Singapore Plans ASEAN Bid for 2030 World Cup
Published on Oct 9, 2013 by Luke Hunt
Singapore is planning to lead an ASEAN bid and host the 2030 World Cup. Given the extraordinary support soccer enjoys among 600 million people in Southeast Asia and the advanced plans to forge a single economic and cultural bloc in the region, such a plan should enjoy widespread support.Read more from Luke Hunt in The Diplomat..
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East Timor Bans Pencak Silat
Published on Sep 26, 2013 by Luke Hunt
Discipline within martial arts dictates self-restraint. Its popularity has never been based upon the art of hurting and bullying a weaker opponent but on the ability to defend and attack strictly when needed. By and large, serious fighting is reserved for the ring or the mats among equals, and not for the streets.Read more from Luke Hunt in The Diplomat..
Thai Street Vendors Could Be Jailed for Intimidating Tourists
Published on Sep 19, 2013 by Luke Hunt
Thailand’s Office of the Attorney General has made an example of four unruly street vendors, sentencing them to over a year in prison each for extorting money from a customer near the King Rama V Statue at Bangkok’s Royal Plaza.Read more from J.T. Quigley in The Diplomat..
Mad Monks of Myanmar
Published on Jul 10, 2013 by Luke Hunt
In this photo essay, The Diplomat offers a close-up look at the anti-Muslim 969 movement on the rise in Myanmar today.Myanmar is home to a growing wave of anti-Muslim sentiment, as seen in the troubling 969 movement. The numerical significance of the digits is rooted in Buddhism’s Three Jewels (Tiratana), which comprise 24 attributes: nine special attributes of Lord Buddha, six core Buddhist teachings, and nine attributes of monkhood.Read more, see more from The Diplomat..
Chrissy Amphlett Dies at 53
Published on Apr 24, 2013 by Luke Hunt
Chrissy Amphlett, Australian former lead singer of the rock band Divinyls, passed away yesterday morning in New York where she lived with her husband and former Divinyls drummer Charley Drayton.Read more from Jonathan DeHart in The Diplomat..