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...curse of the Red Shirts may ultimately prove unsuccessful in its quest to unseat Abhisit and pave the way for Thaksin's return. But the Red Shirts did achieve a measure of success in making the world more aware of their movement with a black magic ceremony that spellbound news directors of international cable networks and their viewers. Whether they win their war of saiysat or not, the Red Shirts have certainly given resonance to the old newsroom adage: "If it bleeds, it leads...
...species. On Wednesday the Obama Administration announced that it would support a proposed ban on international trade of the Atlantic bluefin tuna at the upcoming meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Doha, Qatar. The decision, for which conservationists had long been lobbying, could pave the way toward the most wide-ranging protections ever put in place for a major commercial marine species. "This announcement could be a real turning point in the fight to protect the tuna," says Susan Lieberman, director of international policy at the Pew Environment Group and a veteran...
...arrests are being seen as a critical test of how far the government can go in reining in the military's power - a goal of Erdogan's party for years. After it came into power, for instance, the party started using European Union-inspired reforms to pave the way for civilian courts to try military staff. The government has also backed a two-year court investigation into allegations that a bizarre alliance of military men, mafia bosses and secularists sought to create social upheaval by plotting to plant bombs and stage assassinations - all as a pretext for military intervention. Monday...
...often appear easier to pave a road than to work with often fractious local officials to figure out the provision of services for their communities. And militarily speaking, it is a lot easier to tackle the guy who is planting IEDs than the one who is spreading false rumors. Yet in the long run, it is the more difficult tasks that will bear the most results. Flynn, Pottinger and Batchelor compare the war to a political campaign, albeit a violent one: "If an election campaign spent all of its effort attacking the opposition and none figuring out which districts were...
...expressed its disappointment, saying the move "undermines Taiwan's credibility as a responsible trading partner." Upcoming bilateral trade talks, originally scheduled for February, have been indefinitely postponed. Taiwan, the sixth largest importer of U.S. beef and the U.S.'s ninth-largest trading partner, had been hoping the talks would pave the way for a Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. Yen says Ma probably was counting on progress in U.S. trade to balance fears over Taiwan's increasingly close economic ties with China. Taiwan and China are set to talk about a key trade agreement early this year, which...