Cambodia: Corruption and illiberalism pays according to an article running at the Asian Times. The author believes that Cambodian foreign aid has continued to increase, despite Hun Sen’s continued political oppression of the opposition, due to the West’s fear that any decline in aid flows would create a void that will most certainly filled by […]
Since election violence in the Philippines began, approximately 57 people have been killed. At least 22 of these dead were kidnapped lawyers, journalists, and relatives of local politicians. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared a state of emergency on Tuesday in the two Southern provinces of Maguindanao and Sultan Kudarat. Both are located on the […]
The Arroyo Administration and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have signed an agreement to form an “International Contact Group” to help negotiate a peace agreement between the two sides in the predominately Muslim island of Mindanao. Got all that? The agreement was signed in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday. For more background go here. – […]
American President Barack Obama’s first meeting with Filipino President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo , which is also his first meeting with a Southeast Asian head of state, was overshadowed in the American press by the domestic melodrama, known as “Gates-Gate” or the “Beer Summit”.
– Two of the runner-ups in July’s Indonesian presidential election, Megawati Sukarnoputri and Jusuf Kall, will challenge the election results before the nine judges of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia. They claim the voter list contained up to 23 million duplicate names, but neither has provided any evidence to support their claims. Although there […]