Category: World events
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When I searched Google News for news about AIG, guess what was the first story that came up? Yes, it was about the sponsorship deal they have with Manchester United…
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The Cable TV news service on KCR MTR trains is all about the earthquake in Sichuan. Would it therefore not be possible (just for a day or two) to drop the idiotic advertising that takes up about 50% of the screen whilst the news is being broadcast? Distressing pictures of earthquake victims do not sit…
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When I read that an Indian-born doctor living in Australia had been charged with giving "reckless support" to terrorism for giving someone a SM card, it looked rather odd but I supposed they must have had some more compelling evidence. Er, no. At first the British police claimed that this SIM card had been found…
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I felt a strange sense of deja vu when I finally got round to reading an article about the Maldives in the Christmas & New Year edition of The Economist: IN THE Seagull Café a young man is talking quietly to two others who are taking notes. He is describing how he was tortured in…
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I know that John Pilger is a bleeding heart liberal, but if even half of this is true then the British Government has behaved in a totally outrageous way: During the 1960s and 1970s, British governments, both Labour and Tory, tricked and expelled the entire population of the Chagos, a British colonial dependency, so that…
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Mark Thatcher was once described as "a sort of Harrovian Arthur Daley with a famous mum", and until recently he was famous mainly for getting lost for six days in in the Sahara desert. He is one of those mysterious people who appears not to be very bright, and has many failed business ventures to…
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So what did I do with my useless Asia Miles (see below)? Well, I gave them to charity – and I wasn’t the only one. Amazingly, it seems that in the last couple of weeks Asia Miles customers have donated 137 million miles to the tsunami appeal. Asia Miles offered to match those donations, so that means they have a total…
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I didn’t see yesterday’s SCMP, but apparently it had a self-congratulatory story about the generosity of Hong Kong people under the headline: HK leads the world in tsunami relief The figures apparently show that whilst the Hong Kong government has not been very generous (giving less than US$4m), individuals have donated an average of US$7…
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I haven’t felt like posting anything for the last few days. I don’t have anything original or incisive to say about the earthquake and Tsunami, and the ever-rising death toll makes it seem inappropriate to write about anything else. BWG posted a comment to my earlier post, mentioning a new collective effort by a group…
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It’s hard to escape from the aftermath of Sunday’s earthquake. Today’s newspaper is full of grisly photographs of dead bodies, and for once it seems appropriate (though I am sure there will still be complaints). As feared, the death toll is still rising, though it’s a sobering thought that (as Harry reminds us), it will…
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