If I were Mr. Party head in the province who provoked this mess I’d clear out my desk and make up two envelopes for my successor. One which is numbered 1 and inside has a piece of paper that says “blame me” and the other numbered 2 with a piece of paper inside that says “make up two envelopes.”Read More →
THE TELEGRAPH, MAR 26, 2014 – Mr Putin is discovering that global finance is more frightened of the US Securities and Exchange Commission than Russian T90 tanks. Read More →
THE TIMES-UNION, FEB 18, 2014 – In the fight over a proposal to keep Quebec’s civil servants from wearing outsized yarmulkes, crucifixes, hajibs and turbans, public hearings are shining a light on the true fears of the French up North: zombies.Read More →
MONTREAL, OCTOBER 6, 2013 – A municipal election campaign poster near the Old City. Read More →
SHANGHAI, JUNE 29, 2013 – Footnote on wedding: 9 does indeed have significance in the Chinese culture. It means “forever.”Read More →
BANGKOK, JUNE 16, 2013 – Kanako and Baul and Kanako’s family following the engagementRead More →
BANGKOK, JUNE 19, 2013 – I’m sure someday I’ll look back at yesterday’s events with nostalgic fascination, but while living and eating through them, I could only stress.Read More →
BANGKOK, JUNE 16, 2013 – When I got my hair washed and cut here in an upscale mall in Bangkok the chatter between the “women” while my hair was being washed seemed odd to me.Read More →
(BEIJING, CHINA) APRIL-MAY, 2012 – Setting off a high-profile showdown, the U.S. Consulate grants sanctuary to a blind dissident escaping extra-legal detention days before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other top officials arrive for talks. Read More →
(SHANGHAI, CHINA) December 30, 2011 – My editor told me to find out if there was General Tsao’s Chicken in China. Read More →
(SHANGHAI, CHINA) September 13, 2011 – Love blooms over free coffee for the 45 to 65 set at Ikea in Shanghai, but management would just like them all to go away.Read More →
(SHANGHAI, CHINA) JUNE 2, 2011 – Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley announces investment of a Chinese pharmaceutical company in Montgomery County.Read More →
(JAPAN) MARCH 12-19, 2011 A devastating earthquake measuring 8.9 off the coast of Northeastern Japan is followed by a tsunami and a nuclear near-catastrophe. Read More →
Bill Marcus covered the 2011 Japanese tsunami, the 2010 Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.Read More →
(YONGPYEONG ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA) OCTOBER 23, 2010 – North Korea sends 170 artillery missiles across its maritime border killing four South Koreans.Read More →
(DMZ, SOUTH KOREA) JUNE 27, 2010 – Despite the ceremonies marking 60 years since the start of the Korean War youth today in South Korea couldn’t care less about it all. Read More →
(DMZ, KOREAN BORDER) JUNE 27, 2010 – Fox News Radio visits the DMZ with the son of a Korean War doctor who served in the unit on which M*A*S*H was based.Read More →
(SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA) JUNE 25, 2010 – Korea today marks 60 years since the start of the three-year war that ended with three million dead – two and a half million of them civilians – unchanged borders and an armistice.
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GLOBAL TIMES, APRIL 1, 2010 “The duty is just to be white,” said Bill Marcus, suburban New Yorker. He was hired by a Hong Kong architectural design firm Cotik as “business development director” for a day in Shanghai. Read More →
COMMUNIST PARTY OFFICIALS NOW CLAIMING IT’S THEIR RIGHT TO SIGN OFF ON THE LEGITIMACY OF A REINCARNATION OF THE DALAI LAMA. FOX NEWS RADIO’S BILL MARCUS HAS MORERead More →
FOX NEWS RADIO, DEC 14, 2009 – China’s president Hu Jintao and three Central Asian leaders opened a new natural gas line on Monday that will eventually import 40 billion cubic meters of gas to China each year. Fox News Radio’s Bill Marcus has more from Shanghai.Read More →