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Democratic Party of Japan wins in landslide election

An era has come to an end. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) on Sunday lost its vast majority in the Japanese House of Representatives. Since the end of WWII, the LDP had always had enough seats to form the government (with a 9-month long interruption in 1993).


PRC Government blocks Twitter

Two days before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen incident, the government of the Peoples’ Republic of China has cut off access to Twitter and Hotmail. This is certainly not only a a measure to make people save bandwidth…


New Nuclear Test in North-Korea

More than two and a half years after North-Koreas first Nuclear Test, the totalitarian Regime carried out a second one last night. According to an official communique by the government, the latest detonation was stronger than the one before and been a part of “measures to enhance the Republic’s self-defensive nuclear deterrent in all [...]


Former South-Korean President commits suicide

Roh Moo-Hyun, wo had been president of the Republic of Korea until he was succeeded by Lee Myung-Bak in 2008, jumped off a mountain this morning. He had been involved in a corruption scandal towards the end of his presidency and had been accused of corruption because his wife and daughter had received funds from [...]


News from North Korea…again

Seems like the regime wants to catch our attention in all possible areas:
South Korea’s soccer team – which would otherwise have been way inferior – could only save their 1-0 victory by poisoning North Korea’s Players before Kick-off. And, to put it bluntly, North Korea was my predicted 2010 world champion until now.
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