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- Wu_Ming posted on 06/06/2009
- gztar posted on 06/02/2009The Summer of 1989 When the meeting started, I panicked. Id been invited by the local Young Democrats Club to speak ten days after the Tiananmen Massacre. The whole Democracy Movement was broadcasted to the entire world throughout the spring, and the brutal killings on June 4th were shown on TV in peoples living room everywhere over and over again. What could I say that would illuminate more insight that people hadnt already heard? The club president, a man in his late thirties with an elegant soft
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- zt posted on 06/04/2009'World's cheapest car' coming to US India's Tata Motors hopes to offer the Nano, which costs $2,300, to Americans within two years. June 4, 2009: 11:52 AM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) -- India's Tata Motors hopes to offer the Nano, dubbed the world's cheapest car, in the United States within two years, its chairman said. "It will need to meet all emission and crash standards and so we hope in the next two years we will be offering such a vehicle in the U.S," Ratan Tata told a panel at the Cornell
- blxmaya posted on 06/04/2009
- zt posted on 06/04/2009In China, Liberty Has Many Faces By Jill Drew Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, June 4, 2009 BEIJING -- "Freedom" is a tricky word, malleable for some, immutable for others. Many in China today are exploring new freedoms, bolstered by the nation's two decades of strong economic growth. Although cries for democracy were silenced in the bloody crackdown on student-led protests at Tiananmen Square 20 years ago, and the Communist Party continues to hold a monopoly on power, people ginger
- zt posted on 06/04/2009
- zt posted on 06/04/2009China security tight in Tiananmen By Ben Blanchard Reuters Thursday, June 4, 2009 8:56 AM BEIJING (Reuters) - China smothered Tiananmen Square with police on Thursday to prevent commemoration of the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters 20 years ago, as Washington demanded Beijing account for those killed. Tanks rolled into the square before dawn on June 4, 1989, to crush weeks of student and worker protests. The ruling Communist Party has never released a death toll and fears any public mark
- EnglishmanNews posted on 06/03/2009
- mayazt posted on 06/03/2009The "Bitch" Evolved: Why Girls Are So Cruel to Each Other Researchers study the natural foundations of female social aggression By Jesse Bering About a month ago I was invited to give a brief talk to my nephew Giannis first grade classnothing too deep, mind you, rather simply about what its like living in a foreign place such as Belfast. The highlight of my presentation was the uproarious laughter that erupted when I mentioned that people on this side of the Atlantic refer to diapers as na
- zt posted on 06/03/2009Upstarts ready to rule world's economy A research firm predicts the West's share of the global economy will be eclipsed by emerging markets this year. No wonder Tim Geithner's in China. By Paul R. La Monica, CNNMoney.com editor at large June 3, 2009: 1:12 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- It's only fitting that General Motors, once the embodiment of U.S. economic might, decided to sell its Hummer brand to a Chinese manufacturer after GM (GMGMQ) filed for bankruptcy. We may not like to admi
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- SevenStarblx posted on 06/02/2009Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans fronti�res http://rsf-chinese.org/ CHINA All references to Tiananmen Square massacre closely censored for 20 years Twenty years later, it is still impossible for the Chinese media to refer freely to the ruthless suppression of Chinas pro-democracy movement in June 1989. References to the demonstrations that took place throughout China for several weeks and the deaths of hundreds of students and workers at the hands of the army on 4 June 1989 are
- fanghuzhai posted on 06/03/2009
- CNDerzt posted on 05/31/2009Tiananmen: A battle of remembering vs. forgetting BEIJING (AP) - As a young poet, Cui Weiping was not much interested in politics. But she says she could never shake the image of her husband returning home on a June night 20 years ago, his pants mottled with the blood of people shot by the Chinese army. Now Cui is speaking out, trying to rescue the memory of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement and its violent end from a powerful government heavily invested in suppressing their very mention.
- July posted on 06/02/2009
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