More than 1.9 million tourists visited Indonesia in the first four months of 2009, up 1,5 percent from the same period last year, a tourism official said. The increase suggested the Indonesian tourism industry was immune to the impact of the global financial crisis, Director General of Marketing at the Culture and Tourism Ministry Sapta […]
Malaysian Prince Denies Sex Slavery.
A Malaysian Prince has denied claims by Indonesian teen model that he slashed her with razor blades, locked her up and used her as a sex slave during their year long marriage. Tengku Temenggong Tengku Mohammad Fakhry, the prince of the northen Kelantan state, filed a police report against his 17-year-old wife and her mother […]
Indonesia woos India, China over Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi
Indonesia has sought support from Asian giants India and China to push reforms in military-ruled Myanmar, following the latest twist in the trial against its opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Both the comminist China and democratis India have kept backing Myanmar’s notorious junta with close economic ties in a time when the Western countries […]
Bulls Dismiss Slump Warnings
Hopes are mounting among financiers that the recent rally in emerging market assets is setting the scene for a bull market in 2010, despite warnings from senior economists of a long and deep global recession. Mark Mobius, executive chairman at Franklin Templeton Investment, told Emerging Markets yesterday the rally was “ sustainable in the long […]
Vigilance Urged on Asian Inflation
Asian central banks are being urged to stay vigilant on the medium term threat of inflation as they are locked in a prolonged period of loose monetary policy. This week, Indonesia reported 7.3% inflation in April, its lowest level since December 2007, and South Korea announced a 3.6% inflation rate for last month a 14-month […]
RELIGION, MARXISME AND SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Why such a film Slumdog Millionaire, which displays a very negative image about India – slums settlement, exploitation, poverty, corruption, anti-Muslim pogrom – create so much ripple in the Western world, pre-and post-Oscar?. India and why the government does not protest, as will be done by the Chinese government, for a depiction of the reality […]
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