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Dawn sings couple of Burmese songs for her blog readers.

Diligence finds many people attending a job fair in East Timor's capital Dili.

Bangkok wins Clean and Green Land award Bangkok was awarded Clean and Green Land at the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on the Environment in Hanoi, Vietnam from October 6 to 10, according to Thailand’s Permanent Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment Saksit Tridech.

Having tried without success to unlock frozen credit markets, the Treasury Department is considering taking ownership stakes in many United States banks to try to restore confidence in the financial system, according to government officials.

Improved cross-strait ties cannot be based on wishful thinking : Ma Central News Agency President Ma Ying-jeou said Friday that improving cross-Taiwan Strait relations is the shared aspiration of the people of Taiwan, but he added that the administration cannot do so based on wishful thinking.

Iceland’s financial system collapsed Thursday (10/9/08), and analysts said it was probably only a matter of time before the country would have to turn to the International Monetary Fund for help. Iceland’s prime minister, Geir Haarde, left, and the commerce and banking minister, Bjorgvin Sigurdsson on Thursday.

(originally posted at MWC News) Recently I was asked by the German Else-Laker-Schueler-Gesellschaft, which commemorates the German-Jewish-Israeli poetess, to describe how peace would look like. On the eve of Yom Kippur, the day of reconciliation, I would like to distribute it instead of my weekly article.

At E.L.H. Electric Lover Hinagiku, blogger y_arim reacts to a news article [ja] in Yomiuri shimbun reporting that popularity of the elderly in Japan is on the rise among young people [ja], writing that he's rarely seen news so gross. “At the heart of the grossness is the fact that this is spoken about just like any other trend,†he writes.

Financial crises are never fun, until they’re over. And they hurt even worst when they happen to your pocketbook. Which is what the people who run (or, more aptly, misguide) the United States have just done to the general population.

Leocardo [pt] describes how the melamine crisis has changed some of the consumer habits in Macau. He inquired the owner of the family owned supermarket next to his home if she had noticed any differences.