Archive for 'World'
Geopolitics and the World Wide Web
Call the Internet democratic and a horde of disenfranchised offline citizens might protest. With one billion people online, the World Wide Web is off limits to more than five billion people. Broadband and dial-up hurdles aside, blame it on English, the language that dominates the online universe.
Starting on Monday, Web-domains incorporating 11 languages that don’t [...]
Posted: October 12th, 2007 under World.
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Why Chinese Pigs Are Working Out
Not only athletes, but pigs are on a rigorous regimen in China, in preparation for the Beijing Olympics next year. Chinese pigs eat organic, get daily exercise and take Chinese herbal medicine. They do all that in farms carefully chosen to meet water and soil quality criteria. The hogs’ VIP treatment, though, is infuriating Chinese [...]
Posted: October 2nd, 2007 under World.
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Zimbabwe President Orders Slashings
The slashing of prices that is. In Zimbabwe roughly 1,300 shop owners and managers have been fined thousands of dollars following governmental raids across the country. Some shop owners have even been arrested for non-compliance of a direct order to cut product prices in half. These measures in an attempt to help [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 under Politics, World.
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A Tainted Global Economy?
The Chinese export Market has been making frequent appearances in the media over the last year, and yet still continues. Whether it’s tainted dog food or muffler dried tea leaves the country has been under much scrutiny over their production standards. According to one article, 19.1% of products made for domestic consumption were found to [...]
Posted: July 7th, 2007 under U.S., World.
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Few Chances of Improvement for Ranieri of Monaco
Few possibilities of improvement remain for Rainiero of Monaco.
The three children of Rainieri of Monaco have decided to maintain the “therapy at the moment active”. The last medical report says that their life expectancies “are very weak”.
The Palace of Monaco announced this Thursday that are few possibilities of improving the health of Prince Rainiero III, [...]
Posted: April 1st, 2005 under Uncategorized, World.
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