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Vietnam’s Communist Party meets

February 9, 2011 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

The goal for the Vietnamese Communist Party's 11th Party Congress was to “enhance the Party's leadership capacity and combativeness, promoting the nation's synergy, comprehensively boosting the doi moi (renovation) process, creating the fundamentals for Vietnam to...

Oldest Cuban celebrates her 126th birthday

February 4, 2011 By Pepe Lozano

The oldest peson in Cuba, Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez celebrated her 126th birthday with relatives and friends and attributes her health to the pure air of the countryside, a diet rich in meat and...

Cuba retools its socialism

January 7, 2011 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Cuba is charting a new socialist course, asking "What is socialism, if not to give well-being to the people and redistribute the resources in the best way possible?"

General strike in Portugal protests austerity measures

November 30, 2010 By Emile Schepers

A massive one-day general strike paralyzed Portugal November 24 led by major labor federations united to denounce austerity measures being imposed by the country's Socialist Party Prime Minister, Jose Socrates.

Salt, health, and socialism

November 3, 2010 By Thomas Riggins

An Australian research team found that when the state imposes mandatory limits to the amount of salt private industry adds to processed foods, people are healthier.