NEW YORK – The China pavilion is a red, inverted pyramid in Shanghai built for the city’s bustling 2010 World Expo. While the pavilion pays some homage to China’s ancient past, it mostly shows off China’s 21st century ambitions, with…
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Smothered in a Security Blanket Asia Times
"Ladies and Gents," the South African pilot matter-of-factly announced over the intercom. "We’ll be starting our spiral descent into Baghdad, where the temperature is 19 degrees Celsius." The vast and mesmerizing expanse of sandpapery desert that has been stretching out…
Why the Media Failed Americans Asia Times
When on May 26 the editors of the New York Times published a mea culpa for the paper’s one-sided reporting on weapons of mass destruction and the Iraq war, they admitted to "a number of instances of coverage that was…