Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with asia www.salem-news.com 2010 We are pleased to announce the appointment of our writer William Gomes, to the position of Salem-News.com Human Rights Ambassador. In this rapidly changing world, we believe this newly-created position and program, are large steps in raising our effectiveness as a news agency. http://salem-news.com/articles/april162012/gomes-nomination-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april162012/gomes-nomination-tk.php Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:38:00 PDT The rescue boat “T2” that will provide first-line support and humanitarian aid to disaster-hit people is ready to hit the open seas. The boat is the first of a group that will deliver food, fresh water and medical supplies to help coastal communities until governmental or large-scale relief arrives. International Rescue Group is a 501(c) (3) California Public Benefit Corporation. http://salem-news.com/articles/march212012/irg-rescue-vessel.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march212012/irg-rescue-vessel.php Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:41:00 PDT Gross National Happiness, rather than Gross National Product (GNP), is the national goal of the small Himalayan country of Bhutan. Occupy Salem member Laurie Dougherty recently visited Bhutan and will present what she learned about this remarkable concept in an exclusive presentation on March 7 at 7 p.m. in the Oregon PeaceWorks office. http://salem-news.com/articles/february292012/occupy-salem.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february292012/occupy-salem.php Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:38:00 PST Moses Bak's* childhood friend faces imminent execution, but change.org says that with your help, he can save her. She and two dozen North Korean refugees in China are in a terrifying limbo -- the Chinese government wants to deport them back to North Korea, where the new "Supreme Leader" Kim Jong-Un is cracking down by shooting defectors on sight and vowing to kill "three generations" of their families. http://salem-news.com/articles/february232012/nkorea-china.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february232012/nkorea-china.php Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:35:00 PST Scientific research into bears previously farmed using the “free drip” method of bile extraction was revealed today at an Animals Asia press conference in Beijing. The detailed medical evidence was based on analysis of 165 bears that had been rescued and brought to Animals Asia’s bear sanctuary near Chengdu. http://salem-news.com/articles/february212012/bears-in-danger.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february212012/bears-in-danger.php Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:45:00 PST The volatile situation in Syria generated by the Saudi-Qatar-funded Wahhabi armed group known as the Free Syrian Army and backed by the West is now an accident waiting to happen. There is certainly one ulterior motive behind the US-friendly Syrian crisis extravagantly fuelled by the presstitute media which keep distorting the facts on the grounds. http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/western-shenanigans-is.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/western-shenanigans-is.php Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:06:00 PST Washington's double-edged sword of policies towards the Islamic Republic is not only exhausting the patience of the Iranian nation but it is provoking the ire of international conscience as well. Goaded by Washington, EU foreign ministers decided on January 23 to impose a ban on oil imports from Iran under the fickle excuse that the country is pursuing a clandestine nuclear weapons program. http://salem-news.com/articles/january272012/iran-sanctions-is.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january272012/iran-sanctions-is.php Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:40:00 PST The Egyptian Salafi movement has accused the Indian government of holding captive millions of Hindus and Buddhists who had allegedly been Muslims in a previous life. “These people had converted to Islam at some point in the distant past and they are now being kept hidden inside Buddhist temples and ashrams all over South Asia,” said Salafi leader Mohammed Hareeqa- http://salem-news.com/articles/january092012/reconvert-islam-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january092012/reconvert-islam-ae.php Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:57:00 PST An agony that many Tibetan and Tibet supporters continue to suffer, following the recent spate of self-immolations in Tibet, has now come to the fore of international media. http://salem-news.com/articles/december092011/tibetan-immolation.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december092011/tibetan-immolation.php Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:27:00 PST A public hearing is being held in Corvallis, Oregon this Thursday, November 17th to determine if Genetically Modified sugar beets will be deregulated in Oregon. Meanwhile, the public comment period maybe just a local distraction giving way to full federal deregulation without any representation of organic and conventional crop farmers. http://salem-news.com/articles/november172011/gm-beets-as.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november172011/gm-beets-as.php Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:56:00 PST The Oregon Wine Industry has reported doubling wine revenues during this recession and exports look very good as Red Wine sales in Hong Kong has doubled just this past year, as the fast-increasing affluent Chinese are demanding quality imported wines. Capitalist Hong Kong now has more than 100,000 millionaires - a 33% increase since 2008. http://salem-news.com/articles/september282011/gorge-wheat-wine.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september282011/gorge-wheat-wine.php Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:48:00 PDT The future of Aung San Suu Kyi and her amazing movement for democracy in Burma is hanging in the balance this week, and we could make the difference. Suu Kyi has bravely called on the military regime to free the thousands of monks and peaceful activists still held in horrific prisons, some in cramped dog cages. Unprecedentedly, thousands of Burmese have risked their own safety to join her call for freedom through an online petition. http://salem-news.com/articles/july012011/aung-san-changes.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july012011/aung-san-changes.php Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:25:00 PDT Australia is the Promised Land. Boat people make the perilous trip from Indonesia to Christmas Island. But just how lucky is this country down under? I’ve been going to soup kitchens for the past 10 days. The two meals a day has kept me off the streets. http://salem-news.com/articles/may282011/homeless-perth-itb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may282011/homeless-perth-itb.php Sat, 28 May 2011 19:02:00 PDT The corporate-financier funded NGOs that fomented the “Arab Spring” are now cultivating a united Baluchi front ahead of a proposed US-funded Baluchistan insurrection. As early as 2006, Baluchistan province has been viewed as a potential point of leverage against Islamabad and an opportunity to assert foreign intervention. http://salem-news.com/articles/may142011/baluchistan-insurrection-tc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may142011/baluchistan-insurrection-tc.php Sat, 14 May 2011 16:36:00 PDT We learned in our early years that Superman never gave up, even with kryptonite in hand. We may not have super hero strength, but we Americans must find our will. Our strength and our sense of American pride has been damaged by recent developments within the confines of corporate greed and agricultural terrorism. http://salem-news.com/articles/may032011/wheres-superman-as.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may032011/wheres-superman-as.php Tue, 03 May 2011 20:37:00 PDT Food prices have soared to record highs and are projected to increase further in the coming decade, pushing millions of people into hunger and fueling political unrest around the world. The Worldwatch Institute's recently released report shows that diversifying food production can help communities boost their self-sufficiency and protect vulnerable populations from price shocks. http://salem-news.com/articles/march232011/food-needs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march232011/food-needs.php Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:15:00 PDT George Katsiaficas is a renowned university professor, sociologist, author and activist. He is a visiting American Professor of Humanities and Sociology at Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea where he teaches and does research on the 1980s and 1990s East Asian uprisings. He specializes in social movements, Asian politics, the U.S. foreign policy, comparative and historical studies and has written numerous books in these fields. http://salem-news.com/articles/march062011/george-katsiaficas-kz.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march062011/george-katsiaficas-kz.php Sun, 06 Mar 2011 19:02:00 PST South Korea's daily newspaper is reporting that what Western analysts have feared has happened: Chinese troops have been deployed into North Korea. The Chinese now have a presence in the rogue state for the first time in more than 15 years. http://salem-news.com/articles/january172011/china-nkorea-ta.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january172011/china-nkorea-ta.php Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:01:00 PST Vang Pao, former Royal Laos general; noted Hmong leader and military leader, passed away in Fresno, California late Thursday. He had been hospitalized for the ten days before his death in Clovis, California. Vang Pao was born in the Xiangkhouang Province of Laos, which was French Indochina when Gen. Pao was born in 1929. http://salem-news.com/articles/january082011/vang-pao-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january082011/vang-pao-tk.php Sat, 08 Jan 2011 04:37:00 PST Hours before her anticipated release scores of supporters gathered near the home of Nobel Peace Prize laureate pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, hoping to see her in her first few minutes of freedom after seven years of house detention under Myanmar's ruling generals. Aung San Suu Kyi swept to victory in the 1990 election by a landslide on top of the National League for Democracy party, but the military refused to hand over power and clamped down on opponents. http://salem-news.com/articles/november132010/aun-sang-ef.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november132010/aun-sang-ef.php Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:03:00 PST Laos is more contaminated by cluster munitions than any other country in the world. http://salem-news.com/articles/november102010/cluster-bombs-laos.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november102010/cluster-bombs-laos.php Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:24:00 PST Udon, the largest northeastern City, is considered the heart of the Red Shirt movement in Thailand’s color-coded politics. Only last month was the State of Emergency lifted from Udon, which is 700 kilometers from Bangkok, and it’s business as usual reports I.T.B. Only a week ago I chanced upon a motor show in a large concrete area in the heart of the old part of the city. http://salem-news.com/articles/november092010/thai-redshirts-ib.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november092010/thai-redshirts-ib.php Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:50:00 PST In March, 2010, sensational headlines broke around the world: "Son of Swashbuckling Errol Flynn's remains found." An Australian and New Zealander, MacMillan and Rotheram had dug up the remains thought to be two photographers who had disappeared in Cambodia in 1970. http://salem-news.com/articles/november012010/bonehunters-flynn-tb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november012010/bonehunters-flynn-tb.php Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:13:00 PDT I am sure the General, his friends and his many supporters will not object to the use of the cricketing term on reaching his centenary, an achievement that all who know of his outstanding military feats will applaud. Described as one of the worlds top ten military commanders General Giap certainly qualified for that title in his use of military strategy that helped defeat two of the worlds major military countries France and the USA. http://salem-news.com/articles/october212010/vietnam-ao.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october212010/vietnam-ao.php Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:00:00 PDT A possible showdown is coming between the million man army of North Korea and the joint US-South Korean forces. Like a pressure cooker simmering for many months, all the ingredients for war that have been simmering may be about ready to boil over. The official news agency of the government in Pyongyang is reacting to the joint naval exercises conducted by US, Japanese and South Korean forces. http://salem-news.com/articles/october162010/korean-war-ta.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october162010/korean-war-ta.php Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:35:00 PDT ActionAid has released their report revealing the cost developing nations face in the fight against hunger, an estimated $450 billion a year - more than ten times the amount needed to halve hunger by 2015. “Fighting hunger now will be ten times cheaper than ignoring it. Every year reduced worker productivity, poor health and lost education costs poor countries billions. And the cost is not just financial..." http://salem-news.com/articles/october082010/worldwide-hunger-aa.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october082010/worldwide-hunger-aa.php Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:47:00 PDT The U.S. fought a war in Vietnam that bled into Cambodia in 1970 and then was followed by a wind down period and eventual withdrawal of the last American combat troops from SE Asia in 1975. The U.S. created a huge refugee problem in Cambodia, and today it should not forcefully deport a productive young woman adopted to American ways, back to Thailand, where her single past California drug conviction means an instant death sentence when she is returned. http://salem-news.com/articles/september062010/thailand-deportation-ks.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september062010/thailand-deportation-ks.php Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:25:00 PDT Police in China’s southwestern Sichuan province have responded with lethal force to a group of Tibetans protesting the expansion of a gold mining operation they say is harming the environment, according to Tibetan sources. At least four people were killed when police officers opened fire on a crowd outside the Palyul (in Chinese, Baiyu) county government offices in Sichuan’s Kardze (in Chinese, Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous prefecture, sources said. http://salem-news.com/articles/august302010/tibet-shooting.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august302010/tibet-shooting.php Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:25:00 PDT A new 'smart missile' threatens to tip the balance of power towards China, US military analysts say. The latest generation of the Dong Feng 21D (DF-21D) is a supercarrier killer according to experts on China's armaments. The missile can be launched from land and strike an aircraft carrier 900 miles away. http://salem-news.com/articles/august072010/chinese-missile-ta.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august072010/chinese-missile-ta.php Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:27:00 PDT The man who set out to locate the remains of famed Vietnam War Photojournalist Sean Flynn, son of the acclaimed actor Errol Flynn, says the U.S. government is not cooperating with the Flynn family or his team, in helping properly identify the remains. He says they appear to not be Flynn's, as it turns out, but possibly one of two missing Japanese journalists who were last seen in the same area. http://salem-news.com/articles/july262010/flynn-remains-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july262010/flynn-remains-tk.php Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:30:00 PDT