Wen Jiabao’s Family Riches

FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — 2012 has etched itself into the history books. During the last twelve months Southeast Asia regularly made global headlines largely due to competing territorial claims between China and various neighboring states. […]

FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — At first glance Australia and The Philippines are distant neighbors with similar trade dominated interests in the Pacific but their relationship could hardly be described as close. Nevertheless they both stand […]

For Kim Jong-Il, he achieved his two main strategic objectives: he remained in power and he was able to turn North Korea into a nuclear weapons state.
With its massive military and starving population, the world warily ponders what will come of North Korea now it is in the hands of Kim’s young son, Kim Jong-un. Pyongyang is demanding the embattled population rally behind the “Great Successor”, who is untested and unknown in a year when revolutions have swept through so many other nations. […]