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Charles Wheeler, 'the reporter's reporter', dies aged 85

Charles Wheeler was born in 1923, only a year after the BBC itself. Tributes swelled to a man once described as "the reporter's reporter", whose BBC career began in 1947 as a subeditor on the Latin American service and who was...

Bush Disses Dalai Lama

"Yeah, right. Tibet. Human rights. Sure. Whatever." -- Mike Rivero of What Really HappenedAlso see: Cheerleaders in ChinaOne does wonder why this TINY article is placed in the bottom-right corner of page A6.Or does one?"Bush...

Weekend must-read: Oh God, hear their prayer!

rediff.com     37 mins ago   1 related          

Waxworks of Churchill and Hitler stand close to each other at Berlin's new Madame Tussaud's wax museum, which will open to the public on Saturday, July 5. 'Prabhakaran shoots people who disagree with him' LTTE child soldier...

Bush at the Olympics

bbc.co.uk     17 hrs ago   261 related          

There's one bit of diary news - buried in the last line of a White House press release - that matters a huge amount to China's government: "The President and Mrs Bush will attend the opening ceremonies of the summer Olympic...

Tibet Talks Conclude With Little Progress

From Washington Post: Envoys for the Dalai Lama ended more than two days of talks with Chinese government officials Thursday with no immediate reports of substantive progress on easing tensions in Tibet, something the United...

'Prabhakaran shoots people'

rediff.com     17 hrs ago   4 related          

Nothing lends credibility to an argument or an accusation more than a first person account. So, it was with great fear that, seven years ago, Sri Lankan Tamil writer Shobasakthi wrote about his time as a child soldier with the...

China Protests: A New Approach by Beijing?

time.com     14 hrs ago   24 related          

Flames raise in front of a police building in Weng'an China on Saturday, June 28, during a protest over officials' reaction to a student's death. But there are other signs that the incident is more than a mere pre-Olympics...

New Madame Tussauds in Berlin, Hitler included (AFP)

yahoo.com     12 hrs ago   62 related          

BERLIN (AFP) - A new branch of Madame Tussauds opens in Berlin on Saturday, including in its display of famous figures in Germany history the most notorious one of all, Adolf Hitler. But in order not to give the impression that...

Support for Tibetan cause by Trans-Himalayan delegates in Shimla

dailyindia.com     21 hrs ago   1 related          

From ANI Shimla, July 4: Hundreds of delegates from the entire Himalayan region assembled here to express solidarity with the Tibetan exiles to mark the 94th anniversary of 'Simla Agreement of 1914'. Simla agreement was a...

No Thanks, I'll Stick With Buddhism

By Zyrius, The Buddhist Channel, July 3, 2008 Singapore -- Here is a critical analysis (written in 2007) of a highly erroneous excerpt from "Peoples of the Buddhist World: A Christian Prayer Diary" by Paul Hattaway, the...

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