President Obama had a few words to say about discrimination against Muslims in his State of the Union speech, but nothing about discrimination against Christians – which includes assault, murder, and imprisonment globally. The omission was as shameful as it was unsurprising.
Gay dating app Grindr has long been viewed as one of the great “bootstrapping” success stories of the tech world, self-funded from inception through years of dramatic growth. It was therefore surprising to see the company sell off 60 percent of its shares to a huge corporate investor for a cool $93 million.
Beijing-based Chinese gaming company, Kunlun World Wide Technology Co., has become the majority owner of the wildly popular, Hollywood-based gay dating app Grindr.
North Korea’s state-controlled media appear to have begun a purge of high-ranking Chinese officials from their records, in a sign that relations between the two communist countries are at an all-time low.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem will meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other high-ranking Indian officials on Monday in a renewed effort to garner international support for the dictatorship of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, particularly in Asia.
CNN has published an interview this morning with Kim Dong Chul, a North Korean prisoner who claims to have U.S. citizenship and is pleading for the White House to help free him.
Billionaire Zhou Chengjian, whose $4 billion clothing retail fortune makes him the 62nd-richest person in China, has mysteriously disappeared. He is only the latest in a line of Chinese business magnates to vanish, with the previous disappearance occurring only last month. It almost certainly is not the work of John Galt.
Contents: North Korea’s explosion was probably not a ‘hydrogen bomb’; South Korea resumes broadcasting propaganda via loudspeakers; North Korea’s nuclear test revives memories of the 2010 Cheonan attack; China faces limited influence and high frustration dealing with North Korea
The United Nations is vowing a “significant” response to North Korea’s claim that it successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb earlier this week, despite years of economic sanctions and arm sales bans doing little to deter the rogue nation’s aggressive behavior.
In a measure aimed at addressing the population crisis in China, the Communist Party announced this week that effective immediately, official approval of first and second children for qualified couples will no longer be required under their new two-child policy.
The Chinese government has dispatched diplomats to begin discussions with high-level officials in both South Korea and the United States regarding how to approach North Korea’s belligerent activity this week, including the detonation of a nuclear weapon the rogue state claims was a hydrogen bomb.
Contents: Numerous countries end diplomatic relations with Iran after Saudi embassy firebombing Iran seeks to pass the blame for the Saudi embassy firebombing Desperate Chinese officials remove stock market circuit breakers
A slump in Chinese shares has prompted stock markets across Asia, Europe and the US to fall sharply. Why is this so significant?
Republican presidential candidate Texas Senator Ted Cruz stated that “political opponents” of his are trying to “muddy the water” by questioning his eligibility, and accused Senator John McCain (R-AZ) of doing so to promote fellow candidate Florida Senator Marco Rubio
Japan’s demographic decline has grown so pronounced that large-scale immigration may be on the table, after generations of resistance.
Republican presidential candidate Florida Senator Marco Rubio argued that fellow candidate New Jersey Governor Chris Christie “has done a number of things that are very similar to the Obama agenda” on Thursday’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” on the Fox Business
Vietnam is preparing to deploy the first of six Kilo-class submarines purchased from Russia in the South China Sea, as a deterrent to China’s seemingly endless expansionism in the region.
A group of about 30 men in camouflage bulldozed an active hospital in China this morning, destroying an estimated $600,000 worth of medical equipment and trapping doctors and patients inside.
Contents: String of New Year’s Eve sexual assaults in Cologne Germany; Cologne mayor attracts backlash for advising women to adopt Code of Conduct; The pendulum swings back on gender issues; China halts stock market trading to prevent crash; Merry Christmas!
Chinese stocks in Hong Kong fell to the lowest level in four years as mainland shares plunged, forcing an early halt to trading for the second day this week, after the central bank cut its yuan reference rate by the most since August.
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer explained how he thought the United States could get China to act against the North Koreans for their nuclear ambitions. According to Krauthammer, if China had to deal
Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day,” Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) reacted to North Korea’s possible successful detonation of a hydrogen bomb the day before. Paul acknowledged there were no easy solutions to North Korea’s aggressive actions, but insisted
Chinese state news outlet Xinhua is reporting that the government has landed two more planes on a landing strip illegal constructed in the Spratly Islands of the South China Sea, days after Vietnam and the Philippines filed a formal complaint over a similar incident.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated that he would like to see fellow candidate Texas Senator Ted Cruz “get some kind of order” regarding his eligibility for president because he wouldn’t like to see Cruz’s eligibility challenged by Democrats and
China has summoned the North Korean ambassador in ire over reports circulating last night that North Korea had detonated a hydrogen bomb, flagrantly violating international law.
