Publication: Asian Correspondent

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Burma?s Muslims bear brunt of prosecutions a year after riots

Last week marked the somber one-year anniversary of the violent sectarian conflict in Rakhine state that broke out last June and enflamed tensions between Buddhists and Muslims there. That set off a long 12 months of disquiet and tragedy for Burma’s Muslim ... [Published Asian Correspondent - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Buddhism, Anti-Muslim, Myanmar/Burma, Rioting, Matthew Smith

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

Moody's Corporation

Moody’s, rice pledging and the Thai govt’s communication crisis – Pt 2

The government yesterday ordered immediate verification of the status of the rice-pledging scheme in a bid to determine its profitability – and counter a warning by Moody’s rating agency that the controversial policy could hurt the Thai economy and cause ... [Published Asian Correspondent - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Boonsong Teriyapirom, Moody's Corporation, Nattawut Saikuar, Bangkok

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

VIDEO: Where?s Edward? On Snowden?s trail in Hong Kong

VIDEO: Where’s Edward? On Snowden’s trail in Hong Kong ... [Published Asian Correspondent - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Hong Kong

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

Plastics

China: The No. 1 destination for global waste

China is a massive importer of plastic and paper waste, and scrapped electronic products like mobile phones and old computer hard drives. As with jobs, manufacturing and carbon emissions, it’s often cheaper for highly developed countries to outsource ... [Published Asian Correspondent - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Plastics, China, Recycling

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

Australia: Activists converge on Canberra for wind power protests

Supporters and detractors of the Julia Gillard Government’s clean energy plans will converge into the Australian capital Canberra Tuesday to hold two separate rallies in a showdown of rhetoric on wind power turbines.The Green bloc led by Friends of the ... [Published Asian Correspondent - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Wind Power, Maurice Newman, Canberra

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

Presenting the silence

So the last few weeks have been a bit hectic with our assessed presentations to write and perform in front of our class and lecturers as well as doing ongoing research for our dissertation. I cannot get out of the mindset that term is supposed to have ... [Published Asian Correspondent - Jun 18 2013]

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

PLDT Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company

Philippines: PLDT chief to wait and see on SMI stake

Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) chair Manuel V. Pangilinan says they have no plans to expand or sell their stakes at Indophil Resources Philippines where Philex Mines owns 2-3 percent of the world class mining project at Sagittarius Mines I ... [Published Asian Correspondent - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: PLDT Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, Glencore International Plc, Philippines, Copper, Xstrata plc

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Lifestyle: 5 great places to retire in Asia

The idea of moving across the world to retire may sound counter-intuitive to some – after all, isn’t that the time you get to enjoy at home with family without the distractions and stresses of work? But you can get more mileage out of your retirement ... [Published Asian Correspondent - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Malaysia, Philippines, Sapporo, Japan, Singapore

First reported Jun 16 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

China, India want Australian coal – but at what price?

In terms of greenhouse gasses, Australia is punching above its weight. In 2012 the estimated CO2 per capita emissions for Australia were the 6th highest in the world, behind Brunei, Bahrain, Bolivia, Kuwait and Qatar.With elections around the corner, ... [Published Asian Correspondent - Jun 16 2013]

Entities: Coal, Australia, Global Warming/Climate Change, China

First reported Jun 16 2013 - Updated Jun 16 2013 - 1 reports

Burma media reform hampered by three draft laws

In March of this year, a delegation from the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand convened a meeting with the major Myanmar media associations at Myanmar Media Resource Center in Yangon. There was a discussion about the changing media landscape and ... [Published Asian Correspondent - Jun 16 2013]

Entities: Myanmar/Burma, Yangon (Rangoon), Southeast Asian Press Alliance, Foreign Correspondents' Club

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

SKorea?s ex-spy chief indicted in election scandal

Won Sei-hoon ordered his agents to post comments slandering liberal candidates and praising conservative Park Geun-hye, the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said in a statement. Park won the December vote by a million votes and took office in ... [Published Asian Correspondent - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Indictment, Elections, North Korea

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Tigers threatened by canine disease

Since people have been populating, reshaping and generally expropriating the Earth, most wild animals have had it pretty rough. Few more so than the biggest of the big cats, the tiger.In the past 100 years tigers have lost 93% of their habitat. Once found ... [Published Asian Correspondent - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Habitat, Rolex SA, poaching, Predation, Flickr

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