Aung San Suu Kyi? Vote Counting Underway in Myanmar
Yangon, Myanmar. Vote counting is underway in Myanmar where turnout was more than 80 percent for the nation’s first free general election in a quarter of a century. Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo: Wikipedia...
View ArticleIndonesia May Also Challenge China’s South Sea Claims
Beijing, China. At a time when China appears to be trying to smooth over its differences with rival claimants in the South China Sea, Indonesia has become the latest to indicate just how serious the...
View ArticleThanksgiving: Beautiful Japanese Grandmother and Her Cat
Chiba, Japan. When I studied at Waseda University, Tokyo, in the 1980’s I lived with a family in Chiba Prefecture and commuted into the city. All around our suburban home were the original farms such...
View ArticleAll Chinese Infrastructure Projects to Proceed, Sri Lanka Says
Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s government said Thursday that it would go ahead with billions of dollars’ worth of Chinese projects, almost a year after declaring it would cancel them because of...
View ArticleISIS Presence in Predominantly Muslim Indonesia Growing
Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesian officials estimate there are between 200 and 300 IS sympathizers in country. Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for carrying out Thursday’s coordinated bomb and...
View ArticleNepal’s Quake-Damaged Museums Re-Open Thanks to Cultural Agency
New York, N.Y. More than a year since the devastating earthquakes that struck Nepal in April and May 2015, through the combined work of the United Nations cultural agency and its partners, some of the...
View ArticleCalls for China to Face Ghosts of its Past on Tiananmen Anniversary
Beijing, China. The United States has added its voice to international calls for China’s communist-led government to give a full public accounting of those who were killed, detained or went missing...
View ArticleU.S. Opens New De-Facto Embassy in Taiwan, Angering China
Washington, D.C. The United States has opened a new state-of-the-art facility in Taiwan that serves as Washington’s de facto embassy in the self-ruled island that Beijing claims is part of its...
View ArticleChina to Militarize Coast Guard amid Maritime Rivalry from U.S.
Taipei, Taiwan. Beijing is placing its coast guard under military command to warn foreign nations, including the United States, against interfering with its control over the disputed South China Sea,...
View ArticleThe Dalai Lama and Dr. Kazuko: A 47-Year Friendship
Dharamshala, India. Dr. Kazuko Hillyer Tatsumura and I had an audience with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, India, yesterday. They have been friends for almost fifty years; she was the...
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