A city once known as a haven for free speech in the region is experiencing a slow and steady decline in press freedoms.
Amnesty International just released their new report on death sentences and executions
Executions rose by almost 15% in 2013, compared with 2012. Excluding China, at least 778 people were executed worldwide. Nearly 80% of them were in just three countries: Iran, Iraq and Saudi […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping visits France for a couple of days and buys Peugeot, orders 70 Airbus planes and 100 helicopters and signs deals for more than 25 billion dollars
Chinese President Xi Jinping has signed scores of business deals with French President Francois Hollande on the second day of a three-day visit. Ordering 70 Airbus planes worth more than $10bn dollars, […]
Amazingly, the Swedish language is bigger on Twitter than Chinese (they have their own Twitter)
Languages of tweets: 1 English 2 Japanese 3 Spanish 4 Portuguese 5 Indonesian 6 Arabic 7 French 8 Turkish 9 Russian pic.twitter.com/L44HvK8uWa — Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) March 25, 2014
Ultra-Left anarchist punks and pro-Korean protestors in Tokyo
Ultra-Left anarchist ‘punks’ and pro-Korean protestors in the Shin Okubo area of Tokyo.
NSA Spied on Chinese Government and networking giant Huawei
The American government conducted a major intelligence offensive against China, with targets including the Chinese government and networking company Huawei, according to documents from former NSA worker Edward Snowden that have been […]
BitcoinPeople Morning Digest #10
On CoinMap.org you can get a view of everything Bitcoin including consulting houses like Bitcoin Expert in Copenhagen. OK Coin in China gets a $10 million investment to built one of the […]
Russia’s Richest Man Dumps U.S. Shares and Avoids U.S. Dollar
Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov sold shares in Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc. and bought into technology investments such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. in China, one of his advisers said. “Chinese companies […]
Man walks more than 4500km through China (and grows a beard)
In 2008, Christoph Rehage from Munich walked through China – one year, more than 4500km. All the while, he let his hair and his beard grow. This is the resulting video. There […]
It seems MH370 was hijacked
UPDATE! Malaysia is reportedly investigating a theory that flight MH370 could have slipped under Pakistani radars and landed a Taliban base close to the Afghan border. The pilots’ possible role in the […]
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