CAPE TOWN, Sept 4 (Reuters) – South Africa has denied a visa to the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, for the third time in five years, one of his representatives said on Thursday, intensifying speculation about the extent of Beijing’s sway
Hong Kong democracy activists hit back Friday at comments from Britain welcoming Beijing’s plans for limited voting rights in the southern Chinese city, describing them as “shameful” and “cowardly”. Activists in the former British colony had their hopes for genuine
Joan Rivers died on Thursday at Mt. Sinai Hospital, her daughter Melissa Rivers told media outlets. The 81-year old was rushed to the hospital after she stopped breathing and went into cardiac arrest during elective surgery for her vocal
A group of security-conscious Americans have revealed a nationwide network of “fake” cell phone towers of unknown origin which can intercept calls, texts, and even remotely control unprotected phones. When interviewed by The Popular Science Monthly Les Goldsmith, the CEO
Hong Kong students announced plans Thursday to hold a week-long strike in response to Beijing’s refusal to grant the semi-autonomous city universal suffrage. Activists in the former British colony had their hopes for genuine democracy crushed after China announced on
On Wednesday, President Obama, speaking from Estonia, launched a series of bizarre comments at the Islamic State. After announcing that America “will not be intimidated” by the Islamic State – a bizarre statement from the most powerful man on the
In Xinjiang, China, home to a large swath of the country’s Uyghur Muslim population, Chinese officials are encouraging inter-ethnic marriages through cash bribes among other means, the New York Times reports. The Xinjiang region has been hit with a recent
Here’s a little high-tech ghost story to give you chills, just in case you weren’t already freaked out enough by the Nude Celebrity Hack, or the possible theft of a large trove of credit card numbers from Home Depot: Typical
The Philippines’ National Bureau of Investigation arrested three men at Manila’s Ninoy Aquino airport yesterday carrying explosives. While first believed to be involved in a jihadist plot, the men were eventually linked to a previously undiscovered terror group protesting Chinese-owned
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Britain’s David Cameron announces new anti-terrorism measures Russian lawyers: ‘Stealth invasion’ of Ukraine is legal India, Japan leaders meet to counter rise of China Britain’s David Cameron announces new anti-terrorism measures Having raised UK’s
Hong Kong police have arrested at least 22 people during a series of protests targeting a senior Chinese official visiting the city, authorities said Tuesday. The city has been plunged into political crisis after pro-democracy activists vowed to take over
China faces an existential threat to their export-based economy due to high energy costs, and Russia faces an existential threat to their energy-based economy due to crippling Western financial sanctions. By agreeing to jointly build the “Power of Siberia” as
BEIJING (AP) — China’s legislature on Sunday ruled out allowing open nominations in the inaugural election for Hong Kong’s leader, saying they would create a “chaotic society.” Democracy activists in the Asian financial hub responded by saying that a long-threatened
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Pro-democracy activists vowed on Sunday to bring Hong Kong’s financial hub to a standstill after China’s parliament rejected their demands for the right to freely choose the former British colony’s next leader in 2017. The Standing
USIS, the Department of Homeland Security’s contractor for conducting security clearance background checks, has had the personal records of at least 25,000 of its employees stolen because of hackers, and the hackers may have been from a foreign country, according
British authorities funded a four-year-long intelligence operation in Nepal that led to Maoist rebels being arrested, tortured and killed during the country’s civil war, according to the author of a new book on Kathmandu. Launched in 2002, “Operation Mustang” targeted
Henry Kissinger, Washington’s doyen of the national security elite, is calling for America to collaborate in establishing a new world order. We invite our readers to read his Wall Street Journal think piece and ask whether the United States has common
China is currently reclaiming the Mabini (Johnson South) Reef and “three more reefs within the Philippines’ Kalayaan Island Group (KIG)”–the “Burgos (Gaven) Reef, Kennan (Chigua) Reef, and Calderon (Cuarteron) Reef.” The Philippine Star quoted a Philippines’ security official saying, “While our
Japan’s defence ministry on Friday made its biggest ever budget request, as Tokyo bolsters its military amid worries over China’s expanding naval reach. The ministry wants 5.05 trillion yen ($48.7 billion) for the year, with the focus on boosting protection
The following text is from Douglas Carswell MP’s website TalkCarswell.com and is the full text of the speech he delivered yesterday, announcing his defection from the Conservative Party to UKIP: I’m today leaving the Conservative party and joining UKIP. This
Seven people died and another 20 were left missing after a landslide in southwest China, state media reported Thursday. The landslide engulfed a village near Fuquan city in the province of Guizhou, the Xinhua news agency said. Torrential rain complicated
On Wednesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer slammed the idea floated out by the Obama administration, reported in The New York Times on Wednesday, in which the United States along with other nations
In reaction to occasional violence involving robberies, California Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 962 on Monday, August 26, to launch the first-in-the-nation requirement that all smartphones sold in California be equipped with “kill switches.” These switches allow owners to remotely render
CBS is being sued for an alleged copyright infringement over a stuffed toy that goes by the name of “Bert the Farting Hippo.” The plaintiff, Folkmanis Inc., filed the lawsuit in California federal court on Monday and is asking for a
Li Luming carefully straightens a table cloth in his empty restaurant in Sierra Leone’s capital as he laments the damage Ebola has done to business. It is a pointless gesture — the table, like dozens in the “Beijing Restaurant”, has
