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As opposition activists and underground journalists have become more tech savvy, the Myanmar junta has become more determined to counter the outflow of information and silence its critics abroad. The regime's cyber warfare specialists are receiving plenty of foreign assistance in upgrading their dissent-quashing capabilities. - Brian McCartan (Sep 30, '08)
The main suspects behind Monday's car bombing in the Lebanese city of Tripoli and a similar attack at the weekend in Damascus are Sunni extremists bent on destabilizing the region and seeking revenge for Syria's longstanding ties to jihadi elements. For Syria, "Black Saturday" marks a return to the dark days of its confrontation with the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1980s. - Sami Moubayed (Sep 30, '08)
The United States missed the opportunity to catch Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in 2001, new evidence reveals, because Washington was obsessed with starting the Iraq War and failed to allocate enough troops to the task. The blunder was allegedly compounded by a decision to turn down an offer of 60,000 Pakistani troops. - Gareth Porter (Sep 30, '08)
Most of the literature on the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the "war on terror" focuses on the burden these conflicts place on the US federal budget. This is a very real issue, but it deflects attention from another key point: in Afghanistan, the US has consistently failed to provide the financial and military resources necessary to win the war. - Anthony H Cordesman (Sep 30, '08)
The Taliban have officially rejected a Saudi Arabian-British backdoor initiative for Islamabad to strike peace deals with militants in Pakistan. The Taliban realize the aim is to separate them from al-Qaeda, and are having none of it. So the battle in the tribal areas continues apace, with the militants now attracting vital support from across the border in Afghanistan, as well as from previously pro-Pakistan tribal chiefs. - Syed Saleem Shahzad (Sep 30, '08)
From AP:
All that was left on the chin of the Muslim man praying at the huge brownstone mosque was a small patch of stubble. He said officials had forced young men in China's far western Xinjiang region to cut off their beards at the start of the holy month of ...
The LA Times recently ran a story explaining that for some Chinese the US presidential elections seem like a huge waste of money. Here is an interesting op-ed by Southern Weekly columnist Liu Yu defending the expensive process. According to Liu, “spending millions of US dollars to buy citizens' confidence ...
As the impact of the U.S. financial crisis widens, bankers and China's government officials are now discussing its possible impact on China's economy at the ongoing 2008 Summer Davos forum in eastern China's Tianjin. Opinions are divided; state officials seem more optimistic, in contrast to the overall gloom among other ...
From Reuters:
Chinese lawyers seeking redress for infant victims of toxic milk say they are facing growing official pressure to abandon the efforts, blaming growing government sensitivity over the health scandal.
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According to China Daily,
Prices of residential housing in China may shrink by as much as 50 percent in the next 10 years, a top property researcher has predicted.
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