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Obama in Japan: Reassuring an old friend

November 14, 2009 11:24Updated May 30, 2010 13:13
TOKYO, Japan — It was a speech that managed to lift the gloom on a wet, windswept morning. Speaking to a packed concert hall in Tokyo on Saturday, the U.S. president, Barack Obama, assured his hosts that the estrangement of the Bush era was over. Japan and the U.S., he declared, are “equal partners.”

Asia's pushback to big tobacco

November 15, 2009 13:30Updated May 30, 2010 13:13
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BANGKOK, Thailand – Assailed by the western world’s laws, taxes and anti-smoking mores, the global tobacco industry has little choice but to keep pushing eastward into Asia. Tobacco bosses learned this week that some Asians are ready to push back. This week, more than 500 screaming protesters converged outside TabInfo Asia 2009, the region’s largest tobacco summit in years. More than an expo, the event is also a strategy session conducted in secrecy.

Obama in Beijing: What you will see. And won't see.

November 14, 2009 16:56Updated May 30, 2010 13:13
BEIJING, China – Through 30 years of fits and starts, the United States and China have soared and stumbled into one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world.

The honeymoon's over

Gavin BlairNovember 11, 2009 17:18Updated November 11, 2009 17:18
Top News: Two months into the new administration, it looks like the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) is losing ground with the public. The cabinet's approval rating has dropped 8 percent

Fort Hood shootings have Jordan tie

Tom PeterNovember 9, 2009 20:52Updated May 30, 2010 13:13
AMMAN, Jordan — As Americans come to terms with the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas that left 13 soldiers dead and wounded dozens more, Arabs in the Middle East are bracing for the inevitable backlash that comes when a Muslim commits a violent crime in the U.S.

A rough month for Jordan

Tom PeterNovember 6, 2009 16:39
When it comes to big news stories from the Middle East, Jordan is usually on the sidelines. This past month, however, has proved an exception but not for reasons that Jordanians would like.

Silicon Sweatshops: A promising model

November 17, 2009 07:51Updated May 30, 2010 13:12
[Editor’s note: Silicon Sweatshops is a five-part investigation of the supply chains that produce many of the world’s most popular technology products, from Apple iPhones, to Nokia cell phones, Dell keyboards and more.

Silicon Sweatshops: The China connection

November 17, 2009 07:52Updated May 30, 2010 13:12
[Editor’s note: Silicon Sweatshops is a five-part investigation of the supply chains that produce many of the world’s most popular technology products, from Apple iPhones, to Nokia cell phones, Dell keyboards and more.

Silicon Sweatshops: Disposable workforce

November 17, 2009 07:53Updated May 30, 2010 13:12
[Editor’s note: Silicon Sweatshops is a five-part investigation of the supply chains that produce many of the world’s most popular technology products, from Apple iPhones, to Nokia cell phones, Dell keyboards and more.

In Taiwan, pro baseball is all mobbed up

October 31, 2009 09:50Updated May 30, 2010 13:12
TAIPEI, Taiwan — At a sports bar here in late October, Stanley Fu, 25 and Zoe Chang, 23, were glued to the TV screen, watching their beloved Brother Elephants baseball team battle for the league title. They may be enthusiastic fans, but their cynicism became clear after a few questions. Taiwan's pro baseball league has long been plagued by game-fixing scandals, in which players have "thrown" games in collusion with gambling gangsters or crooked politicians.
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