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 13 May, 2008 BBC News
Search for China quake survivors
A massive
search and rescue operation is under way in south-western China after one of the most powerful earthquakes in decades. Troops have arrived in Wenchuan county at the epicentre, which was largely
cut off by the quake - but heavy rain is hampering rescue operations. (Read more ...)
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 8 May, 2008
BBC News
Senegalese Bandits Chop off Ears
Armed men
have cut off the left ears of 16 villagers harvesting cashew nuts in Senegal's rebel-hit Casamance region. "They tied our hands before cutting off one ear each,"
Lansana Manga, 31, told the AFP news agency. This
is the first case of such deliberate mutilation during the region's 26 years of conflict. (Read more ...)
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8 May, 2008
Madeleine Morris, BBC News, Tanzania
Can Tanzania Reap Bumper
Harvests?
To the untrained eye, the never-ending green of the
maize, rice and sugar cane fields of northern Tanzania look lush and bountiful. It is rice harvest time, and under the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro the roads are jammed
with tractors and bicycles stacked with bags of rice destined for market. (Read more ...)
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 7 May, 2008
BBC News
Foreign
aid is beginning to arrive in Burma, devastated by a cyclone that left more than 22,000 people dead
The country's secretive ruling generals have given a UN aid plane permission to land, while neighbouring India and Thailand
have also sent aid flights. And a Chinese
plane carrying 60 tonnes of aid has landed in the main city Rangoon, Chinese state media report. (Read more ...)
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 24 April, 2008
Toronto, Canada
Tragedy hits S.L Community in Canada
Police
have identified Joseph Samai, 29, as the victim of a fatal stabbing in broad daylight in the Lansdowne Ave. and Bloor St.
area. Police believe Samai was involved in a dispute with another resident (Read more ...)
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 17 April, 2008
First African-American female fighter
pilot in the US Air Force
Maj.
Shawna R. Kimbrell, 555th Fighter Squadron,
is the first African-American female fighter pilot in the Air Force.
While most fourth grade girls talk about being
a ballerina, veterinarian, doctor or princess, Shawna Rochelle (Ng-A-Qui) Kimbrell, knew she wanted to take to the skies (Read more ...)
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12 April, 2008 BBC News
Q & A Rising World Food Prices
The price of wheat, rice and maize have nearly doubled in the past year - and they are
not the only foodstuffs trading at a high price on the international commodity market. Things have got so bad that aid agencies
are having to rethink their programmes. BBC News looks at why prices are rising and what can be done about it (Read more ...)
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 4 April, 2008
Sierra Express
Louis Stokes knew Martin
Luther King Jr. as a friend and confidant before he made it his duty to find out who killed him
“Stokes
insists - at the 40th anniversary of King's death, he remains convinced that his committee got it right”
King organized voter registration
drives that helped Stokes' younger brother, Carl, become the first black mayor of a major American city in November 1967.
Then he stood beside Louis Stokes at campaign headquarters in Cleveland, discussing the meaning of the moment, as volunteers
celebrated in the street. (Read more ...)
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April, 2008 Fergus Walsh, Medical correspondent BBC News
UK's first Hybrid Embryos Created
Scientists
at Newcastle University have created part-human, part-animal hybrid embryos for the first time in the UK, the BBC can reveal.
The embryos survived for up to three days and are part of medical research
into a range of illnesses. (Read more ...)
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1 April, 2008 Austin Thomas, Harbin,
China As the Olympic
Torch leaves China Message
of hope, peace and unity to the world. The Olympics Torch Relay started on Monday 31st March
from Beijing and the message China is sending is for the world to forget about the Dalai Lama and embrace the peace, love
and harmony that is everywhere in the Peoples’ Republic of China. (Read more ...)
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 1 April, 2008 Doje Cezhug, Mayor of Lhasa, China
Do you call this peaceful?
Under the deliberate planning and guidance of the Dalai Lama clique, a group of mobsters launched an orgy of violence, looting
and burning in Lhasa, capital of China's Tibet autonomous region, on March 14. (Read more ...)
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March, 2008 Austin Thomas, Harbin, China Man
should never act as low as CNN
Among western news media who covered the
riots in Tibet earlier this month, the US-based Cable News Network (CNN) was a markable one for its serious distortion of the
truth and betrayal of basic journalistic ethics. (Read more ...)
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29 March, 2008 Austin Thomas,
Harbin, China The Demonization of China The history of civilization has taught us that a truly great nation must be highly civilized and guided by
a great culture. This is
what is now happening in China as they are ready to take the mantle of the next super power. The west is afraid of China and they orchestrated the Tibetan demonstration
across the world to disrupt the peace and stability of the great nation and the forthcoming Olympics with distorted facts
of police brutality in Lhasa. (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
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March, 2008 Austin Thomas, Harbin, China
German Media apologize for errors in covering Tibet riots
My
name is Austin Thomas and I'm currently studying in China and will want you to know that what the Foreign Minister said
is in line with what happened in Lhasa, China. The
West for long time now has been demonizing China because of the so called democracy that they practice. (Read more ...)
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20 March, 2008
World Association of Newspapers (WAN), and
Word Editors Forum (WEF)
Letter Addressed by the World Association
of Newspapers (WAN) and the World Editors Forum (WEF) to President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed
We
are writing on behalf of the World Association of Newspapers and the World Editors Forum, which represent 18,000 publications
in 102 countries, to express our serious concern at the adoption by parliament of a media law that seriously threatens press
freedom. (Read more ...)
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