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From AP, via ABCNews.com: A proposal by China on ending North Korea’s nuclear weapons program hit snags Saturday when several countries, including the North and the United States, said they could not accept it, the chief U.S. envoy to the talks said. “Several delegations, including ours, had difficulties with it,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: Even Miss Manners might blanch at the task at hand: charm school for a billion people, a good number of them convinced that life means never having to say you’re sorry, excuse me or thank you. This is no tutorial on fish forks. In advance of the 2008 Olympics, the […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: As international leaders gathered Thursday at the United Nations to address plans to eradicate global poverty, the Bush administration notified Congress that it will withhold the U.S. contribution ($34 million) to the U.N. Population Fund for the fourth consecutive year. This aid provides vital services for the world’s poorest women […]
Read MoreFrom the San Francisco Chronicle: “See the world without leaving Beijing,” says the ad line for World Park, a real-life amusement complex in China’s capital city that has replicas of such world landmarks as Stonehenge, the Eiffel Tower and the Pyramids. In Jia Zhangke‘s richly textured and colorfully realized “The World,” Tao is a pretty […]
Read MoreFrom Softpedia.com: The Internet is a strange place, where dangers like erotic web-chats, naughty sites, warez and other virtual monsters are determined to pervert the minds of the young Chinese and to make them prisoners of the virtual reality. At least that’s what the Chinese authorities think, as China Daily reports. That is why the […]
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