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Overworked? 24-Year-Old Ogilvy China Staffer Dies After Heart Attack at Desk
New York City :: NY :: USA | 5 days ago
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Year-Old Ogilvy China Staffer Dies After Heart Attack at Desk Cause of Heart Attack Unknown But Death Raises Issue of Overwork in China Reports that Gabriel Li died of chronic overwork have not been substantiated. Still, his death highlights the lack
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Glasnost by stealth in North Korea
Pyŏngyang :: North Korea | 8 days ago
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People wonder for how long the current North Korean regime is likely to continue...As somebody who has spent his childhood and youth in the former Soviet Union, I am often asked about the circumstances that led to the collapse of what was once a vast
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The Best Books of 2012 on Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics
Temple :: TX :: USA | 5 months ago
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Shulman professor emeritus at Columbia University selects the most important books on Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics published during the last year. Capsule Review, August 20, 2012 In an intelligent, fluent study of Czechoslovak dissent
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As China's clout grows, sea policy proves unfathomable
Shanghai :: China | 5 months ago
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Imagine if the U.S. state of Hawaii passed a law allowing harbour police to board and seize foreign boats operating up to 1,000 km (600 miles) from Honolulu. That, in effect, is what happened in China about a week ago. The tropical province of
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Vietnam breaks up anti-China protest
Hanoi :: Vietnam | 5 months ago
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Vietnam (AP) Vietnamese police broke up an anti-China protest by about 200 people in downtown Hanoi on Sunday, detaining about 20 of them, amid rising tensions over Beijing's claims to the South China Sea. Anger at China is a sensitive issue for
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Ethnic tensions spur Russian crackdown on less-lethal guns
Moscow :: Russia | 6 months ago
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An increasingly nationalist society perceives them as spreading primarily among migrants from the former Soviet republics, groups that have flowed into urban areas seeking work.
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After a decade and a half Laos joins WTO
Vientiane :: Laos | 7 months ago
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Isolated for decades, impoverished and landlocked, Laos is not an obvious choice for investors. But the Communist country of 6.4 million people hopes to change that with its expected entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Friday, capping
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Crane falls on Russian construction site, killing 5 Chinese workers and injuring 5 more
Moscow :: Russia | 11 months ago
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Russia's emergency services say a crane crashed to the ground on a construction site, killing five Chinese workers and injuring five more. The crane fell in Troitsk, a city in the Ural Mountains on Russia's border with Kazakhstan...The Emergencies
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Cuba sees the writing on the wall
Havana :: Cuba | 1 year ago
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The World Bank and IMF don't publish figures for it, though the CIA estimates the output at a substantial $9,900 (U.S.) per capita, based on purchasing power parity with real growth of 1.5 per cent. All that tourism, tobacco and sugar generates more
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Two communist states, two different worlds
Pyŏngyang :: North Korea | 1 year ago
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North Korea pretty much like Westerners did (and still do now). In the Soviet Union of the 1970s and 1980s, North Korea was widely perceived as a grotesque, destitute and brutal dictatorship, an object of widespread disdain and ridicule...I have
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