China succumbs to Mekong nations Canada Dot Com | China has made a significant policy about-turn in response to a sharp contest with the United States for friends and influence in Southeast Asia. | After years of rebuffing increasingly anxious requests for information about its dams on the upper reaches of the Mekong River from countries lower...
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Why Wikileaks must be protected John Pilger In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the importance of Wikileaks as a new and fearless form of investigative journalism that threatens both the war-makers and their apologists, notably journalists who are state stenographers. | On 26 July, Wikileaks released thousands of...
More Officials of Indebted Shipbuilder Arrested Wall Street Journal Associated Press | HANOI, Vietnam—Police have arrested four additional former senior executives of Vietnam's debt-laden, state-owned shipbuilding company as part of widening investigations into mismanagement, state media reported Saturday. Rela...
Vietnam Arrests 4 More Executives Of Shipbuilder The Street The former executives for the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group — or Vinashin — have been accused of intentionally violating regulations causing serious losses to the state. | The four were taken into custody Monday, but the arrests were not re...
Mexico drug war: the new killing fields The Guardian | In the first of a three-part investigation, Rory Carroll reports from the gateway to America, the epicentre of drug cartel violence which has claimed 28,000 lives Bloodstained footsteps at the entrance of a drug treatment centre in Juárez city, Me...
BANGLADESH: Taking toxins out of ship-breaking IRINnews web | DHAKA, 3 September 2010 (IRIN) - A Dutch engineering company is trying to make safer the dangerous job of dismantling old ships contaminated with chemicals - by building the world’s first “green dock wharf” in Bangladesh. | Bangladesh has...
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SKorea cracks down on marriage brokers after death The Boston Globe | SEOUL, South Korea-Young and poor, the Vietnamese woman jumped at the chance to marry a South Korean introduced to her through a matchmaking agency. | Eight days after moving to ...
Taliban stymie NATO push to bolster government Breitbart | In this July 12, 2010 photo, the new Arghandab district chief Shah Mohammad... | In this July 12, 2010 photo, the new Arghandab district chief Shah Mohammad... | ARGHANDAB VALLEY...
Legacy of the killing fields Irish Times | ONLY A dozen inmates are believed to have survived the hell that was Phnom Penh's Tuol Sleng. At least 14,000 died in four years from 1975 at the former Chao Ponhea Yat High Scho...
Diabetes now tops Vietnam vets' claims The News & Observer | RALEIGH, N.C. -- By his own reckoning, a Navy electrician spent just eight hours in Vietnam, during a layover on his flight back to the U.S. in 1966. He bought some cigarettes and snapped a few photos. | The jaunt didn't make for much of a war stor...
China succumbs to Mekong nations Canada Dot Com | China has made a significant policy about-turn in response to a sharp contest with the United States for friends and influence in Southeast Asia. | After years of rebuffing increasingly anxious requests for information about its dams on the uppe...
More Britons being caught up in legal nightmares abroad The Independent | A British businessman embroiled in the Vietnamese legal system since 2004 suffered another setback last week after the latest of many hearings was cancelled - this time because of bad weather. | Peter Laking, 62, from Sussex, has been marooned in V...
![The Second ThaiLao Friendship Bridge over the Mekong connects Mukdahan Province in Thailand with Savannakhet in Laos. The bridge is 1600 meters long and 12 meters wide, with two traffic lanes.[1] Traffic on the bridge drives on the right, as in Laos, while traffic in Thailand drives on the left; the change-over is on the Thai side.](http://cdn7.wn.com/vp/i/ac/14c65f8935a9c3.jpg)
