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Current events of December 26, 2014 (2014-12-26) (Friday) edit history watch
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  • The Special Investigation Division of Taiwan initiates a review stemming from allegations that President Ma Ying-jeou has received illegal political donations from Ting Hsin International Group, a disgraced conglomerate at the center of the recent food scandal. (Central News Agency)
  • Sony Pictures Entertainment hack
    • North Korea's embassy in Moscow issues a statement, saying: "The film The Interview, produced by the U.S. studio Sony Pictures, is a very dangerous film product that justifies and promotes terrorism." (Hollywood Reporter)
    • Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokesman Alexander Lukashevich says that "the mere idea of the film is aggressively scandalous and that the reaction of the North Korean side is very understandable." (TASS)
    • A report says that even before Americans began flocking to theaters on Christmas Eve to see “The Interview”, Chinese film fans by the thousands were downloading mostly pirated versions of the movie on domestic video-sharing websites. By midday on December 26, more than 300,000 people had seen the film and the reviews, by and large, were favorable. (The New York Times)
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