Asia Cast for Friday 30th May
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In this Bulletin…
- Over 100 countries sign ban on cluster bombs;
- CIA claims is al-Qaeda on the defensive; and
- Chinese authorities prepare to evacuate another 40,000 people.
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More than 100 nations signed a formal agreement on Friday to ban the use of cluster bombs but debate continues on loopholes that could [...]
Asia Cast for Friday 30th May
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In this Bulletin…
- Israel’s Prime Minister faces calls to step down;
- South Korea lifts US beef ban; and
- UN warns high food prices may be here to stay.
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Israel’s Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni says the ruling Kadima Party must prepare to replace Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in light of a growing [...]
Breaking News- Professor Xie Tian called on to the Chinese people to maintain clear-headed under the incitement of the government
According to reports from New York, recently the Chinese Communist consulate overseas supported the instigation of organized harassment of legitimate activities of Falun Gong practitioners.
The Chinese mainland media falsely accused Falun Gong and spread rumours to incite people to divert attention away from claims the Communist authorities ignored predictions about the earthquake.
Breaking News- Costs of the Sichuan earthquake continues to rise
As of the 29th of May, costs related to the earthquake reached an estimated RMB 67 billion Yuan. Officials of China’s National Defence Science and Technology Industrial Development Bureau said that China’s aerospace and defence industry production line had been “seriously damaged in the quake, pushing costs even higher.
Breaking News- Another Hunan Appellant Quits the CCP
A gentleman from Hunan province who is an employee of a state-owned organization has been appealing in Beijing for three years. He decided to appeal to the government after he found that the housing of two hundred families in his home town had been pulled down with enforcement and the land had been taken away, [...]
Breaking News- Suspicion raised over Chinese Authorities of earthquake cover up
Recently, a number of reports about Communist Party authorities deliberately concealing information about the earthquake and predictions they had been advised about prior to the quake.
Chinese Internet users revealed that Communist China Seismological Bureau of Sichuan Province held “earthquake information security knowledge training courses” before the end of April in Hangzhou. But the confidential contents [...]
Breaking News- Parents of dead students at Jiandi High School seek explanations from Government over the buildings that killed their children
According to SOH reports on 29th May, a three-storey teaching building at Jiandi High School collapsed in a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in Shifang City, Sichuan, killing 70 to 80 students.
Amongst the ruins parents were able to see evidence of a lack of structural reinforcement required for such buildings.
Asia Cast for Thursday 29th May
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In this Bulletin
- 240-year-old Hindu monarchy to be abolished
- 100000 people left homeless in Central Columbia and
- Two aftershocks causes thousands of homes to collapse
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Himalayan nation’s 240-year-old Hindu monarchy is to be abolished after a constitutional assemble voted in favour of a republic.
In an historic vote that caps a peace [...]
Breaking News - Chemical plants located downstream of the landslide-formed lakes in Sichuan earthquake are embattled
Yue Yi Cheng, Director of the International environmental organization Greenpeace Pollution Control Projects, said that recently a large dumping of soil phosphorus was found in the earthquake disaster areas in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, posing serious threats to the safety of local public at lower reaches.
Breaking News - Mianzhu City Secretary of the CCP Committee pleades to earth quake victims not to appeal to higher levels
On May 25, 2008 in Mianzhu City, Sichuan Communist Party Secretary Jiang Guohua knelt down to protesting parents of students victimized by the collapsed jerry-buildings in the tremor, pleaing not to take the issue to high-level authorities. Parents of 127 dead students said at the scene that although Jiang Guohua kneeled down to them, they [...]
