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The new campaign is an extension of a crackdown started last year on pornographic and subversive content and spam messages sent by mobile phones or through the Internet.
"Illegal short messages have become a major cause of damage to social order," Wu Heping, spokesman for the Ministry of Public Security, was quoted as saying by the Beijing News on Wednesday.
Nine scams by one group ...
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2005-11-01 09:00. ::
Tan's 'Fish' will hook readersBy Carol Memmott, USA TODAYAmericans love to be entertained by dead people — think Mary Alice from Desperate Housewives or Susie from Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones.
Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, uses this literary device in her new novel, Saving Fish from Drowning. The result: a hilarious yet politically charged tale packed with illusions ...
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In a perverse sense, it seems fitting that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been made a scapegoat. After all, he is Jewish (and scapegoating Jews was not an innovation by Adolf Hitler or ended when Hitler committed suicide), he was not generally known until he was indicted, Webster's Dictionary primary definition of "scapegoat" is "a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the peo...
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Copies of ancient terra-cotta Chinese warriors were reflected recently in a bank window in the Chinatown section of Kobe, Japan.
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SHANGHAI, Oct. 26 - At a call center in Dalian, in northeast China , young workers speaking flawless Japanese answe...
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New York: Two Indian doctors who have pioneered an innovative programme for bringing down the infant mortality rate in South Asia feature in Time Magazine's list of Heroes of Global Health.
Abhay Bang and Rani Bang, the founders of the Maharashtra-based Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health (SEARCH), are among the 18 heroes the magazine has honoured for their wor...
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2005-10-31 09:00. ::
Two Indian doctors who have pioneered an innovative programme for bringing down the infant mortality rate in South Asia feature in Time Magazine's list of Heroes of Global Health.
Abhay Bang and Rani Bang, the founders of the Maharashtra-based Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health (SEARCH), are among the 18 heroes the magazine has honoured for their work in solvi...
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2005-10-31 09:00. ::
Two Indian doctors, who devised a novel programme for bringing down infant mortality rate in rural areas of South Asia, have been named Heroes of Global Health by the Time magazine.
Abhay and Rani Bang, founders of the Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health, are among 18 Heroes of Global Health named by the magazine for their work in solving health problems in the...
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China's favorite symbol of public health, the inflatable oversized condom, made an appearance at Huaihai Park yesterday to mark both National Men's Health Day and the coordinated unveiling of two men's health hotlines and 10 men's health educational centers in Shanghai.
Although Shanghaiist did not attend the event...
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BANGKOK (Kyodo) Amnesty International is renewing its call on the Japanese government to accept full responsibility for wartime crimes against women forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army.
"Japan should immediately implement effective administrative mechanisms to provide full reparations to all survivors and remove legal barriers toward bringing claims before Japanese co...
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Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea -- what a title! The subject matter is relatively simple when you separate it out, however, which is not to say the book itself is easy reading.
What it sets out to show is how the post-Korean War state on the south of the peninsula established itself as modern, that is to say industrialized, and at the same time became a bul...
