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The VICE Guide to North Korea (48min) →  July 3, 2009

Peeking across the border at the forbidden North. VBS visits the land that time, sanity, and food all forgot. Getting into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes VBS has ever dealt with. After we went back and forth with their representatives for months, they finally said they were going to allow [...]

Don’t Panic! IMF to issue bonds – in SDRs →  June 10, 2009

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is planning to sell bonds in a move to raise funds to lend to ailing national economies, IMF Head Dominique Strauss Kahn said on the first day of the 2009 meeting of the IMF and the World Bank which was convened in Washington on April the 25th.