 | High Tech
China's Internet Spying
Businessmen in major metropolitan hotels find their computers are penetrated.Last June, at about the time of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, several members of the internal investigation unit of a US company assembled at an international luxury chain hotel in Beijing for a conference.
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22/03/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Indonesia's War on Terrorism Bears Fruit
With US President Barack Obama due in Jakarta next week, Indonesia's counterterrorism forces seem to be doing a creditable job rolling up terrorists in advance of his visit. A demoralized suspect named Abu Rimba turned himself in to police Wednesday night, carrying with him an AK 47, five magazines and 238 bullets, police said.
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19/02/2010 | Frente Externo
Malaysia's Opposition Coalition in Crisis
Defections and other problems probably mean the opposition will lose its ability to block legislation requiring a two-thirds vote.
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10/02/2010 | Frente Externo
Thai Coup Rumors Recur
Thaksin's supporters and enemies stir the tom yam again.Thailand is again in frenzy over coup rumors, perpetuated mostly by anti-government Red Shirts who need a reason to protest and by a media machine that needs a story. The top generals have denied that anything is amiss, words that mean little since they said the same thing before ousting former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006.
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23/01/2010 | High Tech
Cyber-war With Chinese Characteristics
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has added a high-tech dimension to its vaunted tradition of "democratic proletarian dictatorship:" Cyber-dictatorship. Through the 2000s, the country's labyrinthine state-security apparatus has smashed thousands of "illegal" websites and locked up hundreds of Net-based dissidents and editors.
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08/01/2010 | Medio Ambiente
Trouble for Palm Oil
The west grows more skeptical of the palm oil growers' promises of environmental sustainability.Palm oil, the world's cheapest cooking oil and a versatile product that is used in everything from biofuels to chocolate chip cookies, has always been under fire from various quarters, first allegedly because of its adverse effect on cholesterol – since disproven – or because of concerns over tropical deforestation to plant oil palm plantations.
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17/12/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Southern Thailand's Intractable Problems
A cross-border meeting between Thai and Malaysian leaders.The December 9 meeting of Thai and Malaysian prime ministers in the troubled southern Thailand province of Narathiwat looks on the face of it like one filled with symbolic meaning. It contained a degree of risk for both Abhisit Vejjajiva and Najib Razak.
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04/10/2009 | Economia y Finanzas
China's Shipbuilding Glut
China's yards pour out bottoms despite a major global shipping downturn.The current trade war focus may be on the US and China, most recently over tires. But hanging over trade relations between China and its immediate Asian neighbors Japan and Korea is what could be at least as divisive issue: shipbuilding.
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