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  • Chinese invasion underway in Arizona

    11/06/2009 8:11:18 AM PST · by AuntB · 12 replies · 577+ views
    Examiner ^ | Nov. 4, 2009 | Carl Braun
    In a stunning example of history repeating itself, an invasion of Chinese illegal immigrants is underway in the American Southwest and the authorities are doing everything they can to stop it. In the Nogales Sector of Arizona, 78 Chinese nationals were apprehended while trying to enter the US illegally through Mexico in October of this year alone. Between October 2008 and the end of August 2009, the Tucson Sector arrested 261 Chinese nationals according to Patrol Agent Colleen Agle. In the previous year only 30 had been captured. That is an 1100% increase in one year for Arizona. Texas has...
  • Chinese giant to buy US oil assets: company (Norwegian energy group Statoil)

    11/04/2009 8:49:53 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 15 replies · 648+ views
    AFP on Yahoo ^ | 11/4/09 | Pierre-Henry Deshayes
    OSLO (AFP) – Norwegian energy group Statoil said Wednesday it was selling some of its US offshore oil assets to China's state-owned CNOOC, marking the first step by a Chinese energy major into the US market. The sale, announced along with Statoil's quarterly results, involves a limited stake for the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) in four exploitation licences for deepwater blocks bought in 2007 and 2008. "On 29 October Statoil signed a farm down agreement with the Chinese company CNOOC involving a number of Statoil's leases in the Gulf of Mexico," Statoil said in its third-quarter earnings statement....
  • East African, Asian immigrants caught near Brownsville (Texas)

    11/04/2009 8:18:31 AM PST · by SwinneySwitch · 17 replies · 361+ views
    KGBT ^ | November 02, 2009
    A group of illegal immigrants from two East African nations and and two Asian nations are expected to face a federal judge Monday morning. Border Patrol agents caught the eight immigrants near Brownsville over the Halloween weekend. Court records show Border Patrol agents caught three Eritrean immigrants after they allegedly crossed the Rio Grande on Friday. Another group of immigrants from Nepal, China and Ethiopia was caught early Sunday morning after they waded across the Rio Grande late Saturday night. Court records identified the immigrants as: Goitom Messazgi-Araya (Eritrea) Tedros Ghide-Ketema (Eritrea) Merhawi Zemichael-Gebremedhn (Eritrea) Salikram Bishwokarma (Nepal) Yu Gao...
  • Chinese Mecca-bound pilgrims get swine flu shots

    10/27/2009 11:24:23 PM PDT · by rdl6989 · 4 replies · 274+ views
    AP ^ | Oct 27, 2009
    BEIJING — China will give swine flu vaccinations to thousands of Muslims about to make the annual pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, state media said, as authorities reported the mainland's third death from the illness. Concerns over the hajj, which attracts about 3 million Muslims every year to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, have led several countries to impose travel bans over fears the mass gathering could speed the spread of swine flu. Arab health ministers in July banned children, the elderly and those with chronic illnesses from attending this year. All of China's 12,700 Muslims making the pilgrimage...
  • Violence crosses into the U.S. without a visa

    10/22/2009 10:44:54 AM PDT · by AuntB · 13 replies · 740+ views
    eluniversal ^ | Oct. 22, 2009 | translated by NAFBPO foreign news report
    Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana was murdered with eight .45 caliber shots the night of Friday, May 15, in a residence to the northeast of El Paso, Texas. The 37 year old man was the presumed leader of the Juarez cartel and a DEA informant. The killer was identified by police as Michael Jackson Apodaca, 18 years old, a member of the 111th Air Artillery Defense Brigade of the United States Army. Apodaca was asked to kill him. A rival organization, known as La Compania [The Company] contracted him and two other subjects to square away a debt. Four months later,...
  • Did Chinese ships discover America?

    10/21/2009 5:49:35 PM PDT · by BGHater · 26 replies · 837+ views
    The Province ^ | 18 Oct 2009 | Susan Lazaruk
    Researcher whose father found old maps posits 2000 BC voyage to west coast History books tell us that the first Chinese settlers to Canada arrived in Victoria about 150 years ago, but a U.S. researcher says she has solid evidence that they came earlier. Some 4,000 years earlier. That would be 3,500 years before 1492, when European explorer Christopher "Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Or 10,000 years after nomadic hunters from Eastern Siberia crossed the frozen Bering Strait during the Ice Age, a migration taken by modern scholars to account for North America's native population. Charlotte Harris Rees, a retired...
  • [Texas:]Chinese immigrants caught near Brownsville

    10/20/2009 11:25:58 AM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 16 replies · 689+ views
    Brownsville Herald Tribune ^ | October 20, 2009
    A group of illegal immigrants from China is expected to face a judge after being caught near Brownsville. U.S. Border Patrol agents caught three Chinese immigrants near Brownsville on Monday. Criminal complaints filed in federal court records show that the immigrants illegally crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico on Sunday. The immigrants were identified as Jian Qiao Zhen, Chen Yan Hui and Li Xing. The three are expected to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Felix Recio in Brownsville at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.
  • Somali pirates seize Chinese ship in Indian Ocean

    10/19/2009 3:31:14 PM PDT · by ASA Vet · 25 replies · 656+ views
    Yahoo News - Singapore ^ | Oct 20, 2009 | Reuters
    MOGADISHU - Somali pirates were behind the hijacking of a Chinese bulk carrier with 25 Chinese crew seized in the Indian Ocean on Monday, a member of the gang said. "We have captured a Chinese ship carrying fuel," gang member Hassan told Reuters by phone from Haradheere, a pirate stronghold north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. "My friends will bring the ship to either Haradheere or Hobyo. We have not yet decided but it is heading towards this area." The European Union's counter-piracy force said earlier the vessel was seized 550 nautical miles northeast of the Seychelles and 700 nautical...
  • Senior Chinese military General to Visit Pentagon...

    10/18/2009 6:22:23 PM PDT · by Flavius · 10 replies · 617+ views
    A top Chinese general will visit the United States this month and tour major U.S. bases as Washington seeks to improve relations and reduce the risk of conlict, offi
  • Insurers dropping Chinese drywall policies

    10/16/2009 6:57:14 PM PDT · by stevie_d_64 · 88 replies · 2,325+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Thursday, October 15, 2009 | BRIAN SKOLOFF
    WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – James and Maria Ivory's dreams of a relaxing retirement on Florida's Gulf Coast were put on hold when they discovered their new home had been built with Chinese drywall that emits sulfuric fumes and corrodes pipes. It got worse when they asked their insurer for help — and not only was their claim denied, but they've been told their entire policy won't be renewed. Thousands of homeowners nationwide who bought new houses constructed from the defective building materials are finding their hopes dashed, their lives in limbo. And experts warn that cases like the Ivorys',...
  • China's Gender Imbalance Could Leave 30 Million Men Without Wives

    10/09/2009 4:10:20 AM PDT · by sodpoodle · 64 replies · 1,366+ views
    Fox News ^ | October 8,, 2009 | Dana Lewis
    In the next 20 years, it's estimated that 30 million Chinese men won't be able to find wives. For mothers and fathers who visit the "People's Park" every weekend there's a lot more to it than just finding love for their kids. There's a tradition in China of the young looking after the old. The government hasn't paid pensions and provided health care for most Chinese. So many parents' social security is on the line.
  • National defense patents boost military innovation in China

    10/09/2009 7:19:40 PM PDT · by Flavius · 7 replies · 477+ views
    defpro ^ | 10/9/09 | defpro
    11:17 GMT, October 9, 2009 Presently, 20,000-odd national defense patent applications have been accepted in China, which have strongly boosted the independent innovation of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the information-based construction of the weapons and equipment, said a responsible officer of the National Defense Patent Bureau of the General Armaments Department of the PLA when it came to the beneficial result of the national defense patent system since its implementation 20 years ago.
  • Sharp Rise In Chinese Arrests At U.S. Border [10-Fold Spike in Chinese Illegals!]

    10/04/2009 9:13:39 PM PDT · by Steelfish · 15 replies · 909+ views
    LATimes ^ | October 04th 2009
    Sharp Rise In Chinese Arrests At U.S. Border At least 261 have been arrested this year trying to cross near Tucson. Illegal Chinese immigrants can be big money for smugglers. By Sebastian Rotella October 5, 2009 Reporting from Nogales, Ariz. - Amid an overall drop in arrests of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S-Mexico border, an intriguing anomaly has cast a new light on human smuggling: Authorities report an almost ten-fold spike in the number of Chinese people caught in the southern Arizona desert, the busiest smuggling corridor on the international line. The Border Patrol in the Tucson sector has arrested...
  • Republican Debaters Ignore China Threat (Except Duncan Hunter)

    After seven Democratic presidential candidates debated on Nov. 15, CNN treated us to a debate of eight Republican hopefuls on Nov. 28. The transcript of the debate numbers 25 pages. Its first major subject is “illegal immigration,” which runs to Page 10, or about a third of the debate. Illegal immigration? The word “state” in the political sense (as in “the United States of America”) implies that foreigners cannot come to and live in a “state” as they could on land owned by no one. Otherwise, the “USA” should have been called “NOLA,” “No One’s Lands of America.” Nineteen foreigners...
  • Senator Pryor Helps Shape Rules for Chinese Poultry Imports

    09/25/2009 3:06:23 PM PDT · by Dysart · 17 replies · 582+ views
    Continued concerns about Chinese products being sold in the U.S. now include poultry. Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor was recognized in Washington today for his work on an agriculture appropriations bill that focuses on the use of appropriated funds from the Department of Agriculture for potential imports of poultry products from China. "Food safety and trade are not mutually exclusive, and are in fact very important to the economy of Arkansas. We can have both as long as the USDA can do its job of policing imports to make sure they meet our food safety standards. Our agreement enables the government...
  • Illegal Aliens from China Arrested by MCSO

    09/23/2009 8:22:58 PM PDT · by machogirl · 33 replies · 1,340+ views
    kfyi ^ | 09/23/09 | AP
    <p>Deputies say the four Chinese citizens were inside the van along with the driver, a resident of Mexico City. By Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) _ Authorities say a traffic stop in a Phoenix suburb has led to the detention of four Chinese citizens suspected of entering the country illegally.</p>
  • Weather Report

    09/23/2009 5:01:07 PM PDT · by Niuhuru · 13 replies · 637+ views
    Fred On Everything | Sept. 23 2009 | Fred Reed
    We should think about the Chinese. We are going to hear more from them. Several lives ago, after Saigon fell, I was free-lancing around Asia, and went to Taiwan to await the next war, which didn’t come. I’d been there before, to visit friends in the military. This time I stayed, signed up for intensive Chinese at Gwo Yu R Bau, actually a newspaper but with a language school attached. My abode was an apartment shared with a tiny Japanese mathematician named Sakai, two Chinese graduate students, and Ding Gwo, a local kid who wanted to be a rock guitarist....
  • Trouble upload a document, via Amazon DTP, with Chinese characters

    09/17/2009 2:54:50 PM PDT · by rudy45 · 4 replies · 258+ views
    I am trying to upload, via Amazon DTP, a document that has Chinese characters. If I upload a Word document, I get a message saying that the upload failed because of Unicode conversion problems. If i convert the Word document to a PDF, the upload happens, but instead of seeing characters, I see question marks. Can I upload Chinese characters via DTP? Thanks.
  • Defeat the Debt

    09/02/2009 10:37:50 AM PDT · by The_Media_never_lie · 6 replies · 337+ views
    DefeatTheDebt.com ^ | 8/31/09 | Defeat the Debt
    Defeat the Debt Children: I pledge allegiance to Americaʼs debt, and to the Chinese government that lends us money. And to the interest, for which we pay, compoundable, with higher ...
  • Myanmar Army Routs Ethnic Chinese Rebels in the North

    08/31/2009 4:27:19 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 5 replies · 682+ views
    NYT ^ | 08/31/09 | THOMAS FULLER
    Myanmar Army Routs Ethnic Chinese Rebels in the North By THOMAS FULLER BANGKOK — The Myanmar military has overwhelmed rebels from an ethnic Chinese minority in the northern reaches of the country, the junta’s second victory over armed opponents in three months. The routing over the weekend of the forces of the small, Chinese-speaking Kokang ethnic group gives Myanmar’s governing generals momentum in their campaign to quell armed opposition before elections and the adoption of a new Constitution next year. Several well-armed groups, notably the Wa and Kachin, still stand in the way of the junta’s goal of complete control...
  • China's national flag to go up in White House on Sept 20

    08/30/2009 11:04:05 PM PDT · by Sammy67 · 19 replies · 2,437+ views
    ChinaDaily ^ | 7/13/09 | Hou Lei
    The national flag of the People's Republic of China (PRC) will be hoisted at the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on September 20, media reported Sunday. Chinese associations in the United States had applied to hold a ceremony in front of the US President’s residence to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of PRC. Chen Ronghua, chairman of Fujian Association of the United States, told reporters that their application was approved not only
  • GM Said to Be Close to Agreement on Sale of Hummer to Chinese

    08/24/2009 12:06:42 PM PDT · by Nachum · 23 replies · 640+ views
    Bloomberg ^ | staff
    Title only. No links allowed to Bloomberg. Here is the url: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=akQaZGWodMhY
  • China and Serbia forge strategic partnership

    08/22/2009 9:42:34 AM PDT · by Ravnagora · 20 replies · 725+ views
    China Economic Net ^ | August 20, 2009 | Xinhuanet
    Chinese President Hu Jintao and Serbian President Boris Tadic on Thursday agreed to establish a strategic partnership between the two countries. During their talks held Thursday afternoon, the two heads of state exchanged views on building and developing a strategic partnership and reached a broad consensus. Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) welcomes visiting Serbian President Boris Tadic in Beijing, capital of China, on Aug. 20, 2009.(Xinhua/Ma Zhancheng)Hu highly valued Chinese relations with Serbia, saying the two peoples have traditional friendship and no matter what happened in the world, the relations between the two countries have developed healthily. He put forward...
  • Scientists help explain effects of ancient Chinese herbal formulas on heart health

    08/18/2009 1:55:17 PM PDT · by decimon · 7 replies · 492+ views
    New research at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston suggests that ancient Chinese herbal formulas used primarily for cardiovascular indications including heart disease may produce large amounts of artery-widening nitric oxide. Findings of the preclinical study by scientists in the university's Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases (IMM) appear in the Sept. 15 print issue of the journal Free Radical Biology & Medicine. Nitric oxide is crucial to the cardiovascular system because it signals the inner walls of blood vessels to relax, which facilitates the flow of blood through the heart...
  • Four Chinese immigrants found in west side safe house[Laredo, Texas]

    08/16/2009 5:07:46 PM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 9 replies · 724+ views
    Pro 8 News ^ | Aug 14, 2009 | Ray Gomez
    Border patrol detains five people after receiving a tip on an alleged safe house in west Laredo. It’s video you'll only see here on 8. Last night Border Patrol Agents responded with helicopter assistance to the corner of Santa Rita and Callaghan. Agents detained a total of 4 Chinese immigrants three of them were male, one female. A female Mexican national was also taken into custody. The illegal immigrants were then processed for deportation.
  • Did Chinese beat out Columbus? (Did Chinese sailors discover America ahead of Europeans?)

    08/13/2009 6:27:39 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 39 replies · 1,009+ views
    New York Times ^ | 6/25/2005 | Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop
    Did Chinese sailors really discover America before Columbus? A new exhibition sets the scene, presenting new evidence that lends support to the assumptions made in "1421: The Year China Discovered America" by Gavin Menzies. "1421: The Year China Sailed the World," in Singapore in a special tent near the Esplanade (until Sept. 11), is primarily a celebration of Admiral Zheng He's seven maritime expeditions between 1405 and 1423. With a fleet of 317 ships and 28,000 men, Zheng He is generally acknowledged as one of the great naval explorers, but how far he actually went remains a matter of dispute....
  • Of Course We're Not Going To Pay Back The Chinese- Peter Schiff

    08/09/2009 12:26:56 PM PDT · by shortstop · 17 replies · 957+ views
    The Daily Bail ^ | 08/09/09 | Peter Schiff
    http://dailybail.com/home/peter-schiff-of-course-were-not-going-to-pay-back-the-chines.html?ref=patrick.net
  • Uighur terrorist leader threatens attacks against Chinese interests across the globe

    08/03/2009 12:47:12 AM PDT · by Cindy · 19 replies · 980+ views
    LONG WAR JOURNAL.org ^ | August 2, 2009 12:22 PM | Bill Roggio
    SNIPPET: "The leader of the al Qaeda-linked Chinese terror group has threatened to attack Chinese interests around the world to avenge the death of Uighurs in the eastern province of Xianjiang. Abdul Haq al Turkistani, the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party, threatened to attack Chinese embassies worldwide as well as targets within the country. Haq made his threats on a video that was released on an Islamist Internet site." SNIPPET: "Haq, who is also known as Maimaitiming Maimaiti, became the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party in late 2003 after Hassan Mahsum, the group’s previous leader, was...
  • Acupuncture and Chinese Healing in U.S. Health Reform? (Deathcare™ Crap Sandwich update)

    08/02/2009 6:05:18 PM PDT · by Libloather · 18 replies · 626+ views
    Acupuncture and Chinese Healing in U.S. Health Reform?Sing Tao Daily, Posted: Aug 02, 2009 TEMPLE CITY, California— The Sing Tao Daily reports that Chinese medicine and acupuncture groups are pushing for their health services to be included in the national health care reform. President of the Council of Acupuncture Oriental Medicine Associations An Yue Li believes Asian Americans who use Chinese medicine as a treatment should be covered. Chinese medicine has become an affordable treatment for many people as the cost for traditional treatment is increasing. Moreover, the groups are advocating for federal bill HR 646, which proposes to include...
  • Will Obama side with Al Qaeda, as they take up the Uighurs cause against Chinese?

    07/15/2009 10:37:38 AM PDT · by Starman417 · 7 replies · 254+ views
    Flopping Aces ^ | 07-14-09 | Mataharley
    Curt, Mike's A and myself have all posted on the fate of the Gitmo Uighurs. You remember them, right? Those "innocents" types who just happened to have the misfortune of parking their butts in an AQ terror training camp, but really had no ties to AQ and were deemed not a threat to the US? When Obama... desperate to find them homes... parked them in Bermuda where they plan to open the first Uighur restaurant, I found myself pondering what anyone had to lose in today's economic environment by enrolling in a terror camp in hopes of being relocated to...
  • Xinjiang violence: Views from China

    07/11/2009 9:08:34 PM PDT · by vivi · 4 replies · 671+ views
    BBC ^ | Friday, 10 July 2009 17:12 UK
    As the situation in Xinjiang calms down, people from across China discuss the cause of the unrest and the impact it might have on social stability in the future. Harry He, tradesman, Xian Uighurs believe this is their land, and it is. But Han Chinese have been settling down there since the Tang dynasty, when the Silk Route opened up new cities and new opportunities. Maybe the Chinese did rule Xinjiang with an iron first. But we are learning the lesson. Things have already got better for ethnic minorities. In some ways, they enjoy more privileges. For example I have...
  • China's Hu Jintao skips G8 over Uighur violence

    07/07/2009 10:02:11 PM PDT · by george76 · 5 replies · 572+ views
    Reuters ^ | July 08, 2009
    CHINA'S President Hu Jintao has abandoned plans to attend a G8 summit in Italy, returning home early to deal with ethnic violence in the north-western region of Xinjiang that has left at least 156 dead in China's . The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on its website that Mr Hu had left for China "due to the situation" in energy-rich Xinjiang, which borders central Asia, where 156 people have been killed, 1080 injured and 1434 arrested in unrest between Han Chinese and Muslim Uighurs since Sunday. Late yesterday, mobs of Han Chinese wielding clubs, metal bars, cleavers and axes had melted...
  • Riot hits China's Xinjiang region capital - Xinhua

    07/05/2009 9:22:50 AM PDT · by george76 · 31 replies · 1,520+ views
    Reuters ^ | Jul 5, 2009
    Rioters in China's far west Xinjiang region burned vehicles and blocked traffic in the regional capital Urumqi, and police rushed to the scene to impose order, the state news agency reported on Sunday. Restive Xinjiang is divided between the largely Muslim Uighur people and Han Chinese...
  • Ethnic clash in Chinese factory kills 2, hurts 118

    06/27/2009 2:19:54 PM PDT · by LibWhacker · 4 replies · 400+ views
    BEIJING -- Ethnic tensions between workers at a toy factory in southern China sparked a brawl that left two dead and 118 injured, state media and a government spokesman said Saturday. The official China News Service said hundreds of workers at the Xuri Toy Factory in Shaoguan City fought for two hours before more than 400 police restored order early Friday morning. A spokesman from the Shaoguan City government said the brawl was due to tensions between Uighurs - Turkic-speaking Muslims - and Han Chinese, who make up most of China's population.
  • Thanks China for the $6.5 billion for a hybrid car plant. At least maybe someday.

    06/25/2009 4:20:57 AM PDT · by bintenn · 6 replies · 804+ views
    Commercial Appeal ^ | 06/25/09 | Wayne Risher
    Lawsuit reveals plan for Tunica County hybrid auto plant By Wayne Risher (Contact), Memphis Commercial Appeal Thursday, June 25, 2009 Plans for a mammoth hybrid electric car plant in Tunica County are at the center of a convoluted federal court dispute between principals in the development. The plant would cost Chinese investors $6.5 billion to build. It would occupy a 3,500-acre site in Tunica County and employ 25,000 at full production in 2015, according to a lawsuit and hundreds of pages of supporting documentation. Details surfaced after Chief U.S. Dist. Judge Michael Mills unsealed the March 27 lawsuit, saying Mississippi...
  • 'Chinese Warren Buffett' facing charges of fraud

    06/11/2009 2:24:09 AM PDT · by Cindy · 5 replies · 437+ views
    THE STAR.com ^ | Jun 11, 2009 04:30 AM | MADHAVI ACHARYA-TOM YEW
    Note: Photo included. PHOTO CAPTION: "Businessman Weizhen Tang has been accused of taking more than $40 million from more than 100 investors." "Weizhen Tang to defend against Ponzi allegations" Jun 11, 2009 04:30 AM MADHAVI ACHARYA-TOM YEW BUSINESS REPORTER SNIPPET: "The charges include securities fraud, unregistered trading in securities, illegal distributions of securities and making prohibited undertakings with the intention of effecting trades in securities, which were alleged to have taken place between Jan. 1, 2006, and March 31, 2009. The province's Securities Act states that no person or company can give written or oral representations on the future value...
  • Indian military plane missing at China border

    06/09/2009 6:11:32 PM PDT · by Flavius · 7 replies · 631+ views
    afp ^ | 6/9/09 | afp
    GUWAHATI, India (AFP) – An Indian military plane with 12 personnel on board was reported missing Tuesday along India's disputed borders with China, the air force here said.
  • Are the Chinese Slowly Poisoning Us?

    06/09/2009 10:26:43 AM PDT · by foutsc · 8 replies · 494+ views
    Nietzsche is Dead ^ | 9 June 09 | foutsc
    In a fit of collective insanity, or some type of delusional hysteria, this nation (self-identified liberal: 21%, Conservative: 35-40%) elected the most liberal president ever.He swore he'd close Gitmo. Everybody cheered and voted for him. Now, the nation is 2-1 against closing the facility. 60% of Americans believe the federal government has too much power and spends too much, yet GM President and all time big-spender Barack Obama remains wildly popular.This is schizophrenia on a national level. Maybe the Chinese really are poisoning us with their crappy products, driving us slowly insane. Some think that's what happened to the Roman...
  • On the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen, speculations about China's future

    06/06/2009 6:43:34 AM PDT · by ReformationFan · 223+ views
    Renew America ^ | June 5, 2009 | Kristia Cavere
    Twenty years ago, in the spring of 1989, millions of Chinese people peacefully demanded democracy from their Communist government. Centered in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the protestors were protected by the populace who set up barriers to keep them free from government intervention. But on the morning of June 4th, the Communist regime ordered tanks and soldiers to quell the protest. The violence and bloodshed that was the result has two opposing witnesses. The Chinese government insisted that 241 people died, whereas the Chinese Red Cross stated that over 2,600 had perished. Two decades later the innocent blood that was...
  • GM Unloads Hummer to Chinese Buyer

    06/02/2009 2:41:28 PM PDT · by epow · 29 replies · 1,153+ views
    CNN money ^ | 06/02/09 | Aaron Smith
    General Motors Corp. has struck a deal to sell its Hummer truck unit to a Chinese industrial business, the two companies confirmed Tuesday. Privately owned Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company Ltd., based in China, will acquire the truck brand, which has been part of GM since 1999. Tengzhong said it plans to keep Hummer's management team. "We plan to ... allow Humer to innovate and grow in exciting new ways under the leadership and continuity of its current management team," said Yang Yi, chief executive of Tengzhong. Yang said the deal "will allow Hummer to better meet demand for...
  • GM Sells Hummer To Chinese Machine Maker

    06/02/2009 10:18:06 AM PDT · by Mozilla · 113 replies · 4,579+ views
    The Street ^ | June 2, 2009 | Staff
    General Motors (GMGMQ Quote) has settled on a Chinese buyer for its Hummer brand, according to CNBC. The Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co., in Chengdu, is the buyer, reported CNBC. Sichuan Tengzhong is a private company, but the deal required approval by Beijing officials, who can veto any attempt at an overseas acquisition by a Chinese company and who closely follow deals over $100 million, reported The New York Times. In a statement Tuesday, GM said the sale is expected to close by the end of third quarter. GM, which filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, said the deal...
  • Chinese Investors Buy Stake in Cleveland Cavaliers

    05/26/2009 2:47:32 AM PDT · by Daisyjane69 · 10 replies · 558+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 5/26/09 | AP staff
    ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Cleveland Cavaliers have agreed to allow an investment group from China to become a minority owner of the basketball franchise and its arena. The group, which includes JianHua Huang, a Chinese businessman who has brokered sponsorship deals with the New York Yankees and other sports franchises in the U.S., could acquire as much as 15% of Cavaliers Operating Co., the entity that owns the team and operates Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.
  • Chinese-Americans Receive Phone Threats, 05/22/09

    05/22/2009 10:19:09 PM PDT · by Cindy · 5 replies · 429+ views
    FBI.gov ^ | May 22, 2009 | n/a
    Note: Audio is included at the link. # QUOTE: Press Room: Inside the FBI Chinese-Americans Receive Phone Threats, 05/22/09 Listen with Windows Media Player Also available on iTunes Mr. Schiff: Hello I’m Neal Schiff and welcome to Inside the FBI, a weekly podcast about news, cases, and operations. Investigations are underway across the United States of telephone threats to Chinese-Americans. Mr. Phillips: “We really hope that they’ll reach out to their law enforcement; local law enforcement to report it. They can also reach out to their local FBI office; we’ve got 56 field divisions across the country.” Mr. Schiff: That’s...
  • U.S. Will Pay $2.6 Million to Train Chinese Prostitutes to Drink Responsibly on the Job

    05/12/2009 4:31:38 AM PDT · by Mr. Mojo · 22 replies · 1,985+ views
    CNSNews ^ | May 12, 2009 | Edwin Mora
    (CNSNews.com) -- The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will pay $2.6 million in U.S. tax dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job. Dr. Xiaoming Li, the researcher conducting the program, is director of the Prevention Research Center at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. The grant, made last November, refers to prostitutes as "female sex workers"--or FSW--and their handlers as "gatekeepers." "Previous studies in Asia and Africa and our own data from FSWs [female sex workers] in China suggest that the social...
  • Chinese boats in 'dangerous' moves near US ship: Pentagon

    05/05/2009 1:03:17 PM PDT · by pissant · 17 replies · 661+ views
    AFP ^ | 5/5/09 | staff
    WASHINGTON (AFP) — Chinese fishing boats engaged in "dangerous" maneuvers near a US Navy ship in international waters off China, in the latest provocative encounter with American surveillance vessels, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday. "It is unsafe and dangerous behavior and it needs to be addressed" diplomatically, spokesman Bryan Whitman said as he described last Thursday's approach of a pair of Chinese vessels to the USNS Victorious, which he said was engaged in "routine operations." The USNS Victorious and another unarmed surveillance vessel, the USNS Impeccable, were involved in a series of close encounters with Chinese ships in the South...
  • GM Shatters China Sales Record in April

    05/05/2009 3:12:52 PM PDT · by Republican Party Reptile · 12 replies · 1,376+ views
    SHANGHAI, China — As General Motors sales continue to tank in the United States, the automaker is racking up impressive gains in China, where sales shattered another record in April. GM sales in China jumped 50 percent in April, to 151,084. In comparison, GM's U.S. sales last month plunged 33 percent to 172,150. The Buick brand in particular is on a tear in China. Where Buick dealers in the U.S. sold only 8,928 vehicles in April, in China they delivered 38,071 — a 64 percent increase over the previous year. GM, however, is seeing the greatest growth spurt in minivehicles,...
  • U.S.: Chinese Ships Come Dangerously Close to American Vessel

    05/05/2009 11:53:05 AM PDT · by Psalm_2 · 9 replies · 450+ views
    Foxnews ^ | Tuesday, May 05, 2009 | associated press
    WASHINGTON — The Pentagon Tuesday played down a confrontation between Chinese vessels and one of its Navy surveillance ships, taking a decidedly more low-key tone than during similar incidents two months ago.
  • US (Pentagon) plays down incident at sea with Chinese vessels (cat-and-mouse game on the Yellow Sea)

    05/05/2009 11:21:52 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 7 replies · 709+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/5/09 | Pauline Jelinek - ap
    WASHINGTON – The Pentagon Tuesday played down a confrontation between Chinese vessels and one of its Navy surveillance ships, taking a decidedly more low-key tone than during similar incidents two months ago. In what has become almost a routine cat-and-mouse game on the seas, there have been four incidents in the past month in which Chinese-flagged fishing vessels maneuvered too close to two unarmed ships crewed by civilians and used by the Pentagon to do underwater surveillance and submarine hunting missions, two defense officials said. .. The Pentagon did release a brief statement on the latest confrontation in which two...
  • Chinese Terrorists Release in U.S. Imminent, No Answers From Holder

    05/05/2009 5:52:47 AM PDT · by MaestroLC · 23 replies · 1,001+ views
    Human Events ^ | May 5, 2009 | by Rep. Frank Wolf
    Should foreigners picked up conducting terrorist training with Al Qaeda and subsequently held at Guantanamo Bay just be released into our communities, no questions asked? Believe it or not, it could happen. And soon. The Obama administration is ready to release a number of Chinese Muslims, known as Uighurs, held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002 into the United States, according to several recent press reports. Information I have received, however, indicates that the 17 Uighurs being held at Guantanamo may be more dangerous than the public has been led to believe. Both the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security...
  • Racism and Retrenchment for Filipinos (Chinese Journalist: a 'Nation of Servants')

    05/02/2009 10:19:53 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 14 replies · 959+ views
    Asia Times ^ | 4/22/09 | Cher S Jimenez
    A scathing editorial written by a Chinese columnist that referred to the Philippines as a "nation of servants", last month sent thousands of protesting Filipinos onto the streets of Hong Kong and threatened to spiral into a full blown diplomatic spat between Manila and the former British colony and current autonomous region governed by China. The inflammatory column was published in late March by HK Magazine and referred to the Philippines' overlapping territorial claims with China to the nearby Spratly Islands. Written by former British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) correspondent Chip Tsao and entitled "The War At Home", the writer advised...