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xinning ji

BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | New hope for China's migrant workers - 0 views

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  • Twenty million migrant workers from China's countryside had lost their jobs in factories in the last year, because of the global downturn.
  • The new recruits were needed, he said, because things were starting to pick up. But their key export business had been hit badly.
xinning ji

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Australia 'uranium' dust concerns - 0 views

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  • David Bradbury, a renowned filmmaker and activist, claims the haze that engulfed some of the country's biggest cities in the past week contains radioactive grains - or tailings - carried on gale force winds from a mine in the South Australian desert.
    • xinning ji
      xinning ji on 28 Sep 09
       
      it is a disaster. I've never seen Australian weather like that since I lived here. It is a beautiful country and beautiful environment, why there is dust storm? it looks like the end of the world.
  • "In a big dust storm, the dust is not going to come from one isolated site, it is going to be mixed in with dust from a [wide] area and diluted considerably,"
Christoph Zed

AFP: Kadhafi calls for 'NATO of the south' at Venezuela summit - 0 views

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  • pushing for the creation of a "NATO of the South" by 2011 to counter the military bloc of the United States and European powers.
  • Energy infrastructure development and joint oil project cooperation were the central topics of the meeting,
  • Libya is the gateway to Africa for us because it is a country well-known for its socialist policies that plays an important and strategic role for us
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  • no global challenge in the 21st Century that cannot be tackled by Africa and South America, and there is no challenge that can be addressed without
Christoph Zed

Gaddafi proposes 'Nato of the South' at South America-Africa summit - Times Online - 0 views

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nato power-play politics

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  • Colonel Gaddafi proposed an African-Latin American defence alliance yesterday at an intercontinental summit hosted by Venezuela.
  • President Mugabe of Zimbabwe and President Zuma of South Africa were among almost 30 leaders from across the two continents present as Mr Chávez sought to promote his socialist policies abroad, urging a new world order that would confront Western dominance
  • “The world’s powers want to continue to hold on to their power,” said Mr Gaddafi, who had a white limousine flown to Venezuela to meet him at the airport.
Lucy Rechnitzer

'Nigel the Crazy Noonga' Website Shut Down | Racism Outrage - 0 views

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  • Crazy Noonga' website sparks racism outrage FRAN RIMROD September 24, 2009 A website set up by a Perth student about a fictional Aboriginal character has been shut down and is being investigated by police amid racism claims. The website, which Radio 6PR reports was created by a 19-year-old Curtin University student, features audio excerpts  of a character called "Nigel the crazy Noonga", who prank calls businesses and fast-food outlets with a fake Aboriginal accent. The portrayal of negative Aboriginal stereotypes has sparked outrage from the Aboriginal community. Craig Somerville, lecturer at the Curtin University Centre for Aboriginal Studies, told 6PR he believed the material on the website had crossed the line between humour and racism.
  • The Facebook "Just for fun" group set up for "Nigel the crazy Noonga" has 317 members and describes "Nigel" as "your friendly neighbourhood Noonga". It also pokes fun at the character's fictional solvent abuse, describing it as his own personal "dreamtime". Sergeant Greg Lambert said police were aware of the website and were investigating.
Lucy Rechnitzer

France Telecom | suicides | Chief Financial Officer | Gervais Pellissier | French exec ... - 0 views

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  • Boss blames smartphones for stress as company suicide rate comes under scrutiny September 25, 2009 Comments 12 A top executive at France's biggest telecommunications company, which is dealing with a spate of suicides, warned that the barrage of emails from smartphones and personal computers was stressing out employees.
  • Research in Motion's popular BlackBerry has been dubbed CrackBerry in the United States, where some users say they are addicted to checking emails.
  • That is probably something we've not undertaken, not only at France Telecom but, it's more a global society issue, the impact of the new ways of working on personal behaviour," Pellissier said.
Christoph Zed

Terrorists in the Making?: Egypt Pursues Europeans Taking Arabic Classes - SPIEGEL ONLI... - 0 views

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islam multiculturalism terrorism egypt usa faith

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  • It is not the first time the Egyptian security service claimed to have rounded up a cell of jihadist European students.
  • After just over a week of questioning, they were deported. There was no evidence. Back in Europe authorities saw no reason to hold the students.
  • the Egyptian security service often keeps surveillance on specific foreign students at the request of European secret services.
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  • The West often accuses Egypt of being a breeding ground for fanatics, but in actuality we are getting extremists from Europe.
  • Agents treat the foreign students who are arrested terribly." He says this has an adverse effect. "This way you create an enemy you might not have had before."
Christoph Zed

Terrorists in the Making?: Egypt Pursues Europeans Taking Arabic Classes - SPIEGEL ONLI... - 0 views

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islam multiculturalism terrorism egypt usa faith

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  • Many deeply religious students from Europe come to Egypt to learn Arabic. The question is: are these European Salafists coming to study the language of the Koran or to prepare terrorist attacks?
  • Young men with downy beards, caps, kneelength a traditional Arab galabeyas and sandals sat chatting in a McDonalds' restaurant in Nasr City, a large middle class district in the eastern part of Cairo.
  • In the neighborhood Egyptians, the European Salafists - Sunni religious fundamentalists - are outsiders.
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  • Ashraf, a 26-year-old Dutchman of Moroccan descent, came to Cairo a year ago. "To learn Arabic," he says, "the language of my religion."
  • "We aren't hurting anyone," says Ashraf, whose apartment was recently searched. "We only come to study and pray."
  • "Religious fanatics want to be taken seriously," says Walid al-Gohari, founder and director of the Al-Fajr institute, one of the many language schools in Nasr City. "But Salafists who don't even know Arabic are not considered credible."
  • The Egyptian security service is concerned about the situation. It therefore keeps a close eye on fundamentalist visitors with a European passport.
  • As a precaution, the security service picked up hundreds of foreign students in a few days time, among them a few from the Netherlands.
Yair Frid

Obama says Iran breaking rules on nuclear programs - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • The United States, France and Britain have presented "detailed evidence" to the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog that "Iran has been building a covert uranium enrichment facility," President Obama said Friday.
  • Iran "is taking the international community on a dangerous path," Sarkozy said.
  • U.S. and French intelligence officials have known about the facility for several months, the source said. When Iran discovered that Western nations had knowledge of the facility, it sent the letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
  • Yair Frid on 25 Sep 09
     
    Another invasion?.
Yair Frid

YouTube - Cops Caught Playing Wii Bowling During Drug Bust!!! - 0 views

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  • Yair Frid on 23 Sep 09
     
    busted!!!
  • Christoph Zed on 25 Sep 09
     
    well, better that eating donuts, or trying some of those drugs.
Nadeem Uddin

BBC NEWS | Africa | Anger at Lockerbie bomber welcome - 0 views

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  • Nadeem Uddin on 21 Sep 09
     
    Now what do we all think about this? Is it fair to free a criminal because of his health reasons? What do you guys think?
  • Christoph Zed on 25 Sep 09
     
    It may not be "fair" - and no doubt there is discussion over what fairness even means - but given circumstances, I think it is commendable for governments, (or individuals for that matter) to pardon a person that has been convicted of criminal offenses, if their individual case has been assessed in regards to threat for the general public. If found that a long time prisoner does not pose a threat to society anymore for reasons of health or age, why not give him the dignity to live a few last years, with their families in some sort of dignity? (eg: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/09/21/has-biggs-pulled-another-fast-one-115875-21689197/) Of course this can never be an global statement for every convicted criminal out there, but I think forgiving can be more powerful than being revengeful or "seeking justice".
Christoph Zed

BBC NEWS | Business | Emerging economies 'get new role' - 0 views

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usa politics economics g20 brazil china russia EU hegemony globalisation

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  • The G20 group of leading and emerging economies will take on a new role as a permanent body co-ordinating the world economy
  • more power to emerging economies, rather than to the developed powerhouses of the G8 group.
  • Senior EU officials later announced a deal to shift the balance of voting in the International Monetary Fund to benefit growing economies like China.
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  • police fired rubber bullets at protesters
  • The G20 is going to be the new body counsel that will be the coordinating body for international economic cooperation
  • financial regulatory reform was the most important agenda item for summit, but that addressing global economic imbalances was also a priority
  • US proposal calls on economies such as China, Brazil and India to boost domestic consumption
  • US and Europe would encourage more saving
  • That's not a sustainable financial situation for the US and that's why we're in the process of adjusting
Christoph Zed

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Suu Kyi 'welcomes US engagement' - 0 views

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US Asia hegemony politics government

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  • San Suu Kyi says she welcomes US plans to engage with the country's military rulers
  • Suu Kyi also wanted the US to engage with the political opposition.
  • direct engagement is good
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  • sanctions remained an important part of US policy but that "by themselves they have not produced the results that had been hoped for on behalf of the people of Burma"
  • US would be looking to employ both sanctions and engagement to "help achieve democratic reform" in Burma.
Rika Ninomiya

GRACE TRAVEL :: View topic - DFT-1 Winter Sonata Drama Tour in Seoul - 0 views

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WinterSonata Korea Tour Drama CulturalProduct Tourism

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  • Winter Sonata Drama Tour in Seoul
  • Rika Ninomiya on 25 Sep 09
     
    This obviously is not an article but I remember my aunt was saying she is going on this kind of tour so I thought I'll share it with everyone in class :)
Rika Ninomiya

China eyes Asian and Western media funds | The Australian - 1 views

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Korea Japan Hollywood China Globalization CulturalProduct

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  • CHINA Investment Corporation, the $US200billion ($243bn) state-run sovereign wealth fund, is planning to invest in several Western and Asian media funds.
  • The investments could give the Chinese government a direct stake in a rich variety of media content -- from South Korean television dramas and Japanese game shows to Hollywood blockbusters and globally franchised animation series.
xinning ji

BBC NEWS | South Asia | A new India emerges at the movies - 0 views

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  • Western filmmakers are increasingly tapping India for inspiration and locations and perceiving it in a new light.
  • The film raises many ethical and emotional questions without being judgmental.
  • Indeed, regeneration, spiritual and otherwise, seems to be the new buzzword driving the Western gaze on India.
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  • With the culturally condescending, poverty-fixated, cliché-ridden Western vision of a populous nation of a million contradictions undergoing marked dilution, a new India is beginning to emerge in the cinema of the world.
xinning ji

Modern Japan - Entertainment - Popular Music - 0 views

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  • Japan has the sixth-largest population in the world; the music industry generates billions and billions of dollars worldwide every year.
  • Japanese popular music is all commercialism and void of any artistic merit
  • The late 90's also saw some more western-style artists, such as Dragon Ash and Utada Hikaru explode onto the scene.
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  • Born in New York, the 16-year old Utada debuted in 1999 and though she looked just like another idol, she was clearly something completely new. She wrote and sang her own songs with a soulfulness beyond her years.
xinning ji

American Thinker Blog: South Korean drama hits America - 0 views

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  • South Korea's television soap operas are finding big audiences overseas, including here in the Bay Area, as well as other major American cities with large Asian populations.
  • South Korean studios invested heavily in state—of—the—art production facilities, embodying the latest digital technology. Today, many Japanese films are shot in Korea, to take advantage of lower costs and better facilities there. And studio tours for tourists have become a big business.
Nadeem Uddin

'Viagra cream' could prove safer - 0 views

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  • Nadeem Uddin on 21 Sep 09
     
    'Viagra cream' could prove safer\nViagra\nSide-effects can include headaches, blurred vision and upset stomach\n\nA cream allowing erectile dysfunction drugs to be applied directly to the skin could one day make them safer to use, say New York scientists.\n\nStudies in rats suggest that Viagra, Levitra and Cialis could pass through the skin in tiny capsules, they say.\n\nThe research, published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, could mean fewer side-effects, and even significantly speed up the drug's action.\n\nHowever, it could be a decade before creams are fully ready for use.\n\nThe arrival of erectile dysfunction treatments in tablet form has been one of the success stories of the modern pharmaceutical industry, with some estimates suggesting that tens of millions of men worldwide have used them.\n\nHowever, although they have worked for many men, they also carry the risk of side-effects such as headaches, blurred vision or upset stomachs.\n\nIn addition, men with severe heart problems, or who have just suffered a stroke, are advised to avoid the tablets altogether or use them with extreme caution.\n\nLess risk\n\nFor many, this could be solved by the development of the cream, with would confine more of the active ingredients of the drug to a single area of the body, rather than circulating them widely.\n \nThe response time to the nanoparticles was very short, just a few minutes, which is basically what people want in an erectile dysfunction medication\nDr Kelvin Davies\nStudy author\n\nThe research team at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, in New York, used nanoparticles, each much smaller than a grain of pollen, and found a way to encapsulate particles of the drug inside.\n\nTheir early tests involved just a few rats bred to have erectile dysfunction later in life.\n\nOf these, 11 were treated with nanoparticles containing Cialis, a newer erectile dysfunction drug called sialorphin, and nitric oxide, a chemical also needed to wid
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