Tag Archives: Asia

If You Want To Fly Quantas, You Pay For It

Posted on October 15, 2024 by nathanalbright

I first saw the Vietjet planes when I was landing into Ho Chih Minh City, on a Vietnam Airlines flight that had begun in Hanoi, gone to Vientiane (where I got onto the flight), and then going on to Phnom … Continue reading →

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Laos Is Not A Fourth World Country

Posted on October 15, 2024 by nathanalbright

More than a decade ago, I wrote a discussion about why Thailand was a third world country according to economic data even if Bangkok was itself a considerably advanced city. All over the world, it is common for people who … Continue reading →

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Rush Hour In Phnom Penh

Posted on October 11, 2024 by nathanalbright

When I arrived in Phnom Penh and made my way through the airport (which is lovely and surprisingly small), I befriended a rickshaw driver who took me to my hotel and offered to take me around the town. I was … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Silk Roads: A New History Of The World

Posted on September 29, 2020 by nathanalbright

The Silk Roads: A New History Of The World, by Peter Frankopan It is unfortunate that this book has such a transparent agenda to endorse China’s expansive effort to dominate trade and has such a lamentable anti-Western bias with it. … Continue reading →

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Book Review: A Brief Political And Geographic History Of Asia

Posted on March 4, 2018 by nathanalbright

A Brief Political And Geographic History Of Asia:  Where Are…Saigon, Kampuchea, And Burma, by Doug Dillon As someone who has read quite a bit of this series so far [1], I must say that I was pleased in general with … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Samarkand

Posted on December 3, 2017 by nathanalbright

Samarkand:  Recipes & Stories From Central Asia & The Caucasus, by Caroline Eden & Eleanor Ford My standards for cookbooks are not too demanding.  I enjoy reading about ideas for foods that I already know I like that are unusual … Continue reading →

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Book Review: An Asian Harvest

Posted on September 11, 2017 by nathanalbright

An Asian Harvest:  An Autobiography, by Paul Hattaway [Note:  This book was provided free of charge by Kregel Book Tours.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.] In reading this book, I was struck by how Nathanish the author seemed. … Continue reading →

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Non-Book Review: Rebalancing U.S. Forces

Posted on June 6, 2014 by nathanalbright

Rebalancing U.S. Forces: Basing and Forward Presence in the Asia-Pacific, edited by Carnes Lord and Andrew S. Erickson This is the sort of book that I really enjoy reading that is probably not going to have a very large reading … Continue reading →

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Hearts Of Darkness

Posted on January 22, 2013 by nathanalbright

One of the greatest challenges to both idealism and optimism when it comes to global affairs is the fact that dealing with nations requires dealing with a government of some kind (unless you prefer dealing with situations like Somalia, and … Continue reading →

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Just Another Reason To Fight

Posted on July 25, 2012 by nathanalbright

A large amount of the problems of this world (though by no means all of them) are issues of resource management. While some people would fight and disagree anyway, competition for resources, be they material resources or such matters as … Continue reading →

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