Eye on Asia - Asia Observer’s blog

I am very worry about the situation in Tibet, in the areas with strong Tibetan population in China and for the Tibetan I saw beaten in foreign countries.
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Maybe it was the good time to attrack attention on Tibet difficult cultural indentity, but I am so afraid of the Chinese brute response, even if they know that all the world is watching them and the numberous desmonstrations all over the world demanding the boycott of the Beijing Olympics
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Today, In Malaysia PM, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi unveiled his new cabinet list. Even if there is a certain opening, I am not sure that it will save his poor achievements.
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In Japan, The proposed new governor of the Bank of Japan had been blocked by oppostion who lead the Upper House. Japan is experimenting what is coexistence. The current PM will have hard time

Under pressure from politicians worried about the implications of a declining population, Japan’s big companies have started offering special deals to workers with children in an effort to reverse a dramatic fall in the national birth rate. Read the rest of this entry »

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s denial that women were forced to become sex slaves by the Japanese army during World War II has caused numerous reactions by bloggers. We have collected some of the comments raised.
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Japanese health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa is facing massive criticism after referring to women as “birth giving machines”. He deserves the rap.
But, dear Mr. Yanagisawa, why don’t you just look to Scandinavia to find out how to make it better for families with children? Read the rest of this entry »