Apr
10
Who is McCain’s Running Mate, Rice?
April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Maggie ZUO Yitong
Is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice campaigning to be John McCain’s running mate? Recently, the news has been broadly discussed in international media. Dan Senor, a former military spokesman for coalition forces in Baghdad, firstly sent out the signals in a program in ABC, and said that Ms. Rice spoke last week [...]
Apr
10
By Elmy Lung
It has made headlines in England that the Severn Trent- one of the biggest water companies in the United Kingdom, is to pay a ￡35million fine after being found out for delivering false information to regulator and poor customer services.
Millions of customers ended up having higher water bills as a result of [...]
Apr
10
India’s turn to woo Africa
April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Meryam
The first ever India-Africa summit concluded Wednesday, after two days in New Delhi. Fourteen African leaders attended, including Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Ethiopia’s Meles Zenawi. India pledged access to its domestic markets, an increase in development financing and educational opportunities for Africa, while looking for African support in [...]
Apr
10
Week 6: Turning Water to Gold
April 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
By Elmy Lung
In my last post I wrote about how the “World Water Day” was mentioned because Ariel was using it in a timely manner to further market its products. It got me thinking if commercializing something is the way to attract attention and to make it “newsworthy”, then no wonder the privatization [...]
Apr
10
Obama: Tibet and China Policy
April 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
By Kitty XIE Rui (2)
Obama put out a statement on his campaign website in response to the protests by Tibetans on March. 14, calling on that the Chinese government should respect the basic human rights of the people of Tibet.
“I am deeply disturbed by reports of a crackdown and arrests ordered by Chinese authorities [...]
