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This week’s meeting in Beijing of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which will inaugurate a new slate of leaders, has not exactly brought a golden dawn of free expression. In addition to cracking down on all forms of media, China’s creatively paranoid security forces are on the lookout for threats such as taxi passengers carrying pingpong balls that they might slip through windows to deliver subversive messages.
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North Koreans are increasingly able to access global media and other information, loosening the communist regime’s grip on their knowledge and potentially bringing far-reaching changes to the so-called hermit kingdom.
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North Korea’s soccer team was reprimanded this month on its return to Pyongyang for losing all three of its World Cup matches and “betraying the trust” of Kim Jong Un, son of leader Kim Jong Il, Radio Free Asia said, citing unidentified people.
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Kim Jong Il , North Korea’s ailing 68- year-old leader, urged ally China in August to help him “hand over to the rising generation .” This week he installed a set of leaders whose average age is 77.
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Twenty-three retired Chinese Communist Party officials, led by Mao Zedong ’s former secretary, challenged the government to improve press freedom days before meeting to discuss the nation’s new leadership.
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North Korea’s top legislator departed the capital, Pyongyang, for a visit to the U.K., state- owned Korean Central News Agency reported.
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China’s Daya Bay nuclear power plant had a “very small leakage” from a fuel rod last month that has been contained, CLP Holdings Ltd. , Hong Kong’s biggest electricity supplier, said in a statement.
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North Korea has been evacuating people affected by flooding along the Yalu River, Radio Free Asia reported, citing the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
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North Korea soccer officials have written to the sport’s governing body denying reports that the national squad was sanctioned for its performances at the World Cup, FIFA said today.
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Vietnam’s state-run media said an American diplomat created a "public disturbance" and punched a bystander in the face this week, escalating a diplomatic dispute after the U.S. protested his treatment.
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