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It was an explosion nobody heard. And at more than 500 miles above the earth's surface, nobody could. But that January 11 outer-space collision -- a People's Republic of China medium-range, surface-to-air ballistic missile destroying one of its aging weather satellites -- ought to be a reminder of that country's military prowess, and how to some extent it obtained it, especially during the...
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BEIJING - An animal research center in northern China has appealed to the world for help to fashion an artificial leg for a panda that lost a limb -- along with its sex life -- in a fight, local media reported on Thursday.
In December, a resident of Dajiangou village in Shaanxi province stumbled upon a group of pandas fighting, the Beijing News said.
One seriously injured panda, a t...
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2007-03-08 09:00. ::
BEIJING -- Regulators have ordered Chinese websites to limit the use of "virtual money" after concerns the online credits might be used for money laundering or illicit trade.
The order governing credits sold by websites to customers to pay for online games and other services comes amid a campaign to tighten official control over China's online industry.
The most popular Chinese onl...
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Remove all clippings Remove all read clippings By Ted Bunker Bloomberg News Published: March 8, 2007 E-Mail Article Listen to Article Printer-Friendly 3-Column Format Translate Share Article Add to Clippings Text Size
BOSTON: Take-Two Interactive Software shareholders formed a group to take control of the board and overthrow management of the video-game maker.
Shares of Take-Two, pr...
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Ad Links Buy a link » Bo-Mi Lim, The Associated Press GWANGJU, SOUTH KOREA - The beatings Lee Ok-seon endured in three years of sexual enslavement to Japanese troops during World War II left her nearly deaf from blows to the head, with speech slurred from missing teeth and scars on various parts of her body.
So she was shocked to hear the Japanese prime minister say last week that th...
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Japan said the two sides would "continue to exchange views" but no date was scheduled for more talks, part of a six-country deal last month to halt impoverished Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program in exchange for aid and diplomatic recognition.
Japan says forming ties is impossible without resolution of the issue of Japanese abducted by the reclusive communist state in the 1970s and 1980...
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In the ancient Battle of Thermopylae, King Leonidas and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing insurmountable odds, their valor and sacrifice inspire all of Greece to unite against their Persian enemy, drawing a line in the sand for democracy...
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Remove all clippings Remove all read clippings The Associated Press Published: March 8, 2007 E-Mail Article Listen to Article Printer-Friendly 3-Column Format Translate Share Article Add to Clippings Text Size
BEIJING: Japan needs to be responsible and face up to the crime it committed when it forced women to become sex slaves during World War II, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said...
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The beatings that Lee Ok Seon endured in three years of sexual enslavement to Japanese troops during World War II left her nearly deaf from blows to the head, with speech slurred from missing teeth and scars on various parts of her body.
So she was shocked to hear Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo ...
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2007-03-07 09:00. ::
Moynihan: It is true that we are idealistic. Our ambition is to put a sound vision of the human person at the center of politics, education, social policy and culture.
By this we mean an ethical vision which is solidly -- that is, objectively -- grounded and not subject to majority views or the views of experts or pressure groups that can vary their ethics according to their desires or pr...
