A wealthy Chinese developer has made a bid on a tract of land in Akureyri, Iceland, with such amenable features as mud pools and molten lava fields. Huang Nubo is a former Chinese government official whose claims of wanting to develop a resort have come under scrutiny by Iceland’s Interior Ministry. Some more conspiratorially minded […]
Read MoreForeign Policy’s article “The Axis of No,” by Dmitri Trenin, argues that the events of the Arab Spring and the toppling of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East has contributed to a tightening of relations between the Chinese and Russians who have positioned themselves in opposition to United Nations’ backed maneuvers to aid the collapse […]
Read MoreThe Iranian regime has claimed to have arrested 12 undercover CIA agents within the Islamic republic. Iran’s state news agency Irna reported Parviz Sorouri, a member of Iran’s parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, as saying that the undercover agents were gathering information on Iran’s security, military and nuclear activities. Former U.S. officials […]
Read MoreThirty three years of dictatorship have come to an end today in Yemen. As reported earlier, President Ali Abdullah Saleh will step down from his seat immediately making him the fourth authoritarian ruler to have been ousted in the Arab Spring. Saleh signed an agreement in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, transferring power to […]
Read MoreWhen entrepreneurs in China seek financing for their projects they often turn to the informal credit market because the state-owned finance channels tend to prefer state-owned firms. Wenzhou is a manufacturing capital in China that produces everything from cigarette lighters to tennis shoes – its economy is both a shining example of how far China […]
Read MoreMyanmar’s famed freedom fighter and long time house bound political prisoner, Aung San Suu Kyi, has challenged her party, the National League for Democracy, to contest all seats in the upcoming parliamentary elections in a change from the party’s previously non-participative stance regarding Myanmar’s government. Originally Aung San Suu Kyi ran in 1990 and her […]
Read MoreThe nation of Yemen has been locked in a political crisis since January 2011. Negotiations between President Saleh’s regime and the opposition has reportedly led to an agreement for Ali Abdullah Saleh to transfer power to his deputy minister Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi in an act that will bring 33 years of uninterrupted rule over the […]
Read More[Previously, The Walking Dead: Season 2, Episode 5 – ‘Chupacabra’ Review and Synopsis] Spoilers ahead. This episode opens up on the Herschel Farm as if nothing has changed, so apparently Glen has kept his secret to himself. Still, it is overwhelmingly insane that these people are keeping zombies corraled in a barn. We see […]
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