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There was apparently not quite as much fun and games being played as expected by organizers at last year’s Beijing Olympics with news breaking that a stash of 5,000 leftover “Olympic condoms'’ will be placed up for auction.
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A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily...
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Reporting from Beijing - When it came to China, President Obama’s famous powers of persuasion failed to persuade.
He came bearing a long shopping list, including...
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Chinese officials are being told to dump their mistresses, avoid hostess bars, and shun extravagances as part of the Communist party’s efforts to clamp down on...
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President Barack Obama faces tensions with China over trade and Tibet on his first visit to the emerging superpower for a summit that will grapple with economic...
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It is really surprising but the truth is The Communist party in China is at honest about one thing it knows that with the salary given to the bureaucrats it is not...
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The race between the two EU’s eastern gas pipelines is going on while next winter can again show some supply problems via Ukraine. South Stream got latest boost...
made popular Nov 16 2009
In a cavernous warehouse amid rolling hills and dairy farms, a group of farmers recently gathered around a buyer in a conversation heralding a sea change in the United...
made popular Nov 14 2009
Heavy snow has left 21 people dead in north and central China since Monday, the Ministry of Civil Affairs announced (MCA) Friday.
The ministry did not detail the...
made popular Nov 14 2009
In 1982, a Pakistani military C-130 left the western Chinese city of Urumqi with a highly unusual cargo: enough weapons-grade uranium for two atomic bombs, according to...
made popular Nov 13 2009
Kidnapping people on their way to lodge complaints with China’s central government has evolved into a lucrative cottage industry that police refuse to acknowledge...
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China has executed nine men, including eight from the Muslim Uighur minority, for crimes committed during July riots that killed 200 people in far western Xinjiang...
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China’s premier on Sunday pledged $10 billion in concessional loans to African nations over the next three years and said Beijing would cancel the government...
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Thank god so far Dalai Lama does not need permission from China to visit Arunachal & can stay at Dharmshala till god wants. I wonder why there is no national...
made popular Nov 9 2009
Will it be China that finally pays the huge bills for repairing and rebuilding Afghanistan and Iraq — and reaps the rewards? It’s looking that way: as the US and...
made popular Nov 6 2009
Our huge hue and cry over the Chinese aggression matters little to china. We are no match for them and they know that very well. So they hold us in contempt for being a...
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China has seen a tenfold increase in syphilis cases over the past decade, as migrant workers made enough money in the country’s economic boom to hire more...
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I’ve never understood the affinity between communists and Islamists. When it comes to spirituality they are polar opposites- Communists are atheists, and...
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A TOP China air force commander has called the militarisation of space an “historical inevitability”, state media said today, marking an apparent shift in...
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Oh! What a strange! Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, is dauntless to throw charge against the Pakistani Government. “Pakistan is safe haven for Al Qaeda since...
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A bus plunged into a valley along a mountainous road in China’s northern Shanxi province, killing 13 people and injuring at least 40 others, local police and the...
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It’s a shame for India and all Indians. As I write this piece today the CGF chief Michael Fennell’s is leading the CGF General Assembly delegates on tour of...
made popular Oct 9 2009
It is official: Conservatives hate Obama so much and are so eager for his failure that they root against their own country solely on these grounds.
Now, I was against...
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Last night, Brazilians celebrated into the wee hours. Millions partied in Rio De Janeiro after the IOC (International Olympic Committee) awarded the nation “host...
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Chicago wants to host the Olympic Games in 2016, which would be a first for the Windy City. Its Olympic committee was spent nearly $50 million in marketing and tomorrow...
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It was way back in 2001 when the Paris former environment head Yves Contassot had admitted that Paris has become the dog poo capital of the world.
So when the fashion...
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This particular article may seem to be a bit surprising to some of the readers, specially from Europe and America, yet as an Indian it is my duty to make a section of...
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Before the sports lovers bid a final adieu to the year 2008, I’d like them to catch the greatest moments of the year. Many games were lost by our favorites while many...
made popular Dec 29 2008
Recently released video from NTD TV shows life on the inside of the notorious Masanjia Labor Camp, also known as “Ideology Education School of Liaoning Province”....
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Olympic athlete Michael Phelps recently returned to his hometown of... Wait, did I say Olympic athlete? I mean the greatest Olympian of all time with 14 Gold medals and...
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Wrestler Sushil Kumar wins Olympic bronze medal for India at Beijing Olympics. Sushil beat Leonid Spiridonov of Kazakhstan in 66 kg freestyle repechage in a...
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HOW quickly would Usain Bolt have run the 100 metres at the Beijing Olympics if he hadn’t slowed in celebration before the finish line? A team of physicists have...
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One of the main aims of Paralympics is to promote disabled persons’ cause. However, organizing it separately, with very less world attention, is not fulfilling...
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The final medals tally at the last Olympic Games in Beijing does seem to offer not just a mild symbolism as arrow to more contemporary realities. Doesn’t it? After...
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The next day after Abhinav Bindra fetched India’s first ever individual Olympic gold medal after 108 years by winning the yellow metal in men’s 10m air...
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In the just-completed summer Olympics, America’s status as the globe’s athletic hegemon was clearly under attack. The United States won the overall medal...
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Although “Participating matters more than winning the Olympics” had been around since the time ancient, I share more pragmatic modern notion that “Victory...
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The Nigerian contingents in the male football category of the just concluded Beijing Olympics have finished second, behind 2004 champions Argentina. Dream Team IV as...
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After watching the spectacular show of closing ceremony of Olympics 2008 I was made to realise few things.
The beautiful, tall Chinese participants shattered the...
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Member of the International Olympic Committe (IOC) Coordination Commission for the London Games in 2012 Gilbert Felli speaks to the media in London, Thursday, April 23, 2009. The International Olympic Committee and the London Organising Committee of the.
