27 November 2012
Crushed by foreign occupation (1910-45) then defended by the US, this southern part of the China peninsula rose from the rubble of the 1950’s war into a showroom of industrial capitalism. Seoul is...
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14 November 2012
Drop any notion you have of kindly Buddhists, heading up the Sri Lanka Buddhist dominated government, in this tear-drop of a country, formerly called Ceylon, just a few miles off the south coast of...
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09 November 2012
Complicated by a 5,000 year history, plagued by its 330 million Hindu gods, colonized by Germans, Portuguese and British, this one billion plus nation of various peoples is complex beyond a life time
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