Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Rapper PSY wants Tom Cruise to go 'Gangnam Style'

Rapper PSY wants Tom Cruise to go 'Gangnam Style'

Rapper PSY wants Tom Cruise to go 'Gangnam Style'

Posted: 28 Nov 2012 08:52 AM PST

South Korean rapper PSY, who sings the popular "Gangnam Style," smiles while greeting Thai fans during a press conference in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. PSY will perform in Thailand on Wednesday night - his first show in Asia outside of South Korea. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)The South Korean rapper behind YouTube's most-viewed video ever has set what might be a "Mission: Impossible" for himself.

North Korea joke slips over China's Great Firewall

Posted: 28 Nov 2012 07:34 AM PST

FILE - In this July 25, 2012 file photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, accompanied by his wife Ri Sol Ju, waves to the crowd as they inspect the Rungna People's Pleasure Ground in Pyongyang, North Korea. The online version of China's Communist Party newspaper has hailed a report by The Onion naming Kim as the "Sexiest Man Alive" - not realizing it is satire. The People's Daily on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 ran a 55-page photo spread on its website in a tribute to the round-faced leader, under the headline "North Korea's top leader named The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive for 2012." (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service, File)How did a spoof article about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un being the sexiest man alive end up as a real news item in China? Turns out it was a case of telephone, or Chinese whispers, in the digital age.

Tibetan protests against Chinese rule in new phase

Posted: 28 Nov 2012 03:28 AM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2012, exiled Tibetans carry portraits of Tibetans who have immolated themselves in Tibet in protest against Chinese rule, during a street demonstration in Dharmsala, India. A surge in self-immolations and large demonstrations by Tibetans in western China mark a new phase in protests against rule by the authoritarian Chinese government. Activist groups have recorded two dozen people setting themselves on fire this month, a marked acceleration in the trend that began slowly in 2009 and that has seen at least 86 immolations. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia, File)Two dozen Tibetans have set themselves on fire in western China this month in a dramatic acceleration of the protests against authoritarian Chinese rule, activist groups say.
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