Pakistanis Should Make Anti-Americanism Unfashionable
Pakistan Link, Commentary, Posted: May 28, 2010
Faisal Shahzad, the would be Times Square bomber, comes out of the knee jerk anti-Americanism that's become part of mainstream culture in Pakistan writes one commentator.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, International Affairs, South Asian, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: bomber, Faisal Shahzad, Pakistan, USA
Controversy Over Cheonan Report in Korea
Sing Tao Daily, News Report, Posted: May 28, 2010
Tensions on the Korean peninsula intensified after South Korea published an investigative report indicating North Korea torpedoed South Korea’s warship Cheonan.
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, International Affairs
Tags: Cheonan, corvette, North Korea, Pyongyang, South Korea, warship
India Stocking up on Drones
Siliconeer, News Report, Posted: May 24, 2010
There has been a silent accretion by India of a fleet of reconnaissance and `killer’ Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), specifically aimed at neutralizing threats from Pakistan, and possibly China in future.
Categories: Economy, International Affairs, Politics & Governance, South Asian, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: drones, india, Maoist UAV, pakistan
Caught Between Two Worlds
New America Media, Audio, Posted: May 24, 2010
Just as Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi was about to leave Iran after reporting there for BBC, NPR, and other news outlets, she was awoken by security officials who said they wanted to interrogate her. This began a nightmarish descent into the Iranian prison system chronicled in Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, International Affairs, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: iran, iranian prison, justice, law, protest
Chinese Youth React to Cleaver Attacks
New America Media, News Report, Posted: May 23, 2010
NAM asked students and young people in different parts of China to analyze the motives behind a string of murders of young women.
Categories: Asian, International Affairs, Top Stories
Filipino People Heroes of Philippine Elections
Inquirer.net, News Report, Posted: May 21, 2010
Foreign observers of the May 10 Philippine presidential elections report irregularities, fraud and technical glitches but many of them hail Filipinos as the real heroes of this exercise.
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Network, International Affairs, Top Stories
Tags: (Comelec), automated elections, glitches, intimidation, irregularities, vote buying
Thai Civil War Can't Be Won with Bullets and Tear Gas
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: May 20, 2010
It’s far easier to gun down peasants armed with bamboo spears, than it is to win the hearts and minds of the majority of the country.
Categories: Asian, International Affairs, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: bangkok, civil war, red shirts, thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra, yellow shirts
Killing Children - An Act of War Against China’s Collective Future
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: May 17, 2010
Even during the most violent periods of China’s communist revolution, nothing compares with the recent mass killings of children.
Categories: Asian, International Affairs, Top Stories
Tags: china violence, killing children
Filipinos' Hopes Ride on Another Aquino
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: May 16, 2010
As president-elect, Benigno Aquino Aquino has a mandate to launch sweeping changes, from cleaning up the tax system to rooting out graft and corruption.
Categories: Asian, International Affairs, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
All Politics Is Family in Philippines
Philippine News, News Report, Posted: May 13, 2010
In the Philippines' first election by automated ballot, one old practice persists -- the oligarchy that remains in power.
Categories: Asian, Front Page, International Affairs, Politics & Governance
Tags: aquino, Arroyo, philippine election, philippines
Philippine Elections to Go Forward, Despite Computer Glitch
New America Media, Video, Posted: May 08, 2010
Regina Reyes of ABS-CBN International-The Filipino Channel explains why Filipino American voters don't want this Monday's presidential elections in the Philippines postponed -- despite technical malfunctions with the country's computerized voting machines.
Categories: Asian, International Affairs, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Video
Tags: computerized voting machines, election, Filipino Americans, Filipino overseas absentee voters, Filipinos, Manny Villar, Noynoy Aquino, Philippine presidential elections, Philippines, Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Is Iran a Nuclear Danger? Don’t Believe It!
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: May 05, 2010
In advance of this week’s UN Security Council Meeting on Nuclear Non-proliferation, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton seemed be gearing up for a fight, declaring on “Meet The Press” that Iran violates the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. But Clinton is mistaken. There is no proof whatever that Iran is engaged in nuclear weapons production.
Categories: International Affairs, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: Ahmadinejad, clinton, iran, nuclear enrichment, nuclear nonproliferation treaty, obama, united nations, uranium