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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Steven Kull of WorldPublicOpinion.org, +1-202-232-7500
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* DIPLOMACIA: el canciller surcoreano Ban Ki Moon -próximo secretario general de la ONU- llegó ayer a China, para discutir las sanciones contra Corea del Norte por su ensayo nuclear. Ban tenía previsto reunirse con el presidente chino Hu Jin Tao, el canciller Li Zhaoxing y el consejero estatal Tang Jia Xuan.
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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED on the way to work the other day. BBC radio reported that the Chinese regime of Hu Jin Tao would increase the price of petrol by US$0.46 a gallon. In its infinite wisdom, the Chinese leadership thinks this will dampen demand for petrol by a marauding population of desperately capitalist, car-mad Chinese. In fact, it thinks this action alone would do its part in lowering the global price of oil.
Guess what? World oil prices dipped. And almost every major global media organisation, led by frenzied Americans, of course, went to town with the story. The question they posed was whether China's action could be a harbinger of a downward spiral of world oil prices - just to show the oil rich Arab sheikhs that despite their cartel, or cabal, their stranglehold on the world...
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05-5485-ag
Jin v. Mukasey
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
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United States foreign-policy makers have failed to understand the significance of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the transformation of China ...
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For twenty years the Chinese People's Liberation Army has engaged in an extensive military modernization program and increased its presence in the world. It recently noted that a profound readjustment in the international system was brewing. It will face a new American administration under President Obama.
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Morgan Shrader, a 2009 graduate of Christiansburg High School, was recently initiated into Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Gamma Sigma at Radford University.
Beta Gamma Sigma is The International Honor Society for business programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, International.
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The worldwide financial crisis, the most far-reaching economic dislocation since the Great Depression, has thrust China further into the spotlight. No...
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WHEN PETER K C PANG VENTURED into business in Mozambique exporting seafood to Singapore back in 1999, things were relatively still primitive in Maputo.
Civil wars between the ruling pro-Socialist faction of the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) and the opposition pro- democratic party, Renamo (National Resistance Party of Mozambique), which lasted 15 years between 1977 and 1992, had destroyed much of Mozambique's infrastructure.
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Like many places in modern China, the southern city of Guilin is a hive of nervous productiveness, a clash of new and old. Foreign tourists flock here...