Analysis: South Korea's Twitter generation may give liberals upset win

Analysis: South Korea's Twitter generation may give liberals upset win


Analysis: South Korea's Twitter generation may give liberals upset win

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 10:46 PM PDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's liberal opposition, bolstered by the under-40s and power of social media, could spring a surprise win in this week's parliamentary elections despite opinion polls that show it tied with the ruling conservatives.


US experts to aid Pakistan rescue effort

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 10:20 PM PDT

Team to provide technical assistance as army continues search for 135 people trapped by avalance near Siachen Glacier.


Meryl Streep Is So Good-Can She Play A Six Foot Senegalese Man?

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 10:18 PM PDT

The big talk at the first official showing?? last week in New York of ?The Intouchables??who will play the role created by the amazing Omar Sy in the American version of the second most successful French movie of all time? Harvey Weinstein has already cast his ?King?s Speech? Oscar winner Colin Firth to play the ...


The Ryan Budget: A Mistake of Historic Proportions

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:51 PM PDT

We are only slowly recovering from the second-worst calamity in economic history. While the recession officially ended almost three years ago, unemployment remains over 8% and real GDP growth is anemic. Paul Ryan and his supporters say that the reason for this sluggish response is the size of the government, the most visible manifestations of ...


Cultural Movements: It's Just Puppy Love

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:47 PM PDT

author of UpRising and Founder of StrawberryFrog, the cultural movement agency. I'd like you to meet Fiona. You may not have heard of this little dog??- yet -??but once you've watched I guarantee that you'll be telling everyone the story of this heartwarming hound, passing it on via social networks, just as ...


VIDEO: Threat to otter fishing in Bangladesh

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 10:18 PM PDT

The Bangladeshi tradition of using otters to fish is in danger as rivers are drying up and the fish population is reducing.


VIDEO: Doubts grow over Syria ceasefire plan

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:36 PM PDT

Doubts are growing about the planned ceasefire in Syria.


VIDEO: Is tourism damaging Swiss natural beauty?

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:49 PM PDT

More building controls could be brought in to stop the expansion which is threatening the very thing that tourists come to see.


VIDEO: Campaigning builds in Egypt election

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:31 PM PDT

Hosni Mubarak's former spy chief, Omar Suleiman, has formally entered the race to become Egypt's next president.


VIDEO: Threat to otter fishing in Bangladesh

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 10:18 PM PDT

The Bangladeshi tradition of using otters to fish is in danger as rivers are drying up and the fish population is reducing.


Immigration And Prosperity: Why Tech Needs Open Borders

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:23 PM PDT

Guest post written by Flip Filipowski Andrew "Flip" Filipowski is the CEO of??SilkRoad Technology, a software-as-a-service ??human capital management company based in Chicago. He previously was founder and CEO of??Platinum Technology, which was acquired by Computer Associates for $3.5 billion in 1999. His last piece for Forbes was ?Merger Mania: Why Most Cloud Software Acquisitions ...


China's inflation rebounds sharply in March

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:56 PM PDT

Consumer price index rises to 3.6 per cent as bad weather and government policies push up food and fuel prices.


Why Clint Eastwood Shouldn't Keep Up With The Kardashians

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:06 PM PDT

Dirty Harry was right. 'Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one.' The network that launched a thousand faces of Kardashian is of the opinion that a weekly docudrama about the second Mrs. Clint Eastwood and her two children with him would be interesting. Today, E! released a trailer for Mrs. Eastwood & Company, a ten-episode ...


Exclusive: Whitney Houston's Mom, Cissy, Readies Gospel Release

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:03 PM PDT

Exclusive: Whitney ?s mother, the great singer Cissy has found a way to channel her grief. On Mother?s Day?May 13th?Cissy will release a four song gospel EP. This is not something she began after Whitney?s tragic death on February 11th. Indeed, I know this story in detail because I heard it from Vy Higginsen, the ...


3 Reasons Not to Kill Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 08:45 PM PDT

While the trial and the verdict are months away, executing the arch-terrorist just doesn't make sense now.


Location-Based Apps Aren't Evil, They're Lazy. Here's How to Fix Mobile Privacy.

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 08:03 PM PDT

Beware the evil zombies! Location-based apps are grinding the bones of your privacy and sucking the marrow of your personal data! Certainly that?s what you might think if you?ve been following the flap about Girls Around Me. You know, the ?creepy? stalker app for rapists in shopping malls? This is all overstated, of course, but ...


Agencies Should Reap Big Profits From Move Into Mobile Ads

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 08:01 PM PDT

Guest post written by Alex Kutsishin Alex Kutsishin is president of FiddleFly, which provides tools for building mobile Web sites. Like cautious children learning to swim without floaties or ride a bicycle without training wheels, an astounding number of advertising agencies have done little more than dip their collective toes into the waters of the ...


5 Lessons from Mike Wallace's Life for All of Us

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 08:00 PM PDT

The world has lost a giant in Mike Wallace. He was fearless. Let's hope we can all learn from how he lived his life to improve our own.


North Korea readies longer range rocket; Japan, S.Korea wary

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 08:59 PM PDT

A soldier stands guard in front of the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket sitting on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site, during a guided media tour by North Korean authorities in the northwest of PyongyangCHOLSAN, North Korea/SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has readied a rocket for a launch from a forested valley in its remote northwest this week that will showcase the reclusive state's ability to fire a missile with the capacity to hit the continental United States. Pyongyang says the rocket, to be launched this week, will only carry a weather satellite, but South Korea and the United States say it is a test of a ballistic missile. And although the risk of it veering off course is low, guidance remains its weakest point. ...



Stupid Is As Stupid Does - Tax Protesters And The Cheek Defense

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 07:19 PM PDT

I recently wrote about the Browns whom Ron Paul likened to Mahatama Gandhi and Martin Luther King for their courageous stand against the income tax.?? I think they had more guns than Gandhi and MLK, but that is a detail.?? Mr. Brown kept saying ?Show me the law?.?? That challenge gave me a bout of ...


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