''Î'm scared and leaders should look out,'' Tsang said in Singapore Nov. ''America is doing exactly what Japan did last time,'' he said, adding that Japan's zero interest rate policy contributed to the 1997 Asian financial crisis and U.S. mortgage meltdown.
Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds dropped a bombshell on the Mike Malloy radio show, guest-hosted by Brad Friedman (audio, partial transcript). In the interview, Sibel says that the US maintained 'intimate relations' with Bin Laden, and the Taliban, "all the way until that day of September 11." These 'intimate relations' included using Bin Laden for 'operations' in Central Asia, including Xinjiang, China. These 'operations' involved using al Qaeda and the Taliban in the same manner "as we did during the Afghan and Soviet conflict," that is, fighting 'enemies' via proxies.
India is moving to block millions of cheap copy-cat Chinese mobile phones and accessories from flooding the market that the handset industry [association, led by Nokia] describes as ''time bombs'' for their often dangerously poor quality. [As if Nokia's phones aren't?]
"Any type of blog could be scrutinized, not just ones that specialize in reviews", according to the report. The proviso that any type of blog could be scrutinized frames this assault on free speech in a wider context than just individuals making claims about products advertised on their websites.
Human remains found in a 1,400-year-old Chinese tomb belonged to a man of European origin, DNA evidence shows. Chinese scientists who analyzed the DNA of the remains say the man, named Yu Hong, belonged to one of the oldest genetic groups from western Eurasia.
Well, that took less time than expected. This week, Google cofounder Sergey Brin admitted that his company compromised its "don't be evil" mantra when it bowed to pressure from the Chinese government and censored the Chinese version of its Web site. However, Brin's mea culpa wasn't followed by a reversal of that decision: As of today, Google is continuing to censor its Web site in China. But Brin hinted that Google might reverse course.
Iraq has signed its first major oil deal with a foreign company since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, a spokesman for the Iraqi Oil Ministry said Saturday.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang was quoted by state news agency Xinhua as saying "the situation in the region ... should be resolved in dialogue."
Fourteen-time Olympic gold medalist and SeaWorld main attraction Michael Phelps returned to his seven-million-gallon water tank Wednesday to resume his normal schedule of performing in six shows a day for marine park crowds every day of the week.
In the greatest movement of people the world has ever seen, China is secretly working to turn the entire continent into a new colony.
Reminiscent of the West's imperial push in the 18th and 19th centuries - but on a much more dramatic, determined scale - China's rulers believe Africa can become a 'satellite' state, solving its own problems of over-population and shortage of natural resources at a stroke.
With little fanfare, a staggering 750,000 Chinese have settled in Africa over the past decade. More are on the way.
