Business and Political News from China and Southeast Asia
Western calls for human rights in Myanmar fall on deaf ears while Asian money talks. As Western countries continue to impose trade sanctions on Myanmar and press for the release of Nobel prize winning Aung Sun Suu Kyi, Asian countries have jumped in to trade with the military junta.
Hanoi voiced its concern about increased Chinese naval patrols in the South China Sea, and extension of a fishing ban which Vietnam argues is a violation of its territorial rights.
The US Navy is monitoring a North Korean shipping vessel suspected of carrying missile parts towards Myanmar, heightening tension days after the UN imposed financial sanctions on the Stalinist state.
Under the guise of cleaning the Internet, the government suspended Google's Chinese portal for linking to pornographic sites, and implemented regulation requiring computers sold after July 1 contain Internet filters.
Paintings of revolvers with lipstick, and grenades with fetuses by Burmese artist San Minn, demonstrate a strong sense of anti-violence likely not found in his military junta-ruled home country.
The memoir of a former head of the Chinese Communist Party who spoke out against 1989 brutality in Tiananmen, entitled 'Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Zhao Ziyang', ...
Under the guise of cleaning the Internet, the government suspended Google's Chinese portal for linking to pornographic sites, and implemented regulation requiring computers sold after July 1 contain Internet filters.