ASIA - CENTRAL & SUBCONTINENT
Davenhill - Nov 20, 2002 8:20 am
Edited by Ozzie Nelson Jul 29, 2004 11:45 am
(878 previous messages)
- Jul 10, 2009 2:06 pm (#879 of 894)
OK, thanks Matthew. 
Matthew Best
- Jul 10, 2009 2:18 pm (#880 of 894)
Now you know what it means, do you see Balkanization potentially occurring in China?
- Jul 10, 2009 2:20 pm (#881 of 894)
No.
Shr Fang Tian - Aug 13, 2009 2:44 pm (#882 of 894)
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/08/12/putin-pledges-military-aid-to-abkhazia/
Russia's now pledged to protect Abkhazia.
Israel is hopping mad, because they want to use Georgia as the stepping off point for the planned attack on Iran.
Saakashvili's feeling increasingly isolated, and his cabinet is going nuts.
And y'gotta love this:
High ranking Georgian MP Giorgi Kandelaki also claimed Putin had broken the law in visiting Abkhazia, noting a Georgian law which bars crossing the border between the Russia and Abkhazia.
Marc-A
- Sep 16, 2009 12:34 pm (#883 of 894)
After Lima and Mexico City, Delhi, Mumbai and other Indian cities now have their "Ladies trains".
I was rather surprised to learn about persistent and very open taunting and harassment by Indian men, including on escalators, from a young friend and her husband who traveled for almost 4 months in India earlier this year.
Somehow, I was surprised to learn that, as I thought that Indian men tended to be straight-laced and moralistic and conservative in matters sexual. Aren’t they the ones who love to criticize us in the West for our sexual permissiveness and depravity?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/world/asia/16ladies.html
- Sep 16, 2009 4:20 pm (#884 of 894)
I'm surprised, too.
Molly
- Sep 23, 2009 11:46 am (#885 of 894)
I'm a bit surprised that 'ladies trains' exist, but not so surprised by the harrassment.
Sexual conservatism/moralism, and bone-deep disrespect for women seem to go hand in hand. Those who most strictly follow rules most deeply resent those who independently bend those rules, and seek to change them.
klaatu - Oct 19, 2009 2:49 pm (#886 of 894)
China Again Issues Warning On U.S. Debt Disaster
October 19, 2009 (LPAC) — The official Chinese news agency, Xinhua, analyzes the fiscal year-end U.S. government budget statement in an article entitled, "U.S debt dilemma, no better solution?" The article does not, itself, propose anything in the way of a "better solution," but does observe: "The U.S. government is without doubt facing great challenges, among which the debt dilemma is the biggest test... Simply speaking, the U.S. government's method is to borrow money from the world and devalue the dollar, the dominant reserve currency of the world currently." The article ends with the warning, "Foreign investors are not ATMs without limit either. No wonder many experts worry that the debt bubble will be a greater crisis some day in the future."
- Nov 12, 2009 1:14 am (#887 of 894)
Vanished Persian army said found in desert
50,000 soldiers believed buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C.
By Rossella Lorenzi
updated 8:11 a.m. PT, Mon., Nov . 9, 2009
The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology's biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.
Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. The 50,000 warriors were said to be buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C. 
- Nov 12, 2009 1:50 am (#888 of 894)
Wow!
Amazing find. Hope they don't find a way to blame us.
- Nov 12, 2009 3:27 am (#889 of 894)
Clinton dun it with his mighty penis.
- Nov 25, 2009 4:08 am (#890 of 894)
Manila - The Philippines Tuesday declared emergency rule and dispatched additional security forces to a southern province where gunmen killed at least 24 people in the worst-ever election-related violence in the country. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo placed Maguindanao province, 930 kilometres south of Manila, under a state of emergency to ensure that hostilities between two rival political clans would not escalate following the gruesome killings on Monday.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/296031,philippines-declares-emergency-rule-after-massacre--update.html
Marc-A
- Nov 25, 2009 1:11 pm (#891 of 894)
As I said once, you and your buddy Klaatu share many similarities, such as posting Far and Southeast Asia stuff in the Central Asia thread ;)
- Nov 25, 2009 4:43 pm (#892 of 894)
Oh. Shall I delete it and repost it?
I honestly didn't know where it should go.
- Feb 4, 2010 6:03 am (#893 of 894)
War in Pakistan Christened With First U.S. Troops Killed
- Mar 1, 2010 5:15 am (#894 of 894)
That Link doesn't work.
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