BANGKOK: The two-month siege of downtown Bangkok by the so-called “Red Shirts” has ended in bloodshed. More than 60 people, including two foreign reporters and a few soldiers, died in the Thai army's suppression of the urban rebellion.
The Thai (...)
BANGKOK: Last week, a Taiwanese court sentenced Chen Shui-bien, Taiwan's president from 2000 until 2008, to life imprisonment for corruption.
Chen had been caught stealing millions of dollars of public funds. He did not act alone. His wife (who (...)
BANGKOK: A friend recently asked a seemingly naïve question: "What is money? How do I know I can trust that it is worth what it says it is worth? We learn in introductory economics that money is a medium of exchange. But why do we accept that? (...)
BANGKOK: "Thailand's future is up for grabs, proclaimed the eminent Thai scholar Thitinan Pongsudhirak just before the country's Constitutional Court ruled, in effect, that the ruling People Power Party (PPP) and its two smaller coalition partners (...)
BUENOS AIRES: Three-quarters of Americans now disapprove of President George W. Bush's performance. Given this, and the fact that the policies and values of John McCain and his vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, are almost identical to those of (...)