Asia-Pacific Politics

Expansion Questions Arise Over NYU's Dismissal of Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng

Last year, Chen Guangcheng arrived in New York to take a teaching position at New York University. He'd just escaped house arrest in his native country of China after being prosecuted for representing thousands of women in a class-action lawsuit against the Communist government. Now, more than a yea ... More >>

The Horrors of India's Beauty Pageants in The World Before Her

Death by China

Tibetan Hunger Strikers Enter Day 29 of Protest Outside The United Nations

Despite the hospitalization of one protester and police pressure, three Tibetans -- including one monk -- have entered the 29th day of a hunger strike outside the U.N., decrying China's harsh oppression of the Himalayan state. Dorjee Gyalpo, 59, was taken to the hospital on Monday, Tsewang Rigzin, ... More >>

United Nations Hunger Strike By Tibetan Monks Enters 17th Day

Today marks the start of the 17th day of a hunger strike outside the United Nations building in midtown for three Tibetan monks who are protesting China's repression of Tibet, and demanding that the UN recognize their homeland as an independent country and address Chinese human rights abuses. Wrapp ... More >>

Next Step For North Korea: 'Kim Jong-il Haunting Things'

via​ Kim Jong-il's death has had a number of ripple effects, not least of which is the sudden obsolescence of the Kim Jong-il Looking at Things tumblr. Lucky for us, it's been replaced with a creepy new one: Kim Jong-il Haunting Things.

Hillary Clinton Surprised by Loincloth-Clad Torchbearer

In what we'd like to think of as an "antidote" of sorts to Holly Van Voast's surge in boob-flashings at Barnes & Noble book signings (a target of which recently included Hillary Clinton's husband, Bill), a man surprised the Secretary of State with his own version of an homage recently in Honolulu.

Ai Wei Wei, Chinese Artist, Freed From Jail, With Gag Order

​Ai Wei Wei, the prominent artist and outspoken critic of the Chinese government whose arrest on April 3, 2011, spawned international demonstrations and outcry, has been released on bail. Via cell phone, the previously vocal artist and prolific tweeter reportedly said :"I'm released, I'm home ... More >>

3D Porn Gettin' China All Worked Up

​With all the talk about China being an emerging superpower and formidable economic player, we often forget that they still have to catch up with the good ol' US of A on some fronts. Namely, being cool about porn. The Independent reports that Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy, a multi-million dolla ... More >>

Another Snowstorm on the Way for NYC?; More Protests in Tunisia; Mike Bloomberg Gives State of the City

​Good morning! It's another gray day, but hang in there -- it should clear up by afternoon. Of course, there's also another snowstorm on the way, which could pan out as either a light brush...or a major snow event for New York by Friday. Currently snowfall potential is "highly uncertain." We'l ... More >>

Dance Will Set You Free, Etc., in Mao's Last Dancer

Hey, Smoking Plagues World Leaders, Too!

​First there was the smoking baby. Actually, before that, there was the other smoking baby. And more recently, there was the smoking, drinking, really sad baby. But lest you forget that adults, too, have trouble with the nic fits, consider the news that Philippine President-elect Benigno Aquin ... More >>

Wu Liang Ye Violates U.S. Labor Laws, Is Owned By Chinese Government

The U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York charged that the Wu Liang Ye branches on 39th Street and 86th Street (restaurants which were owned by the Chinese government) repeatedly engaged in unethical labor practices, including violating overtime and minimum wage laws. The judgment ... More >>

M.I.A. to Michelle Obama, Oprah: "STOP THE BOMBING OF THE TAMILS IN SRI LANKA"

This amazing photo brought to you by M.I.A.The weird Time 100 fairy tale gets even weirder for M.I.A.. On Tuesday, she was invited to, and then attended--as this amazing picture to the left clearly shows--a gala at Lincoln Center in celebration of the most influential people list the mag just releas ... More >>

Poet Craig Arnold Missing

Craig Arnold, a young poet and professor at the University of Wyoming--his first book, Shells, was selected by W.S. Merwin for Yale Series of Young Poets in 1999--has apparently disappeared from an island in Japan, where he'd been climbing a volcano. The Poetry Foundation is asking for help: Japane ... More >>

The Sri Lankan Government's War with M.I.A. Continues

Now that the majority Sinhalese government has nearly finished off a long-running civil war, confining the Tamil Tiger opposition to an ever shrinking parcel of land rife with a citizen population who've been dying in huge, indiscriminate numbers alongside militarized Tiger forces, Sri Lanka's gover ... More >>

Mumbai mastermind reported captured

Fengming: A Chinese Memoir

Dinner With the President: A Nation's Journey

Daily Flog: Future mortgaged; balloon payment due; either Obama, McCain on hook

McCain, Palin in New York; Hand-Shaking in Times Square Not Planned

Powderly Beijing Update

Summer Palace

The Bet Collector

Total Denial

Reader: Send Me the Testicles of a South Bronx Mosquito

Wolfie's Exit Plan

'Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story'

NK Nuke Test: Drop Dimes, Not Bombs

Report: U.S. Should Pay for Genocide in East Timor

Commission blames American-backed Indonesian military

The Slippery Slope

Is there enough oil? Or is there just enough oil to keep the Bush regime going?

Key Reporter on Religious Freedom is Seized in Uzbekistan

Problems in the Red States

Morning Report 5/19/05
U.S. on Uzbek Terror: A Familiar Rendition

Morning Report 4/7/05
Arms for the Poor

Sea Change

In Sri Lanka, mothers' breasts ache for phantom children. What will it take to rebuild?

Indonesian Army Said to Block Tsunami Aid

Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil finds an extra $5 million for victims

Homeland Insecurity

The American empire goes for broke—and it could be heading that way

U.S. Accuses Israeli of Selling Nuke Triggers to Pakistani

This Sentence Ends With an Exclamation

A Korean photojournalist gets a welcome shock: He’s freed from a Chinese prison

Left Behind

'New York Times' Freelancer Languishes in Chinese Jail

Nation

Nation

Nation

Prez Wonders: Where Have All the Good Times Gone?

Economy Bad, Congress Mean, China Won't Give Back Plane

Yes, Boss

New York Life Turns Employees Into Lobbyists for China Trade

Timor Ease

Clinton Makes Hay in Asia Mess

Life's a Beach

Reality Mimics Fiction in Leo's Latest Drama

Pundit Pattons

Eastern Exposure

Curator Gao Minglu Brings the Chinese Avant-Garde West