Asia Archives

Chinese “Dissident” Receives Nobel Peace Prize for Supporting US Constitutional Principles

Liu Xiaobo, co-author of "Charter 08," was arrested two days before that freedom manifesto was published on December 10, 2008, and was finally...

Bob Adelmann October 14, 2010

Pakistan Reopens Torkham Crossing to NATO

Raven Clabough October 11, 2010

Pakistani authorities on October 10 reopened the Torkham border crossing into Afghanistan for NATO forces, ending an 11-day blockade. The Pakistani government imposed...

China Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Fetal Genocide

Bruce Walker October 8, 2010

Totalitarian nations have always viewed procreation as an activity that is state business, not the hopes and dreams of ordinary people. Nazi Germany...

Pakistan-NATO Relations Strained

Raven Clabough October 1, 2010

Officials report that the Pakistani government blocked oil tankers and trucks carrying NATO supplies into Afghanistan. The Pakistani government claims that the blockage...

China Embraces U.S. Debt and Technology

William P. Hoar September 28, 2010

Item: A senior Chinese general, reported Xinhua, China’s state news agency, on September 1, just met in Beijing “with the head of a...

Monstrous Mao

Bruce Walker September 20, 2010

Frank Dikotter, an historian from Hong Kong, has been allowed wide access to Chinese Communist Party archives. Speaking at the Independent Literary Festival,...

Biometric ID Scheme for 1.2 Billion Indians Meets Resistance

Alex Newman September 14, 2010

A costly plan by the central government of India to create unique biometric identification numbers for every Indian is meeting stiff resistance from...

Chinese Cyber Warfare Advance in Quantum Teleportation

Charles Scaliger September 10, 2010

There’s a new arms race heating up, one that involves not nuclear weapons or satellite-guided bombs but communications. In May of this year,...

Protests Against Quran Burning Erupt in Afghanistan

September 10, 2010

Voice of America News reported on September 10 that “thousands of people across Afghanistan” had gathered in the nation’s streets to participate in...

Will the U.S. Bail Out Kabul Bank?

Bob Adelmann September 6, 2010

The bank run at Afghanistan’s largest bank, Kabul Bank, was precipitated by the takeover of the bank by Da Afghanistan Bank, the country’s...

Chinese Central Bank Head Defection Rumor: Communist Power Struggle?

Thomas R. Eddlem August 31, 2010

Japanese Financial Services Minister Shozaburo Jimi confirmed that China's central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan had not defected to the United States, something rumored...