January 16, 2016
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Taiwan Gets Its First Women President In Its Historic Election
Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen has been elected Taiwan’s first ever female president. The DDP she represented demands Taiwan’s independence from China. In this turn-over result of elections, Ms. Tsai not only becomes the first ever women president for the country, it also broke the trait of almost 70 years long monopoly…
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Saudi Court Sentences Poet To Death For Renouncing Islam
Ashraf Fayadh, a Palestinian poet and artist who hails from Saudi Arabia, has been sentenced to death for ‘apostasy’. The Saudi Arabian authorities charged him for his poetry claiming that the poems questioned religion and spread atheism. On 17 November, 2015, the General Court in Abha, southwest of Saudi Arabia, charged Ashraf guilty of ‘apostasy’…
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Mao Ze GONE: Newly Built Giant Mao Statue Destroyed
The controversial gold-painted statue of communist founding father Mao Zedong has been destroyed after it apparently lacked government approval. Right after the news of the statue circulated on the internet, the elegant gold painted giant effigy was seen destroyed as the picture shown above on the right side. People’s news portal had cited that the…