Quick notes: Dance bars, evil night owls...

• Supporters of the dance bars fail to notice that they are validating a cultural environment that objectifies women as ‘social currencies'. It is a documented fact that dance bars were a front for prostitution and trafficking. Many of them perform in illegal dance bars and others prostitute themselves in Mumbai’s red light districts.



• Buddhist Monk blames Time magazine for Myanmar bombing.“Since their plan to fight me via Time Magazine has failed, they are now targeting my ‘dharma’ events, and the devotees, with explosive devices,”



• GM managed to fudge emissions tests on its models in India.



• The parliamentary committee on finance asks govt to ensure that Reliance Industries delivers for shortfall on production at $4.2 per mBtu rather than getting new pricing for previous commitments.



• Psychologists find that people who stay up late tend to have more evil personality traits than early risers. Related post: Morning People Happier Than Night Owls

Peaceful Rise - Funded By Neighbors

The Chinese-financed railway is to snake its way through dozens of tunnels and bridges, eventually linking southern China to Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, and then on to the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar, significantly expanding China’s already enormous trade with Southeast Asia.

Most of the benefits, critics say, would flow to China while most of the costs would be borne by the host nation. The price tag of the $7 billion, 260-mile rail project, which Laos will borrow from China, is nearly equal to the tiny $8 billion in annual economic activity in Laos

NYT: China Builds a Railroad, and Laos Bears the Cost 

India to develop Myanmar port to connect to North-East

This is great news. India is developing the Sittwe port in Myanmar which would help it connect to land-locked North-East, thus bypassing Bangladesh. Would help the North-East develop much faster, making it the gateway to South-East Asia. Also in times of war, provides India with one more route to its North-East.
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