About Asia

Date: September 12. 2017 Source: The New York Times In Singapore it’s only about a few days for Halimah Yacob to be the president of the country. The interesting fact about this news it’s that actually there’s not election. The main reason for this to happen it’s that Ms. Halimah it’s the only available candidate for being elected, because she’s the only one that did pass the narrow selection for being a candidate to the presidency. T his it isn’t the whole news since she’ll be the first female president in Singapore, this important step in the democracy of the country it’s being taken under the popular pressure, since the election’s method it is assumed to be a democratic one, and you’re supposed to vote which of the candidates you like the best. In this news I’ll stand for the citizens. My reasons are because since I’ll have the vote right in a year I would also like to take part of the process of the elections, since it’ll be elected a person that will ...

Date: September 12. 2017 Source: BBC The tension between Myanmar and Bangladesh is increasing because of the Rohingya crisis. Last month another wave of Rohingya came from Myanmar due the persecution they confronted in where they consider as their home. This stateless Muslim minority stayed in a region of Myanmar (Rakhine) since hundreds of years now, but they are considered immigrants by the Buddhist-majority country. The issue that comes hand by hand with the persecutions of this minority has provoked the intercession of the United Nations, which talked about the dispute making an allegation and literally that it seemed "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing", forcing the Myanmar ambassador’s Htin Lynn defend the posture of his country by saying that the use of “ethnic cleansing” it’s too hard for what it really is. The truth it’s that those continued waves of refugees are still coming to Bangladesh which they are receiving them, but because of the huge amo...

Date: September 12. 2017 Source: BBC In the article it’s told how the growth of the Indian economy has been a very prosper one, and nowadays it’s still increasing. The fact the this increase it’s happening it may be misunderstood as the growing enrichment of the country as a whole. The case it’s that the development it’s only being held by the rich percent, which it’s a 10% of the total population in India. India it isn’t the only country with this increasing inequality among the citizenship, countries such as Russia and China, this last one decades ago, are also in the same circumstances. This inequality is usually developed in countries in which the move from the more conservative and straitlaced economies to the more liberal and ‘market’ economy. But it’s also true that this inequality its tending to increase all over the world due the globalization, even though there are countries that are trying to resist this trend. What shocked me the most about this article ...

Date: September 10. 2017 Source: BBC The article talks about the idea of ban the use of petrol and diesel vehicles as the pollution it’s now a matter and issue in where we are all involved in. This announcement in China it’s actually very important since it’s the country with the wider automobile market in the world, and it’s also in charge of a third part of the global total fabrication. This ban obviously it’s not going to be suddenly applied, since as I said it would be impossible to recover of the abruptly change in all the functioning of the car industry market. By the information that is being given in the article, we can see how the growth of the electronic and hybrid car market should develop in order to accomplish the estimated requirements. In my opinion the change proposal in wide markets it’s fundamental since it’s the step to the right decision. It’ll obviously be at first a difficult stage for the society as we’ll have to change our habits, but it’ll al...

Date: September 5. 2017 Source: The New York Times In the article they talk about the damage that the sixth nuclear test has done to their own country. By satellite three analysts were able to see a slight difference between the before and after photos. It’s noticeable that those differences are because of the latest launch. The analysts spotted many landslides and wide disturbances in Mount Mantap (Mantapsan), a peak in were the tunnels for the nuclear blasts are inside. This information is based on the satellite images taken the day after the detonation, making it easy to recognize where’s the nuclear test site. In addiction, the article also points out the latest detonation power by comparing it to the launch they did a year before, and also to the dropped bomb in Hiroshima. By the way these information is given you can tell that if the test turns to be directed to a specific country or territory it’s going to be one of the most destructive events if it’s not t...

Date: August 31. 2017 Source: The New York Times As the five years governmental term reaches the end this year it’s going to be a party congress in the now settled date, which is being hold the 18 th of October in Beijing, according to the news reports. From this meeting there’s already the expectation of Xi Jinping, the current president, not only being confirmed his second five-year term but also more ‘stimulated’. In the encounter the new companion and the officials behind him. But they are also going to talk about external issues such as the relationship that they are going to hold with the US and their implication with trade and North Korea’s nuclear program. I mainly thought of this as a matter that everybody must know since China it’s involved. The reason why I think that it’s important it’s due to the fact that nowadays the decisions that are taken in the country are a worldwide concern, since China it’s likely to be, in matter of years, one of the ...

D ate: August 29. 2017 Source: The New York Times The reason why I decided to choose this article it’s that otherwise than numeric information it also talks about some moral issues that as a society I think we must avoid. What I’m talking about it’s the “overreaction” of some people and the mass media of an event that happened in a developed country when, day by day, numerous of those incidents are happening all around the world and are not showed the same way. The life of every and each person matters, and the fact it’s that some of this problems are not even being informed as what it really is.  This is what happened with the enormous amount of people in different Asian countries that had suffered during this summer because of the floods, including the 1,000 dead people because of this natural incident. We also have to take into account that even though we are talking about countries with less impact in our globalized world, we have to brin...

Date: August 25. 2017 Source: BBC The article talks about the Ex-Prime Minister of Thailand, Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra, which didn’t make act of presence in the court because of her negligence charges over the rice subsidy scheme. Mr. Yingluck was elected as the first female Prime Minister back in 2011, with the support of the rural citizens as well as a strong opposition of the urban and middle-class elite. Also a huge amount of the hostility towards was because of her brother Mr. Thaksin since he was controversially ousted of Thailand. In the article it also speculates how could she flee from her country since the authorities didn’t have any record of her leaving the country, it also explains the reasons of the negligence charges as well as it also takes in account what happened in the court since she wasn’t there due to a supposed illness. What really shocked me of these news was that before I read this article I’ve never heard anything about this case at al...

Date: August 21. 2017 Source: The New York Times The article tell us the periodical language change in Singapore since the policy launched in 1970, that made a restriction in the dialects that were spoken in the country during that time. Those dialect speakers were the Singaporean majority, taking in account that the city-state was basically made due the immigration of some Asian countries such as China and India. The ones who came from those countries were dialect speakers of essentially Hokkien (which was a southern-Chinese dialect of the 75% of the Singaporean population), Tamil (which was the 15%) and Malay (which was a 7% of the originally Indian population).  This data also helps us to think about the impact that the policy made in the country for all this people, that as I said, they were the majority of the population. The dialect citizens weren’t able to learn the new imposed languages, English and Mandarin, on the other hand the new gener...

Date: August 16. 2017 Source: BBC In Philippines the drug war happened to have the bloodiest night. From the August 16 th midnight to the midnight of August 16 th it occur the killing of 32 people by the police in the streets of the Bulcan province (north of Manila). The officials claim that the murdered ones were only because they resisted, if they don’t fight over the police officers they would have been arrested. Which even the death rate it’s the higher one, since the drug war was settled in 2016, it’s also true that the arresting ratio it’s higher than usual, the police having more than 100 drug users taken into custody. Even though the comparison between both data (number of deaths and arrests) make somehow sense it’s also true that it’s having a lot of international criticism due the huge amount of deaths. In the article we can also see the different point of view, according the controversial policy that the President Rodrigo Duterte esta...