Thailand - Thai journalist harassed over Facebook postings

Hollywood Reporter - Monday 12th August, 2013

The company also picked up mobile and Internet rights in Asian territories for clips from North American, German, French, Italian and Brazilian soccer ...

Industrializing Strategy Marks Vietnam-Japan Cooperation

Prensa Latina - Monday 12th August, 2013

Hanoi, Aug 12 (Prensa Latina) Vietnam-Japan'??s cooperation focuses today on an industrialization cooperation for 2020 and a projection that reaches 2030. With this prospect, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung passed a bilateral agreement that identify six sectors to be developed. The sector included are electronics, agricultural machinery, processing of agricultural and fishing products, ...

Vietnamese debate forest men?s right

IOL - Monday 12th August, 2013

Ho Van Lang, 42, sitting smoking after he and his father Ho Van Thanh were taken back to their home village from the jungle in the Tay Tra district of the central Vietnamese province of Quang ...

Thailand hails world badminton champion

West Australian - Monday 12th August, 2013

BANGKOK (AFP) - Thai media cheered teen star Ratchanok Intanon with a flurry of ecstatic headlines Monday as the nation celebrated a first gold at the badminton world championships.Ratchanok, who is just 18 and still has braces on her teeth, sprang a shock as she defeated China's Olympic champion Li Xuerui 22-20, 18-21, 21-14 on Sunday in Li's own backyard.Pictures of the smiling ...

Global Political Risk ASEAN Part I Water Land and the Question of the State

General Sources - Monday 12th August, 2013

ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), says WikiPedia, would rank as the eighth largest economy in the world if it were a single entity. It includes ten countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (once Burma), the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. This week, we?ll travel down the Mekong from Myanmar through Laos and Cambodia to Vietnam; next week, ...

Narrow lead for Cambodia strongman in early poll results

General Sources - Monday 12th August, 2013

Cambodia's strongman prime minister Hun Sen narrowly won the popular vote in recent disputed elections according to preliminary official results Monday that were immediately rejected by the opposition. The nation has been stuck in a political impasse since Hun Sen's long-ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) claimed victory in the July 28 vote, with the military deployed in the ...

Cambodia PM edges opposition in preliminary results

West Australian - Monday 12th August, 2013

PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Cambodia's strongman prime minister Hun Sen narrowly won the popular vote in recent disputed elections according to preliminary official results Monday that were immediately rejected by the opposition.The nation has been stuck in a political impasse since Hun Sen's long-ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) claimed victory in the July 28 vote, with the military ...

Cambodia election crisis deepens as opposition rejects results

The Straits Times - Monday 12th August, 2013

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (centre) speaks to Prince Norodom Chakrapong (left) at Phnom Penh International Airport on Aug 12, 2013. A deadlock over Cambodia's disputed election hardened on Monday as the opposition rejected official results confirming a victory for Prime Minister Hun Sen's long-ruling party and raised the prospect of further street protests. -- PHOTO: ...

Cambodia opposition party rejects ruling partys win in poll last month

Global Times - Monday 12th August, 2013

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) on Monday rejected the initial official election results that showed the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) of long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen won a majority vote in the July 28 general poll."The CNRP is very sorry and opposed to the National Election Committee (NEC) for releasing the preliminary election results in a ...

Initial results of Cambodias election committee confirm ruling party win

Global Times - Monday 12th August, 2013

The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) of long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen won a majority vote in the July 28 general election, according to the initial official results released by the National Election Committee (NEC) on August 12. Hun Sen, who has ruled the country for 28 years, will continue to stay in power for another five years through the victory. The committee's ...

Latest Cambodian vote results favor ruling party

New Zealand Herald - Monday 12th August, 2013

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) The latest release of Cambodian election results reaffirms the victory of the ruling Cambodian People's Party, though the opposition says it cannot accept the figures without an impartial probe of alleged electoral irregularities. The figures announced Monday by the National Election Committee are final pending any complaints filed by the parties. They could be ratified ...

Cambodias CPP won most provinces in July election official results - Reuters

General Sources - Monday 12th August, 2013

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The long-ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) of Prime Minister Hun Sen won a majority of votes in 19 out of Cambodia's 24 provinces in a disputed July 28 election, official results announced by the country's election body showed on ...

Vietnam war just starting to be understood

News.com.au - Monday 12th August, 2013

FOUR decades on, Australia's war in Vietnam remains poorly understood, the Australian War Memorial's head of military history Ashley Ekins ...

IMF sees higher 2013 lending growth pace for Vietnam

Reuters - Sunday 11th August, 2013

HANOI | Sun Aug 11, 2013 11:35pm EDT HANOI Aug 12 (Reuters) - Lending has picked up "modestly" in Vietnam this year and the country should grow slightly faster than projected earlier, the International Monetary Fund said. The IMF, in a statement issued on Aug. 9 after a delegation visited Vietnam, said it expects no interest rate cuts in the short term. The Fund projected 2013 ...

Blast destroys south Thailand gas factory

Asia News Network - Sunday 11th August, 2013

A powerful explosion destroyed a Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) filling factory in Narathiwat's Muang district in south Thailand early yesterday morning, damaging more than 10 nearby houses and injuring three people. Police believe it was an insurgent attack in revenge for the recent extrajudicial killings of insurgent leaders. Two blasts occurred - one soon after the other - at the factory ...

1 dead 11 wounded after bus hits 2 cars and a lorry in Saraburi Thailand - Bangkokpost

Breaking News - Sunday 11th August, 2013

SARABURI : An inter-provincial bus crashed into two cars and a lorry, killing one person and wounding 11 on Sunday, police say. The accident happened early Sunday when the bus heading to Bangkok from Roi Et's Chaturaphak Phiman district, slammed into a pickup truck on Phahon Yothin Road in Saraburi. The bus then lost control and veered across the traffic island into an opposing lane and ...

Father Son Found in Vietnam Hiding Since 1973

Web Pro News - Sunday 11th August, 2013

A father and his son hiding in the forest in Vietnam since 1973 have been found alive. Ho Van Thanh, a soldier during the Vietnam War, fled into the jungle with his infant son, Ho Van Lang, over forty years ago. Thanh, then 38, fled with his son into the forest during the night when a bomb killed his wife and two other sons in their home in the province of Quang Ngai. Ho Van Tri, Thanh?s ...

Husband drowns on Laos honeymoon adventure

General Sources - Sunday 11th August, 2013

Laos river, three days after he went missing.Michael O'Sullivan, 39, died while backpacking around Asia with his wife, Ilana James. The couple had saved up for their honeymoon since marrying in November last year. Their family said they had always dreamt of travelling the world together.On Thursday, the pair went on a "tubing" adventure on the Nam Xong river in Vang Viang, ...

Vietnam businesses brace for bounty of Brazils market

The China Post - Sunday 11th August, 2013

Hanoi, Viet Nam--Vietnamese businesses will have a major opportunity to crack Brazil's lucrative domestic market when import taxes are cut later this year, according to Viet Nam's trade office in ...

Two Russians still in hospital after bus crash in Thailand

Itar Tass - Sunday 11th August, 2013

MOSCOW, August 11 (Itar-Tass) - Two Russian tourists who were hurt in a bus crash in Thailand on August 9 are still in a local hospital, Irina Shchegolkova, the spokeswoman for the Russian Tourism Agency, told Itar-Tass on Sunday. "As of yesterday, five Russians were in hospital," she said. "Three have been released, two are still there. Medics say they are in satisfactory ...

Laos and the legacy of Vietnam | Brett Dakin

General Sources - Sunday 11th August, 2013

Three million tons of ordnance was dropped on Laos over a nine-year period. Craters still scar the landscape in many areas. Photograph: Mines Advisory ...

Source: http://www.laosnews.net/index.php/sid/216396612/scat/a6670896145a3ae3

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Breast Cancer Patient Denied Medicaid Coverage: Is He Victim Of Sexism?

(CBS) Medicaid recently declined to cover the cost of treatment for breast cancer because the patient met all the eligibility requirements but one.

The one that says the patient has to be a woman.

Raymond Johnson, of Cross, S.C., got the shocking news that he had a breast malignancy last month after heading to the emergency room to find out what was causing his chest pain. He got another shock a few days later when his application to a Medicaid program that covers breast cancer treatment was rejected, the Charleston Post and Courier reported.

He was angry. "Cancer doesn't discriminate, so this program shouldn't discriminate," Johnson told the paper.

The director of the state's Department of Health and Human Services agreed.

"We believe that the federal position on this issue is discriminatory, and we are again urging federal Medicaid officials to reconsider," Tony Keck said in a written statement obtained by CBS News. "This is a very clear example of how overly rigid federal regulations don't serve the interests of the people we're supposed to be helping."

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The eligibility requirements say that in order to get coverage for breast cancer treatment, patients new to Medicaid must have been diagnosed through "early detection" programs funded by the CDC. But a spokesman for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - which administers the Medicaid program - told CBS News that an unintended "glitch" in the law that governs the CDC programs had left men without coverage for breast cancer.
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Can the glitch be fixed?

"We are working with the CDC and South Carolina to see what options may exist to address this situation," CMS spokesman Brian T. Cook, told CBS News in an email. "We are committed to ensuring that all individuals who should be eligible for this program have coverage."

Johnson, who the paper says is now getting treatment, is one of about 2,000 American men to be diagnosed each year, according to the National Cancer Institute. In 2009, an estimated 192,370 women were diagnosed with breast cancer.

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The American Cancer Society has more on breast cancer in men.

Source: http://www.ktva.com/news/health/Breast-Cancer-Patient-Denied-Medicaid-Coverage-Is-He-Victim-Of-Sexism-127272323.html

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Father Patrick Dowling Is Mystery Angel Priest From Missouri Car Crash

Massachusetts

44,905 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Rhode Island

44330 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

New Jersey

36,799 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Connecticut

35056 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

New York

32443 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Illinois

28439 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

New Mexico

28407 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Pennsylvania

27578 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

California

27469 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Louisiana

26490 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Wisconsin

25,066 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

North Dakota

24,881 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

New Hampshire

23,626 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Minnesota

21,689 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Vermont

20,503 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Nebraska

20,414 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Delaware

20,328 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Texas

18,586 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Hawaii

18,350 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

South Dakota

18,286 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Michigan

17,375 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Ohio

17,272 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Nevada

16,703 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Iowa

16514 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Colorado

16138 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Kansas

14952 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Arizona

14549 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Maryland

14503 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Maine

14311 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Florida

13371 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Montana

12898 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

District of Columbia

12622 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Missouri

12094 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Washington

11664 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Indiana

11532 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Wyoming

10862 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Oregon

10408 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Virginia

8422 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Kentucky

8291 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Idaho

7872 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Alaska

7162 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Georgia

6156 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Utah

5793 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

West Virginia

5173 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Oklahoma

4756 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Arkansas

4206 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Alabama

4198 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

North Carolina

4121 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

South Carolina

3929 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Mississippi

3791 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Tennessee

3504 Catholic adherents per 100,000 people.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/12/father-patrick-dowling-angel-priest-_n_3746077.html

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?Sophisticated? South Korea appeals to image-conscious Chinese couples

Standing by a French chateau?s window, the young bride-to-be glows in the afternoon sun as she gazes into her fianc??s eyes. This Chinese couple?s fairy tale moment, however, isn?t unfolding at a Bordeaux estate.

The 20-something Beijing lawyers and fans of South Korean pop idol Rain are part of a small but growing number of affluent Chinese for whom the craze for all things South Korean means flying to Seoul for the weekend to have wedding pictures taken.

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?The style in South Korea is more sophisticated and cuter than what we have in China. We came here because South Korea is the leader in fashion and makeup,? said the bride-to-be, Yang Candi, as two stylists fussed over her hair with a curling iron and giant hair clips during a recent photo shoot.

Her fianc? agreed, saying he was influenced by pop culture. ?I always wanted to come here, especially after watching South Korean TV shows,? said groom-to-be, Chen Jingjing, his face gleaming with liquid foundation, his eyebrows carefully contoured.

China is the source of one quarter of all tourists to South Korea, and a handful of companies in South Korea?s $15-billion (U.S.) wedding industry are wooing an image-conscious slice of the Chinese jet set happy to drop several thousand dollars on a wedding album with a South Korean touch.

The draw for many of the well-heeled Chinese isn?t Seoul?s ancient palaces or the fiery cuisine. It?s an elegant urban style exemplified by Gangnam, the tony Seoul district made globally famous by South Korean rapper Psy?s Gangnam Style. Helping shape that image is the popularity of South Korean cosmetics and fashion and the many South Korean stars whose looks are widely copied in China.

South Korea is synonymous with the good life that middle-class Chinese aspire to, according to Song Sung-uk, professor of South Korean pop culture studies at the Catholic University of Korea in Seoul.

?Chinese look up to South Korea for its sophisticated urban culture, style and beauty,? Prof. Song said. ?Rather than visiting traditional palaces or shopping for antiques, they would rather go to Gangnam to experience state-of-the-art shopping malls.?

South Korea?s tourism ministry estimates that more than 2.5 million Chinese visitors spent an average of $2,150 per person in 2012, more than any other nationality. That?s helping companies such as iWedding, which is the largest of the South Korean wedding planners hosting Chinese tourists, to flourish.

Every month for more than a year, iWedding has done business with 50 to 60 Chinese couples, the company said, including the Beijing attorneys whose love of South Korean TV shows and music brought them to Seoul.

A South Korean competitor, Design Wedding, recently partnered with a Chinese company in Shanghai and has photographed more than 50 Chinese couples since May. Chuka Club, another South Korean wedding planner, said it gets Chinese clients even though it doesn?t advertise on Chinese websites like rivals iWedding and Design Wedding.

Ms. Yang and Mr. Chen said they had high expectations for their trip and were excited about the prospect of glamorous photos mimicking the pampered lifestyles of their favourite South Korean celebrities. The trip, they said, would also give them bragging rights at home with their friends and family.

After nearly three hours of hair, makeup and frequent amorous glances, the couple (Ms. Yang was dressed in wedding white) are chauffeured to a nearby photo studio where they spend the next eight hours striking poses before facades resembling cobblestoned streets or Loire Valley estates. The continental European backdrop is a favourite of Chinese visitors and South Koreans. That likely stems from the popularity of Western-style bridal gowns and tuxedos; many wedding planners began thinking that those European outfits looked better when photographed in front of a European set.

Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/sophisticated-south-korea-appealing-to-image-conscious-chinese-couples/article13720525/?cmpid=rss1

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MMQB: Tennis Canada coming of age

MONTREAL ? You wouldn?t know it from watching Rafael Nadal?s overwhelming destruction of Milos Raonic ySunday ? but tennis in this country has come a long way in the past seven years.

That?s since Louis Borfiga took over the high-performance job at Tennis Canada back in 2006. The past week has since the ultimate vindication of that move, with Raonic and Vasek Pospisil meeting in one semi-final of the men?s draw here in Montreal while Westmount teenager Eugenie Bouchard had another strong performance before running into Petra Kvitova in Toronto.

It?s a highwater mark for tennis in this country and it?s been a long time coming. It?s also a welcome change from the annual spate of stories telling us that Aleksandra Wozniak was really, truly ready at last to make a breakthrough.

This time, the breakthrough is real and it?s coming in numbers to make any Canadian proud.

Look at tennis south of the border ? where no American male is ranked in the top 20 and the women?s side pretty much comes down to Serena Williams and hope for Sloane Stephens ? and you have to feel that Tennis Canada is doing something right.

Raonic will be in the top 10, Pospisil around 40th ? and Filip Peliwo (who made some noise this week himself) is on the way.

If you tuned in late and saw only Nadal?s clinical dissection of Raonic yesterday, you could be forgiven for thinking that tennis in this country is pretty much where it?s always been. I?m not a big fan of Raonic?s game ? he?s too one-dimensional, relying on that big 215-kilometre serve, too much like a big awkward puppy out there ? but there?s no denying his success.

Raonic on Sunday became the first Canadian since 1958 to play in a Rogers Cup/Canadian Open final. That and the move into the Top 10 made it a splendid week for him.

Like most of the other men on the ATP tour, Raonic is no threat to the top four when they?re on their game. He might move up another notch or two but he is a long, long way from being able to beat a healthy Nadal.

But there are bigger and better things coming. Seeing the kids in the crowd pulling for Raonic yesterday, you couldn?t help thinking that this is the sort of thing that becomes contagious. The kids see their heroes out there, they want to emulate them ? and the next thing you know, you?re a tennis power.

Losing ugly: You?ve heard of winning ugly? Well, the Alouettes are losing ugly. We?re six games into the CFL season and they?ve got enough video for a three-hour lowlight reel showing what has gone wrong.

Fumbles, dropped passes, missed tackles ? it?s like a clown show came to town to replace the once vaunted Als.

Off one hideous loss to the Argos, it appears that firing Dan Hawkins didn?t help a bit. Jim Popp wasn?t responsible for all those fumbles, dropped passes and missed tackles ? but he is responsible for the way this team is run.

I?m not a coaching genius but there is one thing I know: Players need to understand very clearly who?s in charge. When Popp fired Hawkins, he let offensive co-ordinator Mike Miller keep his title, although he was technically demoted.

So Doug Berry is in charge of the offence while Miller is the offensive coordinator? Huh? For the Argos game, Miller flanked Popp on the sidelines while Berry supposedly called the plays from up above.

Berry might have been in quarterback Anthony Calvillo?s ear all night long ? but Miller was in Popp?s ear. So who?s in charge? Berry? Miller? Popp? Calvillo? Does anyone know? Who?s on first?

I dunno. Maybe MarcTrestman could call the plays from Chicago?

Somebody needs to give those metricians a sabre: Couldn?t believe my eyes yesterday when I saw a column?Sunday saying that the Angels' Mike Trout might deserve the MVP ahead of Miguel Cabrera.

That ridiculous argument (which cropped up last year as well) is based on a bunch of outlandish stats dreamed up by nerds who would rather play fantasy baseball than actually watch the grand old game: Stats like OBPS (Out of Baseball Pitch Selection) UFGQ (Ultra-Fantasy Groundball Quotient) and WVFWG (We Vote for White Guys.)

Silly. The MVP belongs to Cabrera, with an honourable mention for Chris Davis. As for Trout ? let him get back to us when his club isn?t among the league?s underachieving bottom-feeders.

Lies, rumours &&&& vicious innuendo: Some things never change. Early Sunday afternoon, Tiger Woods was still drawing all the attention at the PGA even though he was 7-over (or up a touchdown, depending on how you look at it) ...

Is it just me, or does Novak Djokovic look way skinny? Djokovic is on this crazy diet which supposedly helps him ? but the guy looks positively emaciated and he isn?t playing that well, by his standards. Have a milk shake or three, dude! ?

It was like ex-jocks with mikes were having a contest all week, trying to see who could say the dumbest thing on air. Jack Clark beat Bernie Kosar by one lawsuit. ?

Last time we looked, the Miami Marlins were drawing only 100 fans per game more than they were drawing in their old ballpark. This is in the new venue they conned out of the Dade County Commissioners. Maybe time Major League Baseball bought the Marlins and moved them to Montreal?

Heroes: Rafa Nadal, Sorana Cirstea, Vasek Pospisil, Eugenie Bouchard, Louis Borfiga, Tennis Canada, Miguel Cabrera, Mo Farah, Usain Bolt, Scott Milanovich, Chad Owens, Jason Dufner, Jim Furyk, the Pittsburgh Pirates &&&& last but not least, Milos Raonic.

Zeros: Tiger Woods, Serena Williams, Alex Rodriguez, Bryce Harper, Brett Lawrie, the Alouettes, Jack Clark, Bernie Kosar, Pierre Gauthier, the Toronto Blue Jays, the Miami Marlins, Claude Brochu, David Samson &&&& last but not least, Jeffrey Loria.

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Source: http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports/Todd+Tennis+Canada+doing+something+right/8775822/story.html

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Why the World Bank Is Taking On Climate Change

The World Bank, headquartered a block from the White House, was founded after World War II to combat global poverty. But over the past year, fighting climate change has become the bank's new guiding principal, as economic evidence indicates that global warming will be a driving cause of poverty worldwide in the 21st century. The bank has become a big player in climate policy, investing billions annually into climate-related programs?and blocking money from projects such as coal-fired power plants. In a November report, the bank detailed the devastating economic consequences of a global annual temperature increase of 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100. In a June study, the bank projected that due to climate change, by the 2030s African countries could lose up 80 percent of cropland and major portions of Bangkok and Vietnam could be flooded. National Journal spoke with Rachel Kyte, the bank's vice president of sustainable development, about the economic impact of climate change.

NJ: Why is the World Bank now putting so much emphasis on climate change?

Kyte: We've come to the realization that we cannot achieve our mission, which is to end poverty, unless we slow the rate of climate change. Climate science now shows that we're on course for a 4-degree [Celsius] temperature rise by 2100, that we're going to be 2 degrees warmer by the 2030s. And that's going to have devastating effects on food production, how livable cities are.... It's going to be extraordinarily difficult for the poor, who are the least resilient, to be part of the growth and opportunity story over the next few decades if climate change is unabated.

NJ: So climate change is now a driving force of the World Bank's mission?

Kyte: Absolutely. There are countries in Africa experiencing drought every two years as opposed to every five, or every 10 years. If the economic impact of a crippling drought is 1, 2, or 3 percentage points of GDP lost in a year and this is happening every two years, these countries are going backwards rather than forwards. Climate change is absolutely central to our understanding of how we can help these countries grow and prosper.

NJ:How does a financial-development institution do that?

Kyte: It's a good question. We work with governments and the private sector ... to understand their aspirations around growth and competitiveness. We need to help them factor in the risks that they will face as a result of the climate impacts that can be predicted?increase of extreme weather events, sea-level rise, crop-production dislocation. We need to walk them through the risks of climate change and the need to invest in their own resilience and in low-carbon developments.? We need to walk them through the opportunities that come from avoiding the lock-in of a carbon-intensive growth model. And we need to walk them through whether there are up-front capital costs ? and where those costs can be met with mobilization of different financial or investment resources.

NJ: For the developed world, particularly the U.S., how do you make the case that there's an economic cost to climate change?

Kyte: The extreme weather events that we are experiencing globally ? bring enormous costs. The succession of storm events, droughts, the cycle of fires ? have enormous economic dislocation. Beyond just the extreme weather events, in which insurance costs can be calculated, there are costs in not planning to accommodate the increased intensity and frequency of some of these events. One superstorm is one thing, but if you now expect the superstorm to hit on a more intensive or more regular basis, not planning for that is an economic folly.

NJ: In his climate-change speech in June, President Obama called for an end, globally, to public investment in coal-fired power plants, the world's chief contributor to climate-change emissions?a goal the World Bank has indicated that it will support. But in many developing economies, coal offers the cheapest?and sometimes only?way for poor populations to gain access to electricity. How do you justify this?

Kyte: The way we square this circle is that we want sustainable energy for all. We want to close the energy access gap by 2030 ? but we would like the energy mix to become significantly greener over the same time period. There are 1.2 billion people who don't have access to energy today. They are mostly living in poor countries.? Extending energy to them, even if we did so with traditional fossil fuels, would only account for less than 1 percent of global emissions. Getting energy access is critically important. Economies don't grow, people can't run businesses, people can't get jobs unless there's energy. So we have to provide that. But at the same time, the burden of action in terms of making the energy system cleaner lies with countries that are fully developed.? The very poor, they should get access. They should get affordable energy. We'd like it to be clean, but we don't think we can balance the books on the back of the poor. And in middle-income and fast-growing and in developed countries ? it's about efficiency and a transition towards a cleaner energy mix.

NJ: The U.S. is the largest historic climate-change polluter, although President Obama has said he'd now like to make the U.S. a leader in addressing climate change?starting with new regulations on carbon pollution from power plants. How is the U.S. doing as a leader on climate?

Kyte: The short answer is that nobody's doing well enough. We're on track for 4 degrees [global average Celsius temperature rise] by 2100 which is well over where we said as a global community we wanted to be?.. If you're concerned about your children's health, your own health, your grandchildren's health, if you're concerned about the job your child's going to get, if you're concerned about where your grandchildren are going to live?this is front of mind. We all agree, whichever way we vote, whichever church, synagogue or mosque we pray in, or if we don't pray at all?we want the next generation to be better off than the current generation. The science is showing us that we are putting that in jeopardy every day we don't make decisions about clean energy?. The problem is that people imagine this is a world where we have to wear sackcloth, where there's no joy or opportunity. We don't think that's true.? We think it's perfectly possible, and we've produced the economic evidence to support it, to grow greener, and that there will be jobs, economic opportunity, and stability and safety if we do so.

NJ: There's a lot of debate in the U.S. about the economic costs of climate policy. In particular, Republicans and the coal industry argue that regulations on coal plants or a carbon price will hurt the economy and the coal industry in particular, raising energy prices and costing jobs in coal country.

Kyte: There is always a fear that environmental regulation drives down competitiveness, slows growth, and gets rid of jobs. In fact, environmental regulation poises countries towards continued competitiveness. Technically it is true, you need to make short-term decisions for long-term gain. There may be some short-term disruption in certain industries and certain parts of the economy. But there will be long-run opportunities elsewhere.? That's difficult to manage politically, but economically, that can be demonstrated.

Finally, if carbon is the problem, which it is ? then we should be putting a price on something which is bad. And if we put a price on it, one has to wonder, within the economy, how much you want to have an exposure to a commodity which is going to have a significant price to it at some point in the near- to medium-term future. You don't have to believe economic theory for that. You have to look at how some major corporations around the world, including U.S. corporations, are factoring into their strategic planning a possible price on carbon and making decisions about how exposed they want to be to carbon-intensive industry.

NJ: What about the role of China, which is the largest current carbon polluter, and also a growing, developing economy, hoping to lift millions of citizens out of poverty?

Kyte: The new Chinese leadership ? is extremely focused on this. That's been revealed in the bilateral dialogue in the U.S. and in our conversations with them. They are working to understand the path of urbanization and the impact that has on emissions. They have a large population which they want to see prosper and grow. And they are moving away from their dependence on fossil fuels. They also have significant water scarcity. They have an extraordinarily complex situation with which to deal. But changing the path of growth to make it lower-carbon is central to the last [Chinese national] five-year plan.? Don't forget, they are piloting a domestic carbon-trading system with the commitment to having a national system. That's an aggressive move by them to try to find market-based mechanisms to drill carbon-efficiency through their economy.

NJ: Anything else you'd like to add?

Kyte: There isn't a situation where one end of the boat goes up and the other end goes down. We're all in this boat together. Climate change is a leveler. If we don't deal with it as an economic issue, it will get the best of us. The impacts of climate change are not partisan. They will hit you if you're in Staten Island or in Battery Park, and they'll continue to hit you, again and again and again. I don't think that has been fully understood in every developed country, and the sooner we grasp that, the better.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/why-world-bank-taking-climate-change-060025016.html

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Breaking Bad, Season 5, Part 2

Bryan Cranston as Walter White in Breaking Bad

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There?s so much to talk about, but let?s pause for a moment to reflect on the genius of that cold open. As in the opening scene of Episode 501, we flash forward to the time around Walt?s 52^nd birthday: He has chunky Williamsburg spectacles, a mountain-man mien, and a very large weapon in the trunk of his car. He?s back at the White family home, but the place looks totally different: The pool that once contained plane-crash debris has been drained, the seating area whose landscaping included a lily of the valley plant is now the lip of an improvised skateboard ramp, and the bathroom where he first shaved his head has been trashed. As Walt strides around the house retrieving his precious vial of ricin, we learn beyond a shadow of a doubt that his criminality has been exposed to the world. The living room has been defaced with the word HEISENBERG, and when he calls a cheery ?Hello, Carol? to his former neighbor, it?s not just his scraggly beard and sweat-stained shirt that make her drop her shopping bag, terrified.

At first, I thought the oranges that we saw rolling out of Carol?s shopping bag were a tad too on the nose. After all, they?re The Godfather?s go-to portent of death. But after seeing the rest of this grim, gripping episode, I?m pretty sure they?re Vince Gilligan?s citrus-scented signal that we have moved into the era of consequences.

Walter White may be a scientist, but like a devotee of The Secret, he seems to believe that saying something makes it so. He doesn?t tell Skyler that his cancer is back?apparently he thinks that would affect his ability to fight it?and he only admits that Lydia is a ?former business associate? after Skyler points out that normal people don?t pay to have rental cars pressure-washed. A little later, he struggles to convince Jesse that Mike Ehrmantraut is alive and well and doing crossword puzzles in an undisclosed location. Jesse knows he?s lying, but he?s too traumatized and worn down to argue. Jesse knows that for Walt, ?the story comes first,? so he just parrots the version of events he knows Walt wants to hear and hopes that will shut him up.

Unlike Jesse, though, Hank won?t let Walt get away with murder. No matter how convincingly Walt swears, ?right hand to God,? that he?s just a dying man who runs a car wash, Hank knows that his brother-in-law is a ?lying, two-faced sack of shit.? He knows that Walt betrayed him over and over?and that he?s personally responsible for more than a dozen deaths.

Walt?s friends and family all seem to be suffering from PTSD. Skyler doesn?t contradict Walt?s fantasy narrative of escaping the drug business because her kids? lives will be ruined if he?s found out. Jesse is dissociative, bordering on catatonic, because he can?t get those dead kids out of his head. I wasn?t sure that Hank?s heart would survive the realization that he?d barbequed with Heisenberg, but his time with the file boxes seems to have restored his strength. If I were Hank, I don?t think I?d let Walt make it out of that garage alive, but there are seven episodes to go, and we?ve seen Walt retrieve his ricin, so we know that he does get to exit. But how? I guess we?ll find out next week.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/tv_club/features/2013/breaking_bad_final_season/week_1/breaking_bad_premiere_recap_blood_money_reviewed.html

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