27/Jun 2008 | Silk vs. Steel, the winners' bracket | Spain rolled past Russia yesterday 3-0 to reach the final of Euro 2008., Ltd will own 34% in the new joint venture, and ArcelorMittal and Hunan Valin Group will each have a 33% equity share.The new ac... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Olympic host Beijing to introduce subway security checks: report | Agence France-Presse BEIJING - Beijing subway passengers will be greeted by police officers carrying out security checks beginning on Sunday as part of an Olympic anti-terror drive, state media report... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Damage Reports Pour In After Storms | Weather Now Live. -- The Omaha area was pummeled severe thunderstorms on Friday afternoon, forcing the cancelation of a planned concert and fireworks show at Memorial Park. ) Two people were killed as... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Uribe calls for rerun vote | Uribe calls for rerun vote Colombian President Alvaro Uribe called on Thursday for a rerun of the 2006 presidential election in which he won a second term, after the Supreme Court ruled it was tainted... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Hints for a cost-free holiday | Spot: No need to spend thousands of dollars for a world tour. One can have a journey around the world by spending only a few hundred dollars. But a good plan is what will make that dream come true. Bu... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | North Korea 'destroys nuclear reactor tower' | North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program Friday, according to a news report, in a sign of its commitment to stop making plutonium for atomic bombs. The reported dem... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Fertilizers blamed for Grand Island fish kill | Fertilizers blamed for Grand Island fish kill (6/27/2008) By Jeniffer Berry - Hundreds of fish are dead in Grand Island. Officials said it is from farm chemicals that drained into the lake by heavy ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Voice: The mainstream values we need | By Qiu Feng The earthquake in Wenchuan inspired immense sympathy from the public and brought the Chinese closer. People believe that the earthquake will have a far-reaching effect on Chinese society a... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Policy and a Pint Event Series: U.S. Trade with China | What's the real story on China? We're not just about to watch nations compete at the Summer Olympics in Beijing - we're also watching the emergence of a new international "super-competitor" that will ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Beijing Olympic Tennis/Football tickets for sell | I am planning to transfer/rsell my Olympic tickets: 2 LEVEL A Tickets for Men's Football Final in the National Stadium (Bird Nest) for the BEIJING SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES (2008-08-23) 2 LEVEL A Tickets f... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Thunderstorm wreaks havoc in Metro area | The thunderstorm that wreaked havoc on the Omaha metro area Friday quickly intensified as it approached the city. The storm formed near Norfolk when a cold front from central Nebraska with weak shower... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Reports on Quake Relief, Reconstruction | BEIJING -- China passes Thursday a report on the the reconstruction plan following the May 12 quake that hit southwest China's Sichuan and some neighboring provinces. The decision was made at the the ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | TV group retunes its name and vision | SMG is ditching its old image. Having sold Virgin Radio, its radio assets and an advertising business, the company announced it will scrap its name too. BBC marketing man named head of radio From Medi... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Tropical storm Fengshen kills nine in China: report | AFP - 44 minutes ago BEIJING (AFP) - - Tropical storm Fengshen killed nine people as it tore across China's south, pounding the densely populated area with torrential rains, state media said Saturday.... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Taliban is not a | Taliban is not a tiger. Taliban will conquer Pakistan because there is not going to be a fight. If India whacks Pakistani butt hard, it does not matter who is ruling Pakistani hayenas will return to i... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Importers ordered to destroy Chinese copy of BMW SUV | The importers of the Chinese Shuanghuan CEO sports utility vehicle (SUV) that has a similar appearance to a model made by Germany's BMW must halt all sales and destroy all its vehicles in Germany, a c... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | The condemned apple | The Condemned Apple is quite simply the most disturbing collection of poetry I've ever read. Visar Zhiti was born on 2 December 1952 in the port of Durres on the Adriatic coast. Between 1970 and 1973 ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Let bygones be bygones! | Mr.Ather Naqvi and others who are criticising Karzai statement are living in denial and not reading the writing on the wall.Look at this report published in Paki news paper ''NEWS'' today,open ur eyes... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | China awards little heroes in quake rescue | China awarded 50 youngsters Friday evening for their bravery in the rescue after the May 12 earthquake that jolted the southwestern Sichuan Province. Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee o... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Investment and Trade Fair Seeks Investors | The 2008 China (Shenzhen) International Investment and Trade Fair, the largest fair of its kind in the city s history, will open at Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center on Friday. More than 500 e... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | HK, Macao Delegations Arrive in Quake-hit Sichuan | Delegations of the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions (SAR) governments arrived in earthquake-hit Sichuan Province on Friday evening. The two delegations, headed by Hong Kong SAR's Chi... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Calls pour in to corruption line | The country's first unified hotline - 12388 - for people to report corrupt officials, which opened on Thursday, is already proving its worth. On its first day of operations, 927 calls were handled at ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | End to luxury living for traveling officials | Government officials on business trips must stay in hotels costing no more than 300 yuan ($44) a day, the Ministry of Finance said in a circular on Thursday. The ministry told government agencies to s... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | They have pointless polls in New Zealand, too [Pharyngula | One of our least favorite institutions, Focus on the Family, has been trying to corrupt the educational system of . threat so far, they're pretty sensible down there but their is one internet po... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | They have pointless polls in New Zealand, too | One of our least favorite institutions, Focus on the Family, has been trying to corrupt the educational system of . threat so far, they're pretty sensible down there but there is one internet po... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Neighbours agree to boost health exchanges | The Landmark Mandarin Oriental and Alicia Keys Concert Package The Fleming, Hong Kong Special Rate Pure Loyalty Cocktails at RED 14 May 7.00pm Virgin offers special fares to China Island Shangri-La in... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Bush happy on North Korea submitted its long awaited declaration | USA the president Bush spoke hours after North Korea submitted its long awaited declaration detailing its nuclear weapons activities. The government said that it would televise the demolition of the c... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | The Big Outcome of the '60s: The Triumph of Capitalism | The Big Outcome of the '60s: The Triumph of Capitalism Posted June 27, 2008 By Slavoj Zizek, In These Times After the social tumult of the '60s capitalism usurped resistance itself, turning attempts a... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | People's Art On Foreign Shores | With a Jharkhandi art exhibition finding many takers in Italy, PETER POPHAM asks why our indigenous art forms still suffer so much neglect from the art circles and the government . The physical divi... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Opposition supporters claim torture in Zimbabwe | Story Highlights. Morgan Tsvangirai's supporters back his withdrawal from runoff . Some say they were taken to "torture bases" by supporters of Mugabe . A man and a woman being treated for broken hand... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | FENGSHEN STORM KILLS NINE - 2 | Bernama - 25 minutes ago The newspaper also said that 20,000 people in Dujiangyan city in Sichuan were evacuated after three new quake-formed lakes were detected Thursday. Scores of such lakes were f... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Japanese Navy Warship Leaves China's Zhanjiang | Related: Japanese Navy Destroyer Visits Chinese Port After a five-day visit to China, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer "Sazanami" is heading back home on Saturday morning from southern Chin... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Tropical storm Fengshen leaves nine dead in south China | GUANGZHOU, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Torrential rain from tropical storm Fengshen has killed nine in south China's Guangdong Province, according to the local authority on Friday. In addition, the strong rai... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Japanese navy warship leaves southern China port | Zhanjiang, Guangdong, June 28 (Xinhua) -- After a five-day visit to China, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer "Sazanami" is heading back home on Saturday morning from southern China port city... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Fengshen leaves nine dead in S China | GUANGZHOU -- Torrential rain from tropical storm Fengshen has killed nine in south China's Guangdong Province, according to the local authority on Friday. Pedestrians walk past a fallen tree across a ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Energy bureau gets nod to increase size | For all its pains, energy price hike a wise move . Higher energy prices add to burdens of China textile makers . China building 1st coalbed methane pipeline to ease energy strains. Vice president: Chi... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Amur Sirius on-schedule for Troitskaya TPP equipment delivery | The Unified Energy System of Russia has received a statement from China-based Amur Sirius Power Equipment Corporation, confirming its commitment to the timely delivery of equipment for the new power u... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | EDITORIAL: North Korea's nukes | North Korea on Thursday finally submitted a long-delayed declaration of its nuclear development program. Although the details have not yet been released, this is an important step in the six-party ta... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Pilgrims deserve better | For centuries pilgrims have been making the arduous trip to Amarnath cave without the benefit of any facilitation by the state. They relied on the local people for food, accommodation and other facili... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Power restored in nearly all quake regions | Power has been restored in all quake-hit regions in southwest China's Sichuan Province except two towns inundated by quake-formed lakes, the nation's economic planning agency said in Beijing on Friday... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Top oil producer to increase supply | China's top oil producer said Friday it planned to further increase supply of refined oil after an earlier fuel price rise by the government. The China National Petroleum Corporation said it would pro... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Chinese swimmer gets lifelong ban for doping | China's top swimmer, Ouyang Kunpeng, has been banned from competition for life after testing positive for steroids, a top Chinese swimming official said on Friday with only 43 days to go before the Be... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Little heros awarded for quake rescue effort | Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, hugs Lin Hao, a 9-year-old honored boy from the quake areas in Beijing... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Leading article: A reminder of lost opportunities | Search Search GoIndependent.uk WebBookmark & ShareNorth Korea's on-off dtente with the rest of the world has suddenly entered a new 'on' phase. SEOUL, June 27 (Yonhap) - South Korea's political pa... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Tourism slow as Olympics approach | Beijing's forthcoming Olympic Games does not appear to be drawing as many people to the capital as expected this year. Figures show the number of international tourists visiting the Chinese capital fe... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Stunned silence after nuclear tower blows up | Story Highlights. CNN's Amanpour was one of few journalists to witness historic destruction . North Korea blew up nuclear plant tower as part of disarmament agreement . Nation says it did so as a gest... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | A plan riddled with questions | Listen to excerpts from the interview with Stephane Dion .. Liberal carbon tax would 'screw' the country: Harper .. John Ivison: A carbon plan, budget and campaign platform rolled into one . As we hea... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Chinese Cheater | Beijing Police have detained nine suspects who are members of an illegal wireless short message sending organization called "Xiao Hai". Local media report that the suspects include a person surnamed ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | iPhone to China, New Tech Picks | The market recouped some of its gains today, but tight credit and here we go again high energy prices are scaring the hell out of investors and keeping them out of the market. My gut tells me we h... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Opposition backers claim torture in Zimbabwe | Story Highlights. Morgan Tsvangirai's supporters back his withdrawal from runoff . Some say they were taken to "torture bases" by supporters of Mugabe . A man and a woman being treated for broken hand... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Energy bureau gets permission to increase size | 09:12The newly elevated National Energy Bureau is to quadruple the size of its work force in a bid to ensure the country's energy supply, which industry insiders have said shows the government is movi... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Too Late to Buy Gold? | After all, Gold offers a refuge against bad times ahead. Like all good insurance, it's best bought before trouble arrives not during or after. The Dow's on tracks to close out its worst June since t... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | POLITICS-US | POLITICS-US: Even the Rare Bush Success Leaves a Sour Taste Analysis by Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Jun 27 (IPS) - While, in his dreams, U. Bush might have seen a "Mission Accomplished" banner unfurled as t... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | New agreements set for Russia and Europe | European Union have agreed to start work on a new partnership agreement. A key summit, held in in the Siberian oil city of Khanty-Mansiisk, ended with Russian president, . Russia, EU: First round of... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | North Korea signals nuclear retreat | It took years of talks, coddling and concessions to prod North Korea to step back from its decades-long effort to make atomic weapons, leading to yesterday's dramatic destruction of its nuclear reacto... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | TI links water corruption to politicians | Bdnews24.com Transparency International in a report published Thursday blamed corruption in Bangladesh's water sector partly on politicians. "Influential persons with political links with the help of ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | RAW report: Bangladeshis wanted a confederation with Pakistan | Bangaldesh-Pakistan reunion: BNP-JEI government was reportedly working towards a confederate relationship with Pakistan. Bangladeshi confedearation with Pakistan This article will be updated on a per... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | A gift from the Brahmin Gods to Hindus. Bottled Cow Urine. UK Daily Telegraph story | Drining their own Urine. From Gandhi to Prime Minsiter Desai to common man . It is interesting to see the finer things of India. Stuff that you don t see in Bollywood movies, and India s Marketing ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Junior Students to Undergo Security Class | Primary and middle school students around China will watch a security education TV program next Monday on disaster prevention and response, according to the Ministry of Education. China News Service r... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | China approves reports on quake relief work | Special report: Reconstruction After Earthquake China on Thursday (June 26) passed a report on the relief work and reconstruction following the May 12 quake that devastated the southwest Sichuan and s... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Calls pour in to China's corruption line | The country's first unified hotline - 12388 - for people to report corrupt officials, which opened on Thursday, is already proving its worth. On its first day of operations, 927 calls were handled at ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | I like this idea - show a picture before the look of it changes drastically! | 3 Beijing is running out of water according to an environmental group, and may have to start shutting down industry and moving population out within the next decade. This raises questions over the cos... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Tahiti Targets Wealthy Chinese Tourists | Sofitel French Polynesia organized a Tahiti Road Show promotion in three Chinese cities in an attempt to attract to . Tahiti some of the 13 million well-off and rich Chinese out of the 70 million who... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Stunned silence followed nuke plant implosion | Story Highlights. CNN's Amanpour was one of few journalists to witness historic destruction . North Korea blew up nuclear plant tower as part of disarmament agreement . Nation says it did so as a gest... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Serena travelling in the right direction | Serena Williams admits tennis has allowed her to see the world's great wonders such as the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China. But right now she insists there is no destination to rival a place in ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | A Taliban Resurgence | More foreign troops have been killed in Afghanistan this month than in any previous month. As the forgotten war heats up, the Pentagon has released a bleak new report on a resurgence of Taliban forces... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Police arrest businessman over haze-linked fires | Indonesian police have arrested a businessman for ordering workers to deliberately start fires to clear farm land, contributing to the smoke haze that has blanketed parts of Indonesia and its neighbou... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Developing an open-source platform | Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook discusses the company s open source strategy and its plan to improve the application environment for its more than 100,000 develop... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Check Out Our New Shirts! | We got a very cool delivery today.several t-shirts that were used by the Portland Chinese Times to raise money to support China earthquake relief efforts . Here you see the t-shirt modeled by our deva... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | NBA goes East | BEIJING - When most NBA stars visit Beijing, they are often shocked by basketball's mass following and the warm reception they receive all over China's capital. "I was really surprised by how many peo... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Locals featured in Segamat sex videos | TWO sex video clips, believed to be of residents from two new villages near Segamat, are being widely circulated in the town, China Press reported. Burned into VCDs, the first clip is entitled Newly M... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Gary Samore and Charles Ferguson on the Demolition of North Korea's Nuclear Facility | Statement by the White House Press Secretary on Syria and North Korea By Dana Perino Essential Documents April 24, 2008. Officials on Syria s Covert Nuclear Reactor and North Korea s Involvement Essen... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | U.S. envoy leaves Pyongyang | U. envoy leaves Pyongyang+ Judge halts release of Verne Troyer sex tape Ex-Army scientist to get $5.8M in anthrax lawsuit Apple's Complete My Album emerges as marketing tool Verne Troyer sues over sex... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Panda-monium on the Net over American cartoon | Love it or hate it, a cartoon starring China's national treasure as the hero has broken box-office records in the mainland despite strident calls for a boycott. THE funny and entertaining Steven Spiel... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Editorial: N. Korea gives up nuclear option | North Korea has made the first tangible moves toward abandoning its nuclear arms. Yesterday, before the world s invited media it blew up the cooling tower of its Yongbyong nuclear reactor. Twenty-four... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Rice visits China earthquake zone | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel this month to Chengdu, China, the capital of Sichuan province that was struck by a massive earthquake in May, the State Depart... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Murum hydro dam project attracts 14 bidders | KUCHING: Sarawak Energy Bhd (SEB) has received tenders from 14 international bidders for the proposed 900MW Murum hydroelectric dam project in central Sarawak. Group managing director Tan Sri Abdul Az... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Letter: Digital tick box | Letter: Digital tick box From Media Guardian.04pm Letter: We welcome the Commons public accounts committee's report on the digital TV switchover and its conclusion that the programme is on track (more... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Safin not happy about being kept in dark | Marat Safin did not want to be kept in the dark any longer. Two days after upsetting third-ranked Novak Djokovic, the former top-ranked Safin was complaining to the chair umpire about being forced to ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Patch 1.7 released | This release comes pretty unexpected and only features three little fixes with this patch. Sadly there aren't any other infos yet which is the reason why we can only offer you the list of the fixes. O... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Pirating Axl Rose's Record | I have Chinese Democracy . This is the Guns n' Roses album that lead singer Axl Rose has devoted himself to working on for 14 years, the same amount of time it took to carve Mount Rushmore. More than ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Please see additional coverage on this story: http://www.nowpublic.com/en | Greenpeace has gone to a lot of trouble to get this website together. "Welcome to Alberta: Canada's Rocky Mountain Playground-a carbon based, energy power-house", it begins. It then goes on to suggest... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Tourism turn-off? | Beijing's forthcoming Olympic Games does not appear to be drawing as many people to the capital as expected this year. Figures show the number of international tourists visiting the Chinese capital fe... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Olympics: Chinese menus translated to English | 10 California places for same-sex weddings and honeymoons; Local hikes (bring your pet). Malibu, California - spots available on family camping adventure, June 22-26 . There are only 49 days left u... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Fears rise that key Pakistani city will fall to Islamic militants | PESHAWAR, Pakistan Heavily armed Islamic militants have massed on the outskirts of Peshawar, the strategic provincial capital in northwest Pakistan, and the Pakistani government has dramatically ste... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Giving all is enough--Cojuangco / Marc Anthony Reyes | Bryant, James lead US basketball team for Beijing. China releases 1,157 involved in Tibet unrest--Xinhua. China tightens screws against dissidents ahead of Olympics .. 3 Filipinos to carry Olympic tor... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | China prepares environmental action for Tibet | Chinese officials have announced a new "ecological security" plan for Tibet, which has the fastest rate of global warming in the world. Climbers who visit Tibet see the most visible sign of global war... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | The Impending Water Crisis in Central Asia: An Immediate Threat | Development , Developing Countries Johannes F. Linn , Executive Director, Wolfensohn Center for Development The Brookings Institution . Editors' Summary: Central Asia lies at the heart of the Eurasian... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | China's Spring and Summer | China's Spring and Summer: The Tibet Demonstrations, the Sichuan Earthquake and the Beijing Olympic Games . Over the past several months, China has faced a number of very public challenges, including ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Zheng Jie's Wimbledon cash boost for Sichuan Province earthquake | LONDON - Zheng Jie should have been ecstatic after ousting top-ranked Ana Ivanovic on Friday. Instead, she modestly waved to the crowd and exited Court 1. She was already thinking about her native Sic... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | iPhone finally headed to China? | 14:53 by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz | 2 comments China Mobile has said that they are closer than ever to striking a deal to distribute the Apple iPhone in China now that the largest hurdle in negoti... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | "Conservative Hard-Liners" vs. North Korea | Helene Cooper slants her story on liberal State Department diplomacy's triumph in North Korea over Dick Cheney's "hard-line" approach. 2:15:35 PM In " Bush Rebuffs Hard-Liners To Ease North Korean Cur... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | China: 8 Beijing Agents Abduct | China: Increasing pre-Olympic repression makes at least 24 journalists arrested . China Investigates Mistresses to Fight Against Corrupt Officials . September 16, 2007 By Xin Fei, Epoch Times Staff, S... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Windows Mobile .NET on S60/Symbian | Symbian is the #1 smartphone platform in the world with over 165 million devices shipped as of March 2008.NET application developers, this is a new market made available by utilizing Red Five Labs (a... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Hong Kong's internationally-renowned designers visited London to celebrate "9707" | Creative Hong Kong in London featured events at the flashiest and also most respected venues in the UK, giving top design talent from the territory the opportunities to shine amid some of the biggest ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Taliban attacks expected to rise: U.S | Afghanistan and will likely maintain or increase the pace of its attacks this year, the Pentagon said on Friday. Congress, the Pentagon also singled out the safe havens . WASHINGTON, June 27 (Xinhua)... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Apple to open first store in Beijing | APPLE Inc will open its first directly-operated retail store on the Chinese mainland in Beijing this summer to attract more consumers. Apple's new store will open in the capital's chic Sanlitun area i... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Social Climate : Where s a great place to work? / Mahar Mangahas | 500,000 OFWs leave RP in first 5 months of 2008. Pinoys in top 10 foreign populations of 16 countries .. For bilinguals, a distinct personality for each language. MANILA, Philippines Last week, I beg... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | AP via New York Post | Pentagon report that offers a dim view of progress in the nearly seven-year-old war. Noting that insurgent violence has climbed, the report said that despite U. and coalition efforts to capture and k... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | North Korea: Bush Policy Triumph | North Korea has submitted a declaration of its nuclear activities to China, according to CNN and other media. China in turn will share this information with the other members of the six country group,... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Azalea Networks' 'Intelligent' Broadband Wireless Routing Technology Supports 'Wireless Beijing' Network to be Used During 2008 Olympic Games | Azalea Networks' 'Intelligent' Broadband Wireless Routing Technology Supports 'Wireless Beijing' Network to be Used During 2008 Olympic Games . Largest city network in China prepares to go online to p... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Engaging India: The road to growth | Engaging India is an online column analysing the issues, trends and forces behind the business and politics shaping India and its impact on the world.com India , a dedicated online section on India , ... Read » |
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27/Jun 2008 | Taiwan steps back from Japan / Lack of pro-Japan officials blamed for Ma administration trend | TAIPEI--Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou of the ruling Nationalist Party (Kuomintang or KMT), has shown signs of distancing Taiwan from Japan, a sign that should alert Tokyo to the fact that more dialo... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | U.S. stance on DPRK limits Japan's choices | The government's options in regard to North Korea have been narrowed by the United States' decision to play its diplomatic trump card Thursday and announce it will take the reclusive state off its ter... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | 70 Tibetans detained in Nepal capital: police | Around 70 Tibetan exiles were detained in Nepal's capital for demonstrating outside a Chinese embassy building, police said. They will be released later in the evening," Kathmandu police official Rame... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Pope Benedict desires to have more bishops from mainland China visit | This morning, Pope Benedict XVI expressed his desire to welcome more bishops from mainland China to the Vatican soon. His prayer for the visits occured during a meeting with bishops from the Chinese d... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Guntars | MEMORIAL SITE OF PATRICK DORISMOND RIP MY BELOVED BROTHER WE LOVE YOU AND WE WILL NEVER FORGET 17 minutes ago MEMORIAL SITE OF PATRICK DORISMOND RIP MY BELOVED BROTHER WE LOVE YOU AND WE WILL NEVER F... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | SBI hikes interest rates on deposits | A day after it hiked lending rate, country's biggest lender State Bank of India on Friday announced an increase in fixed deposit rates by up to 75 basis points, effective from June 30. For deposits wi... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Please see additional coverage on this story:http://www.nowpublic | 02:27 am. 1 comment My wife and I are planning our summer vacation. I wonder if she'd go for this? Very amusing way of bringing awareness to the damage being done to the environment as the oil sands a... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Mei Lanfang | Filming of Zhang Ziyi's next film, Mei Lanfang , began in Beijing on July 14. It is a $15 million project under famed Chinese director Chen Kaige (" Farewell My Concubine " and " The Emperor and the A... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | State media level dangerous allegation in Sri Lanka: FMM | COLOMBO - The Free Media Movement (FMM), a Colombo based media watchdog, on Friday expressed serious concern against a false story published in the Sri Lankan state controlled newspaper, 'Dinamina', l... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Iraq Says Two Dozen Shiite Fighters Have Surrendered | BAGHDAD (AFP) -- Twenty-seven Shiite fighters have surrendered themselves in the southern province of Maysan since Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki gave them a seven-day deadline, a top Iraqi official sa... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Blog: Left, Right and Center | Left, Right and Center s Blog. Matt Miller mentioned a bunch of articles in the show: catch up on your reading: Robert Novak: The Obamacons Who Worry McCain Steven Pearlstein: The Bottom is Up Ahead .... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Offshoring: India still No. 1 | Tags: India , City , Beijing , International Data Corp. , Delivery Location , Government , Vertical Industries , Outsourcing , Pricing , Enterprise Software . 27, 2008 8:20:55 AM Bangalore has retaine... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Guide navigates Olympics pitfalls | NEW YORK -- Six weeks before the Beijing Olympics, a guide aimed at aiding the 25,000 reporters planning to travel to China to cover the games, was announced Friday by Human Rights Watch and the Commi... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Bookkeeping: New Position in A-Power Energy Generation Systems (APWR) to Create Alternative Energy Mini Basket | Bookkeeping: New Position in A-Power Energy Generation Systems (APWR) to Create Alternative Energy Mini Basket . American Superconductor (AMSC) which I actually added a bit to here as it pulls back t... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | So, is North Korea off the hook? | China , in accordance with agreements made during the six-party talks. Bush welcomed the move as "one step in the multi-step process laid out by the six-party talks," immediately lifted the applicatio... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Chinese Classics on TV in 2008 | Hong Lou Meng or Dream of the Red Chamber, a classical novel widely regarded as one of the finest literary piece in Chinese history is being adapted into a TV series once again. The first version was ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Beijing unrepentant over Olympic motto | The Olympic motto of Citius, Altius Fortius faster, higher, stronger might have been intended as an inspiration for athletes but for this year's Chinese hosts, it has also become a rallying call t... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Where's Johnny Jet? Returning to Hong Kong | By Johnny Jet JohnnyJet.com June 26, 2008 Key: Bold links open pictures in a separate browser window, while regular hyperlinks open websites. Cheers from Hong Kong! I can't tell you how excited I a... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Wimbledon schedule on 7NBC | Saturday, June 28, 2008 12:00-3:00 p. - 15 minute update Tuesday, July 01, 2008 10:00 AM-1:00 p. - 15 minute update Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:000 AM-1:00 p. - 15 minute update Thursday, July 03, 200... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Schwarzman: Don t Annoy Foreign Funds | Political opposition to sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) can be economically disastrous, says billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of private equity giant Blackstone Group. Alienate the funds, and they ll... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Navy ship to be sunk off Hawaii | BREMERTON, Wash. -- A Navy destroyer that had been mothballed in Washington state for six years has been towed away. Ray will be used for target practice and sunk next week near Hawaii in the Rim of t... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Apple China's retail Olympics | Solving the mystery of Snow Leopard's shrinking apps . iPhone 3G plans start at $50 in Sweden, $80 in Norway . Rogers says Canadian iPhone 3G plans to start at $60 for 150 mins. China Mobile s iPhone ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Accused Motorola spy denies charges, blames work overload | 14 more people implicated in UCLA medical records snooping . Five IRS workers indicted for snooping into taxpayer files. Qisda to begin shipping 3G handsets to Motorola in Q3 08. Chicago (IL) A woma... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | I ve previously spoken with one Chinese entrepreneur who had been approached by Apple to help them work something out with China Mobile | Apple has been signing deals at a breakneck speed to get its iPhone in markets around the world, but the one country everyone knows it wants to enter has remained elusive: China. A new deal signed wit... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Looks like the iPhone will make it to mainland China, after all | When I was in China last month, it seemed like every entrepreneur I met had an iPhone an iPhone that they had purchased elsewhere then unlocked so they could use it in China. Unlocking means break... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Old Beijing Gives Way to Wrecking Ball | . In the old days chain of tapestry of courtyards there's an open door and it -- a puzzle pieces -- neighborhoods. Many are carved out of relic of the past remnant of an old temple guard this Ouattara... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Upcoming Lok Sabha elections puts Bengal land reform bills on hold | With Lok Sabha elections looking inevitable following the Left-UPA standoff over the nuclear deal, CPM in West Bengal has decided to put all land reform Bills on the back burner. This includes the Wes... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Dons Pump Crores Into City Realty | Real Estate Posted on Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 02:03:23 AM EST Like the Bangladeshi mafia, high-profile criminals from other states are pumping money into the booming real estate trade in the city and its ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Still A Good Time To Buy A House, Say Experts,Prices To Go Up By 15-20% Over Next Six To 12 Months | You may have put off the decision to upgrade the flat television with a wall-mounted LCD TV. Or opted to wait for interest rates to soften before going in for a sedan against the small car you own now... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Shanghai (02%) | People's Daily Chinese shares slump heavily on Friday..(3) Xinhua News Shanghai stock indices down -- June 27..(3) Xinhua News China acts to boost supervision over stock procee.(2) Xinhua News Feature... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Pyongyang (03%) | 7) The Guardian North Korea blows up cooling tower..(7) AlertNet Japan plays down North Korea worries, media frets..(4) AlertNet ANALYSIS-North Korea to reap benefits from South as.(4) Xinhua News New... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Beijing (06%) | New York (08%).(8) Voice of America Independent Groups Warn Olympics Exacerbatin.(7) Express India Olympics will sharpen my skills: Neha Aggarwal..(5) DNA India Olympics will sharpen my skills: Neha A... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | UPDATE:PBOC Zhou:To Use Monetary Policy To Tighten Money Supply | 20:09 GMT.UPDATE:PBOC Zhou:To Use Monetary Policy To Tighten Money Supply (Updates with more comments) ROME (Dow Jones)--People's Bank of China Gov. Zhou Xiaochuan said Friday the bank wanted to use m... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Destroyer Ray headed for sinking in RimPac | BREMERTON, Wash. A Navy destroyer that had been mothballed at Bremerton for six years has been towed away. Ray will be used for target practice and sunk next week near Hawaii in the Rim of the Pacif... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | The Next China Storm | Cover Story. SHANGHAI--To drive through the Yan'an tunnel that separates the old neighborhoods of Shanghai from the new Pudong district is to travel not so much through space as through time. Pudong's... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Asia Cup - 5th Match India Vs | Cricket | Tags : india pakistan 5th odi asia cup A Blasting performance from Virendra Sehwag and Suresh Raina blasted Pakistan Chances of getting yet another win in Asia Cup into pieces as they made... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | "Around the World in " | View Larger Map The Great Pyramid of Giza , the Taj Mahal , the Great Barrier Reef and the Great Wall of China . Matt Borrello had dreamed of visiting one or two of the world's great wonders at some p... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Peaceful South Asia can bring enormous benefits: Zardari | Peaceful South Asia can bring enormous benefits: Zardari * PPP co-chairman says Afghanistan s political instability hampering region s trade with Central Asian states LONDON: A peaceful and democratic... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Seven killed in India as rebel factions clash | Seven killed in India as rebel factions clash GAUHATI: At least seven people were killed in fighting between rival rebel factions in India s remote northeast, police said Friday. A group of Naga rebel... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | China s forex reserves hit $1.8 trillion | China s forex reserves hit $1.8 trillion SHANGHAI: China s foreign exchange reserves, by far the largest in the world, hit $1.80 trillion at the end of May, state media reported Friday.5 billion recor... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Man dies mysteriously on island | A 36-year-old South Australian man has died mysteriously on a remote Malaysian island in the South China Sea. A Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) spokesman said the man died on the island... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Pigs at the Trough | If you want to understand (a) why so many members of the European 'parliament' are unwilling to criticize the EU and (b) why the alienation between the EU's elite and European voters grows ever deeper... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | 2 and 1/2 Minutes on North Korea | North Korea demolished the cooling tower at its plutonium-producing reactor Friday, blasting apart the cylindrical structure in Yongbyon as a sign of its commitment to stop making plutonium for atomic... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Vince Farrell: The Time For Fed Action Is Now | Larry Kudlow 's show last night as all of us, Kudlow, Farrell, Michael Pento, and Jack Gage of Forbes all read the markets horrendous action the same way. The downturn was a complete in your face repu... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Second Thoughts About Socialism | Claude Castonguay is the father of socialized medicine in Canada. In the 1960s, he chaired a Quebec commission whose recommendation. Despite increasing local demand for zero-emissions cars and trucks... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | 2008Central.net Presidential Election Podcast (06 | Outtake: John and Angelo are back and will be recording podcasts several times a week now. This podcast covers (1) Obama s get over it statement and (2) McCain staffer Charles Black s comments to Fo... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | IOC rebukes Chinese government for politicising the Games | . The IOC sent a letter of reprimand to BOCOG after Tibet's Party Secretary Zhang Qinglin made a political statement at the Olympic torch ceremony in Lhasa.4 Japan navy destroyer on first China visit... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Bolivia planning state takeover of airports-report | Adds comment from SABSA's managing director) LA PAZ, June 27 (Reuters) - Bolivia's leftist government is preparing a state takeover of the country's three biggest airports, currently run by a subsidia... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Town shut amid fears of epidemic | THE centre of Beichuan County, one of the worst-hit towns in the May 12 quake in China's southwestern Sichuan Province, was closed again early on Thursday for epidemic prevention. "On the concern of e... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Black Friday plunges blue chips into the red | Black Friday plunges blue chips into the red.3 percent yesterday, spurred by weak overseas markets, speculation on interest rate rises and new initial public offerings, which will siphon capital from ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Costs hit industry profit growth | PROFITS for the Chinese mainland's industrial companies rose 20.8 billion) by May, the National Bureau of Statistics said yesterday.1-percent climb achieved in the first five months last year because ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Leukemia girl thanks cell donor | Ask us. A 17-YEAR-OLD girl finally met the man who donated his stem cells to save her from leukemia four years ago, telling him "no words can express my gratitude." The meeting took place at a confere... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Friday Food Porn - Plum Dandy | Friday Food Porn - Plum Dandy June 27, 2008, 11:32 am Filed under: Amusement , Boobs , Breasts , Entertainment , Funny . Porn , Sexy , Shameless Self Promotion | Tags: Cooking , Food as Porn , Friday ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Seven killed in Sudan cargo plane crash | A cargo plane crashed mid-flight in Sudan on Friday, killing seven crew members, including five foreigners, in the third fatal aviation accident to blight the African country in the last two months. C... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Ho Chi Minh City Adopts Ambitious Tourist Development Scheme | Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has adopted a tourism development scheme that aims to double revenues to 46 trillion VND (US$2. The city's tourism sector will expand operations to potential market... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | U.S. Travel Industry Expects Boon From Chinese Tourists | COMMERCE; L. sights wow first Chinese leisure tourists ; The travel industry expects a boon from the new wave of visitors . They posed with a Bart Simpson look-alike, mugged in front of a real Van Go... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Report: Algae threatens Olympic sailing | Computers Electronics Environment Nuclear Science Telecomm Living/Entertainment . sailing venue for the Beijing Olympic Games is threatened of being clogged by an algae outbreak, ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Cabinet to map out measures to woo foreign capital | The government will draw up measures to attract foreign capital to the stock market and increase investment by the four government-run funds in the domestic stock market, Premier Liu Chao-shiuan ( ) s... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Sea of algae turns Olympic sailing venue green | Chinese officials remove bright green algae smothering beaches and extending out several hundred meters into the Yellow Sea off Qingdao, China, on Thursday. China s pledge of a Green Olympics has ta... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | SMIC could sell up to 20% stake to Chinese investor | SMIC could sell up to 20% stake to Chinese investor DEBT PAYMENTS: The biggest chipmaker in China has narrowed its search for an investor to a firm it wouldn t name, offering a much better price tha... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | DPP legislators criticize Taipei tourism Web site | Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Taipei City councilors lashed out at the Taipei City Government yesterday for giving wrong and outdated information on the English version of its travel guide Web si... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | State affairs fund near resumption: Wang | 3 Presidential Office Spokesman Wang Yu-chi ( ) said yesterday that a Supreme Court ruling on Thursday meant the judiciary was one step closer to resuming proceedings in the state affairs fund case ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Ma waits in the wings to be named | 8 As expected, calls are being heard among the grassroots of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) for President Ma Ying-jeou ( ) to double as party chairman. The Presidential Office may say that this w... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | China says it has cut back on summary executions | China s highest court overturned 15 percent of all death sentences handed down in the first half of this year, an official newspaper said yesterday, although the total number of executions carried out... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Private equity funds spark property b | Private equity funds spark property boom in Cambodia :: Tiny mountain country continues to have rising property prices :: Escalating inflation seen as threat to booming property markets in Asia :: Out... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | China axes top swimmer over doping | CHINA'S top backstroke swimmer, Ouyang Kunpeng, has been banned for life for failing a doping test. In a statement yesterday, the Chinese Swimming Association said Ouyang tested positive for a doping ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Tower blast symbol of nuke stand-off cooling | Tower blast symbol of nuke stand-off cooling .. the main reactor complex in Yongbyon in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea yesterday. The tower, the most visible symbol of the DPRK's nuclear we... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Tropical Storm Leaves 9 Dead in South China | Torrential rain from tropical storm Fengshen has killed nine in south China's Guangdong Province, according to the local authority on Friday. In addition, the strong rain had affected about 340,000 pe... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | China and Taiwan embrace | 24 June 2008 Taiwan's China Airlines and China Southern Airlines have confirmed that they plan to cooperate on running daily services on direct flights between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland. Both ai... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | HKIA Olympics store opens | With just 45 days to go and coinciding with the company's tenth anniversary, Nuance-Watson (HK) has launched the first airside Beijing Olympics themed booth at HKIA, offering a wide selection of offic... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Godiva opens with King Power at Hong Kong | Belgian Chocolatier Godiva has opened a new 26sq m shop in the Arrivals Hall at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) in partnership with the King Power Group (Hong Kong) - its first stand alone stor... Read » |
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27/Jun 2008 | 23% Vietnamese surf Internet | The total number of phone subscribers was 58 million. The country also had 6 million Internet subscribers, equivalent to 19.5 million Internet users, reaching a ratio of 23% of the population. The fig... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | FMM: State media level dangerous allegation against Press Institute | Colombo based media watchdog, the Free Media Movement (FMM), on Friday expressed serious concern against a false story planted in the Sri Lankan state controlled newspaper, 'Dinamina', a paper conside... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Since Muradbhai is too | 11:43:19 am Since Muradbhai is too busy in digging non existent proofs, to prove what ever he wants to prove, please enjoy this story: The five Pandavs are worried. Not because they have had to leave ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Cunning spy who lives on in Lenihan political dynasty | Top security service 'led Russian spy poison plot' . Covert crime register is set to silence informants. New MI5 chief was my secret handler, says top Provo spy. 'Nightmare on Kildare Street' with ban... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Uighur Justice | Uighur Justice Published Yesterday By NURY A. TURKEL FROM TODAY S WALL STREET JOURNAL ASIA June 26, 2008 The controversy over the right of habeas corpus for U. terror detainees has obscured the fact t... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Do Chinese Students Need An American Jesus? | November 15th, 2006 by iMonk This post is important. If you keep up with my journey, read this because what is going on with my ministry to Chinese students is becoming a major chapter in the deconstr... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Nobody Walks In Los Angeles | Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler s fictional private eye, who schlepped around Southern California long before the birth of the freeway, once said that Los Angeles had all the personality of a paper ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Crossfire War - Iran Nuclear Envoy Visits Belgrade - Nuclear Exports to Serbia | Crossfire War - Rapid Fire News=Tehran - Belgrade - Athens WATCH - Southeast Europe Theatre: Iran Envoy to International Atomic Energy Agency in Belgrade - Ballistic Missile Package for Export - Mass ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Chinese engineers from Arunachal: BJP MP | A BJP MP on Thursday said four Chinese engineers, employed by a private company in Arunachal Pradesh for oil exploration, should not be allowed to work till Beijing announces that it will grant visas ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | China Mobile to offer iPhones in China | It looks like it won t be long until China Mobile starts selling Apple s iPhone in China. According to a China Mobile spokesperson: Apple is no longer insisting on a revenue-sharing policy, so the bi... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | UPDATE: ECB Trichet: Central Banks Can't Control Relative Prices | 18:25 GMT.UPDATE: ECB Trichet: Central Banks Can't Control Relative Prices (Updates with commnents from China central bank governor) ROME -(Dow Jones)- European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Tric... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | China Awards Little Heros in Quake Rescue | Li Changchun, member of the Political Bureau Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, center, poses for a photo with little heros in quake rescue on Friday, June 27,... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | 'China 'basically ready' for Beijing Olympics' | BEIJING: China said on Friday the country is "basically ready" for the Beijing Olympics and was confident of "doing a good job" during the Games and making it a "high-level event". "The preparation wo... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Sodium | A 'megawatt-class' battery attached to American Electric Power's grid in Charleston, W. It's used as a buffer, able to generate a few hours of power for an overloaded substation.These are sodium sulfu... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Taiwan has sovereign ownership over Spratlys -- Lee | THE appointed Taiwanese ambassador to Manila yesterday rejected negotiations on claims over the Spratlys, saying his country has sovereign ownership over the disputed island. Taipei Economic and Cultu... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Only bodies in shipwreck | AUTHORITIES have given up hope of finding survivors of the sinking of the MV Princess of the Stars and the search is now concentrated on recovering more bodies from the sunken ship. They have sealed o... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | China-Japan Oil Deal | After years of discord, China has agreed to cooperate with Japan on developing a disputed offshore gas field. BOSTON China s decision to share a disputed gas field may mark a significant breakthroug... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | "Vox-Pop:What Is Your Reaction To Government's Position On The Bakassi Killings?" | Compiled By Chris Mbunwe, Francis Tim Mbom, Olive Ejang Tebug Ngoh, Elvis Tah & Victorine Biy Yongka (Journalism Intern) Government Gags Information I think the Cameroon Government has fail ed to r... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Radio Free Europe contributor arrested and tortured while government promises EU to improve human rights | Radio Free Europe contributor arrested and tortured while government promises EU to improve human rights . MONTREAL, June 27 /CNW Telbec/ - Reporters Without Borders "strongly condemns" the action o... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Preserve Your Wealth Buy Gold | Turn up the gloom! Investors will do well merely to preserve wealth from here." IT'S HARD TO BE BULLISH on gold when there's so much bad news in the world. After all, Gold offers a refuge against bad ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Fearful voters told 'your vote is your bullet' | Voting over in Zimbabwe's controversial election. FEARFUL Zimbabweans have finished voting in the country's second-round poll after being warned that they risked death if they failed to support . Zim... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Police investigating suspected murder in Cambridge | BOSTON -- Authorities are investigating a homicide that happened in Cambridge on Thursday night. Police were called to 211 Elm Street just before 11 p. Upon arrival, officers discovered the body of St... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Human Flesh Search Engines in China | In China, online vigilantes, or netizens, use the Internet as a human flesh search engine to find and punish people who publish material they consider inappropriate. Human Flesh Search Engine is... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Quake-ravaged Chinese province now battles flood threat | Chengdu (China), June 27 (Xinhua) China's southwestern Sichuan province, which was hit by a 8.0-magnitude quake May 12 killing more than 80,000 people, is now battling a severe flood threat. The meteo... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Schwarzenegger calls on Bush for aid in California fires | Flood threatens 100 homes in Mo. after levee loss Stocks mostly lower again after big drop Court upholds new FCC video franchising rules Federer cruises into 4th round, will face Hewitt Redmond O'Neal... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | China Mobile ready to talk iPhone again | At the WWDC keynote earlier this month, Steve Jobs proclaimed that the iPhone 3G would find its way to 70 countries before the end of the year 22 of them on the infamous July 11th. But there were a fe... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Iran's Dissent Over Mixing Islam and Politics | QOM, IRAN On a snowy day early this year, a cheery crowd gathered in a busy square here, undeterred by the sting of icy wind gusts. A mobile crane moved into place to serve as a makeshift gallows, fol... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Saha turns to solar cells for savings | The Saha Group has initiated a solar-cell project to reduce its oil consumption by at least 1 per cent this year. The group is one of Thailand's largest manufacturing and trading conglomerates. Chairm... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Individual Liberty in the Pacific Rim | Individual Liberty in the Pacific Rim By Nonoy Oplas, 6/27/2008 7:02:25 AM Editor s Note: Dick Rowland, President Emeritus of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, recently attended the very important P... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | US: Arrest made following attack in Karmah, Iraq | ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | How far will Renault's hydrogen fuel cell Scenic go? | The development costs mean that each of Renault's new hydrogen fuel Scenic ZEV H2 is currently worth about a million euros. But is the world really on the road to a hydrogen future? . The Renault eng... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Detained journalist prevented from seeing his lawyer | MONTREAL, June 27 /CNW Telbec/ - Uznews correspondent Solidzhon Abdurakhmanov's brother Bakhrom Abdurakhmanov, who is acting as his lawyer, was unable to visit him on 25 June in the detention centre i... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Chongming link a step closer | ANOTHER link in the Yangtze River Tunnel and Bridge project was completed in Shanghai yesterday. Major engineering work on the tunnel section, from Pudong New Area to Changxing Island, and the bridge ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | They Didn t Know They Were Famous | Robert Frank, meet Mack and T Smiley. The mystery couple in the photograph taken in Indianapolis 51 years ago by Frank for his seminal book, The Americans, have been identified as Matthew and Telester... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | New Website for Finding Juried Shows and Calls for Entries | I just received a newsletter from The Guild of Creative Art, located in Monmouth County, NJ. I ve been a member for about 6 months, and I recently taught a full day workshop there.... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | New Technology Powers Big RFID Order book | One million transistors is not enough for the RFID chip in the new e-passports because, increasingly, they have to double as driver's licenses, multipurpose cards and other media. One million transist... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Analysis Complex issues remain on NKorea nukes | 12:20:04 Location: SEOUL, South Korea It took years of talks, coddling and concessions to prod North Korea to step back from its decades-long effort to make atomic weapons, leading to Friday's dramati... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Blogging Religiously: Prominent rabbi wins in court, but debate will go on | For several years, much of the Orthodox Jewish community in New York and beyond has been riveted by accusations against Rabbi Mordecai Tendler, a prominent rabbi from Monsey who comes from a very prom... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | SCOR establishes Asia-Pacific Hub | PARIS--(Marketwire - June 27, 2008) - SCOR establishes Asia-Pacific Hub SCOR rolls out the structure of its Singapore Hub, the regional headquarters of the Asia-Pacific and South Asia operations with ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | How to Play Dubai s Construction Boom | JPMorgan Cuts Major Asian Indices Forecasts by Double Digits .. With a Rate Decision, GDP Report Due Today, the Fed Walks the High Wire Again.. Tags: airbus sas BA Crude Oil Prices GLS invest... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Amanpour: Stunned silence followed nuke plant implosion | Story Highlights. CNN's Amanpour was one of few journalists to witness historic destruction . North Korea blew up nuclear plant tower as part of disarmament agreement . Nation says it did so as a gest... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Japan calls for 5000 tonnes of emergency butter | Japan has suffered a dairy meltdown and will import 5000 tonnes of "emergency butter" to ease shortages. Japan - one of the wealthiest and most sophisticated food markets in the world - has run out of... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | North Korea blows up tower at nuclear site but questions remain about its program | The North's actions set the stage for another round in six-party talks, scheduled to take place next week in . North Korea blew up part of its Yongbyon nuclear plant Friday, in full view of CNN and a... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Inflation surges to 11.42 | India on Friday pressed for concerted action by Pakistan to deal with terrorism as it posed threat to the democratic frameworks of both the countries. Addressing a press conference with his Pakistani ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Factory to the world will soon get the right to strike--China | HONG KONG: Workers in China may be just a step away from attaining the ultimate proletarian utopia the right to strike, which they have been denied for nearly 30 years. The revolutionary move is ind... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Algal bloom hits Qingdao Olympic sailing venue | Beijing Games are contending with mutant seaweed that has invaded the Olympic venue in China. The bright green algae, described as "thick as a carpet" and akin to "sailing on a massive bed of grass", ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | N. Korea Demolishes Nuclear Reactor Tower | YONGBYON, North Korea - North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program Friday, blasting apart the cooling tower at its main atomic reactor in a sign of its commitment to ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Don't you have some women | Dilemma of American Rapists Pull out of Iraq before getting Money Shot (stable puppet govt passes 'oil law') or Stay in and get Penis Bitten Off (vagina dentata syndrome) Either way, you very deserved... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Complex issues remain on N. Korea nukes | SEOUL, South Korea - It took years of talks, coddling and concessions to prod North Korea to step back from its decades-long effort to make atomic weapons, leading to today's dramatic destruction of i... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | About Chinas Commerce | Random: economic reform in china premium economy flights to hong kong Shanghai business in china bank of china gdp finance Shanghai china manufacturing nasdaq stocks Shanghai shipping information tech... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Analysis: North Korea blows up reactor cooling tower, but will it hand over nuclear bombs? | SEOUL, South Korea - It took years of talks, coddling and concessions to prod North Korea to step back from its decades-long effort to make atomic weapons, leading to Friday's dramatic destruction of ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | German Foundation, EU Pull Out Of Uzbek Journalist Training Program | Officially, it s Media Day in Uzbekistan today, although the running joke among journalists is that the government is actually celebrating Victory Day over the country s free and independent media. A ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Owning the barrel in the Dark Continent | SPECIAL REPORT: " China Africa : With Its Resource-Hungry Push Into The Sub-Sahara, Beijing Puts The Planet To The Test," by Richard Behar, Fast Company , June 2008, p. Scary but good piece that emp... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Pentagon Officials Testify on Chinese Military Buildup | WASHINGTON: Though the Defense Department doesn t see China as a strategic adversary, the country s military buildup and lack of openness in how it s going about it has officials wondering about Chine... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | "Piano Fever" in China | Gillian Martin ( 0 Comments ) Here's an interesting article about the passion for piano that has gripped China. It's fueled by a growing urban middle class who have the disposal income for a piano and... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Take the DMI blog readers survey and win gift card | Hey there, blog readers, These past two days, I've been at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York, listening to various bloggers, journalists, and others talk about how technology changes politics. ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | City panel backs taxi fee hike | Cab rides in Milwaukee would increase $1.25, under a measure endorsed today by a Common Council committee looking to help drivers offset record-high gas prices. The increases forward to the full Commo... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | "Accountability and responsibility" | Despite Kosova s declaration of independence, we will continue to be governed by an unelected and unaccountable international administration, which consists now of not just one, but three missions: Th... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Social applications driving the mobile web | Major web players have already crossed the Rubicon and established themselves in the mobile domain Ian Chard Juniper Research . New research suggests that global mobile web users will jump from 577 m... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | CHINA: Quake Highlights Urban Privilege | Picking up the pieces after the quake in Bailu town, Sichuan Province. BAILU, Sichuan, Jun 27 (IPS) - 1970 -- The height of the Cultural Revolution. A severe quake ripples through rural China s Yunnan... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Macau: The Other Gambling World | On the island of Coloane, Restaurante Fernando harkens to a time when the Portuguese controlled this picturesque area of southern China. The open-air eatery looks out on the black sands of H S each, w... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Macao SAR chief executive to visit quake-stricken Sichuan | A Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR government delegation headed by Chief Executive, Ho Hau Wah, Friday flew to the quake-hit Sichuan Province in the Chinese mainland for a three-day visit. Ho'... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Human error blamed for deadly oil tank blast in China's Xinjiang region | Human error has been blamed for an oil tank blast that killed five workers in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a local official said on Friday. Investigators found the workers had v... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | DPRK official: China plays important role in denuclearization | PYONGYANG, June 27 (Xinhua) -- The demolition of the cooling tower at Yongbyon, the nuclear center of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), demonstrated that China had played an important ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | North China province upgrades standby airport for Olympics | Workers have upgraded a standby airport near Beijing for the Olympics and Paralympics in building a new terminal, enlarging the tarmac and lengthening the runway. A new terminal building with a floor ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Power restored in nearly all China quake regions | Power has been restored in all quake-hit regions in southwest China's Sichuan Province except two towns inundated by quake-formed lakes, the nation's economic planning agency said here on Friday. In t... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Au moins 24 journalistes et cyberdissidents arr t s ou condamn s depuis le d but de l'ann e 2008 : "A l'approche des Jeux olympiques, l | Au moins 24 journalistes et cyberdissidents arr t s ou condamn s depuis le d but de l'ann e 2008 : "A l'approche des Jeux olympiques, la r pression s'acc l re. Reporters sans fronti res a recens 24 c... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Taliban use swords to slit the throats of Afghan 'traitors' in public executions before thousands | In a shocking display of hardline violence, Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan publicly slit the throats of two Afghans today after they were accused of spying for US forces suspected of launchin... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Levee breaks, Winfield threatened | ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | At home with art: Dealer makes her home her gallery | MILL NECK, N. In the comfortable elegance of airy, sun-filled rooms in her contemporary waterfront home in Mill Neck, Doris Mukabaa Marksohn is celebrating the fourth anniversary of her art gallery.... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Magma opens Beijing and Shanghai offices, launches China university program | In its latest move to create a bigger presence in China, semiconductor design software supplier Magma Design Automation Inc opened new offices in Beijing and Shanghai, with CEO Rajeev Madhavan on hand... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | N.Korea Welcomes US Move on Terror Blacklist | Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Friday that North Korea had taken a "first step" towards denuclearization after the communist state blew up (more) . Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda sai... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Catherine's profile | Languages: Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese Catherine s background is in the research of domestic issues in China, cross-strait relations, and Sino-U. She has studied Mandarin Chinese and Japanes... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Analysis: Complex issues remain on NKorea nukes | SEOUL, South Korea It took years of talks, coddling and concessions to prod North Korea to step back from its decades-long effort to make atomic weapons, leading to Friday's dramatic destruction of ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Politburo says China 'basically ready' for the Games | BEIJING, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, presided over a meeting of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau on the final st... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Navy ship from Bremerton to be sunk | A Navy destroyer that had been mothballed at Bremerton for six years has been towed away. Ray will be used for target practice and sunk next week near Hawaii in the Rim of the Pacific war exercise. Th... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Pimentel s Book on Federalizing the RP Launched, As More Senators and Governors Back Federalism Idea | Pimentel s Book on Federalizing the RP Launched, As More Senators and Governors Back Federalism Idea . Practically all the information that you wish to know about the proposed adoption of a federal s... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Number of millionaires surge | US-dollar millionaires in Asia surged in 2007, with India having the fastest growing population of individuals holding at least 1 million US dollars in financial assets, a wealth report said Friday. I... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Politburo: China "basically ready" for Olympiad | Hu Jintao , General Secretary of the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) Central Committee, presided over a meeting of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau on the final stage of preparatory work fo... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Some 40,000 pages of Tibetan oral histories at Case Western Reserve to appear online in 2009 | News Home. Begun in 2001 at Case Western Reserve University, the Tibet Oral History and Archive Project in anthropology will be completed with support from a two-year, $150,000 grant from the Nationa... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Great Wall of China Trek for Ayrshire Hospice | AYR shore wall doesn t exactly come into the majestic category of the Great Wall of China. Walking along it will have to do until next April for that s when this group will begin a fundraising trek on... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | NUM declares wage dispute against De Beers | Friday , 27 Jun 2008 In a two-day tender, China National Gold outbid Zijin Mining, Shandong Gold Mining and Zhaojin Mining Industry Co. for exploration rights for what is believed to be China's large... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Taliban slit the throats of Afghan 'traitors' in public executions watched by thousands | In a shocking display of hardline violence, Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan publicly slit the throats of two Afghans today after they were accused of spying for US forces suspected of launchin... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | China Investigates Mistresses to Fight Against Corrupt Officials | China: Increasing pre-Olympic repression makes at least 24 journalists arrested . China Investigates Mistresses to Fight Against Corrupt Officials . 27, 2008 Reuters, Thu Jun 26, 2008- BEIJING (Reuter... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | China: Increasing pre-Olympic repression makes at least 24 journalists arrested | Reporters Without Borders , 27 June 2008- Reporters Without Borders has recorded 24 cases of journalists, cyber-dissidents or free expression activists being arrested or sentenced to jail terms since ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) destroyed the 20-meter-tall cooling tower at its Yongbyon nuclear complex shortly after 4 p.m. Friday | The cooling tower at the Yongbyon nuclear complex, North Korea is seen in this December 18, 2007 file photo. destroyed the cooling tower at its Yongbyon nuclear complex on Friday afternoon, South Kore... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | One in two Chinese people use mobile phone | 1 in 2 Chinese People Use Mobile Phone6/26/2008 SHANGHAI-- Almost one in two Chinese people now has a mobile phone, while the number of fixed-line subscribers in the nation of 1.3 billion stood at... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | China's business and investment opportunities | Companies, both local and foreign are itching their way into Chinese markets, either looking for business opportunities or to expand their business operation in China since its winning of the Olympic ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Kid Rock Raises Eyebrows And Money At Charity Golf Tournament | Detroit rocker Kid Rock hit the green in his home town on Wednesday to take part in the Buick Open Pro-Am golf tournament . This year s 50th anniversary tournament saw a host of Detroit s favorite son... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Chow Yun Fat Sells Photos For Earthquake Relief | Chinese actor Chow Yun Fat has released a book of photographs, with all proceeds going to charity. Only 1000 copies of Moving Pictures have been produced, and the proceeds will be donated directly to ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Kung Fu Panda + Flowing Fragrance Garden at the Huntington = Kids Off The Couch | How can getting ON the couch with your kids help to get them OFF the couch and out into their world? The two moms who founded KidsOffTheCouch. family fun , pasadena , kids off the couch , summer activ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | The Nation - Thailand | North Korea and remove the communist state from its terrorism blacklist.tower there "a politically symbolic event indicative of its determination to disable its nuclear weapons programme. "North Kore... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Govt aims for financial inclusion in 5 years: Chidambaram | Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said the government aimed to achieve financial inclusion in the next five years and exhorted banks to scale up their rural footprint. "We can make financial in... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | International Olympic Committee sets precedent with reprimand for Tibet Party boss | International Campaign for TibetJune 26, 2008 -- In a rare departure, the International Olympics Committee said that it "regrets that political statements were made during the closing ceremony of the ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | TCHRD commemorates 11th UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture | Today, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) commemorates the eleventh anniversary of the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture to recognize the pain and suffering ... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Quake rattles Indian island chain | Quake death toll likely to cross 80,000.7 on the Richter Scale struck near India's Andaman islands in the Indian Ocean Friday, the U. The quake was centered about 70 miles southwest of Port Blair, the... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | U.S. and China Go Bump in the Middle East | By Khody Akhavi WASHINGTON, Jun 26 (IPS) - For China these days it seems that nothing -- not rising energy prices; not sanctions aimed at its more unsavoury business partners, Burma and Sudan; not eve... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Raw Video: Torch Goes Through 'coal City' | The Olympic torch relay hit the streets of China's 'coal city' - Datong, on Friday. The second largest city of China's Shanxi Province, Datong paid tribute to its coal mining heritage..... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Beneficial ties | North Korea's disclosure of its nuclear activities could mark a breakthrough in potentially lucrative exchanges with the South stalled by a new government in Seoul that pledged a hard line on Pyongyan... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Survey shows that 47% of all Irish enterprises engaged in innovation activities; No data available on Patents | 1:08: PM. Survey shows that 47% of all Irish enterprises engaged in innovation activities; No data available on Patents . In the period 2004 to 2006 inclusive, over 47% of enterprises in Ireland indic... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | N. Korea Implodes Reactor's Tower | Col. APTV June 27: Demolition of the 60-foot-tall cooling tower at its main reactor complex in Yongbyon, North Korea. June 27: Demolition of the 60-foot-tall cooling tower at its main reactor complex... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Leading Economists Warn That Education Gap Between the U.S. and Industrialized Countries Threatens America's Ability to Compete | Leading Economists Warn That Education Gap Between the U. and Industrialized Countries Threatens America's Ability to Compete . Experts cite strong link between student achievement and economic growth... Read » |
27/Jun 2008 | Yahoo to Mull Over Free Expression Woes in Asia | Harassed online media practitioners and billions of reported information-deprived citizens in many Asian countries now have something to look forward to. Internet search engine, Yahoo , is planning to... Read » |
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