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 CommentsForeign Policy: Who will be the next nuclear state?
Published by October 17th, 2006 in Taiwan, China, Korea and Japan. 1 CommentForeign Policy’s website has posted an interesting article that takes a look at nations that might soon join the nuclear club. Three of the five nations are in Asia:
Japan
What it has: Twenty-three tons of weapons-usable plutonium and the ability to produce weapons-grade uranium without much trouble. Sometimes described as a “virtual” nuclear weapons state, […]
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 […]
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.
In the Taipei Times:
The foreign countries held in the highest estimation by Taiwanese are Japan and the US, according to a survey released yesterday.
The survey was conducted last month by the magazine Global Views Monthly that polled 1,071 people nationwide on how the Taiwanese public viewed other countries and international affairs.
The survey also ranked Japan […]
Is China gearing up for a future war with Japan? Kavkaz Center thinks so:
There are growing concerns that China might be readying itself for a confrontation with Japan.
A recent Pentagon report on China’s growing military power suggests the US is worried that Beijing is gearing up not only to threaten Taiwan but also to confront […]
We’ve seen footage of melees in the Taiwanese parliament for years. This time the action seems a bit different.
Pandemonium broke out in Taiwan’s parliament when deputies attacked a woman colleague for snatching and trying to eat a proposal on opening direct transport links with China in a bid to stop a vote on the issue.
“She […]
