Is China weighing down its currency?/ Source - gulfnews.com Beijing and Washington, ever the odd couple, just can't seem to bring their mismatched, yet inextricably linked, relationship to a calm accord. Without proper mediation, the story of this duo could get kooky real soon. --- The US has long debated that China's currency, the …
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A short drama that follows Burmese refugee Roi Roi's search for a real home in Malaysia, shedding light on the human rights abuse of refugees displaced in the country. Well-informed report about human trafficking across the Malaysian-Thai border Last month, a rare blessing crept into the lives of an overlooked group resigned to the plight …
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It's a balmy afternoon on a sun-drenched island in the world's largest archipelago, Indonesia. And as island life goes here, things are quiet. The only sounds that interrupt the peaceful swash of the turquoise tide are the crinkling of palm fronds in the wind and the occasional over-sized lizard tap dancing in the brush. At …
Army Simplified: 军 Traditional: 軍 Pinyin: jūn Brief: I, it must be said, am a sucker for propaganda. Especially the kind used today in China and Vietnam. There is just something about the uniformly stale, often poorly Photoshopped artwork that manages to make its message instantly nostalgic while remaining all together contemporary. A new and …
I passed the closing hours of Ramadan last week in Jakarta, where the indefatigable prayers of imams tolled out from loudspeakers mounted on minarets nonstop into the night at such a pitch that they continuously jarred me out of sleep. Back in Kuala Lumpur, the final prayers of the season rung out until 11 or …
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