With China showing a huge threat towards Taiwan and with the US pressing further sanctions against Iran and with Israel’s bitter relationship with its Arab neighbors will the world be at war once again?
Taiwan has yet again placed a bid to re-enter the United Nations, the country had lost its spot to China in 1971. [...]
World War 3?
Investing in North Korea
I’m an avid reader of Time magazine, last month the main article was about making investments in North Korea. The communist state is finally being nice to foreigners, for years it has made a fortune extracting cash from visiting persons. The article stated some of Nokor’s functioning businesses which includes a surplus-produce market, a South-Korean [...]
Philippine Human Rights Record
No harsh dictatorship like North Korea, no military rule like Myanmar or Laos and no civil wars like in Somalia yet 800 people were victims of extra-judicial killings in the Philippines. Ever since Gloria Arroyo assumed power in 2001, hundreds of people (usually activists, journalists, human rights advocates among some) have reportedly disappeared or have [...]
