Category: Elsewhere round Asia and the globe……..

Expat @ Large finds several of them with the lastest installment in the Bourne Series: c – the surprising absence of girly-bars and other sex-tourism establishments as the camera pans up any given road, street, lane or ever-narrowing alley. Needless to say all of these establishements are owned, managed, and

Sorry for the lack of posting. Guests for work in town and damn the luck, have had to eat out and drink beer twice in a row. Got home tonight to watch the second half of the England- Ukraine Game. I have been watching as much of the tournament as

This ought to be fun to watch-for a couple of weeks now, all of the major conservative papers ( even my own beloved Economist) have viewed this possible development as a sign of financial Armageddon for Europe. Vive le France! With about half the votes counted, preliminary results released by

James Fallows has a great post up concerning Libya-and how Obama has no one to blame but himself for his troubles with Congress: This was a problem foreseeable from the very start* — more than three months ago, when we were told that this would be a campaign of “days,

Who would have thought the juicy girl bar owners  had their own lobby? More wives in Korea is the last thing they want or need: Service members headed to South Korea on assignment in the next few years may not be taking their families. A Senate subcommittee voted Tuesday to put

Bill Maher points out that if you are at least going to have to go through the indignity of a sex scandal-maybe you ought to actually have sex:

Lawrence Eagleburger passed away this weekend. He is one of the few professional Foreign Service officers to rise to become Secretary of State. One of the things that gets lost in the whole stupid debate about the debt ceiling and the federal budget is that there a lot of folks