In China, traditional musicians face the two-fold threat of florescent pop music and a gradual drying of government funding, both of which have led to a decrease in demand for their craft. "While most pop music groups take in extra income by playing at clubs and parties," writes Yilu...
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The Thai government has admitted that it fumbled during the early stages of the bird flu outbreak. Yet it is now committed to aggressive action and transparent collaboration. Some Thai farmers are unhappy, however, claiming that if the government had taken the proper steps back in November, when...
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After routing out the oppressive Taliban regime from Afghanistan in 2001, America took on the burden of enforcing security within the war-torn country. Now, according to a report released today by Human Rights Watch (HRW), the US is failing to live up to its own standards of democracy and respect...
US troops in Afghanistan are operating outside the rule of law, using excessive force to make arrests, mistreating detainees and holding them indefinitely in a "legal black hole" without any legal safeguards, a report...
In June, German technology firm Siemens forced Germany’s powerful IG Metall trade Union into expanding work hours without compensation by threatening to move 2,000 jobs to Hungary. Since that time, Daimler Chrysler and Bosch have undertaken similar measures, and Volkswagen looks likely to do the...
With three high-profile German companies having already used strong-arm tactics in recent weeks to reach deals with workers to extend the workweek in return for job security, employees at smaller German...
South Korea has lost patience with North Korea after the nation stepped up missile and nuclear tests. “Kim Jong Un, who came to power in December 2011, is impatient to gain recognition as a nuclear state, apparently regarding this as a means to guarantee survival of his state and own life,"...
Missile grin: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a bunker for a ballistic missile launch; South Korean President Park Geun Hye urges North Koreans to defect
SEOUL: In August, a flash flood in parts of North Korea bordering China wiped out entire...
