Bruce Einhorn, Asia regional editor in BusinessWeek’s Hong Kong bureau, wrote a heavily politicised article on China’s snowstorm in which he suggested that “with millions stranded by snowstorms and infrastructure problems, antigovernment protests are likely”. Having recently relocated to Shenzhen and as someone who hails from a country where leaders are arguably elected, all I… Read More »
This one-year-old article of Robert Ho by Martyn See at AsiaTimes Online tells the odd story of a Singaporean cyber-dissident who has been routinely painted (or should it be tainted?) by the PAP government as mentally unsound. If you read the whole interview, you will wonder: Is this really the mind of a mad man?
Someone commented on my previous post on “Is Lee Kuan Yew a fascist?” by saying: I thought the point of this website was no “touchy feely” ideas?! Why don’t you have the balls to make any real statements and need to word everything as a question to protect your sorry ass? Here’s a few examples… Read More »
According to Warren Trokis, a manager at Shoprite, a South African grocery chain in Lagos, Nigeria: “Business is good here, and Nigeria is safer than South Africa. In South Africa armed robbers will take your money and kill you, but here in Nigeria, they will take your money and apologize.” (Source: “South African Invasion“, FORTUNE… Read More »
An Iraqi-flag cake served to visiting US Congressmen The above photo and caption from FORTUNE magazine (“Mission Impossible“, 17 September 2007) struck me as pretty symbolic in the way Iraq has been treated by the invaders. Like the cake, the country has basically been divided and gobbled up by Republican hawks who have been eyeing… Read More »
I am in Shenzhen at the moment and I don’t seem to have access to any blog hosted by blogspot, which is a drag because a few of the blogs that I read regularly, not to mention my own, are hosted there. The weird thing is, although I can post a new entry to my… Read More »