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I thought all of this was about Japan, China and not Syria?
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I thought all of this was about Japan, China and not Syria?
I have one word for everyone in the meantime: torrents.
Just go online and download what you want rather than forking out money for dvds, which now seem harder to find anyway. Sure, it's technically illegal, but it's not like the USA authorities would have authority to track you down in China, a country that pirates more programming than nearly any other country on the planet.
Just a thought.
@geezer, well that would just be racist but we all know there's no escaping racism in china as subtle as it may sometimes be but clearly anti-japanese riots and demos are racist and anything but subtle.
Aha...here we have evidence to support what I just said!:
I believe that many Japanese businesses will be thinking about leaving China permanently though, not just closing temporarily as CNN claims.
BTW I thought 7-11 was American, not Japanese? In any case, Thailand easily has the most 7-11 stores in the world (excluding only perhaps the USA) with more than 3000 stores and more opening all the time. Just as I thought there could finally be a 7-11 opening in Kunming sometime soon but this now seems unlikely.
The economic repurcussions of allowing these demonstrations and this anti-Japanese rhetoric to continue could cost the Chinese economy dearly:
I think Thailand and Vietnam can look forward to the benefits of increased investment from Japan as the Japanese decide to abandon factories and investments in China in favor of those two countries, which have a very pro-Japanese business environment. Already Thailand is Japan's major base for producing Japanese cars for export markets and this position will likely be strengthened further in coming years. While last years flooding was bad, causing major losses in production and productivity, with careful management that will hopefully not be repeated anytime soon. Vietnamese wages are much lower than Chinese wages and this fact alone has already forced many businesses across to Vietnam from China.
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What do you mean by "foreigners"? Everyone who is a non-citizen of Myanmar and wants to travel there is a foreigner. I doubt Burmese citizens require visas to return to their homeland.
Horrible tasteless, thick-crusted "cardboard" like pizzas that are a far cry from what they should be like. Way overpriced too. Wine may be good, but why bother when the nearby Prague Cafe makes much better pizza at a more reasonable price?
Great Mexican food and ice cream, excellent Raspberry smoothies and an overall good atmosphere. Can't do much about the low ceilings on the second floor, but the early closing time could be adjusted, after all, the nearby French Cafe closes at 1am.
Li Ping fundraisers
Posted byHopefully enough money can also be raised in the future for her eventual kidney transplant.
Malaysian firm to invest $8.1 billion in Songming
Posted byAccording to the article re: railroad in Laos, this Malaysian firm wants to build a 220km connection between Thailand and Vietnam NOT the one up to the Chinese border that's been talked about and cancelled, then revived again so many times.
Doors to international trade swing wide for Laos
Posted byThe plan by the Lao government to still go ahead with the railway project is unbelievable. Neighboring Vietnam voted not to go ahead with a planned Ho Chi Minh to Hanoi high speed rail link due to concerns about profitability (i.e. not enough Vietnamese would be able to afford a ticket despite having a reasonably sized middle class at least in Hanoi and Saigon).
Now Laos, with only just over 6 million people and a tiny middle class wants to do the same? Good luck! However, I wouldn't be surprised if in 6 months from now I read in the Vientiane Times that the project has been put on hold again.
I'd suggest stick to a normal speed train that locals will actually be able to afford, going high-speed while neither Thailand nor Vietnam, two neighboring economic juggernaughts have plans to do the same is quite far fetched, I'll believe it when I see it but it seems like a crazy idea for now!
The only good news is that Laos can take control of the railway project and not have to worry about the previous 5km land concession on either side of the tracks that was previously demanded by the Chinese side.
Mekong drug kingpin stands trial in Kunming
Posted byAlso, scally is correct about the reasons for Naw Kham being tried in China and logically Kunming, the closest major Chinese city to the area where the attacks occurred would be the best place to try him.
Incidentally, the 9 renegade Thai soldiers also implicated in the attacks will be tried in Thailand.
Mekong drug kingpin stands trial in Kunming
Posted byWell, he killed only Chinese sailors and based on this story, he has had run-ins with the Chinese authorities before. Overall, it's good that this criminal has been brought to justice. Also, by being tried in China he will receive the punishment he deserves.
The Mekong River in the 2000s should be about tourism and trade, not murder, drug trafficking and mayhem. Those latter three things should firmly be entrenched as relics of the past.