The palm oil crisis continues in southeast Asia, as the widespread transformation of ecologically complex jungles into palm oil monocultures for cooking oil continues, without any repercussions for the western.
October 1 marked the 50th anniversary of another of Cass Sunstein's noted gifts from the West to the developing world--the Suharto coup in Indonesia that led to between 500,000 and.
Indonesia is a very poor country. So their young women are recruited to work as domestic servants for the wealthy in Hong Kong and especially in the Arab world. The.
Above: the slaves who catch and process your dinner One of the issues I talk about in Out of Sight is getting more publicity. The Burmese slaves sat on the.
The burning of Asian forests, particularly but not exclusively in Indonesia, continues unabated. This is usually reported on for the public health aspects of it since the smoke from Sumatra.
This is from a couple of weeks ago and some of you might have seen it already, but this is an excellent roundup of the wages of global capitalism on.
Very early records (400 AD) indicate the existence of an organized Hindu monarachy in eastern Borneo. In the 16th century the ruler of a kingdom that would become Kutai Karta.
