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• Indonesia: Coins for justice

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 710
  Earlier today, Prita Mulyasari , a housewife who was prosecuted for writing a complaint email regarding a bad hospital service, was found guilty for defaming a private hospital by the Tangerang High Court. The court ordered her to pay a fine of Rp. 204 M (US$ 21,680) to OMNI Internasional Alam Sutera hospital. ...
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• HIV spread in Indonesia

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 710
  Indonesia is facing a huge challenge in tackling the spread of HIV virus in the country. Health agencies believe that the number of HIV-positive patients are bigger than currently reported. HIV-positive patients are still feeling outcasted and discriminated in many healthcare centers. The disease is still portrayed ...
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• Thinking about the Asia Pacific Community

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 476
  Authors: Hadi Soesastro (CSIS, Jakarta) and Peter Drysdale (ANU, Canberra) The idea that regional architecture in Asia and the Pacific is not up to the tasks it now needs to serve has been around for some time. It has been inspired in part by worries about the untidiness in the competing structures — across the ...
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• Japan: A History of Modern Japanese Literary Criticism

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 710
  Ryan Morrison of Neojaponisme gives an overview [en] of the history of modern Japanese literary criticism.
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• Are international food lots really generational theft?

  
  The Daily Clarity — Authority: 129
  When is marketing an opportunity a case of generational theft? There are some commentators arguing that just such a thing is going on in Ethiopia at present. The government of this impoverished and food-insecure nation is actively marketing itself as one of the world’s leading destinations for the booming business ...
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• U.S. Wars and the Opium Trade

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 579
  Sean SailorWhen Turkey in the late 1940s became a site of NATO and US forces its rank became cemented as the number one supplier of opium to the heroin markets of the US and Europe. This illegal opium market was primarily centered in Europe, where the final processing into heroin was done before going on [...]
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• General Malaise

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 711
  From the hills outside Mandalay, Burma’s second city, the vista resembles a postcard of Asian serenity. Monks climb stone steps to a hillside shrine, where local men and women leave offerings of flowers and fruit. But the placid scene conceals one of the most repressive states in the world--a state that the Obama ...
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• Anthropologists told to get out of the wars

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Activism , Learning , Asia , Afghanistan , Iraq , Middle East When anthropologists travel to foreign lands, its generally for an academic endeavor, intended to enrich the world as a whole. Theres a group in this community, however, with a much different mission ... and theyre about to be out of ...
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• Jeans from North Korea

  
  FP Passport — Authority: 673
  Today, Swedens Noko Jeans is launching a line of designer denim manufactured inNorth Korea. The company claims that these are the first 1100 pairs of jeans to ever be producedin North Korea. One of the founding partners, Rauden Kallstigen, explains the motivation behind their project to produce denim in the ...
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• Get ready for the next A&K online sale

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Africa , Asia , Europe , South America , Botswana , Egypt , Zambia , Jordan , Turkey , Chile , Peru , Middle East Get ready for another hot online sale from upscale travel provider Abercrombie & Kent . The rules havent changed: you still have to book online , and the discount ...
  2 days ago

• Indonesias 40 Richest

  
  Channel NewsAsia Front Page News — Authority: 716
  Investors love Indonesia these days. The countrys benchmark stock index rose 115% in local currency in the past 12 months--Asias second best performer behind Chinas Shenzhen SE Composite. It was No. 1 as measured in U.S. dollars. Reasons include better than expected economic growth, perceived stability, ushered in by ...
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• China: The Chengdu Self-Immolation

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 710
  A woman, Tang Fuzhen, in Chengdu set herself on fire in order to protest against the forced demolition of her home. ESWN translated a T.V news commentary on the incident.
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• China: AIDS patients call for freedom and rights

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 710
  C. Custer from ChinaGeeks translated a blog post written by Wang Keqin about his friend, a AIDS patient, who was detained by local government before the International AIDS day because of his involvement in civic rights activity.
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• M-banking: Going where no bank has gone before

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 710
  Millions and millions of low-income, unbanked people stand to benefit (and maybe prosper?) from the development of mobile financial services in the next years. Many people already transfer payments and remittances through mobile phones, and even store and save money on them as a virtual bank. And the number of people ...
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• Pakistan: List Of NRO Beneficiaries

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 710
  Adil Najam discusses about a recently released list of 8000 persons including the president of Pakistan and 34 Pakistani politicians who have benefited from the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), promulgated by former president Pervez Musharraf on Oct 5, 2007. This ordinance “grants amnesty to all those ...
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• The hidden costs of the Afghan escalation

  
  Stephen M. Walt — Authority: 651
  Whatever numbers you hear about the cost of Obamas escalation in Afghanistan are bound to be low. Once you add in veterans benefits, the long-term costs of medical treatment for wounded soldiers, replacement costs for the equipment they will use up and wear out, etc., you end up with a lot more than the extra $30 ...
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• Muslims in China Gather for Eid al-Adha

  
  ?????? ?? ????? Views from the Occident — Authority: 119
  Eid al-Adha ["Holiday of the Sacrifice"] congregational prayers in China. The accompanying caption read, " صلاة عيد الاضحى لاخواننا في الصين" [" Eid al-Adha prayers of our brothers in China"]. A specific location was not identified.
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• China: The Obama Girl Was An Internet Promotion Campaign

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 710
  A female student Wang Zifei, who sat behind Obama when he delivered his speech at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, has become a Internet celebrity. Local media recently found out that her boyfriend actually paid 100,000 yuan to hire a Beijing Internet promotional strategy company to use the opportunity of ...
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• The Longest Climb: from the Dead Sea to the summit of Everest

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Biking , Climbing , Asia , China , Jordan , Middle East Many adventurers are driven to go to extremes. They visit remote places and seem to revel in the challenge and suffering that goes along with those expeditions. Back in 2006, a team of climbers from the U.K. took that philosophy to new limits, ...
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• Where is everybody?

  
  Itinerant Londoner — Authority: 120
  My trip to Indonesia didn’t get off to the best of starts, as a huge storm kicked up on our approach to Jakarta, meaning we had to divert to Singapore. By that time, we were running low on fuel, and the pilots had already worked over their maximum hours, so we had to sit around [...]
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