May 13 Taiwan, China and the United States:a Complicated Triangle Taipei 101 towers over Taiwan's skyline. Photo by Flickr user tylerdurden1 "Rashomon" may be Japanese -- not Chinese -- theater, but the relationships between mainland China, Taiwan and United States often seem to resemble the film's portrayal of various… Continue reading
May 13 Some Bright Spots Amid Worries in Japan's Quake Recovery By Larisa Epatko This week, the first group of 100 people were allowed to return to their homes within the restricted zone circling the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan and retrieve some of their cherished possessions. Continue reading
May 13 Pakistani Taliban Claims Responsibility for Suicide Bombing Killing at Least 80 By News Desk A Pakistani soldier guards the site of a suicide bombing at a military training center in Shabqadar. Photo by A. Majeed/AFP/Getty Images. Two suicide bomb attacks at a paramilitary academy in northwest Pakistan have claimed at least 80 lives… Continue reading
May 13 Watch Army Corps of Engineers Navigates Miss. River Spillways In other news Friday, some 25,000 people in Louisiana were on notice that their homes could be inundated if the Army Corps of Engineers opens the Morganza Spillway. Continue watching
May 12 Watch U.S. Official: 'Positive Developments' in Bahrain Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman on Bahrain lifting its state of emergency… Continue watching
May 12 Watch Pakistan Microlending Program Looks to Aid Women in Poverty Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the program that focuses on women. Continue watching
May 12 As Crackdown Nears End, Bahrainis Struggle to Turn the Page By Margaret Warner MANAMA | It's Thursday night in Bahrain, and we're in Manama's air-conditioned Seef Mall -- a gleaming glass and steel emporium of consumer pleasures, from its Costa Coffee shop to a haute couture Islamic dress store. There are women wearing… Continue reading
May 12 Singapore Entering a 'New Phase' in Politics Opposition Workers Party supporters celebrate after winning five Parliament seats in the May 8 election. (Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images) During a trip to Singapore in January, one of my stops was at a local university journalism class. The professor was… Continue reading
May 12 Why Did April Spawn so Many Deadly Tornadoes in the South? By Jenny Marder Photo courtesy Katrina Floyd A scary thing happened to Katrina Floyd on the morning of April 27. A thunderstorm swept through her northeast Alabama town of Ider in the early morning hours, uprooting trees and knocking out power and cell… Continue reading
May 12 NATO Strikes Gadhafi Compound, Demjanjuk Found Guilty of Nazi War Crimes By News Desk A picture taken in Gaza city on May 11, 2011 shows Moammar Gadhafi appearing on Libyan state television. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images) NATO air strikes targeted one of Moammar Gadhafi's compounds in the Libyan capital of Tripoli Thursday, following attacks… Continue reading