You might want to have a word with Viva Viet, that's piratically the idea he gave us all on the other thread.
The same reason why young American soldiers are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, politics and power. You might disagree but still does not change two hard facts
1. american Soldiers are...
Cede power to VN, I seem to hear that a lot but nothing seems to support that. Got any hard references that support that? If not then it still is what it is BS.
ASEAN solidarity is good and I never objected it, VN wanted to be the "supposed" big brother in the region is another story.
No...
This is the first I have seen someone so proud that his nation buys weapons on credit, anyway if want to be the self assumed protector of the Asean region and put your fellow countryman lives to protect countries that you do not know I think that's fine with us.
Malaysia any objection? No...
I wouldn't actually, if there are no borders then economic migrants will devastate the stable economies (Mainly Singapore & Malaysia). Indonesia would be a stable economy if not for their huge population which drains their abundant resources and already Malaysia with the influx of illegal...
Ironically the last time I was in China I was trying to help my Indian friend order ciggies in the supermarket :D
On topic this is bad stuff, hope the authorities stamp this out. Reminds me of the cartoons in the old days which promoted ciggies.
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Given the feudalistic society structure its more than likely the ruling classes kept weapons and military training away from the Serfs in case a revolt occurred. It appears only the aristocratic classes led whatever uprising there was and there are only so many to go round.
He is carrying on the guilt from what he saw during the war, I think he probably couldn't believe his countrymen were capable of such acts.
Its definitely not his cross to bear but he did it nevertheless, truly remarkable person.
I am not sure if this has been posted before but it makes a good read and shows the humanity of some people that go beyond others, unfortunately the good doctor has passed on otherwise I would love to pay him a visit.
Road to redemption -- china.org.cn
A very, very old doctor greets a few...
I thought this was a good sign of China's progress to managing the population and providing for a city living.
Excerpt Straits Times Singapore 1st Oct 2011 (Subscription only)
BEIJING: Big is beautiful in China, but gigantic could turn out to be the fairest of them all.
More and more...
Just give them the gawdamn bomb already, every time there is a nuclear related discussion going on between Vietnam and another nation somehow some loony tunes will be assume that Vietnam will turn it into a nuclear bomb. Hell if a X-ray machine was sent to Vietnam some tick tock will also...
Military satellites would have designed to counter jamming to a degree, of course you can jam it but it just means you need a very powerful jammer with a large antenna which would I assume would stick out like a sore thumb not to mention jammer locations can be triangulated.
Considering the...