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Headline News December 27, 2013: China and the US Condemn Yasukuni Visit, PRC President Says Mao Made Mistakes, Arafat Died Naturally According to Russian and French Scientists

Reddit Group Raises $2500 to Help North Korean Escape Police in Bangkok, Thailand Open Fire on Anti-Government Protesters Flesh Eating Piranhas in Argentina Ruin Christmas Day Swim Uruguay Legalizes Marijuana US Embassy in Japan Condemns PM Shinzo Abe’s Visit to Controversial Yasukuni Shrine Turkish Prime Minister’s Position Increasingly Untenable French and Russian Teams Declare Palestine’s […]

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Ding Jinhao Was Here: Chinese Tourist Defaces Cameo at Egypt’s Luxor Temple

Chinese tourists from Nanjing, Jiangsu province in the People’s Republic of China caused a firestorm of controversy when their son, the purported Ding Jinhao, carved his name onto a cameo at Egypt’s famous Luxor Temple, showing wanton disregard for historical, cultural relics as well as embarrassing a nation. This is not the first incident of […]

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Kim Jong-il on Display at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang, North Korea

In line with a communist tradition established after the death of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union and influential Marxist philosopher, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will place Dear Leader Kim Jong-il’s embalmed figure on display alongside that of his father, Eternal President Kim Il-sung.   It is unknown if the Kumsusan Palace […]

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The Spectre of Juche: Is North Korea Capable of True Reform?

As his first year as Supreme Leader concludes, analysts have an overall mixed reaction to Kim Jong-un’s style of leadership. Promises of economic reform, innovations in propaganda that has made it more outward facing in nature, and the introduction of a first family with his marriage to Ri Sol-ju are just three of the highlights of the newest Kim’s first year. While the […]

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Protestors in Guangzhou Decry the People’s Republic of China’s Strict Censorship Laws

Protests in the Chinese state of Guangzhou have erupted after a New Year’s editorial in the newspaper Southern Weekend was censored and transformed into a more pro-Communist Party of China message than the reformist manifesto it was prior to censorship. The editorial apparently exhorted the government in Beijing to enforce the rights guaranteed to the Chinese […]

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