North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire Monday across a disputed United Nations-mandated sea border. North Korean forces fired some 500 rounds into the ocean on the South Korean side;…
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Zurich’s Swiss Re, the world’s second-largest reinsurer, has published its global ranking of cities under threat from natural disasters — and a US city is in the top 10. For the…
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When it comes to stories about North Korea and its wacky yet deadly regime, it’s often hard to tell what’s true, what’s an urban legend, and what is South Korean…
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Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, the so-called “Bishop of Bling,” resigned as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg in Germany, in the wake of criticism from Pope Francis and others after a…
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North Korean boy dictator Kim Jong-un is forcing his male citizens to cut their hair the way he wears it, according to Radio Free Asia. But recent visitors to the…
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Former Editor: Bloomberg Buried Investigative Piece to Avoid Angering Chinese Government
Bloomberg News editor-at-large in Asia Ben Richardson has quit Michael Bloomberg’s business-oriented news agency, in protest of his editors burying an investigative piece on Chinese elites. According to the New York Times,…
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A petition posted to the White House web site seeks for the state of Alaska to secede from the US and rejoin Russia. The petition, which may or may not…
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“Xia” is a 38-year-old food cart vendor, who works the streets of the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, near the North Korean border. There’s nothing about the man that might catch…
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The United States’ central banking system will continue to “taper” its bond-buying program, and intends to end the program this fall, Janet Yellen told reporters today in her first press…
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[UPDATE 3/14/14 10:45 am PT]: Hunted Cow announced that Apple has lifted the ban on its game, without demanding changes. So there was this thing called World War II. Maybe…