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FAM: The following viral report was featured on Shanghaiist. (Shanghaiist) – A brutal video showing a woman being rescued from certain death at the hands of a crazed attacker on the street by a group of brave passersby has gone viral on Chinese social media. The incident occurred in the...
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FAM: Continuing coverage from Aljazeera on #Oathgate protests: (Aljazeera) – Street battles erupted as thousands in Hong Kong protested China’s intervention in a dispute over whether two recently elected pro-independence lawmakers should be barred from taking office. Peaceful protest march devolves into #hongkong police using pepper spray. Umbrella Protests...
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(Reuters) China on Tuesday rejected a plan by U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to back out of a global climate change pact, saying a wise political leader should make policy in line with global trends, a rare comment on a foreign election. The world is moving towards balancing environmental...
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(Ask a Korean) President Park Geun-hye is deep trouble. Park’s confidant Choi Soon-sil has been running a massive slush fund, as she extorted more than $70 million from Korea’s largest corporations. Soon-sil was receiving confidential policy briefings and draft presidential speeches and rigged the college admission process so that her...
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(SCMP) The new Communist Party chief in Xinjiang, Chen Quanguo, is strongly tipped to join the party’s Politburo next year as a result of his strong ties with Premier Li Keqiang and five years of hardline rule in his previous post in Tibet, which won him the trust of party...
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FAM: Southeast Asia Globe tells us how in Southeast Asia, there is a man who wants to win power by taking it out on some of the most vulnerable people in society. (Southeast Asia Globe) – In the short term, users may experience a euphoric energy burst, acute alertness and...
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(The World Bulletin) The Cambodian government has given the green light for three more refugees detained by Australia on the South Pacific island of Nauru to be resettled in Cambodia. The Cambodia Daily on Friday quoted refugee official Tan Sovichea as saying that the paperwork has been approved by...
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(NDTV) – As India’s purchasing power and geopolitical influence increases, Pakistan risks increasing global isolation when it comes to purchase of high-tech defence items, an American think-tank has said. “Over the long term, Pakistan may be unable to access the most advanced weapons systems in the global marketplace. Instead,...
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(AFP) – China’s ruling Communist Party declared its General Secretary Xi Jinping the “core” of its leadership on Thursday, elevating his already powerful status. A communique issued by top party leaders after a four-day meeting in Beijing called on all its members to “closely unite around the CPC Central...
FAM: The following viral report was featured on Shanghaiist. (Shanghaiist) – A brutal video showing a woman being rescued from certain death at the hands of a crazed attacker on the street by a group of brave passersby has gone viral on Chinese social media. The incident occurred in the...
FAM: Continuing coverage from Aljazeera on #Oathgate protests: (Aljazeera) – Street battles erupted as thousands in Hong Kong protested China’s intervention in a dispute over whether two recently elected pro-independence lawmakers should be barred from taking office. Peaceful protest march devolves into #hongkong police using pepper spray. Umbrella Protests...
(Reuters) China on Tuesday rejected a plan by U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to back out of a global climate change pact, saying a wise political leader should make policy in line with global trends, a rare comment on a foreign election. The world is moving towards balancing environmental...
(Ask a Korean) President Park Geun-hye is deep trouble. Park’s confidant Choi Soon-sil has been running a massive slush fund, as she extorted more than $70 million from Korea’s largest corporations. Soon-sil was receiving confidential policy briefings and draft presidential speeches and rigged the college admission process so that her...
(SCMP) The new Communist Party chief in Xinjiang, Chen Quanguo, is strongly tipped to join the party’s Politburo next year as a result of his strong ties with Premier Li Keqiang and five years of hardline rule in his previous post in Tibet, which won him the trust of party...
FAM: Southeast Asia Globe tells us how in Southeast Asia, there is a man who wants to win power by taking it out on some of the most vulnerable people in society. (Southeast Asia Globe) – In the short term, users may experience a euphoric energy burst, acute alertness and...
(The World Bulletin) The Cambodian government has given the green light for three more refugees detained by Australia on the South Pacific island of Nauru to be resettled in Cambodia. The Cambodia Daily on Friday quoted refugee official Tan Sovichea as saying that the paperwork has been approved by...
(NDTV) – As India’s purchasing power and geopolitical influence increases, Pakistan risks increasing global isolation when it comes to purchase of high-tech defence items, an American think-tank has said. “Over the long term, Pakistan may be unable to access the most advanced weapons systems in the global marketplace. Instead,...
(AFP) – China’s ruling Communist Party declared its General Secretary Xi Jinping the “core” of its leadership on Thursday, elevating his already powerful status. A communique issued by top party leaders after a four-day meeting in Beijing called on all its members to “closely unite around the CPC Central...