Party in China doesn't have honest comrades, so it invents one
China's Communist Party has armed itself with a new weapon in its bid to fight corruption and win back public trust -- a fictional graft-busting movie character named Li Gaocheng.



Send children to school or face jail -- proposed Singapore law
Singapore legislators have tabled a law that will severely punish parents who fail to send their children to primary school, the Straits Times said Saturday.



Clinton given facts of post-presidential life
Oh, the hassles of modern life that President Bill Clinton will need to know about when he leaves the White House: Stopping at red lights, flying commercial, ordering fastfood. Since he is in his last several months in office.



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