I was checking out the Digital Chosun Ilbo this morning and I found this article mentioning Time Asia’s selection of 3 Koreans in their 60 Years of Asian Heroes list. I was curious how other countries did, so I decided to count and make a list. Let’s see the make-up of the list […]
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Time Magazine’s 60 years of Asian Heroes
Published by November 8th, 2006 in Myanmar/Burma, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Taiwan, India, Korea, China, Indonesia, U.S. and Japan. 4 CommentsIndonesia Matters has posted a report on Gerakan Kemerdekaan Minahasa in North Sulawesi, which hopes to become the latest region of Indonesia to break from the country and declare its independence. The people of the region plan to hold a referendum on the matter on Christmas. It seems that islamist movements and discrimination […]
Michelle Malkin on Indonesia’s Jihad supporters
Published by October 16th, 2006 in U.S. and Indonesia. 0 CommentsIn response this AP article that says 10% of Indonesian muslims support violent jihad, conservative blogger Michelle Malkin had the following to say:
Now, some quick math:
220 million Indonesians.
85 percent of them Muslim.
1 in 10 of those Muslims support suicide bombings to “defend their faith.” (As Robert Spencer notes, “that’s just those who are willing to […]
Asia Blog Awards 2006/2007: Vote now!
Published by October 7th, 2006 in Myanmar/Burma, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, India, Korea, China, Indonesia and Japan. 2 CommentsVoting has begun for the best Japan Blog for Q1 2006/2007 over at the Asia Blog Awards. My other blog, Japan Probe, has been nominated, and I encourage everyone to go over and vote for your favorite blogs.
Voting for the best Korea blog and group blog are also underway, and I would […]
Views of Japanese foreign policy and nationalism
Published by October 4th, 2006 in Indonesia, History Dispute, China, Korea and Japan. 0 CommentsThe Washington Post has printed a response to last week’s editorial “Japan’s Future — and Past“. The response was written by Mitsuru Kitano, the Public Affairs chief at the Japanese Embassy in D.C., and I think it does a very good job of providing reasonable arguments to counter the criticism of the previous editorial. […]
Global Firepower Rankings: How’d your favorite East Asian nation do?
Published by September 17th, 2006 in Taiwan, Indonesia, China, Korea and Japan. 2 CommentsGlobalFirepower.com maintains a list of the world’s top militaries. Where are the Asian nations?
-China: 3rd
-Japan: 7th
-South Korea: 12th
-Indonesia: 13th
-North Korea: 17th
-Taiwan: 27th
-The Philippines: 29th
See the full list here.
Unsurprising.
“We’re tying to fix this leak in the roof, and there’s a storm,” World Health Organization spokesman Dick Thompson said. “The storm is that the virus is in animals almost everywhere and the lack of effective attention that’s being addressed to the problem.”
Oh, so this is why bird flu may have mutated in Indonesia into a human-to-human transmission form:
Local authorities have resisted working with outside health experts and many villagers blame black magic, not bird flu, for the deaths of the family members.
Possible Human to Human Bird Flu Transmission Suspected in Indonesia
Published by May 23rd, 2006 in Indonesia. 0 CommentsIf this indeed turns out to be true, hopefully the infected people can be quarantined in time to prevent further transmission of the virus. And hopefully Indonesia will literally clean up their act.
