We’ve been through the schedule for the upcoming South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival, a few times. In fact between our own scouring of the schedule and the countless emails from publicists, producers and directors — which we like because they make us think that people like us —...

The Tibetan spiritual leader accused China’s government of turning Tibet into a “hell on earth.� We hope Beijing heeds his warnings before it is too late....

Just saw this chart in an FT article about Malaysia: Not good! Also, they seem to have taken a bigger hit than Brazil as well: But Brazilians might beat their own record in the first quarter of 2009, as a thrifty American consumer and less demand for oil have hit Brazil hard. Overall exports fe...

Director : Frank Capra Release Date : 1 September 1937 (USA) Genre : Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery Cast : (Credited cast) , Ronald Colman as Robert ‘Bob’ Conway, Jane Wyatt as Sondra Bizet, Edward Everett Horton as Alexander P. ‘Lovey’ Lovett, John Howard as George Conwa...

The Beijing government is celebrating the crushing of the uprising by sending in the troops and maintaining the media blackout of Tibet. At least the Olympics helped change everything with China.The Chinese government has made life "hell on Earth" for Tibetans during the half-century since a failed ...

Yesterday (March 9) HSBC Holding, Europe's biggest bank, and an Elephant in Hong Kong Hang Seng Index plunged 24% to HK$33, its lowest level since 1995. Since the beginning of financial crisis, many Hong Kong people believe that the city will not be hit directly by the tsunami (partly because of...

I began to smell a rat as I read this post, and was glad to see the commenters did, too. Go take a look. The great irony is that the pot was totally calling the kettle black - applying stereotypes to slime an entire people. If it’s inexcusable when the French do it to the Chinese, it’s j...

A Time In Our History     History sometimes repeats its self Sometimes man does not learn from past mistakes It often takes learning the hard way to force a person to see things in a realistic way The United States President a t one point in time Ignored female and minority opinion when dealing wi...

Washington Post: The Pentagon today protested what it called harassment and aggressive shadowing of a U.S. Navy ocean surveillance ship by five Chinese vessels in international waters off the South China Sea on Sunday, warning such behavior could lead to collisions or the loss of life. During the in...

Pentagon: Chinese vessels harassed unarmed ship There's something happening here. What it is ...... is very very clear.  John Jay spoke of it in his essay here - nature hates a vacuum. And Obama is creating that vacuum - "where the sun recedes. the United States navy will disappear fr...