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Thursday, 9 January 2014 was an unremarkable news day. Dennis Rodman had just sung Happy Birthday to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, “Polar Vortex” was acquiring “political issue” status, and anti-government protests paralyzed Bangkok. Otherwise, the international media struck a parochial tone. The London-based Financial Times ran with the European Central Bank maintaining benchmark interest rates, the New York Times focused on revelations about the New Jersey Governor, The Australian discussed the alleged mistreatment of asylum-seekers, and the Singapore-based Straits Times reported the kidnapping of the mother of a local supermarket CEO.
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Bowerman, G. (2014). Introduction. In: The New Chinese Traveler. Palgrave Pocket Consultants. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137397331_1
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