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(BBC) – Police in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, say they have arrested two suspects believed to have produced millions of the fakes in dirty facilities. The fakes are thought to have gone on sale across China since 2013. Chinese authorities have warned against buying discounted products, saying there could be...
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(Japan Post) TOKYO —Japan has decided not to support a draft U.N. resolution urging the start of negotiations in 2017 to outlaw nuclear weapons, a senior Japanese official and other sources close to the matter said. Japan, the world’s sole victim of atomic bombings, will consider either abstaining or...
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(Independent) A rape survivor has killed herself after she was forced to marry her alleged rapist in Haryana, India. The 19-year-old, who has remained unnamed, was married for seven months before taking her own life after apparently being subjected to a campaign of physical and mental torture by her in-laws....
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(MMTimes) – Though coffee has been grown in this country for 100 years, production volumes were low and the quality was hidden under a bushel. But now international aficionados are starting to take Myanmar seriously as a producer of first-class joe. #Myanmar specialty #coffee making waves, thanks to @USAIDBurma...
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(Chiang Rai Times) – Dutch cannabis pioneer Johan van Laarhoven, who faces a 103-year jail sentence in Thai prison, has written a letter to King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, pleading for help freeing him from “this Thai hell.” “I didn’t do anything illegal,” Van Laarhoven, 53, wrote in his...
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(Straits Times) Dozens of refugees in Thailand are expected to return to Myanmar today under a voluntary repatriation process for people displaced by decades of fighting between Myanmar’s military and ethnic armed groups. The pilot group is unlikely to be followed immediately by large numbers of returnees, given that...
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(BBC) Serving tea and receiving guests may not be everyone’s dream job, but it was a good enough prospect to make nearly 10,000 people apply for one receptionist job. China’s highly competitive civil service recruitment process recently saw a record-setting 9,837 applicants for a post as “China Democratic League...
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(Global Voices) – A police report leaked last week from China’s Xinjiang province describes Internet censorship circumvention tools as “second class violent and terrorist software.” #China blames #VPN, other #internetcensorship technologies for terrorism in the country http://t.co/4weKE8Ng5c — Mikhail Doroshevich (@infopolicy) March 9, 2014 The leak raises serious questions...
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(Time) – Security has been heightened in several areas throughout the country amid “intelligence reports” of potential bomb threats At least one woman has died and 18 others were wounded after a bomb destroyed a noodle shop in southern Thailand, where the government has been battling insurgents for more...
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FAM: Note that the following Bloomberg excerpt reflects the opinion of the author. (Bloomberg) After many years of 7- to 10-percent growth, economies tend to overheat, creating bubbles that burst. That’s what happened to South Korea and Japan in the 1980s and 1990s. But China’s economy keeps plugging along...
(BBC) – Police in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, say they have arrested two suspects believed to have produced millions of the fakes in dirty facilities. The fakes are thought to have gone on sale across China since 2013. Chinese authorities have warned against buying discounted products, saying there could be...
(Japan Post) TOKYO —Japan has decided not to support a draft U.N. resolution urging the start of negotiations in 2017 to outlaw nuclear weapons, a senior Japanese official and other sources close to the matter said. Japan, the world’s sole victim of atomic bombings, will consider either abstaining or...
(Independent) A rape survivor has killed herself after she was forced to marry her alleged rapist in Haryana, India. The 19-year-old, who has remained unnamed, was married for seven months before taking her own life after apparently being subjected to a campaign of physical and mental torture by her in-laws....
(MMTimes) – Though coffee has been grown in this country for 100 years, production volumes were low and the quality was hidden under a bushel. But now international aficionados are starting to take Myanmar seriously as a producer of first-class joe. #Myanmar specialty #coffee making waves, thanks to @USAIDBurma...
(Chiang Rai Times) – Dutch cannabis pioneer Johan van Laarhoven, who faces a 103-year jail sentence in Thai prison, has written a letter to King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, pleading for help freeing him from “this Thai hell.” “I didn’t do anything illegal,” Van Laarhoven, 53, wrote in his...
(Straits Times) Dozens of refugees in Thailand are expected to return to Myanmar today under a voluntary repatriation process for people displaced by decades of fighting between Myanmar’s military and ethnic armed groups. The pilot group is unlikely to be followed immediately by large numbers of returnees, given that...
(BBC) Serving tea and receiving guests may not be everyone’s dream job, but it was a good enough prospect to make nearly 10,000 people apply for one receptionist job. China’s highly competitive civil service recruitment process recently saw a record-setting 9,837 applicants for a post as “China Democratic League...
(Global Voices) – A police report leaked last week from China’s Xinjiang province describes Internet censorship circumvention tools as “second class violent and terrorist software.” #China blames #VPN, other #internetcensorship technologies for terrorism in the country http://t.co/4weKE8Ng5c — Mikhail Doroshevich (@infopolicy) March 9, 2014 The leak raises serious questions...
(Time) – Security has been heightened in several areas throughout the country amid “intelligence reports” of potential bomb threats At least one woman has died and 18 others were wounded after a bomb destroyed a noodle shop in southern Thailand, where the government has been battling insurgents for more...
FAM: Note that the following Bloomberg excerpt reflects the opinion of the author. (Bloomberg) After many years of 7- to 10-percent growth, economies tend to overheat, creating bubbles that burst. That’s what happened to South Korea and Japan in the 1980s and 1990s. But China’s economy keeps plugging along...