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Asia Times Online
Founded in late 1995, the printed edition of the Asia Times, English news daily of Hong Kong, disappeared in July 1997 and appeared again in 1999 as a real regional online newspaper. Since 2003, its Chinese version Yazhou Shibao Zaixian, has been in charge of translating articles from the English version and of making original reports about China.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan is playing with fire as he belittles the popular protest spreading among a cross-section of secular Turkey and totally opposed to his highly personalized/autocratic mix of hardcore neoliberalism and conservative religion. The prime minister now deriding demonstrators as "looters" is the same man who said Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak "must listen to his people" and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must go.

The subterfuge and ideological drive seen in Senator John McCain’s flight to Syria had heavy overtones of the 1980s tour by Charlie Wilson to secure arms for the Afghan mujahideen. McCain’s maneuver aligns well with Europe removing an arms embargo and wavering US resistance toward boots on the ground. This time, however, Russia could respond in kind, posits Ambassador Bhadrakumar.