Asia

I decided to do another post of our trip to southeast Asia.  On my personal blog, my posts on travel are my most popular posts by far so I figured I would post it on here, too.  Who knows, maybe you’ll get a travel idea! For the second week of our two-week vacation this past April, the wife and I traveled from Cambodia to Bali, an island in Indonesia.  Let me tell you, I’ve been to a number of countries and Bali is unlike any of them.  It is...  

Bali has long been a fixture on the Southeast Asia backpacker tour, but it has gotten exponentially more popular since I first landed on the island in the mid-1990s—and prices have risen with the crowds. To give us the scoop on what current prices are like for travelers, I turned to a guy who actually [...] Related posts:Growing Pains in Bali, Indonesia 6 Places to Live for Super-cheap Pricing News from Cheap Destinations – September 2011  

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Former French prime minister Michel Rocard's high-profile meeting in Iran with top officials and lawmakers has raised eyebrows in the United States and Israel, which are concerned that Paris may no longer toe Washington's line, especially with regard to the nuclear talks on Iran that are reaching a pivotal moment. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi (May 15, '12)  

The Kurdistan government in northern Iraq has announced a plan to build an oil pipeline to Turkey, a move that could cause shifts in the geo-economics of greater Southwest Asia. The Basra governate in southern Iraq may also now assert greater authority over deals in its own region. - Robert M Cutler  

The Chinese media emphasized unity and an implicitly anti-American tone in reporting naval exercises between China and Russia, befitting its stance that the reorientation of US forces to East Asia is unfriendly and hostile. Russia was more circumspect, discreetly signaling that too much US pressure on checking China in Asia will lead Moscow closer to Beijing. - Stephen Blank (May 23, '12)