asia

I don't even know where to start with this one.

Quoted: China promptly denounced a proposed trip to Taiwan by the Dalai Lama on Thursday, saying any such visit by a man Beijing brands a separatist threatened to "sabotage" improving relations.

Wow, there's been some crazy natural disasters in Asia recently...

Quoted: A mudslide touched off by a typhoon buried a mountain village in Taiwan, leaving at least 400 people unaccounted for Monday.

I'm so relieved this story had a happy ending. It's lucky Lisa Ling was able to use her fame to help draw attention to the issue, and even luckier that Clinton was in a position to reason with Kim Jong Il. I wonder if this will change the way that publications & TV stations think about their journalists' safety.

Quoted: Two American journalists freed by North Korea returned home to the United States on Wednesday for a jubilant reunion with family and friends they hadn't seen in nearly five months.

Quoted: HONG KONG — One of China’s best-known dissidents, Liu Xiaobo, has been arrested for “activities aimed at subversion,” state media and human rights groups said ...

Lisa Ling's sister is one of the journalists being held. Lisa Ling had done a fascinating piece on N. Korea for National Geographic and returned home safely, but couldn't reiterate enough how dangerous it is being an American journalist there. I guess now we know why...

Quoted: North Korea convicted two American journalists and sentenced them Monday to 12 years of hard labor, intensifying the reclusive nation's confrontation with the United States.

Another problem with forcing a one child only policy...

Quoted: "In the traditional Chinese mind, only boys carry the bloodline of the family. So if a family only has girls, they will want boys…There is a big market for baby boys."

Quoted: IN 1974 Tehching Hsieh, a young Taiwanese performance artist working as a seaman, walked down the gangplank of an oil tanker docked in the Delaware River and slipped into the United States

quoted: In the fall of 1978 Mr. Hsieh, then 28, constructed his cell-like cage of pine dowels inside a loft in TriBeCa. He furnished it with a cot, a sink and a bucket. Before he shut himself inside, he issued a terse manifesto, typed on white paper: “I shall NOT converse, read, write, listen to the radio or watch television until I unseal myself on September 29, 1979.”

Study abroad in Asia if you want to travel to an exotic destination where over half of the entire world’s population lives.

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