The Dalai Lama is set to mark his 50 years in exile on Tuesday by demanding “meaningful autonomy” for his Tibetan homeland and saying that Chinese rule there has at times been “hell on earth.” About 10,000 Tibetans from around the world have traveled to hear their leader speak from the courtyard of the main [...]
Posts Tagged ‘China’
The Dalai Lama Just Wants To Go Home
Posted: 9th March 2009 by Veritas in PoliticsTags: China, chinese, communism, dalai lama, tibet, tibetan
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Russian Scholar Says US Will Collapse—Next Year
Posted: 4th March 2009 by The Dude in Economy | Finance, PoliticsTags: China, collapse, Foreign Ministry, Igor, Kremlin, Obama, Panarin, Russia, scholar, U.S.
MOSCOW—If you’re inclined to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn’t mind if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial law this year, the U.S. will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia and China will become the backbones of a new world order. Panarin might be easy to ignore but for [...]
Boy Killed Anally When Office Chair Explodes
Posted: 20th February 2009 by moonphrogg in Oddly EnoughTags: anal penetration, China, death by anus, gas cylinder, horror, office chair, rectal bleeding, worst death ever
Well, stories don’t get much worse than this. A 14-year-old boy in China was killed when his chair exploded, sending chunks of metal into his rectum. The bleeding this caused killed him. » Continue Here
China Closes Highways After ARTIFICIALLY Created Snow Covers the Country
Posted: 19th February 2009 by Simo Häyhä in Mother Nature, Oddly EnoughTags: artificial snow, China, cloud, drought, snowing, weather
BEIJING (Reuters) – China closed 12 highways around the capital Beijing on Thursday because of heavy snow brought on after seeding clouds with chemicals, state media said on Thursday. In all, 12 highways, including one linking Beijing and Shenyang, capital of northeastern Liaoning province, were closed. Hebei got its first heavy snow of this year [...]
China warns against protectionism
Posted: 16th February 2009 by The Dude in Economy | Finance, PoliticsTags: buy American, China, Obama, protectionism, stimulus, trade war
China has warned that protectionist measures in other countries’ economic stimulus packages will make the bad financial situation even worse. America’s multi-billion dollar stimulus package was approved by Congress on Friday. The package includes provisions which prohibit the purchase of foreign iron, steel and other manufactured goods for public building projects. China fears this is [...]
China Invents Mobile Capital Punishment/Organ Harvesting
Posted: 11th February 2009 by moonphrogg in Oddly Enough, Politics, Science | TechnologyTags: China, death van, lethal injection, meat wagon, mobile, organ harvesting
If you’re a criminal in China, you’ll want to avoid its new death buses, vehicles that carry out executions while streaming live video of them, then provide some privacy for organ harvesting. The buses, of which over 40 are currently in use, are replacing firing squads as China’s preferred method of execution. The buses provide [...]
Unemployment Ends an Era for China’s Economy
Posted: 10th February 2009 by Veritas in Economy | Finance, PoliticsTags: China, communism, layoffs, unemployment
As goods pile up in wharves from Bangkok to Shanghai, and workers are laid off in record numbers, people in East Asia are beginning to realize they aren’t only experiencing an economic downturn but living through the end of an era. Full Story
Chinese Laugh at Economic Woes
Posted: 4th February 2009 by Veritas in Economy | Finance, PoliticsTags: China, chinese, communist, Economy | Finance, work
BEIJING (Reuters) – Millions of migrant workers may be out of a job and China’s once booming economy may be locked in a downward spiral as the global economic crisis bites, but for a particular Chinese brand of humor it’s been a boon. Full Story
Shoe Thrown at Chinese Prime Minister
Posted: 2nd February 2009 by Simo Häyhä in PoliticsTags: Cambridge, China, minister, PM, shoe, throw
Deja vu anyone? Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for greater collaboration on trade between the UK and China. Speaking after Downing Street talks with Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao, Mr Brown said they shared a determination to reverse the economic downturn. Later, a protester threw a shoe at Mr Wen while he was giving a [...]
Pollution Takes its Toll on China
Posted: 31st January 2009 by Simo Häyhä in Mother Nature, PoliticsTags: birth, chemical, China, defect, family, pollution, problem
A senior family planning official in China has noted an alarming rise in the number of babies with birth defects, a Chinese media report says. Jiang Fan, from China’s National Population and Family Planning Commission, said environmental pollution was the cause of the problem. He said a child was born with physical defects every 30 [...]
Bailout not Working for China
Posted: 30th January 2009 by Simo Häyhä in Economy | Finance, PoliticsTags: bailout, business, China, collapse, job, unemployment, woe
Millions of Jobs at Stake after the Collapse of Over 60 000 Businesses since September 2008