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THE picture of a young woman in a see-through dress was meant as a kindly entreaty. “Girls”, the accompanying text on Shanghai Metro’s microblog went, “please be self-dignified to avoid perverts”.

This issue in China raises the question, should the onus of preventing sexual harassment be placed on women?  The fact that The Shanghai Metro was insinuating that has angered some Chinese.  How do culture norms influence how we think about behavior in public?   

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Presidential candidate says Mexicans have voted for change of direction after exit polls project win for his PRI party.

For the first time in 12 years, Mexico’s president will be from the PRI party (which dominated and led power from the 1920’s to 2000).  Enrique Peña Prieto won the election, in large part due to Mexico’s dissatisfacation with the PAN’s handling of the escalating drug violence.  A few decades back, the PRI kept the violence out of the streets with some tacit agreements with the drug cartels to stay within particular territories.

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Issues in Focus East Sea…

Does it matter if I call the sea to the east of the Korean Peninsula the “East Sea” and if you call the body of water the west of Japan the “Sea of Japan?”  Absolutely.  When dealing with matters of diplomacy, a name reflects how a country is viewed.  For many years the Sea of Japan has been the defacto name internationally and South Korean officials have lobbied (quite successfully) to bolster the legitimacy of the name within the media, publishers and cartographers.  What other places have multiple names?  What are the political overtones to the name distinctions?  To watch a 10 video on the history of the name, see: http://bit.ly/Lu5puJ  

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Voters are counting on the next president to find a solution to the country’s alarming rise in organised crime.

This interactive features shows temporal and spatial data on drug-related deaths in Mexico since 2007.  Also connected are profiles of the presidential candidates of the three major political parties (PRI, PAN and PRD) and with their platform on drugs and violence.  Mexico’s presidents can only hold office for one term, but it is a six-year term…2012 isn’t just about Obama and Romney. 

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