April 2015 – Asia Times

Why the U.S. “war on terra” is a fraud

By Pepe Escobar on April 30, 2015 in Asia Times News & Features, Empire of Chaos, Pepe Escobar

By Pepe Escobar A new scathing report by the Nobel prize-winning Physicians for Social Responsibility has revealed that more than 1.3 million people were killed only during the first ten years of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Iraq, Afghanistan… Read More ›

Will Russia join China’s AIIB as an ‘Asian’ member?

By Asia Unhedged on April 30, 2015 in Asia Unhedged

The sizes of the equity stakes that members plan to take in the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) keeps changing as more countries join and their designations change. A South Korean news agency also reports a diplomatic source as… Read More ›

Asia’s stock rally outstrips Europe, U.S. as Shanghai, HK surge

By Asia Unhedged on April 30, 2015 in Asia Unhedged

Don’t say Asia Unhedged didn’t tell you so. Bloomberg reports the action in Shanghai and Hong Kong stocks continues unabated and has catapulted Asian stock markets to the forefront of the worldwide equity rally for the first time in nine… Read More ›

Media in Japan under growing pressure to toe the line: Report

By AT Editor on April 30, 2015 in Asia Times News & Features, Japan

(From Deutsche Welle) By Julian Ryall, Tokyo A former bureaucrat and media commentator has accused (Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s) administration of using threats and incentives to ensure the Japanese public does not get the whole picture. And he fears a… Read More ›

Vietnam: Remembering a lost war

By AT Editor on April 30, 2015 in Asia Times News & Features, Southeast Asia

By Donald Kirk Memories of a brutal past mingle with images of new beginnings in a region of thick mangrove swamps interlaced with canals from which Viet Cong guerillas more than 40 years ago fired rockets into the heart of… Read More ›

Japan investors seed Indian Internet startups

By Asia Unhedged on April 29, 2015 in Asia Unhedged

Investment money from Japan is flowing into Indian Internet startups. The Economic Times said Wednesday that while VC powerhouse Softbank Capital has been clinching deals with some of India’s biggest online consumer players, other Japanese-led firms are grabbing a piece… Read More ›

N. Korea executed 15 senior officials this year: spy agency

By AT Editor on April 29, 2015 in Asia Times News & Features, Koreas

(From Yonhap) North Korea has killed 15 senior officials this year, two South Korean lawmakers said Wednesday, in the latest public executions in the communist country. In January, a vice forestry minister was executed for allegedly complaining about the country’s… Read More ›

Abe takes ‘lyrical’ view of U.S.-Japan ties in Washington address

By Doug Tsuruoka on April 29, 2015 in Asia Times News & Features, China, Japan

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe scored points Wednesday in his speech to a Joint session of Congress when he thanked the U.S. for its Tsunami relief by quoting the lyrics of Carole King’s song “You’ve Got A Friend.” “Yes, we’ve… Read More ›

Australia: The secret country again wages war on its own people

By AT Editor on April 29, 2015 in Asia Times News & Features

By John Pilger Australia has again declared war on its indigenous people, reminiscent of the brutality that brought universal condemnation on apartheid South Africa. Aboriginal people are to be driven from homelands where their communities have lived for thousands of years…. Read More ›

The myth of India’s rape epidemic

By AT Editor on April 29, 2015 in Asia Times News & Features, South Asia

By Amrita Mukherjee “Don’t ever take a cab late in the night if you are alone.” “Don’t wear anything that would draw attention to you.” “Avoid walking in areas which are not crowded or well lit.” “Never accept a drink… Read More ›

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Month: April 2015