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Binh Tuan / Binh Thuan / Binh Thanh

“… fraud is wide-spread amongst provincial-level officials -- and may reach higher still.”

AUGUST 17, 2010

Quang Nam

"The director physically blocked the team from entering, prohibited the team from speaking to Orphanage Employees."

AUGUST 17, 2010

Ha Tay

"The wife of an orphanage director (herself an employee of the orphanage) was named as the leader of an infant trafficking ring in Ha Tay province."

AUGUST 17, 2010

An Giang

"As of April 8, 2008 the following provinces do not allow U.S. officials to conduct independent field inquiries: An Giang..."

AUGUST 17, 2010

Gates's Legacy

FP asked five experts to weigh in on what the U.S. defense secretary leaves behind.

AUGUST 17, 2010

Phu Tho

"A two-day investigation led to troubling new information: financial inducements offered to birth mothers, birth mothers unaware their children are to be adopted by foreign parents, and... financial and psychological tactics to prevent birth mothers from reneging on their promises to relinquish."

AUGUST 17, 2010

Fire in the Hole

How India's economic rise turned an obscure communist revolt into a raging resource war.

BY JASON MIKLIAN, SCOTT CARNEY | SEPT. / OCT. 2010

Urban Legends

Why suburbs, not cities, are the answer.

BY JOEL KOTKIN | SEPT. / OCT. 2010

Don't Try This at Home

You can't build a new Silicon Valley just anywhere.

BY MARGARET O'MARA | SEPT. / OCT. 2010

Beyond City Limits

The age of nations is over. The new urban age has begun.

BY PARAG KHANNA | SEPT. / OCT. 2010

Is the UAE Banning BlackBerrys Because of Israel?

Seven months after it happened, the mysterious assassination of a Hamas operative in Dubai is still causing fallout in the Middle East.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | AUGUST 10, 2010

Panda-Hugger Hangover

Until fairly recently, the Chinese were earning praise for their shrewd handling of Southeast Asia. Not anymore.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | AUGUST 4, 2010

Wally's World

Thirty-five years ago this week, Wallace Broecker predicted decades of dangerous climate change caused by humans. Unfortunately, he was all too prescient.

BY BRAD JOHNSON | AUGUST 3, 2010

Bury the Graveyard

If you want to figure out a way forward for Afghanistan, fake history is not the place to start.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 26, 2010

Who Killed the Climate Bill?

We asked the experts who is to blame.

JULY 23, 2010

Soccer Explains Nothing

Stop looking to the World Cup for history lessons. It’s just a game and, frankly, that’s good enough.

BY SIMON KUPER | JULY 21, 2010

Angle of Defection

Was Shahram Amiri's return to Iran politically motivated, or was he just miserable?

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 16, 2010

Don't Even Think About It

The Cold War was scary enough. Now try to imagine a nuclear arms race between China and India.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 13, 2010

Life by a Thousand Cuts

The United States' defense-spending habit has been out of control for years. Will it ever change?

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 7, 2010

Unfinished Business

For 65 years, Japanese corporations have escaped responsibility for abusing American POWs during World War II.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JUNE 28, 2010

Bank Shot

Nine years after 9/11, getting between extremist groups and their funding remains an uphill struggle.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JUNE 21, 2010

Night of the Living Wonks

Toward an international relations theory of zombies.

BY DANIEL W. DREZNER | JULY/AUGUST 2010

Hapless Doesn't Mean Harmless

Burma has a nuclear program. It's a mess, but it's still a nuclear program.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JUNE 14, 2010

Stoned

Oliver Stone's new movie about Latin America makes the case for Hugo Chávez. Good luck with that.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JUNE 9, 2010

Channel Template

JUNE 8, 2010

Oh, That Seventies Feeling

Historians are finally starting to show that there was a lot more to the “Me Decade” than we might have thought.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JUNE 1, 2010

Zoopolitics

How caged animals became a tool of statecraft.

BY CHARLES HOMANS | MAY 26, 2010

Israel's Most Illicit Affair

A new book reveals that Israel’s secret relationship with apartheid South Africa went far deeper than previously understood.

BY GLENN FRANKEL | MAY 24, 2010

Goodbye Sunshine

South Korea has officially accused Kim Jong Il's regime of committing an act of war. Now comes the hard part.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | MAY 21, 2010

The Wise Men and The Bomb

Some of the leading figures of the atomic age argue for a dramatic reduction in nuclear weapons — ultimately down to zero. Why?

BY DAVID E. HOFFMAN | MAY 20, 2010