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Opinion on AsiaSeptember 29 - October 7
Asian Views and what’s being said about Asia
US election: this time it’s personal
Many non-Americans "feel they have a stake" in the forthcoming US presidential election and are tired of being ignored by a "powerful and unilateralist" America, says the South China Morning Post. Much to the chagrin of many in China, their nation was "barely mentioned" during the debate between the Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his Democratic rival Barack Obama.
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A tale of two cities
Three years after Hurricane Katrina flattened New Orleans, the city has yet to recover, says Nicolai Ourousoff. The reconstruction, or lack of it, of this port town "couldn't have made for a starker contrast" to the "overnight" renovation of Beijing from medieval city to modern metropolis for the Olympic Games.
Read ArticleIsland enemies forgive and forget
An Indonesian island, once the scene of the "bloodiest religious wars of recent times," has brokered a semblance of peace between its Christian and Muslim populations, says Sian Powell. Over 5,000 were killed in Ambon after religious tensions exploded in 1999, when "women were mutilated and children were armed with machetes and homemade grenades," and churches and mosques set ablaze.
Read ArticleCrime-buster cleans house
In a country with endemic graft, Antasari Azhar, head of the independent Anti-Corruption Commission, has "become a household name - and for some, a hero," says Abdul Khalik in The Jakarta Post. In Indonesia's version of Rolling Stone magazine he's also been "equated with Elliot Ness," the Chicago crime fighter who brought Al Capone to justice.
Read ArticleI read it in state-run media
"The first thing is applying oil on the customer's body skillfully to make them feel comfortable and cheery. When you punch, you have to punch strongly and definitively to make a plopping sound. This sound can excite customers.
Read ArticleProtesting in Thailand
Protests in Asia (in the countries where you are allowed to take to the streets, of course) tend to be of a fiery nature, but in Thailand, the 10,000 or so People's Alliance for Democracy demonstrators who have been occupying the grounds of the prime minister's compound since August seem like they're having a whale of a time.
Read ArticleFear and loathing in Asia
The notion that Asia has decoupled from the US economy is dead. Initial smugness over America's financial woes gave way to a sense of panic last week as it dawned on regional markets...
Read ArticleRevisiting Iwo Jima
An in-house American military documentary has reunited a Japanese soldier with his fallen comrade, says Joseph Coleman in The Associated Press. Tsuruji Akikusa, now 81, was one of only 1,000 Japanese soldiers out of 21,000 who survived the bloody 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima, surviving for months in stuffy underground tunnels dogged by hunger and thirst.
Read ArticleDeadly alms
Alms-giving went "seriously wrong" in Jakarta during Ramadan when 21 women were trampled to death in a stampede, says The Jakarta Post. While the act of giving alms during this holy month should be commended, a different way of delivering cash to the poor is clearly needed.
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