Animal-rights activists are barking mad over news that trickled out over the weekend involving a truck full of 520 dogs that was stopped Friday on a highway en route to a slaughterhouse. Discussion of the…
Category: Global Issues
Shortly after the commencement of the Libya bombing campaign on March 19, the Pentagon ordered the testing of the B61-11 nuclear bomb. These tests announced in an April 4 press release, pertained to the installed…
Violence continued on Saturday in parts of Libya, including the eastern oil town of Brega, the western city Misrata and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown Sirte. An exchange of heavy fire was seen between Libya’s…
The central bank raised the amount of money that banks must hold in reserve by 50 basis points on Sunday – the fourth hike this year – to mop up excessive liquidity and control inflation…
Founded under US President George Bush Jr, AFRICOM is a subset of the larger neo-conservative Project for a New American Century (PNAC). Central to AFRICOM’s strategic goals is to confront the increasing Chinese influence on the continent.
Chinese President Hu Jintao called for inclusive development in Asia on Friday as he attended the opening ceremony of the 2011 annual meeting of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA). As the second decade of…
Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, one of the world’s top ranking universities will celeberate its 100th aniversary on April 24. As the clock ticks, the count down for the centennial is drawing close, and the campus is getting…
A senior Chinese official in charge of public security has called for additional social management efforts in safeguarding social stability. Chen Jiping, deputy director of the Central Committee for Comprehensive Management of Public Security, made…
What a shame! Seen on TV screens around the world, half-naked – in a white vest, towel in hand, wiping off sweat from face and arms, face fallen, and lips fidgeting, was a man, Gbagbo, who…
A Global Times survey shows that 71 percent of Chinese Web users attribute their growing interest in politics to microblogging, but more than half of them complained about the lack of interaction on government blogs….