OpenDemocracy: “Earlier this year an historic lawsuit opened, charging the Chinese authorities with genocide and other crimes in Tibet. openDemocracy talks to Tenzin Tsundue, one of the Tibetan witnesses testifying in the case, and the Spanish-based NGO that launched the proceedings.”
Tibet vs China: the human rights showdown

Forget the flap about Google.cn for a bit. In China, the main media controversy right now is the closure of Freezing Point, a popular weekly supplement of the China Youth Daily, on the orders of individuals in the Central Propaganda Department. The magazine didn’t have a particular agenda as such, but embodied a general commitment [...]

This week’s ranter: MikesBooksandThinks, Retired
Engineer. Politically a shade to the right of Atilla the Hun. Writes in
his blog about books he has enjoyed, but mainly about politics and
politicians he detests!
Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom!
Imagine the impact which the exports of your country are having upon the
economies of the countries to which you export! Your own [...]

Bloomberg is reporting a Saudi defence contract:

Saudi King Approves $5 Bln BAE Aircraft Upgrade, Digest Says
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) — Saudi King Abdullah approved a plan to upgrade and replace 96 Tornado fighter aircraft made by BAE Systems Plc at cost of as much as $5 billion, Middle East Economic Digest reported.
Saudi Arabia will upgrade 64 [...]

…specifically to Mongolia, where the International Herald Tribune finds a modern tragedy of the commons and offers some clues to the intriguing questions: whose horde was it anyway? And exactly how right wing was Genghis Khan?