The Great Sichuan Earthquake
chinadigitaltimes.net     May 16, 2008            

In the Far Eastern Economic Review, Michael Zhao reports on the role of information technology in spreading breaking news about the earthquake: In the moments following the quake, the world’s source of breaking news on the disaster was neither the Chinese government nor the Western media. As the... [read full story]                    


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Day 13 - rain

2008gamesbeijing.com     10 mins ago          

It's pouring down with rain this morning in Beijing. The sky is also very dark. The women's beach volleyball has been postponed to 11:00A.M. and the BMX has been postponed until tomorrow. The 20 km women's walk has just started...                    

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Chinese Developers Look For Foreign Funding

misterarticle.com     13 mins ago          

The Chinese property market and property management in China have largely been a domestic affair in recent years, with tight government controls to ensure that speculative inflows remained at a minimum. However, the government...                    

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Macau Casinos' Shares Fall On Travel-Curb Fears (at The Wall Street Journal Online)

yahoo.com     13 mins ago   1 related          

HONG KONG -- Major casino operators have prospered in Macau's fast-growing gambling market. Shares of Las Vegas Sands Corp., MGM Mirage and others tumbled this week after Portuguese news service Lusa reported that Beijing might...                    

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Saving sharks at the expense of fishermen; 'The damage is done, and we're dead'

underwatertimes.com     15 mins ago          

by Hallie D. Martin Aug 20, 2008 Captain Dale Carlson, who runs the Jeanie Lee charter boat in Virginia Beach, used to see big Hammerhead and Tiger Sharks in the area in the 1970s, but doesn’t anymore. Shark fishermen are going...                    

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