Polls show the ‘American Dream’ is alive in Hanoi. In America? Not so much.
A girl looks into a KFC restaurant which opened some months ago in Hue city, the old royal capital of Vietnam on Wednesday, April 28, 2010. HANOI, Vietnam — Americans weaned on war movies may imagine Vietnam as a dreary place where communist thought reigns supreme. An authoritarian communist party controls Vietnam. It’s true. But its
But this time, it could cost the country billions of dollars.
Police officers beat a student protester after detaining him following a crackdown in Letpadan, 140 kilometers (90 miles) north of the country's main city Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Hundreds of police were charging student protesters with batons, kicking and beating them as they drag them into trucks, ending a days-long standoff in
Governments and big corporations can read the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but not you. Here are 6 ways it could change the world.
BANGKOK — The Trans-Pacific Partnership sounds deadly boring. It’s not. The potential impact on humanity from this proposed mega-deal is impossible to measure. TPP could bankrupt families in Kansas and enrich them in Kuala Lumpur. Or make patented medicine wildly unaffordable for sick people in poor places. Or even imprison citizens of 12
Members of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partner […]
BANGKOK — The Trans-Pacific Partnership sounds deadly boring. It’s not. The potential impact on humanity from this proposed mega-deal is impossible to measure. TPP could bankrupt families in Kansas and enrich them in Kuala Lumpur. Or make patented medicine wildly unaffordable for sick people in poor places. Or even imprison citizens of 12
In this year’s first episode, more than 100 workers sewing for Puma and Adidas dropped to the floor in a single day.
BANGKOK — It should have been a extraordinary scene: more than 100 factory hands fainting in unison as if possessed by spirits. But in Cambodian garment factories, which play in major role in supplying American malls, mass fainting is no longer a freak phenomenon. It’s disturbingly common. The enigmatic problem is persistent despite waves of
Pedestrians are seen near the Hanoi Stock Exchanges in […]
BANGKOK — For the most part, American bankers whose rash pursuit of profit brought on the 2008 global financial collapse didn’t get indicted. They got bonuses. Odds are that scandal would have played out differently in Vietnam, another nation struggling with misbehaving bankers. The authoritarian Southeast Asian state doesn’t just send
Sorry, Hollywood. It’s nowhere near Somalia.
BANGKOK — Maybe God has a soft spot for pirates. That would explain the Strait of Malacca, a natural paradise for seafaring bandits. Imagine an aquatic highway flowing between two marshy coasts. One shoreline belongs to Malaysia, the other to Indonesia. Each offers a maze of jungly hideaways: inlets and coves that favor pirates’