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Ballot Box Watch: Your Guide to May Elections

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Team Chen Guangcheng: The Friends and Family Now at Risk

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Must-Reads from Around the World, May 14, 2012

Hunger Pains - The Guardian writes that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has warned Israel of “disaster that no one could control” as Palestinian hunger strikers near death. Tony Blair, the Middle...

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Deal in Nepal - The Kathmandu Post reports that Nepal’s major political parties have agreed to a future form of governance, with executive powers split between a directly elected president and a prime...

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Arming Rebels - The Washington Post reveals Syrian rebels battling President Assad’s regime have begun receiving “significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks.” Opposition activists and...

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Suspicious Minds - Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reveals that elderly Communist Party members in the Chinese province of Yunnan have been questioned after they penned a letter calling for...

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Family Business - The New York Times explores at length how China’s so-called ‘Princeling’ generation — the descendants of Communist Party leaders — use family ties to gain jobs, wealth and influence....

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Must-Reads from Around the World, June 8, 2012

Internal Democracy – The South China Morning Post reports that senior members of the Communist Party held an internal poll in May to select their favored top leaders for the party’s 25-member Politburo...

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Must-Reads from Around the World, June 11, 2012

Rising Anger – The South China Morning Post reports on protests Sunday in Hong Kong demanding Chinese authorities investigate last week’s suspicious death of Tiananmen dissident Li Wangyang. The...

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Fun in the Sun? The Philippines Dreams Big for Tourism

It’s lunchtime on the Loboc River, an emerald green stretch of water that runs through the Philippine island province of Bohol, and I’m about to embark on a boat tour with a group of Japanese, Korean...

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Must-Reads from Around the World, June 12, 2012

Preemptive Action — Ahead of Tuesday’s march against Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Guardian reports police have launched raids targeting opposition figures. “The raids are the latest in a...

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Must-Reads from Around the World, June 13, 2012

Proxy Pressures - The Washington Post relays American accusations that Russia will supply new attack helicopters to Syria, a move officials warned “would dramatically escalate the crisis and belie...

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Eyes on Africa — The Washington Post reveals that the U.S. is expanding secret intelligence operations across the continent using unarmed turboprop aircrafts disguised as private planes. “Equipped with...

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Mainland Affairs – The South China Morning Post reports that Chinese authorities have launched a new probe into the death of activist Li Wangyang, indicating they no longer believe he killed himself in...

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On the Streets of Hong Kong, a Vast Display of Discontent

Inside the air-conditioned cool of the harbor-front convention center where the British formally handed back control of Hong Kong to China 15 years ago, Chinese President Hu Jintao swore in Leung...

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Must-Reads from Around the World, August 6, 2012

Malian Militias – The New York Times reports from Mopti in Mali where hundreds of poorly armed civilians are training to wage war. “[They] have something the regular Malian Army here appears to lack: a...

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Must-Reads from Around the World, August 9, 2012

Groundhog Days – Pakistan’s Dawn ridicules the never-ending power struggle between the supreme court and the president. The court has once again ordered a prime minister — this time Raja Pervez Ashraf...

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When the Chips Are Down: U.S. Casinos Discover Macau’s Murky Side

Macau, an autonomous region of China situated 65 km west of Hong Kong, is the international king of gambling towns. Last year, revenues for its 30-plus casinos totaled $33.5 billion, more than five...

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New Low – Boston-based Global Post reports from Daraya, in Syria, on “what appears to be the single worst atrocity of the 17-month uprising: the killing of between 300 and 600 people, most of them...

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The Global Occupy Movement Makes Its Last Stand in Hong Kong

When Occupy protests sprung up on Sept. 17 last year in New York City and spread around the world, there was little surprise that they reached Hong Kong. Like the Big Apple and London, the former...

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