Asians Say Trade Complaints Bring Out the Bully in China

from The Washington Post 

JAKARTA, Indonesia — After hearing about dangerous Chinese products elsewhere, Indonesia this summer began testing popular Chinese-made items on its own store shelves. What it found has added to the list of horrors: mercury-laced makeup that turns skin black, dried fruit spiked with industrial chemicals, carcinogenic children’s candy.

Singapore jails opposition leader over bid to leave

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore has jailed a prominent opposition leader for three weeks after he failed to pay a fine for trying to leave the city-state without permission from the government, as required of him as a bankrupt.