Asia Blogging Column

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  Banality and Compassion

  by Jennie S. Bev on April 8th, 2008

  [The writer is a columnist and an adjunct professor based in Northern California. She can be found at JennieSBev.com.] Modern lifestyle is known to be quite ...

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  Gender Equalities and Urgency of Masculinism

  by Jennie S. Bev on March 10th, 2008

  March 8th is international women's day. Indonesian culture and laws reflect a utopian message that men and women live in harmony, in an environment that each ...

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  SGBV and Empowering Women in Liberia: It’s never been easy!

  by Luigi Pralangga on March 10th, 2008

  Having been here for over 3 years, seeing the reality that is beyond bites, I must say that it has never been ...

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  The Urgency of Teaching Political Literacy

  by Jennie S. Bev on February 19th, 2008

  Recently, we have been hearing about many things in Indonesian political arena. Most of them call themselves as participants in Indonesia's reformation era. All consider ...

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  Obama: Hot or Flip-flop?

  by Wimar Witoelar on February 13th, 2008

  A good female (non-American) friend I have not seen in a long time sent me three text ...

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  The Presidents and the Journalists

  by Andreas Harsono on February 11th, 2008

  In February 1997, President Suharto made a speech in front of Indonesia's top editors and media executives in a State Palace ceremony to commemorate the ...

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  Role of Community-based ICT in Indonesia

  by Onno W. Purbo on December 31st, 2007

  Role of ICT in rural development in Indonesia will be described. It will focused on two (2) main ICT technologies, namely, community radio and Internet. ...

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  Be careful what you focus for

  by Roni Yuzirman on August 31st, 2007

  "You are what you focus on", that's what Joe Vitale meant in his book "The Attractor Factor". Your focus will become reality. The problem, what ...

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  Customer Abuse in Exotic Locales, Part I

  by Jeremy Wagstaff on August 14th, 2007

  HP have long been fighting a battle against refill cartridges, especially in my part of the world. But I think they're going too far in ...

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  Social Intelligence: The Overlooked Determinant of Success

  by Jennie S. Bev on August 6th, 2007

  In 1983, Howard Gardner, a Harvard professor, shook the world with his Multiple Intelligences theory in Frames of Mind, later in 1993 with Multiple Intelligences: ...