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After a wave of food safety alarms last year, another Chinese-manufactured food is under scrutiny. This time, it's dumplings imported into Japan by Japan Tobacco, Inc. According to Reuters:
Japan Tobacco Inc said on Wednesday its subsidiary, JT Foods Co., would recall the frozen dumplings and other food made at the ...
In the I-didn't-see-that-one-coming department, a Beijing resident is suing the organizers of the Beijing Olympics for a violation of intellectual property rights. The plaintiff, Fang Shouwei, says that he coined the "One World, One Dream" slogan in a 2005 competition and was never properly credited. According to the Financial Times:
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Overseas Chinese political commentator Liang Jing wrote following essay, translated by David Kelly:
Last week, the US once again became ground zero for turmoil on global stock markets. It was triggered by much worse than originally estimated financial crisis due to the revealed risk of housing mortgage getting out of hand, ...
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As China continues to deal with it's most serious and horribly-timed winter cold-snap in recent memory, Reuters takes a look at how the government has deployed its PR machine to placate the stranded masses:
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When, in April 1937, the German Condor Legion dropped 45,000 kilograms of explosives on the Spanish town of Guernica, international outrage followed, and Pablo Picasso was inspired to paint his now famous Guernica. When the US Air Force recently loosed 45,000 kilograms of bombs on a small Sunni farming district in Iraq, there was hardly a peep. These days, only "insurgent" suicide bombings warrant media attention, while the US's air "surge" is politely played down. - Tom Engelhardt (Jan 31, '08)
The new-wave United States counter-insurgency approach looks a lot like old-school peacekeeping as the military reaches out to Afghanistan's younger generation. Troops on the ground tell Philip Smucker that taking the fight to the enemy these days is not simply a matter of firing off bombs and bullets. (Jan 31, '08)
Even with a new government in place, Thailand's political conflict remains unresolved. Stability is at stake and Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej must decide between being ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra's loyal proxy or steering his strong royalist credentials in an unexpected direction. - Shawn W Crispin (Jan 31, '08)
An Indian military outpost in Tajikistan was expected to irritate Islamabad and Beijing, not Moscow. Russia's pressure, which has led to the project being stalled, is a wake-up call for India's big-power dreams and a reminder to Delhi that it can't expect a strategic beachhead in Central Asia if it continues to pursue close ties with the Americans. - Sudha Ramachandran (Jan 31, '08)
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