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“Kim, a 40-year-old father of three and former correspondent for North Korea’s largest newspaper, Rodong, said 62 bands from 20 countries have signed on so far, but aside from one Norwegian death metal band he’s reluctant to provide any details as yet.”

“How do you measure poverty? Probably because they have to grab a Big Mac in between filing stories, Reuters reporters have come up with a new metric on poverty. Interesting to know that Indonesia is behind only South Africa and Egypt in this reckoning.”

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“FIVE editors of the award-winning fortnightly magazine Newsbreak decried the issuance by a Manila prosecutor yesterday of a resolution approving the filing of libel charges against them in connection with an article on Jose Miguel Arroyo, husband of Glor

“China has begun drawing up plans to attack North Korea, according to the Paris-based Intelligence Online newsletter. Hu Jintao, head of the Central Military Commission, has ordered the Chinese military to draw up the attack plan as a move “deliberately m

“EBay now abandons China and us, the loyal workers….I am one of the many disgruntled Eachnet employee. I have suffered through the incompetence of Ebay leaders for many years. I admit I am greedy. I stay for money. But Ebay has screwed up our Company an

“A morally vapid redneck racist helped advance civil rights in the United States and some dumb power-hungry bureaucrats in Shenzhen may very well end up doing the same thing for China.”

” I realize that, in addition to pulverizing me in a physical sense, this China stint is making me worse as a human being.”