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Chillaxin' in Sochi with Vova and Dima

I swore I was done with these, but between the forced casualness and the matching sweaters, I really can't help myself: "Wowsers...WikiLeaks, the World Cup. What a roller coaster of a week! Nice to get together for some qual-time in Sochi......

Published Mon, Dec 06 2010 4:01 PM by FP Passport

Foxconn's pep rally includes Spiderman costumes, Victorian dresses - by Brian Fung

In its latest effort to keep employees from leaping from their dorm room balconies, Taiwanese tech manufacturer Foxconn held a pep rally yesterday at its industrial campus in Shenzhen, China. Employees received free T-shirts that read "I <3 Foxconn"...

Published Thu, Aug 19 2010 9:30 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: China

The Obama era's not that great for Kenya

The Boston Globe reported this week that the judge in the immigration case of Zeituni Onyango -- best known as President Barack Obama's "Auntie Zeituni" -- had granted her asylum even though she was in the United States illegally because...

Published Thu, Aug 19 2010 11:54 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa, Obama Administration

Morning Brief: U.S.: Israeli-Palestinian direct talks to resume

U.S.: Israeli-Palestinian direct talks to resume Top news: According to U.S. officials, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will announce today that Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed to return to direct negotiations for the first in 20 months...

Published Fri, Aug 20 2010 5:53 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

China's Ann Coulter

I don't advise anyone to willingly dive into the fever swamps of the opinion pages of the Chinese state-run press, but sometimes it's good fun. Take, for instance, this recent offering by People's Daily columnist Li Hongmei, who writes like...

Published Tue, Oct 26 2010 3:02 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: East Asia, China, Media

Top 10 ways to tell your new Taliban friend is an impostor

You've probably heard by now that NATO got totally punk'd by an unknown man posing as a high-ranking Taliban leader. How embarrassing. If only they'd looked out for these 10 ways of telling the true Talib from the con man, we wouldn't...

Published Tue, Nov 23 2010 6:52 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Afghanistan

20-year-old student becomes police chief in Mexican town

Marisol Valles, a 20-year-old criminology student, has just been named police chief for the town of Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero, near the U.S. border. Reportedly, there wasn't a whole lot of competition for the job -- others members of the force have...

Published Thu, Oct 21 2010 9:51 AM by FP Passport

File-sharing recognized as religion in Sweden

I've written a couple things on this blog over the years about the Pirate Party, the global political movement founded by Swedish software entrepreneur and 2011 global thinker Rick Falkvinge , which aims to legalize file-sharing and do away with current...

Published Thu, Jan 05 2012 11:37 AM by FP Passport

U.S. apologizes for Guatemala STD experiment

This is extremely disturbing : U.S. government medical researchers intentionally infected hundreds of people in Guatemala, including institutionalized mental patients, with gonorrhea and syphilis without their knowledge or permission more than 60 years...

Published Fri, Oct 01 2010 9:05 AM by FP Passport

Can anyone win an election outright anymore?

Last weekend's inconclusive Australian election has produced the country's first hung parliament in 70 years. But as Patrick Dunleavy of the London School of Economics points out , the Australian result also marks another, albeit wonkier, milestone...

Published Mon, Aug 23 2010 3:49 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Politics, Elections

The Global Thinkers gather

Tonight, Foreign Policy is hosting its second-annual Global Thinker's gala here in Washington. Dozens of the thinkers from our list will be attending the event, which will include a panel discussion on the big ideas behind the Arab Spring. We'll...

Published Thu, Dec 01 2011 12:10 PM by FP Passport

Daily Brief: U.S. envoy reiterates Afghan role in peace talks

Select Newsletter Template: Afpak Daily Brief Event Notice: Please join the New America Foundation's National Security Studies Program TOMORROW from 12:15 - 1:45 pm as we commemorate the life of Richard Holbrooke, one of the most important American...

Published Mon, Jan 23 2012 6:40 AM by FP Passport

Never say no to panda

I'm not sure if this series of ads are a signal of growing Chinese influence in the Middle East, the culture of violence and impunity in Mubarak's Egypt, or the passions aroused by competition among dairy products in our globalized marketplace...

Published Thu, Sep 23 2010 7:57 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Chinese premier threatens action against Japan

Chinese premier threatens action against Japan Top news: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao demanded the immediate release of a Chinese fishing boat captain, who has been held for two weeks, as Chinese-Japanese tension continued to rise. “This is totally illegal...

Published Wed, Sep 22 2010 5:38 AM by FP Passport