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Dispatch from China: Home Ownership Blues in Beijing

For the next three weeks, I am traveling in China, reporting on a few larger themes, but also posting occasional dispatches when people or places that I encounter illuminate trends in the news, or how history is experienced on a personal level. Within...

Published Fri, Apr 16 2010 10:29 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: East Asia

President of Norway running country from his iPad

Governing Norway? There's an app for that. Prime minister Jens Stoltenberg, like thousands of others, has been stranded by the volcanic cloud hanging over Europe. But he seems to be managing : Stoltenberg, who was in town for President Obama's...

Published Fri, Apr 16 2010 9:49 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Science & Technology

Morning Brief: Volcanic cloud shuts down European airspace

Volcanic cloud shuts down European airspace Top news: Ash from a volcanic eruption in Iceland is causing the largest disruption of international air travel since the 9/11 attacks. More than 17,000 flights are expected to be canceled today with major airports...

Published Fri, Apr 16 2010 4:54 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

British Debate Liveblog and Open Thread

We'll be watching and live-blogging the first-ever televised British Prime Ministerial election debate. Feel free to weigh in below. -- Things are moving at a very brisk clip. Nick Clegg keeps his opening statement short and largely content-free....

Published Thu, Apr 15 2010 12:33 PM by FP Passport

Everybody loves Kevin Rudd

Barack Obama's emerging reputation is as a president who doesn't put much stock in personal relationships with other world leaders, but he apparently told an Australian interviewer that he felt a particular bond with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd...

Published Thu, Apr 15 2010 12:12 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Politics, Pacific

Second great garbage patch found

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch or Plastic Vortex, a Texas-sized gyre of plastic formed by Ocean currents, has been known and well-document for over a decade. But what about all the plastic in the Atlantic Researchers are warning of a new blight on the...

Published Thu, Apr 15 2010 11:41 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Environment

Kurmanbek has left the building

In the wake of a rally that turned violent this morning, deposed Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has left the country : Gunfire had been heard earlier as Mr Bakiyev spoke in the southern city of Osh; an opposition rally was going on nearby. Mr Bakiyev...

Published Thu, Apr 15 2010 11:05 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Central Asia

Israel's iPad ban

Israel is justifiably proud of its cutting-edge high-tech sector, so Israelis were a bit surprised this week when the government began confiscating iPads from travelers attempting to bring them into the country. No advance notice of the policy was given...

Published Thu, Apr 15 2010 9:23 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Science & Technology, Israel/Palestine

Morning Brief: Bombings target Burmese New Year celebrations

Bombings target Burmese New Year celebrations Top news: The bombs ripped through New Year's celebrations in Burma's largest city, Yangon today. Estimated casualties run as high as 20 dead and 70 wounded. The bombings occurred around 3 p.m. local...

Published Thu, Apr 15 2010 6:02 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

The dumbest country in the Middle East

So what are we to make of the allegation that Syria is moving, or has moved, Scud missiles, or parts of Scud missiles, into Hezbollah country in Lebanon -- even as the Obama administration tries to send a U.S ambassador back to Damascus for the first...

Published Wed, Apr 14 2010 4:37 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Middle East, Syria

Does the Nuclear Security Summit logo reveal Obama's Islamist plot?

In what may be the dumbest blogosphere meme since people on the Internet were saying that the U.S. missile defense logo looks like an Islamic crescent , some people the Internet are now saying that the Nuclear Security Summit logo looks like an Islamic...

Published Wed, Apr 14 2010 4:05 PM by FP Passport

The Icelandic banking crisis as performance art

Oh Icelanders, is there anything you can't make avant-garde? The Times' Robert Mackey explains : Fresh from presenting two plays inspired by the epic collapse of the country’s banks, actors at the Reykjavik City Theatre are in the middle of an...

Published Wed, Apr 14 2010 1:22 PM by FP Passport

No one may talk about the king and the king's not talking

Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya touched the third rail of Thai politics in a speech in Washington on Monday: “I think we have to talk about the institution of the monarchy, how it would have to reform itself to the modern globalised world,” Kasit Piromya...

Published Wed, Apr 14 2010 11:46 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Southeast Asia

Argentine courts to give Spain a taste of its own medicine

Spanish investigative judge Baltasar Garzon has made a name for himself by prosecuting human rights abusers around the world -- including former Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet -- using universal jurisdiction to get around national amnesties. But Garzon...

Published Wed, Apr 14 2010 10:41 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Law, History

Morning Brief: Hundreds killed by earthquake in western China

Hundreds killed by earthquake in western China Top news: At least 400 people have been killed and thousands injured in a series of earthquakes in the remote Western Chinese province on Qinqhai. Many people are still buried and with heavy rescue equipment...

Published Wed, Apr 14 2010 5:49 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

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Dispatch from China: Home Ownership Blues in Beijing

President of Norway running country from his iPad

Morning Brief: Volcanic cloud shuts down European airspace

British Debate Liveblog and Open Thread

Everybody loves Kevin Rudd

Second great garbage patch found

Kurmanbek has left the building

Israel's iPad ban

Morning Brief: Bombings target Burmese New Year celebrations

The dumbest country in the Middle East

Does the Nuclear Security Summit logo reveal Obama's Islamist plot?

The Icelandic banking crisis as performance art

No one may talk about the king and the king's not talking

Argentine courts to give Spain a taste of its own medicine

Morning Brief: Hundreds killed by earthquake in western China