On March 10, 2008 hundreds of Tibetans in Lhasa began protesting on the 49th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against Beijing rule. Police arrested protesters, and violence in the streets has escalated in the following days. Bloggers across the region have responded. Personal accounts of protests in Tibet are being censored on the Chinese […]
Gov’t in limbo to develop mass housing for public servants
Poor return on investments. That is, perhaps, the primary reason why the national government is reluctant to develop mass housing projects for the lowly soldiers. Worse is that some of the military generals may have been influenced by big developers not to push through with these projects considering the high costs involved in developing the […]