Patrick Winn

It Turns Out Communist Vietnam Loves Capitalism More Than Americans Do

Polls show the ‘American Dream’ is alive in Hanoi. In America? Not so much.

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Vietnam Rising

A girl looks into a KFC restaurant which opened some months ago in Hue city, the old royal capital of Vietnam on Wednesday, April 28, 2010. HANOI, Vietnam — Americans weaned on war movies may imagine Vietnam as a dreary place where communist thought reigns supreme. An authoritarian communist party controls Vietnam. It’s true. But its

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Cops Are Beating Up Students In Myanmar Again

But this time, it could cost the country billions of dollars.

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Myanmar Protest Crackdown

Police officers beat a student protester after detaining him following a crackdown in Letpadan, 140 kilometers (90 miles) north of the country's main city Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Hundreds of police were charging student protesters with batons, kicking and beating them as they drag them into trucks, ending a days-long standoff in

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Curious About The Biggest Trade Deal In History? Sorry, It’s Classified

Governments and big corporations can read the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but not you. Here are 6 ways it could change the world.

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BANGKOK — The Trans-Pacific Partnership sounds deadly boring. It’s not. The potential impact on humanity from this proposed mega-deal is impossible to measure. TPP could bankrupt families in Kansas and enrich them in Kuala Lumpur. Or make patented medicine wildly unaffordable for sick people in poor places. Or even imprison citizens of 12

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Curious About The Biggest Trade Deal In History? Sorry, It’s Classified

Members of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP) with leaders from other nations. (Photo by Gobierno de Chile via Flikr) BANGKOK — The Trans-Pacific Partnership sounds deadly boring. It’s not. The potential impact on humanity from this proposed mega-deal is impossible to measure. TPP could bankrupt families in Kansas and enrich them in Kuala […]

Patrick Winn
بواسطة Patrick Winn

BANGKOK — The Trans-Pacific Partnership sounds deadly boring. It’s not. The potential impact on humanity from this proposed mega-deal is impossible to measure. TPP could bankrupt families in Kansas and enrich them in Kuala Lumpur. Or make patented medicine wildly unaffordable for sick people in poor places. Or even imprison citizens of 12

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The Cambodians Who Stitch Your Clothing Keep Fainting In Droves

In this year’s first episode, more than 100 workers sewing for Puma and Adidas dropped to the floor in a single day.

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An unidentified woman works at a sweatshop Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2001. (AP Photo/Jaime Puebla)

BANGKOK — It should have been a extraordinary scene: more than 100 factory hands fainting in unison as if possessed by spirits. But in Cambodian garment factories, which play in major role in supplying American malls, mass fainting is no longer a freak phenomenon. It’s disturbingly common. The enigmatic problem is persistent despite waves of

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Vietnam’s Solution For Corrupt Bankers: Firing Squads

Pedestrians are seen near the Hanoi Stock Exchanges in Hanoi, Vietnam on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012 (AP /Na Son Nguyen). BANGKOK — For the most part, American bankers whose rash pursuit of profit brought on the 2008 global financial collapse didn’t get indicted. They got bonuses. Odds are that scandal would have played out differently […]

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Vietnam Slowdown

BANGKOK — For the most part, American bankers whose rash pursuit of profit brought on the 2008 global financial collapse didn’t get indicted. They got bonuses. Odds are that scandal would have played out differently in Vietnam, another nation struggling with misbehaving bankers. The authoritarian Southeast Asian state doesn’t just send

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The World Has A New Piracy Hotspot

Sorry, Hollywood. It’s nowhere near Somalia.

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  BANGKOK — Maybe God has a soft spot for pirates. That would explain the Strait of Malacca, a natural paradise for seafaring bandits. Imagine an aquatic highway flowing between two marshy coasts. One shoreline belongs to Malaysia, the other to Indonesia. Each offers a maze of jungly hideaways: inlets and coves that favor pirates’

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