The Year of the Rat is the first in the 12 year Chinese zodiac because, as legend has it, when the Jade Emperor invited all the animals to a party, the rat convinced the ox to ferry him across the celestial river and upon reaching the other side jumped off and was the first to […]
The Chinese reverence of Rats
It may be considered as an insult if one is described as a rat in any other part of the world but not in China. China’s Zodaic signs are covered by twleve animals and’ rat’ is first in the series. People born in a ‘rat year’ are considered to possess attributes of the animal, viz.,cleverness, […]
China Arrests Leading Rights Activist
Chinese state security forces have arrested one of the country’s most prominent civil rights activists in an apparent crackdown on dissent ahead of the Olympics. Hu Jia – who used blogs, webcasts and video to expose human rights abuses – is expected to face charges of inciting subversion of state power, his lawyers said today. […]
Impacts of higher oil prices much severe in Third World
"Oil prices matter to the health of the world economy," the International Energy Agency says in a report. The direct impacts are much less on the western countries, but more on the oil-importing developing economies whose budgets are already strained by huge external debts. Fears of OPEC supply cuts, political tensions in Venezuela and tight […]
Elephantiasis: the Repulsive Disease with No Known Cure
In the news today is a 23-year old woman named Wang Cheng, of Xuzhou in east China’s Jiangsu province, who is suffering from a disease which has caused her legs to continue to grow, with the widest part now measuring 27.6 inches (70 centimeters). The disgusting disease, which Wang contracted when she was 7, is […]
Interview: John Pilger talks to London Progressive Journal
DP: This October (2007) the Burmese people once again took to the streets in defiance of the military junta – in the biggest outpouring of popular dissent since the 1988 Uprising. Though mainstream news coverage often alludes to the situation being an "internal" matter, the US State Department has admitted it is involved in a […]
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