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Nearly half of the people who crossed the US border in August came from three countries. "Failing communist regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba are driving a new wave of migration," a US official said. In total, just under 158,000 people had encounters with southwest border officials in August. Fifty migrants were flown from Texas […]
PHILIP FONG/AFP/Getty Images) One of Hong Kong’s fiercely pro-Beijing mastheads, Wen Wei Po, has revealed itself as the stalker of an Australian academic, nearly four days after he began tweeting evidence that he was being tailed around Hong Kong. Dr. Kevin Carrico, a Chinese studies lecturer at Australia’s Macquarie University, has been doing research in […]
With a 90-pound satellite strapped on, the Zhuque-1 shot off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia on Oct. 27 with a historic mission in its sights: becoming China’s first private sector rocket to deliver a payload into orbit. The Zhuque-1 didn’t make it, but Landspace, the firm that owns it, isn’t settling […]
A monk intones a parable about life and death over a bubbling keyboard, his words a somber portent of what is to follow. The simple walking bass line builds momentum, programmed beats punch out a lolloping reggae skank, and Cam — one of the three-man Ho Chi Minh City hip-hop crew Hazard Clique — kicks […]
It’s a Wonderful Life is an all-American staple of the holiday season, a profoundly inspiring film about a downtrodden man finding meaning and the will to live through the people he has connected with throughout his life. But the FBI once considered it un-American. For 10 years after the film’s release in 1946, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI […]
The Philippines have struggled with communist rebels for almost half a century, and President Rodrigo Duterte just decided to scrap peace talks with them. Duterte will consider the rebels terrorists because hostilities continued during negotiations. The Philippines is also fighting an Islamist insurgency and a drug war that has resulted in thousands of deaths. MANILA […]
Published time: 4 Nov, 2017 00:30 Edited time: 4 Nov, 2017 00:33 Siberian communists back in 1967 dreamed big, believing that by now we would have landed on Mars and established contacts with alien civilizations, a time capsule opened in Novosibirsk revealed. The retro-futuristic time capsule was placed in the city’s culture center 50 years […]
To Beijing-based IT executive Long Xin, the Chinese Communist Party’s recently concluded five-yearly congress wasn’t the tightly guarded, secretive conclave that generations of Chinese before him have grown up witnessing from the sidelines. The decisions that will impact the world’s second-largest economy’s direction for the next five years were still taken by a tiny handful […]
Published time: 24 Oct, 2017 09:44 China’s ruling Communist Party has formally enshrined President Xi Jinping’s political thoughts into its constitution, raising his status to the country’s most powerful leader in decades and putting him on par with party founder Mao Zedong. The party unanimously passed the amendment to include “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism […]
ALAMY/GETTY Symbols of Moscow’s Communist past are still very visible in the city HIGH LIFE The Swissotel Krasnye Holmy is a striking 34-storey cylindrical tower next to the Moskva River that stands out on the skyline of Moscow’s business district about two miles from the Kremlin. Take in the 360 degree views from the City […]
