A more optimistic view: Beijing might be buying some stability so it can accelerate the reform process.

  We must also invest in young people’s education and training, health, and civic participation.

  The planet has already warmed by about 0.8C (1.7 Fahrenheit) since the late-19th century.

  The U.S. defense establishment still has one foot in the past and only a tentative one in the future.

  Instead of the economic glasnost Xi pledged (heralded as the "Chinese Dream"), Beijing is papering over the country's many cracks...

Officials say they don't want to see beachgoers in ugly sleepwear anymore  

It is unreasonable to say that tourism in Laos and Cambodia is more developed than Vietnam.

  The bad news is that the authorities in Beijing clearly are betting everything on a stock rally that's hasn't...

Government agencies are greatly responsible for Vietnam's declining tourism , an industry insider says

  Remaining inequities are part of Vietnam’s unfinished agenda

  With all its military handicaps, in its own region China could be capable of beating U.S. forces in battle.

Let us hope that President Barack Obama does not think only Americans deserve benevolence

In HCMC, you may have to stand in line.

  At this point, lowering emissions is just half the story — the easy half.

China wants to create a situation that will lead people to look at the propensity of things and think that China...