The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Beijing - Chinese President Hu Jintao was a busy man on Thursday, not only because of last-minute preparations for talks with US President George W Bush and the opening of the Olympic Games on Friday. Hu also had to find time for audiences at least a...
shefinds (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
There’s nothing worse than getting to the office in a spectacular pair of new pumps, and dreading your trips to the bathroom/newsstand/conference room more and more as the day wears …MORE...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
As of Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008, at least 496 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Saturday at 10 a.m. EDT.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 65 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those, two were the result of hostile action. The military lists these other locations as Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Jordan; Kenya; Kyrgyzstan; Philippines; Seychelles; Sudan; Tajikistan; Turkey; and Yemen.
IOL (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Tuna catches across the Indian Ocean have fallen sharply - but experts are split about what is threatening the region's $6-billion industry.
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Source: Reuters By George Thand VICTORIA, the Seychelles, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Tuna catches across the Indian Ocean have fallen sharply in the last two years but experts are split over what is threatening the region's ...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
NEW YORK, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/-- Today the Glide OS World Development Program (GWDP) is launching localized French language versions of Glide's powerful and low cost mobile computing solutions for 28 countries. (Photo: ) "We are excited today to launch the Glide OS in French to help advance social and economic development in all of the 28 countries around the world with significant French speaking...
IOL (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
The struggling local property market has rich South Africans looking for other places to spend, industry workers say.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Military inspectors with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are due to meet on August 05-08, in Luanda, in a biennial conference, in order to create the post of Inspector of Regional Organisation in its structures, Angop has learnt.
White African (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Africa Telcom News has released a free report, called the African Mobile Factbook, that gives all of the major numbers on subscribers, penetration rates, profitability and growth potential for every African carrier and country. As anyone who is tries to do research in this space knows, it can be difficult to get some of [...]
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
First of all I would like to thank the 2008 Beijing Olympic Blog for allowing me to post my thoughts on the 29th Games of the Modern Olympiad. I have been interested in the Olympic Games since the Seoul Olympics of 1988 (when I woke up at 2.00am British time to specfically watch the opening ceremony) and since then have watched the Games of Barcelona (1992), Atlanta (1996), Sydney (2000) and Athens...
A Luxury Travel Blog (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
As of Tuesday, July 29, 2008, at least 491 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Saturday at 10 a.m. EDT.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 65 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those, two were the result of hostile action. The military lists these other locations as Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Jordan; Kenya; Kyrgyzstan; Philippines; Seychelles; Sudan; Tajikistan; Turkey; and Yemen.
biblicalia (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
I greatly delight in the popularity of this blog, and hearing that people find it (and the things on my bombaxo website) useful. I appreciate all the comments and the links and all of the email I’ve received from all of you. Looking through my statistics for July, I was amazed to see the variety [...]
