Born this way? Lady Gaga meets Thai 'lady boys'

Lady Gaga has met Thailand's premier "lady boys" at a Bangkok drag show featuring busty dancers who were not born that way. Complete Story...

US says human rights deteriorating in China

The U.S. State Department says human rights conditions have deteriorated in China and that Vietnam also continues to severely restrict political rights and freedom of expression.

World Bank says Europe, US might hurt Asian growth

East Asia's developing economies could face a shock from China's slowdown and need to boost domestic demand to offset weak exports due to a sluggish U.S. recovery and Europe's debt crisis, the World Bank said Wednesday.

Sen. McCain: US slow to seek trade pacts in Asia

Republican Sen. John McCain called for the Obama administration to ramp up its free trade agenda in Asia and suspend U.S. economic sanctions on Myanmar, although retain an arms embargo.

Dismal China, India data signal slowing growth

Dismal data from China and India on Friday may signal a further weakening of the global recovery, undermining hopes the dynamic emerging economies of Asia can help prop up growth.

Asia's superrich build their own art museums

Over the past two years Wang Wei and her husband Liu Yiqian dropped a reported $317 million on their hobby. Now they need somewhere to display the collection they've amassed. The solution: a private art museum that Wang hopes will impart some class to China's flashy nouveau riche.

US eyes more cuts in India's oil imports from Iran

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will use a two-day visit to India this week to urge further reductions in Indian imports of Iranian oil.

Indonesia halts US beef imports amid mad cow case

Indonesia became the first country to suspend imports of U.S. beef Thursday following the discovery this week of an American dairy cow infected with mad cow disease.

Awaiting Gaga, Asia sees more live music than ever

When Lady Gaga launches her hotly anticipated "Born This Way Ball" world tour Friday on what is expected to be an elaborate castle-like stage, fans in Asia will be the first to see it.

Report: Women's lower status risk for Asian future

The 2 billion women living in Asia are still paid less than men for similar work and are extremely underrepresented in top leadership positions, even in wealthy countries such as Japan, according to a report issued Thursday.

Asian investment boom seen in Latin America

Selling soybeans, iron and copper ore and other commodities to Asian countries has transformed Latin America over the past decade, stabilizing economies despite worldwide crises and lifting tens of millions of people into the middle class. Now, say officials from both Asia and Latin America, a second gold rush is under way.

Maryland: A dead snakehead is a good snakehead

ADB cuts forecast for emerging Asia growth in 2012

Developing Asia's economic growth will slow to 6.9 percent in 2012 because of weak global demand, the Asian Development Bank said Wednesday, as it warned widening inequality could undermine political stability.

Clinton sees risk of further NKorea provocation

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that history shows North Korea may follow a planned long-range rocket launch in violation of a U.N. ban with "additional provocations."

Obama heads to SKorea for nonproliferation summit

President Barack Obama has departed for Seoul, South Korea, for an international summit on keeping nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists.

Obama's goal of nuclear security still far off

Halfway into an ambitious four-year effort to safeguard nuclear materials from terrorists, President Barack Obama and other world leaders are lagging behind their self-imposed goals and facing renewed threats from Iran and North Korea. They're giving themselves a checkup at next week's summit in the South Korean capital, Seoul.

'Kratom' leaf makes presence felt in US ER rooms

ADB: Climate change could spawn mass migrations

The Asian Development Bank is warning countries to prepare for influxes of people fleeing natural disasters as climate change exacerbates rising sea levels, soil degradation and seasonal flooding.

Higher oil prices start to pinch Asian consumers

Surging oil prices are starting to pinch the pocketbooks of Asian consumers and could quicken inflation and slow economic activity in a region that has led global growth in recent years.

Report: Tibetan dies while bombing building in western China

Bird flu still a menace in Asia and beyond

Thought bird flu was gone? Recent human deaths in Asia and Egypt are a reminder that the H5N1 virus is still alive and dangerous, and Vietnam is grappling with a new strain that has outsmarted vaccines used to protect poultry flocks.

Wall Street mixed in wary early trade

Analysis: US bid to crimp Iran oil sales stumbles

American attempts to get major Asian importers of Iranian oil to rein in their purchases are faltering as allies South Korea and Japan give U.S. officials a polite brushoff. Emerging giants India and China may even increase their purchases, further stymieing Washington's efforts to force Iran to curtail its nuclear program.

US bid to crimp Iranian oil sales to Asia stumbles

American attempts to get major Asian importers of Iranian oil to rein in their purchases are faltering as allies South Korea and Japan give U.S. officials a polite brushoff. Emerging giants India and China may even increase their purchases, further complicating Washington's efforts to force Iran to curtail its nuclear program.

Warhol exhibit to tour 5 Asian cities over 3 years

A large retrospective exhibition of Andy Warhol's artwork will tour five Asian cities over the next three years.

Rabbi Dovid Weiss spoke out against Zionism and the State of Israel to a scattered crowd of Cal State Long Beach students and Long Beach community members Tuesday.(May 3 2011)

As violence against illegal and legal African migrants to Israel has escalated this past week in and around Tel Aviv, so has the rhetoric coming out of recently elevated figures in Netanyahu’s new coalition power structure:  

Noam Shalit thanked American Muslim leaders in a New York meeting on Thursday for sending a letter to Hamas requesting the release of his son, Gilad, an Israel Defense Forces soldier who has been in captivity for five years.

THE ‘JEWISH’ STATE OF ISRAEL was founded on the premise that Jews and Gentiles cannot get along. Zionist Jews have laid the blame for this upon the Gentiles, although history has proven otherwise. In truth, the Zionists have both fueled and perpetrated this enmity bet …

Should the United States put solving Israel’s budget problems ahead of its own? When it comes to defense spending, it appears that the United States already is.

The Council for the National Interest asked us to forward to our readers the following important warning from retired U.S. intelligence officers. We’ve already seen Israel stirring up trouble on its border with Lebanon this week. The United States could be drawn into yet an …

From a park near Albuquerque, to the top of Japan’s Mount Fuji, to the California coast the effect was dramatic: The moon nearly blotting out the sun creating a blazing “ring of fire” eclipse.

"The Christians were running in all directions for their lives, including the children who were crying in fear." One Muslim, "brandishing a sickle, chased many of them, hurling all kinds of insults and attempting to murder them all…. 500 Muslims had gathered and were watching i …

15 May 2012, marks the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the anniversary of the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland. This was the harshest and most brutal ethnic cleansing in the world, and included systematic and deliberate killings an …

“Sheikh Ahmed thanked the participants, noting that their contribution crowned the efforts exercised to defend the holy city, the eternal capital of the state of Palestine.”

In the midst of tensions between China and the Phillipines over contested islands, fishing, mineral and transit rights in the ( Phillipine Sea aka South China Sea ) a U.S. nuclear stealtlh surveillance and attack submarine risrs and rests in Subic Bay for, Says the U.S. Navy a  …

  US think-tank warns China spat to worsen by Rodney Jaleco, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau Posted at 05/18/2012 8:37 AM | Updated as of 05/18/2012 11:49 AM   WASHINGTON D.C. - China's growing belligerence in disputed waters of the South China Sea will only grow a …

Tel Aviv University's Professor Daniel Bar-Tal studied dozens of elementary, middle, and high school texts on grammar, Hebrew literature, history, geography and citizenship. They justify Israel's right to wage humanitarian wars against Arabs who won't accept or acknowledge exclus …

For the last few years China has become increasingly aggressive in attempting to control almost the whole of the Phillipine Sea aka South China Sea ( and Viet Nam and Brunei and other countries with a stake may have other names ). That makes for a lot of neighbors fussed up at C …

One of the central drivers of the South China Sea dispute is competition over mineral and fishing-rich areas. Bergmann says geologists believe the South China Sea contains enormous reserves of oil and natural gas, much of it in disputed areas. "Cumulatively, the South China S …

Today there is a long list of far-right religious parties in Israel. There is no difference between the hysterical rabbis who form the core of some parties and the so-called “radical” Iranian mullahs or the Taliban for that matter. These rabbis, who enjoy life as para …

In an extraordinary article for Huffington Post, dissident, former Israel lobbyist M.J. Rosenberg has blown the whistle on the gangster ethic of Zionist Jewry in general, and on the intention of Netanyahu to wring both the powerful Israel lobby, and its influence over the U.S. Co …

Arab Israelis and ultra-Orthodox Jews are the most impoverished groups in the country, which has one of the largest gaps between rich and poor in the OECD

I am a daughter of Jewish parents who grew up with a conventional set of beliefs. Although I had never had the "chosen people" nonsense fed to me, I was conditioned by certain factors in my childhood. My Jewish education wa …

From the atricle:

At Huffington Post, there is a very good piece by John Tirman, exec. director of MIT's School of Int'l Studies, on how Israel is bringing the one-state solution on itself

Chinese student in Australia: "It is easy to see why Australian youth might perceive us as wealthy.

Understanding cultural differences is becoming more important in our increasingly interconnected global economy. That's especially true in fast-growing, emerging markets like China and other parts of Asia

In an article which begins with examples of American police training alongside Israeli security forces, Blumenthal writes, "Having been schooled in Israeli tactics perfected during a 63 year experience of controlling, dispossessing, and occupying an indigenous population, local p …

Is the latest America-in-decline sentiment merely more of the same — fear mongering tinged with schadenfreude — or is it really different this time? Much of the declinist argument assumes, implicitly or explicitly, that Americans will passively accept their diminished status  …