Entries Tagged as 'news'

Tuesday, October 20th, 2015

Britain and China Are Swapping Tips on Everything from Calligraphy to Football

Football, schooling, and the iconic London taxi, these are just three areas where Britain and China are sharing knowledge, ideas, and forging relationships. In a year that will see the first state visit to the UK by a Chinese president in over a decade, British school kids are brushing up their Mandarin, learning the [...]

Thursday, August 13th, 2015

Watch IFC’s VICE Parody Documentary ‘DRONEZ’

Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, and Fred Armisen have a new IFC show called Documentary Now! and the first episode takes on VICE in a parody called “Dronez.” It features Jack Black as Dronez founder, and Shane Smith lookalike, Jamison Friend and follows Armisen and Hader as reporters on a trip to Mexico in search of [...]

Monday, April 13th, 2015

Warlords of Tripoli

The war in Syria is having a knock on effect on neighboring Lebanon, with disorder and chaos taking over the country, and nowhere is this impact felt more than in Tripoli. Sunni militants aligned with the Syrian rebels frequently clash with fighters from the city’s encircled Alawite minority, who support the Assad regime, in bitter [...]

Tuesday, February 24th, 2015

The South Korean Love Industry is Very Weird

South Korea is having a bit of a crisis when it comes to birth rates—they’re one of the lowest in the world. In this documentary Vice travels to the country to find out about the sex motels, the elderly prostitutes known as “Bacchus ladies”, Seoul’s red-light district, and erotic sculptures.

Thursday, February 5th, 2015

NBC’s Brian Williams Raps Snoop Dogg’s “Who Am I?”

NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams is one of the best rappers in the TV-hosting game, albeit one whose rapping is unintentional—but thanks to Jimmy Fallon he’s rapped some of hip-hop’s finest tunes, all by mashing up various footage of him to make it appear like he’s laying down some lyrics.

Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

Documentary ‘Untold Story of the Iraq War’ Reveals US Role in Iraq Conflict

In this documentary by British newspaper The Guardian and the BBC, the role of Col. James Steele is explored and his support of torture, death squads and brutal sectarian violence during the height of the Iraq War. Even though these methods have been denied officially, Steele’s reports went directly to Rumsfeld and Cheney.

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014

The Hallucinogen Honey Hunters of Nepal

When you think of psychedelics (if you ever think about them, which you should), you probably wouldn’t think of honey as being a substance that can cleanse the doors of perception. But in Nepal tribes hunt a certain type of wild honey (known as “mad honey”) which has natural psychoactive properties, and how they do [...]

Friday, October 3rd, 2014

The Next Generation Of SSD Cards Can Turn Into A Robot

OK, maybe it can’t actually turn into a robot and fly around the world like it does in this video, but it’s still pretty awesome. Samsung’s new SSD is the 850 Pro and it uses the companies 3D V-NAND technology, which they’ve been slaving away at and perfecting for years, to give the card greater [...]

Saturday, August 16th, 2014

Meet Mexico’s Drug Cartels That are Now Stealing the Country’s Oil

If it wasn’t enough that the notorious Mexican drug cartels have desecrated the country with violence and warfare, they’ve now taken to exploiting the country’s oil reserves too. VICE News reports on what’s happening, as 10,000 barrels of crude oil are stolen from Mexico’s state-run oil company Pemex a day. All this is done through [...]

Friday, August 1st, 2014

Here’s How North Korea Got to be the Way it is

If you’ve ever wondered how North Korea got to be the secretive, repressed, communist nation it is today this video does a great job of explaining its complex history, detailing the events that lead to the tragic state that exists at the very fringes of world politics.

Friday, June 27th, 2014

The Electric Harley-Davidson Commercial—Notice Anything?

You’ll notice that the sound the Harley makes as it rockets along Route 66 isn’t the sky-falling in, earth-shattering roar that a combustion engine makes—that’s because it’s the all-new electric Harley-Davidson. And while it may be quieter than the old engine, it still has a distinctive sound.