Does it really matter? Will the next ruler have the political power to stand up to HE and act independently like the King Father did? The current king is a rubber stamp and signs whatever HE has decided for him to sign. Will HE allow the next ruler to actually have his or her own power base to chall...

Israel has upset all it's neighbours over the last 75 years preferring to use weapons rather than negotiating and treating its neighbours as equals. As with the Vietnam war, the invaders will eventually have to turn tail and run, not because they are right or wrong, but because world opinion is sic...

So what happens when the Junta is overthrown? Many paramilitary armies with all sorts of different goals on ethnic and other lines. Will they all lay down their arms after years of fighting? Or will the country fracture into multiple states along ethnic lines? Or just become an eternal failed state ...

It was evil what Hamas did on oct 7th BUT its a bigger evil what Israel, is and has been doing for the past 6 months!! I support Justice for those who are dying, unjustly So has Hamas handed back all the hostages living or dead, so Israel can stop and go home? Or does Hamas expect Israel to unilate...

How did police storm an embassy? I imagine Khmer traffic cops attacking the US embassy in Phnom Penh. Don’t see them getting in.

Chilling rise of Chinese humanoid robots with calls for one in EVERY home & workforce to be replaced with droid army https://i.postimg.cc/hQ8jcK38/image.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/zyxyyXD0/image.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/hzdvZLL5/image.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/c6f6Qc4K/image.jpg https://i.postimg....

I can see a time when AI will be seen as a powerful political weapon to misinform, disinform, confuse and basically be used as propaganda tool, the likes of which we've never known. Well that's happening already, the Russians don't need AI to do it. Forget the Russians. Mainland Chinese are being i...

Parents are OK. They live in Taoyuen, near the TPE airport. Thank you for your concerns.

Taiwan is part of the earthquake zone (just like Japan). Just not as often.

That and the yearly typhoon season.

Not mainland China related.

Last night the local village gas station caught on fire and burned to the ground. Along with the family home in the back. Local fire truck called in. Then all the fire trucks in Siem Reap city. Supposedly 40 trucks (or 17, numbers unclear.). Multiple explosions with the initial fire. Then the truck...

[URL] https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/strong-72-magnitude-earthquake-hits-taipei-2024-04-03/[URL] Headlines: ‘Taiwan's strongest earthquake in 25 years kills 9 people, 50 missing’ ‘The quake hit at a depth of 15.5 km (9.6 miles), just as people were headed for work and school, setting off...