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U.S. activist guilty in attack on Vietnamese singer

By AP News Sat, May 26, 2012 4:41PM UTC View Comments

SAN JOSE, California (AP) — A California activist faces up to more than three years behind bars for spraying an irritant at a pop singer from Vietnam to protest communism. Ly Tong was found guilty Thursday of misdemeanor assault and felony use of tear gas in connection with the July 2010 attack. Authorities say Tong...

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Analysis: Chen deal a face-saver for US and China

By AP News Sat, May 05, 2012 3:37PM UTC View Comments

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, speaks with China's President Hu Jintao, right, during their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Friday, May 4, 2012. Pic: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — A tentative deal to allow activist Chinese lawyer Chen Guangcheng to study in the United States serves as a face-saving measure for all involved: Washington can say it safeguarded human rights, Beijing can point to its cooperative diplomacy and Chen gets a new start in America. After a week of hectic back-and-forth...

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Climate change: China’s youth cares

By Graham Land Mon, Apr 30, 2012 11:31PM UTC View Comments

A scientific comparison between global attitudes concerning climate change and the environment in general has revealed some surprising results. When I say scientific, I mean that young people in 6 countries were surveyed by the Carbon Trust in order to try and discern how worried they are about CO2 and climate change. The survey questioned...

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Ending Burma sanctions: Spurring development, or helping the military?

By Francis Wade Wed, Apr 18, 2012 4:45PM UTC View Comments

Amid all the talk of economic reform in Burma, one major problem is yet to be properly addressed: at present nearly a quarter of the government’s budget goes directly to the military – in comparison, less than five percent is allocated for the health and education sectors combined. Despite efforts at reshaping the economy into...

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Burma sanctions: to keep, or not to keep?

By Francis Wade Thu, Apr 05, 2012 2:04PM UTC View Comments

Following last week’s resounding by-election win for Burma’s opposition, the expected re-engineering of international policy towards the country is already underway. The US has announced it will soon appoint an ambassador and relax sanctions (a presidential waiver on ‘national security grounds’ meant the decision did not need Congressional backing), while the EU looks set to...

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