YANGON – While no Asian country is likely to match South Korea’s run to the semi-finals on home soil in 2002, Japan and South Korea have a good chance at repeating their 2010 achievements by qualifying for the knockout rounds in the 2014 World Cup. For Iran and Australia, Asia’s other contenders, escaping the initial pool stages looks less likely, with the Australians drawn in an inescapable-looking cliff-face group.
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No EUdaimonia after Lisbon – The Casual Truth/Eurasia Review
http://www.thecasualtruth.com/story/europe-country http://www.eurasiareview.com/2010/03/32232-no-eu-daimonia-after-lisbon.html Lacking a democratic mandate and acting by stealth, the EU elites – namely senior Brussels-based bureaucrats and...
Monarchies and Political Systems Discussed in Bangkok – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=17365&Submit=Submi In a rare gathering, four ambassadors representing constitutional monarchies in Europe and Asia convened at Chulalongkorn University on...
Minority Serbs protest secession – The Washington Times
MITROVICA — To booming loudspeakers blasting out Orthodox hymns, Serbian student leader Sergej Zaporozac told the cheering crowd that “we are here since ancient times, [and] Kosovo is holy land for Serbs,” in reference to Kosovo’ quasi-mythical status in Serb nationalist circles The newly-independent state is site of numerous Orthodox monasteries and, on the road linking Pristina and Mitrovica, the tomb of Prince Lazar, martyred in 1289. Demonstrators waved Spanish and Russian flags in acknowledgement of those countries’ opposition to the newly declared Republic of Kosovo, while speakers castigated Western powers for recognizing Pristina’s government, as Belgrade followed up the recall of its ambassador in Washington with the withdrawal of its representative in Canberra, to protest Australia’s backing of the Kosovo state.