China produced 340.88 tons of gold in 2010, an increase of 8.57 percent from last year, making it the world’s top producer of gold for the fourth consecutive year, according to the website of the…
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General Motors (GM) sold 268,071 cars in January, marking a year-on-year increase of 22.3 percent, according to a post dated Feb 9 on the website of GM China. Shanghai General Motors Co Ltd’s January sales…
With Cuba poised to drill for oil off its coast as early as this spring, Florida lawmakers are renewing efforts to block it, citing fears about damage to the state’s beaches in the event of…
The Middle East peace process is in danger of falling victim to the revolutionary tide sweeping the Arab world, the foreign secretary, William Hague, has warned. Speaking on an emergency tour of the region, Hague…
She is super-talented. She plays the violin, piano, jazz piano, saxophone, and morinkhuur. At 28, Nagisa Abe is a young Japanese woman, who has won the admiration of the public with her inexhaustible urge to…
China can play a positive role in revitalizing southern Sudan after voters there overwhelmingly decided to establish Africa’s newest country, analysts said. The South Sudan Referendum Commission on Monday announced the final results of a…
By Larry Chin The Obama administration and prominent members of Congress have begun pushing the idea that an intelligence failure prevented the US government from predicting massive civil unrest in Egypt and the Arab world….
By Ellen Brown: “What for a poor man is a crust, for a rich man is a securitized asset class.” -Futures trader Ann Berg, quoted in the UK Guardian Underlying the sudden, volatile uprising in…
The United States, so far, is essentially following the usual playbook. I mean, there have been many times when some favored dictator has lost control or is in danger of losing control. There’s a kind of a standard routine—Marcos, Duvalier, Ceausescu, strongly supported by the United States and Britain, Suharto: keep supporting them as long as possible; then, when it becomes unsustainable—typically, say, if the army shifts sides—switch 180 degrees, claim to have been on the side of the people all along, erase the past, and then make whatever moves are possible to restore the old system under new names. That succeeds or fails depending on the circumstances.
Chinese New Year or the Chinese Lunar New Year is the most important of the “Traditional Chinese holidays”. Despite its winter occurrence, in China it is known as “Spring Festival,” the literal translation of the Chinese name Chūn Jié,…