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A journalist friend of mine once wrote a magazine article about Panama entitled “Dustbin for Dictators.” This was a decade ago, and at the time the description was apt. Living in Panama City then were ousted Guatemalan strongman Jorge Serrano,... ...full story at Tim Johnson

from Tim Johnson on Sun, Mar 22 2009

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28 Jun 07 visit Were Time and Fortune wrong about Hong Kong?  »  Danwei Cover photo on the 18 June issue of Time Asia. Earlier this month, Time Asia published a cover feature looking at how Hong Kong has changed during the decade since it was returned to China. One article mentioned in passing that Fortune's prediction that...
18 Aug 09 visit 22 Chinese seamen on Panama freighter missing for 9 days in seawater off Taiwan  »  People's Daily Rescuers continued the search on Monday for the 22 seamen on a Panama-registered freighter who had been missing for nine days in the waters off Taiwan following typhoon Morakot. Authorities in the eastern Qingdao City received a fax last Friday...
17 Aug 09 visit 22 Chinese seamen on Panama freighter missing in seawater off Taiwan  »  People's Daily Shipping authorities in east China's Qingdao City confirmed Sunday 22 seamen from a local company working on a Panama-registered freighter had been missing in seawater east off Taiwan upon impact of typhoon Morakot. Search for the seamen is...
31 Mar 09 visit Hong Kong and the Philippines: Satire or racism?  »  Global Voices A Senate leader in the Philippines just filed a resolution condemning a Hong Kong writer Chip Tsao for his article “The War at Home” in HK Magazine (originally published on 27 of March). Now the article has been taken down in the website but...

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