World

  • VIETNAM: Workers in winning streak

    HO CHI MINH CITY — When a canteen manager in the Taiwanese shoe company Hue Phong physically attacked female Vietnamese workers, for "standing out of line" at the dinner queue, the company was immediately confronted by the wrath of the entire

  • UNITED STATES: Too much corporate power?

    UNITED STATES: Too much corporate power? SAN FRANCISCO — Working people — workers, small farmers and those called "middle-income families" — know in their guts corporations have too much power. The September 11 Business Week confirmed it.

  • INDONESIA: Scores injured after Suharto goes free

    Some 30 people were injured and at least 46 arrested in Jakarta on September 27 in a series of clashes between anti-Suharto and pro-Suharto protesters and the police, following the dismissal of corruption charges against the former Indonesian

  • CAMBODIA: In the eyes of Buddha

    PHNOM PENH — The ancestor holiday (Ph'chum Benn) is coming near, and with it, the former Khmer Rouge leaders, Ieng Sary and Ieng Thirith, and their associate, Long Norin, will likely be visiting the Svay Por Pe monastery in Phnom Penh, which they

  • Spotlight on Indonesia and West Papua

    Five people shot dead by police Five people were shot dead by police who were attempting to fend off an attack on a police station in the East Java town of Bondowoso. The Jakarta Post said that, according to police, some 600 people carrying Molotov

  • PAKISTAN: Conference to call for democracy's restoration

    LAHORE — Progressive groups have called a conference for October 12, the first anniversary of the military's takeover of Pakistan, to demand the restoration of democracy. Twenty-five political parties, excluding the religious parties, have been

  • INDONESIA: Peasants march for justice

    JAKARTA — One thousand peasants from various regions of Indonesia rallied and marched here on September 24 to demand government action on human rights and economic justice. Organised by the National Peasants Union (STN), the rally brought

  • RUSSIA: Neo-Nazis attack Jewish school

    Russian activists have appealed for international solidarity and protest after thugs of the neo-Nazi Russian National Unity party, armed with metal chains, burst into a school where Jewish children were taking religious lessons in the town of Ryazan,

  • CUBA: photographer wins damages

    A Cuban photographer whose picture of Che Guevara became the world's most famous revolutionary image won substantial damages on September 14, after the portrait was used in a British advertisement for vodka. Alberto Diaz Gutierrez, 72, went to the

  • UNITED STATES: Judge blasts government in 'spy' case

    On September 13, Dr Wen Ho Lee was freed from prison in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lee, a US citizen born in Taiwan, was convicted of a single felony for the mishandling of nuclear secrets. He had downloaded 10 tapes from the Los Alamos National

  • UNITED STATES: Cops in Cold War time warp

    BOSTON — Protesters who were in Philadelphia would later remember the four burly men — who went by the names Tim, Harry, George and Ryan — as kind of suspicious, not quite fitting the bill as political activists. Still, the men were hard

  • EAST TIMOR: Guarding profits in the Timor Gap

    Negotiations on the future of the Timor Gap Treaty between the Australian government, the United Nations Transitional Administration for East Timor (UNTAET) and East Timorese representatives are set to resume on October 9-11 in Dili. Both the federal