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Safety-wary China officials cancel Taiwan trips

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10-Nov-2008 463 related
        

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Three official groups from China have cancelled plans to visit Taiwan because of violent political protests last week directed against Beijing's top negotiator to the island, the local ruling party said on...

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Crude Forgeries Are a Dictator's Stock-in-Trade

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10-Nov-2008 10 related
        

After winning the power struggle against Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin disseminated photographs of himself standing next to Vladimir Lenin doctored to make it seem as if Stalin alone was the designated successor to Lenin. In...

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India's Leftist Parties Hope to Gain Followers

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10-Nov-2008
        

Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. India's diehard Communists are hoping to parlay an "I told you so" stance on the global financial crisis into more parliamentary seats in the coming...

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Will You Listen to the Voices of Chinese People?

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10-Nov-2008 1 related
        

online web of the People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Central Committee of Chinese Communist Party, http://world.people.com.cn/GB/14549/8155375.html). Cosigners: (53 Chinese citizens) Li Pu—Former Deputy...

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Bittersweet Victory

americanthinker.com
10-Nov-2008
        

By Ed Kaitz When the warm tears of jubilation over Obama's victory slow to a bare trickle, many of his supporters will return home to confront a rather icy reality: in the blink of an election the white Republican everyman...

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Museum in US to showcase China's forced labour camps (AFP)

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09-Nov-2008 4 related
        

by P. Parameswaran P. Parameswaran – 7 mins ago AFP/File – A 1995 photo shows US human rights activist Harry Wu (C), standing between two Chinese policeman taken … WASHINGTON (AFP) – After languishing 19 years in China's forced...

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Obama, China's Hu exchange views on Taiwan, other issues

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09-Nov-2008 28 related
        

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's President Hu Jintao told U.S. President-elect Barack Obama in a telephone conversation that proper handling of the Taiwan issue would help improve Sino-U.S. ties, state media reported on Sunday.

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Clear-cut violation of rights

thejapannews.net
08-Nov-2008
        

I certainly don't agree with Tamogami's view of history, but I do believe that in a democracy that values freedom of speech, everyone should have the right to state his opinion without fear of reprisals. That said, if the...

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Phil Gayle: The racial subtext to Silvio Berlusconi's joke about Barack Obama

guardian.co.uk
08-Nov-2008 169 related
        

Silvio Berlusconi may be a fool, but he's not stupid. But what does Berlusconi find so funny in the election of a black man to the highest office in the US? Perhaps Berlusconi, while respecting the office of the president,...

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As a new film about the Baader Meinhof Gang, the anarchist group who plagued Germany in the...

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08-Nov-2008 1 related
        

What do Carla Bruni, David Beckham, Barack Obama, actress Rose McGowan and rapper M.I.A. have in common? They have all been on the receiving end of criticism recently for -- in total ignorance or not -- supporting terror groups...

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