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...International Monetary Fund forecasts that Vietnam's GDP growth will slow to 5% this year from a high of 8.5% in 2007. Hit particularly hard has been the country's manufacturing sector, which helped lift millions out of poverty by providing relatively high-paying jobs. Declining orders from abroad have forced newly built factories to close, sending workers back to their villages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corruption Undermines Vietnam's Stimulus Program | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

Ahead of her first trip abroad as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton said she planned to renew U.S. focus on Asia, which she suggested the Bush administration had ignored. In China, that new attitude of engagement has been cautiously welcomed. "For many years the U.S. has been accustomed to delivering its demands to China, and this situation should change," the popular nationalist tabloid Global Times put it on the morning of Clinton's arrival. "The U.S. can no longer control China, moreover make more demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Takes a Softer Approach to China | 2/21/2009 | See Source »

...Congress passed the Communications Decency Act of 1996, courts have let internet service providers off the hook for distributing obscene or otherwise illegal material. And Internet publishers, like newspaper sites, are ordinarily not liable for defamatory material contained in comments posted by readers. Google has been challenged here and abroad for the way it uses other sites' content on its Google News site. So far, though U.S. courts have sided with the search engine company, courts in other countries have seen it differently. Google lost a copyright case in Belgium brought by a consortium of photographers and journalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Internet Pirates Face Walking the Plank in Sweden | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...Globetrotters When it comes to foreign policy, the new Administration hasn't wasted much time. On her first trip outside the U.S. as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is hitting four Asian countries in an eight-day sprint--the latest high-profile figure to be the face of America abroad. (The President's first foreign destination: Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...Even as Gates asked Europe for help, he let on that he doesn't actually expect much. President Barack Obama's White House "is a new administration and there clearly will be expectations that the allies must do more," Gates said Thursday during a trip to Poland, his first abroad since being retained as Defense Secretary after the handover from President Bush to Obama. But, he added, "I think the likelihood of getting the allies to commit significant numbers of additional troops is not very great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Moves Toward Fuller NATO Role | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

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