Chinese tourists’ bad manners harming country’s reputation, says senior official
A vice premiere says Chinese tourists are hurting the country’s image.
Source: Washington Post
Anteater's birth in female-only pen stumps zoo staff
Confused Connecticut conservation officers are wondering how a female anteater, who has given birth at the centre, conceived without a male in the pen.
Source: cbc.ca
Desmond Tutu 'will not vote for ANC'
South African elder statesman and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu has said he would no longer vote for the ruling ANC.
Source: BBC
Need A Tattoo Translated? Forget The British Foreign Office
British consular officials say they’ve gotten odd requests over the past year, ranging from help in getting Olympic tickets to checking the credentials of an online date.
Source: NPR
Named and shamed
IT HAS been a bad week for Mexico’s high and mighty, and a good week for Schadenfreude. This is thanks in large part to the growth of social media (as a share of…
Source: economist.com
Saudi virtue police condemn Twitter
Sheikh Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh said anyone using social media sites - and especially Twitter - “has lost this world and his afterlife”.
Source: BBC
U.S. Soldier Gets Life In Prison Over Iraq Killings
An American soldier convicted of killing five of his colleagues in Iraq in May 2009 has been sentenced to life in prison. A military court in the northwestern state of Washington handed down th…
Source: rferl.org
China tries to rein in microbloggers
Authorities show determination to control burgeoning culture of social media by closing accounts of writers and intellectuals.
Source: Guardian
Why is violent crime so rare in Iceland
Iceland is awash in guns, yet it has one of the lowest violent crime rates in the world. US law student Andrew Clark asks why.
Source: BBC
If women don't want to be raped they shouldn't drink too much, says Hong Kong official - Telegraph
Hong Kong’s security minister came under fire today for saying that women should “not drink too much” if they wanted to avoid being raped.
Source: telegraph.co.uk
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