China Digital Times:
He Guoqiang (贺国强), Politburo Standing Committee member and head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, recently spoke about the utility of the Internet as a channel to gather comments for fighting corruption. Fr (Read More)
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Communist League Leader, Buti Manamela, calls for past President Thabo Mbeki and his health minister to be charged with genocide. (Read More)
CNN:
Raul Castro's government in Cuba continues to repress civil rights and persecute dissenters three years after he became the communist nation's leader, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Wednesday.
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FOXNews.com:
The one issue aides say President Obama and China leader Hu Jintao didn't talk about was the communist nation's holding of $800 billion in U.S. treasury bonds. (Read More)
China Digital Times:
Writer Su Tong won the Man Asian Literary Prize in Hong Kong for his book about a disgraced Communist official. Su is most famous for writing Wives and Concubines, which was later turned in Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern (Read More)
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Czechs and Slovaks alike have been marking the Velvet Revolution that brought down the Communist government of the then-Czechoslovakia. TIME looks back at the events of 1989 as well as the anniversary itself. (Read More)
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Communist regimes and dictators really do not like Facebook. We’ve written about China blocking Facebook on an ongoing basis, and now Vietnam is possibly blocking the site as well. According to Ben Stockton of AP, “Over the (Read More)
FOXNews.com:
Vietnam's growing legions of Facebook users fear that the country's communist government might be blocking the popular social networking Web site, which has become difficult to access over the past few weeks. (Read More)
Fox News:
With their country in deep political crisis, Czechs took to the streets throughout the country Tuesday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of decades of repressive communist rule. (Read More)
CNN:
Czech students will take to the streets Tuesday, just as they did two decades ago when their historic march ushered in the fall of communist rule.
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BBC:
The story of a disgraced Communist party official who makes a new life with a community of boat people wins the Man Asian Literary Prize. (Read More)
CNN:
When I was a teenager and in my early twenties, I always discussed with my most trusted friends what it might be like to live in a free world. We were locked behind the Iron Curtain and none of us believed we would live to se (Read More)
CNN:
It's just a T-shirt. Or so we thought.Our search for the "communist Obama" T-shirt began with a capable intern scouring markets in Beijing. It depicts President Obama wearing a Red Army uniform, the "Chinese communist-style" (Read More)
FOXNews.com:
Patriarch Pavle, who led Serbia's Christian Orthodox Church through its post-Communist revival and called for peace and conciliation during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s, died Sunday. He was 95. (Read More)
FOXNews.com:
Chinese officials are being told to dump their mistresses, avoid hostess bars, and shun extravagances as part of the Communist party's efforts to clamp down on the corruption that is threatening its rule and sullying its repu (Read More)