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India's GDP composition, agriculture: 17%, industry: 18% and services: 65%. China's GDP composition is agriculture: 9.7%, industry: 46.6% and services: 43.7%. Philippine's GDP composition is agriculture: 12.4%, industry: 31.3% and services: 56.4%. Indonesia's GDP composition is...

Actually the OP's article is right. The increase of India's share of world poverty, percentage wise, is due to the shrinkage of China's share. India poverty number actually decreases but due to more than 600 million in number taken out on China side, it makes the Indian number increases in...

Anybody know if Chinese AND Indian soldiers/seamen do their own cooking, laundries and what not? Or they too use private contractors like the US?

^^^So, by your rationale, prior 1776 and before there was a US, Zhōngguó didn't exist.

Timor-Leste keen to join ASEAN Timor-Leste's Prime Minister Rala Xanana Gusmao SINGAPORE: Timor-Leste said it is committed to building its human resources in order to contribute fully to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Timor-Leste's Prime Minister Xanana...

What's there to debunk, especially from a person who will search every little fault and argues all day? To each of its own and nobody is wiser to be the judge.

Yeah, unlike the west who built their empires over the dead bodies of their young soldiers.

The Taiwanese investigators are very professional and tight lipped and they won't reveal anything until both sides finish their respect investigations. Most of these news titbits on this thread are from Filipino media.

It's a small fishing boat, anyone with some knowledge of the sea would know the engine room is not actually a room, but, rather a compartment below the deck aft side. I'm sure the Filipino coast guards who plied these water know as much. There are 52 bullet hole on the boat and 10 of them on...

Facts from investigators from both sides: 1) There are no bullet holes in the engine room of the Taiwan fishing boat - this discredits the Filipino coast guards' claim of shooting the engine to disable the boat from running away. 2) All the bullet holes are on the fisherman's cabin and both...

Taiwan identifies gun used to shoot dead fisherman. The shooter identified and confessed Taiwanese investigators use a rubber boat in Manila’s South Harbor to inspect the hull of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources ship involved in the shooting death of a Taiwanese fisherman...

The ultimate aim of the US is to install VNCH as a legitimate party of Vietnam so she can claim she won the war after all. These democratic Viets will all return to their homeland and kick all the commies out of the country. Indeed who won the war! It's too early to tell.

On topic China not disputing Japan sovereignty over Okinawa (Reuters) - China does not dispute Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa and recent comments in Chinese newspapers merely reflects the views of some academics, a senior Chinese military leader said on Sunday. "China's position has...

Vietnam police swoop on anti-China protest, 20 detained (Reuters) - Police in Vietnam moved swiftly to break up an anti-China protest on Sunday, making at least 20 arrests in the latest sign of the communist regime's tough stance on dissent, and even after it chided Beijing for...

This thread is about the heartless Filipino coastguards murdering Taiwanese fishermen. If you want to talk about how your daddy mistreated your open a new thread in "member section".

It looked like hoot, with six coast guards laughing as they fired at the Taiwanese fishing boat. “The video showed the soldiers acted unprofessionally. They were laughing while they were shooting the boat,” a source who had seen the video of the Philippine Coast Guard shooting of...

I always read these personal experience pieces as an entertainment only and wouldn't take them as facts. They can be so easily manipulated.

Two paths for US-Vietnam ties The success of the United States in Southeast Asia and its "pivot" policy in the Asia-Pacific will be built on the strength of its partnerships with strategic allies. Longstanding allies such as Japan, South Korea and Australia have provided the US with...

The Japanese Government issued outbound-traveler guide books in the early 70s for their tourists and corporate people. It went into details such as how much to tip on different environments.

China must beware! The warmongers of the US Government is pulling the strings again this time and emboldening/enticing Japan as the front running proxy.