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China has executed nine men, including eight from the Muslim Uighur minority, for crimes committed during July riots that killed 200 people in far western Xinjiang...
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China’s premier on Sunday pledged $10 billion in concessional loans to African nations over the next three years and said Beijing would cancel the government...
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Thank god so far Dalai Lama does not need permission from China to visit Arunachal & can stay at Dharmshala till god wants. I wonder why there is no national...
made popular Nov 9 2009
Will it be China that finally pays the huge bills for repairing and rebuilding Afghanistan and Iraq — and reaps the rewards? It’s looking that way: as the US and...
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Our huge hue and cry over the Chinese aggression matters little to china. We are no match for them and they know that very well. So they hold us in contempt for being a...
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China has seen a tenfold increase in syphilis cases over the past decade, as migrant workers made enough money in the country’s economic boom to hire more...
made popular Nov 5 2009
I’ve never understood the affinity between communists and Islamists. When it comes to spirituality they are polar opposites- Communists are atheists, and...
made popular Nov 5 2009
A TOP China air force commander has called the militarisation of space an “historical inevitability”, state media said today, marking an apparent shift in...
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Oh! What a strange! Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, is dauntless to throw charge against the Pakistani Government. “Pakistan is safe haven for Al Qaeda since...
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A bus plunged into a valley along a mountainous road in China’s northern Shanxi province, killing 13 people and injuring at least 40 others, local police and the...
made popular Oct 31 2009
This Halloween, prepare to be scared in China.
The country’s first Halloween haunted house attraction is spooking the crowds in Shanghai, with its creators...
made popular Oct 28 2009
Somehow the People’s Republic of China looks down upon India, since its inception, and keeps frightening its neighbour quite often. Surprisingly, its relations...
made popular Oct 27 2009
All the students at Luolang Elementary School, a yellow-and-orange concrete structure off a winding mountain road in southern China, know the key rules: Do not run in...
made popular Oct 26 2009
China’s GDP increased 8.9 percent for the third quarter, moving closer toward the goal of 8 percent growth for the year.
Growth for the first three quarters of...
made popular Oct 23 2009
After she refused a corrupt cop’s demand that she turn her teahouse into an illegal casino, three thugs beat Chen Yanling with electric batons, sending her to the...
made popular Oct 22 2009
A Chinese ship with 146 people aboard was hijacked Monday in the Indian Ocean, the European Union Naval Force said.
The bulk carrier De Xin Hai was hijacked around...
made popular Oct 20 2009
Around two dozen comics from the country are on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with writers, publishers and agents hopeful of a gradual easing of censorship in one...
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Six people were sentenced to death Thursday for their involvement in a deadly ethnic riot in western China in July, the official Chinese news agency reported. Three of...
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This afternoon more than a dozen Liberians are expected at the Samuel Doe sports stadium in the capital, Monrovia. In a makeshift classroom with some plastic chairs and...
made popular Oct 15 2009
With the global recession making consumers and businesses more price-conscious, China is grabbing market share from its export competitors, solidifying a dominance in...
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As though the world isn’t messed up enough with struggling world economies, violence everywhere, we also have Muslim extremism infecting the world with fear. ...
made popular Nov 5 2009
Around two dozen comics from the country are on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with writers, publishers and agents hopeful of a gradual easing of censorship in one...
made popular Oct 19 2009
George Bernard Shaw once said, “Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.” (Remember Lasantha?). One is also reminded of words of the 19th century poet...
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The 20-year-old student spoke softly but firmly as she described how a dispute over grades led to her rape at an unofficial jail.
She had been expelled from college...
made popular Aug 11 2009
As Venezuelans increasingly confront the consequences of Chavez’s “21st Century” through rampant inflation, decreased investment and a declining...
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Any hope that an ever more prosperous China would slowly lead to an opening in the realm of free expression and all the consequences thereof were given a setback this...
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Two days before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, China’s censors moved today to limit the access of the country’s increasingly...
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Hundreds of opponents of President Hugo Chavez marched in support of press freedom in Venezuela on Wednesday, two years after his government refused to renew the...
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Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan President, has tightened the noose on Globovisión, the last opposition news channel broadcasting freely in the country, amid threats to...
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Here is the dishonorable list of the Ten Worst countries for bloggers. The list is not surprising, not the inclusion of Tunisia or China.
It is in these countries...
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Last night while marinating some chicken, I was watching the season finale of “Heroes.” During a tense climactic scene, the main villain uses his...
made popular Apr 29 2009
Mexico is infamous for being one of the most dangerous countries for journalists and since 2000 already 20 have been killed and 8 kidnapped. These are the statistics of...
made popular Apr 8 2009
The Freedom on the Net Index has ranked Tunisia second only to Cuba and on par with China in censoring the Internet. The Tunisian government is notorious for blocking...
made popular Apr 4 2009
Yesterday I titled a post “Is Dubai Becoming The Next Saudi Arabia?” The post concerned the soon-to-be legally enforced code of conduct in Duabi whose...
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Imagine being jailed for simply blogging about your conversion to Christianity or for criticizing your government or your religion, but this is exactly what is...
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Earlier this week, China announced that it was taking action against the main search websites including Google and Baidu. Baidu has apologized for the published...
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China, since last month, has gone another step further and has begun accusing sites like Google for displaying morally controversial items such as pornography and...
made popular Jan 6 2009
Though some articles have completely horrified me, with racist remarks and hateful messages, I don’t think they should be edited or altered in anyway, they...
made popular Jan 6 2009
The chief of police in Passau, part of the eastern German state of Bavaria, was recently stabbed and almost killed by a neo-Nazi. Messer Alois Mannichl had made...
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