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Resolved Question: In Englnad, what is a "Metropolitan Borough Councils landscaping department"?What is the role of it?
Hi! My name is Christopher . I am a 24-year-old Hong Kong guy and very interested in anything about England. However, I have never been to England but would love to visit one day. Hong Kong was a British colony between 1841 to 1997 . When I think of Britain, several ex-HK Governor come into my mind. They all play an important role on the city development of Hong Kong .
I came across this wall-to-wall conversaton between my English friend (from Manchester) and his friend
My English friend's friend , " What a photo! Is that Lancashire? You took this photo in Lancashire?"
My English friend , " You cant fault Bolton Metropolitan Borough Councils landscaping department."
What do they mean ? What does "You cant fault Bolton Metropolitan Borough Councils landscaping department" mean ?
thanks very much
Christopher
moreResolved Question: Liberals,Democrats,Republicans,Conservatives and everyone is Between......?
When are we going to wake up???When we don't have anything anymore?Because blaming Bush or Obama will not get?
it back.......while people worship of these 2 guys, this is what is going on in the Real World....This Health Care is just a joke....Cap and trade another Joke......
In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading....
In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.
Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.
The plans, confirmed to The Independent by both Gulf Arab and Chinese banking sources in Hong Kong, may help to explain the sudden rise in gold prices, but it also augurs an extraordinary transition from dollar markets within nine years.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/busine…
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It will never stop amazing me the way we go after the people who tell you the truth.....
There are many more stories out there that back these up...Start Reading and Looking ....
I did not ask the question like that.....but what ever...you get the point
moreResolved Question: When are we going to wake up???When we don't have anything anymore?Because blaming Bush or Obama will not get?
it back.......while people worship of these 2 guys, this is what is going on in the Real World....This Health Care is just a joke....Cap and trade another Joke......
In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading....
In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.
Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.
The plans, confirmed to The Independent by both Gulf Arab and Chinese banking sources in Hong Kong, may help to explain the sudden rise in gold prices, but it also augurs an extraordinary transition from dollar markets within nine years.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-demise-of-the-dollar-1798175.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/dollar-tumbles-on-report-of-its-demise-1798713.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/sean-ogrady-china-will-overtake-america-the-only-question-is-when-1798176.html
moreVoting Question: a question concerning economics?
it's piece of an article that i can't understand. someone please help me and explain this to me? why did the inflation start and how?
"Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 4 percent last week for a second straight meeting after slashing it by 2 percentage points from December to July. Inflationary risks have increased since August as the economy picks up, Deputy Governor Diwa Guinigundo said Oct. 1. “Headline inflation is starting to accelerate” and will rise sharply in the coming months, said Frederic Neumann, an economist at HSBC Holdings Plc in Hong Kong. “We expect the central bank to start preparing the ground for rate hikes early next year.” The peso rose 0.4 percent to 46.53 per dollar as of 9:48 a.m. in Manila, its highest level since Jan. 7, according to Tullett Prebon Plc. The Philippine economy expanded 1.5 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, accelerating from a decade low as record-low borrowing costs and government stimulus helped Asian nations recover from the global recession.Bangko Sentral has “an exit strategy in place” and will “shift gradually to a different monetary stance” when it sees signs of firmer growth, Guinigundo said last week."
moreResolved Question: help me with this article?
it's piece of an article that i can't understand. someone please help me and explain this to me? why did the inflation start and how?
"Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 4 percent last week for a second straight meeting after slashing it by 2 percentage points from December to July. Inflationary risks have increased since August as the economy picks up, Deputy Governor Diwa Guinigundo said Oct. 1. “Headline inflation is starting to accelerate” and will rise sharply in the coming months, said Frederic Neumann, an economist at HSBC Holdings Plc in Hong Kong. “We expect the central bank to start preparing the ground for rate hikes early next year.” The peso rose 0.4 percent to 46.53 per dollar as of 9:48 a.m. in Manila, its highest level since Jan. 7, according to Tullett Prebon Plc. The Philippine economy expanded 1.5 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, accelerating from a decade low as record-low borrowing costs and government stimulus helped Asian nations recover from the global recession.Bangko Sentral has “an exit strategy in place” and will “shift gradually to a different monetary stance” when it sees signs of firmer growth, Guinigundo said last week."
moreResolved Question: Is THE GREAT ONE, Barack Hussein Obama, purposely destroying the dollar?
The Demise of the Dollar
In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading
By Robert Fisk
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
REX
Iran announced late last month that its foreign currency reserves would henceforth be held in euros rather than dollars.
In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.
Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.
The plans, confirmed to The Independent by both Gulf Arab and Chinese banking sources in Hong Kong, may help to explain the sudden rise in gold prices, but it also augurs an extraordinary transition from dollar markets within nine years.
The Americans, who are aware the meetings have taken place – although they have not discovered the details – are sure to fight this international cabal which will include hitherto loyal allies Japan and the Gulf Arabs. Against the background to these currency meetings, Sun Bigan, China's former special envoy to the Middle East, has warned there is a risk of deepening divisions between China and the US over influence and oil in the Middle East. "Bilateral quarrels and clashes are unavoidable," he told the Asia and Africa Review. "We cannot lower vigilance against hostility in the Middle East over energy interests and security."
This sounds like a dangerous prediction of a future economic war between the US and China over Middle East oil – yet again turning the region's conflicts into a battle for great power supremacy. China uses more oil incrementally than the US because its growth is less energy efficient. The transitional currency in the move away from dollars, according to Chinese banking sources, may well be gold. An indication of the huge amounts involved can be gained from the wealth of Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar who together hold an estimated $2.1 trillion in dollar reserves.
The decline of American economic power linked to the current global recession was implicitly acknowledged by the World Bank president Robert Zoellick. "One of the legacies of this crisis may be a recognition of changed economic power relations," he said in Istanbul ahead of meetings this week of the IMF and World Bank. But it is China's extraordinary new financial power – along with past anger among oil-producing and oil-consuming nations at America's power to interfere in the international financial system – which has prompted the latest discussions involving the Gulf states.
Brazil has shown interest in collaborating in non-dollar oil payments, along with India. Indeed, China appears to be the most enthusiastic of all the financial powers involved, not least because of its enormous trade with the Middle East.
China imports 60 per cent of its oil, much of it from the Middle East and Russia. The Chinese have oil production concessions in Iraq – blocked by the US until this year – and since 2008 have held an $8bn agreement with Iran to develop refining capacity and gas resources. China has oil deals in Sudan (where it has substituted for US interests) and has been negotiating for oil concessions with Libya, where all such contracts are joint ventures.
Furthermore, Chinese exports to the region now account for no fewer than 10 per cent of the imports of every country in the Middle East, including a huge range of products from cars to weapon systems, food, clothes, even dolls. In a clear sign of China's growing financial muscle, the president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, yesterday pleaded with Beijing to let the yuan appreciate against a sliding dollar and, by extension, loosen China's reliance on US monetary policy, to help rebalance the world economy and ease upward pressure on the euro.
Ever since the Bretton Woods agreements – the accords after the Second World War which bequeathed the architecture for the modern international financial system – America's trading partners have been left to cope with the impact of Washington's control and, in more recent years, the hegemony of the dollar as the dominant global reserve currency.
The Chinese believe, for example, that the Americans persuaded Britain to stay out of the euro in order to prevent an earlier move away from the dollar. But Chinese banking sources say their discussions have gone too far to be blocked now. "The Russians will
moreResolved Question: Sarah Palin is so smart isn't she?
Previously their was an article, small one about her recent talk in Hong Kong giving one of those brilliant speeches she gives. She is such a smart women. Going to China I bet she knew more about US policy than Obama!
Sept. 23 was a hazy day in Hong Kong. It's unlikely that Sarah Palin could have gazed across the city's harbor, past the mountains of the New Territories, and spied mainland China in the distance. Secluded inside the Grand Hyatt hotel, behind a tight cordon of security and a sea of hobnobbing fund managers, she may not even have seen much of Hong Kong itself.
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Palin was in the Big Lychee on her first visit to Asia, delivering her first major speech abroad at a high-profile conference of bankers and regional finance executives. A reported 1,100 delegates crammed into the ballroom to hear her champion "commonsense conservatism" and Reaganomics and offer commentary on Asian geopolitics. But if this luncheon keynote address was the former Alaska governor's first credential-burnishing step toward a 2012 presidential bid, it was made with the pesky media well at arm's length. All press were barred from the event, reportedly at the request of Palin's camp. Details of her remarks have been pieced together from interviews with delegates who were in attendance, tweets from inside the ballroom and a few private recordings of the proceedings that were obtained by news agencies. Neither spokespersons for Palin or CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, the investment firm sponsoring the conference, were willing to disclose Palin's itinerary in Asia.
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Though dubbed "a conversation with Sarah Palin," the event turned out to be more of a monologue. She spoke for almost 90 minutes, all the way to 2 p.m., when the session was supposed to end. As an attendee said while walking out, "she clearly wanted to keep talking so there'd be no questions." The moderator did ask her a few questions, but that part of the program lasted less than 10 minutes.
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She did make a few memorable pronouncements, for example, "I don't like excessive partisanship." Addressing the financial crisis, she declared there was no need for new regulation: "Lack of government wasn't the problem. Government policies were the problem. The markets didn't fail. Government failed." Palin reportedly called for the elimination of capital gains and estate taxes, decried state overspending and, supposedly without mentioning U.S. President Barack Obama by name, criticized his efforts to widen government involvement in health care. She rattled off a few terms of financial art but did not address the issues facing the markets for long, saying, "That's for next time."
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Palin did not shy away from addressing Asia and its politics. She hit the Republican talking points on China, warning against protectionism and expressing concern about China's military buildup. "We hope for China to rise responsibly," a delegate posting to Twitter live from the speech quoted Palin as saying. She also spoke of the U.S.'s historic role in securing prosperity and stability in the region and expressed a conviction that the U.S. could help steer Beijing toward democracy.
Still, according to many delegates, Palin's home state of Alaska dominated the talk. "She rambled on about the place for ages," says an Indian banker with a major U.S. firm. "Palin even talked about Alaska's land bridges with Asia and how animals once went across." Based on a recording it reviewed, the Wall Street Journal says Palin invoked her husband Todd's Eskimo heritage as a sign of shared "bloodlines" between the continents.
Palin's audience was a mostly sympathetic throng of high-flying executives and fund managers from more than 32 countries, responsible for some $10 trillion worth of assets among themselves. While they welcomed her support for strong free-market policies, some of the executives in the crowd were not entirely convinced. "[Palin] displayed a mixture of commonsense prudence and a bit of naiveté when it comes to finance," says a London-based fund manager (most delegates spoke anonymously due to the confidentiality policies of their companies). "Surely, we know now not all things are better left to the market."
After stepping down as governor earlier this year, Palin has allegedly received more than 1,000 speaking invitations. Some speculate that she was well remunerated by CLSA, though the company spokeswoman, Simone Wheeler, refused to comment on the question of a fee. The CLSA Investors' Forum has a rich tradition of bringing in leading global — and often American — figures, such as Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Preceding Palin as top-of-the-bill speakers
on Monday and Tuesday were the Harvard financial historian Niall Ferguson and Robert Fisk, a veteran British correspondent in the Middle East. "Our speakers do not fit a specific formula," says Wheeler. "We just want to present our forum with newsmakers, with people who think outside the box. We want to air their virgin views."
But as the foreign press flapped about Palin (and the lack of access to her), few in the local Cantonese media — or most Hong Kongers, in general — seemed to care. Few representatives from Hong Kong's tabloid-driven press stood in the forlorn journalist pen outside the hotel. Shown a picture of Palin, a woman surnamed Ng, who operated a food stand near the Grand Hyatt, professed to not know who she was. "If she is rich and famous, then maybe she goes shopping nearby," said Ng from behind her counter. "Afterward, she can come eat my fishballs."
FOR ALL YOU LIBBIES ASKING WHY SHE DIDN'T LEAVE ROOM FOR QUESTIONS OR LET THE STORY BE RECORDED, IT'S CUS
SHE DOESN'T WANT FOREIGN PEOPLE QUESTIONING HER OK! DEAL WITH IT SHE IS AMAZING!.
SHE IS SO SMART YOU DON'T NEED TO GO TO HARVARD TYO BE AS SMART AS SHE IS SHE INSPIRES ME AND MAKES ME HAPPY AND I THINK THAts why YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR HER CUS SHES A MAVERICK AND SHE'S GONNA WHIP THINGS UP!
moreResolved Question: Are the Republicans trying to start a war with China: [Media shut out from Palin's Hong Kong speech]?
[Sarah Palin's speech to investors in China later this month will be closed to the media, organizers of the event confirmed to CNN Monday.
The former Alaska governor is set to address the annual CLSA Investors' Forum September 23, though the group is also declining to reveal the topic of the former GOP vice presidential candidate's closed-door speech.]
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/14/media-shut-out-from-palins-hong-kong-speech/
moreResolved Question: Should Israel and the USA now be required to pay reparations to rebuild Gaza's infrastructure?
The other day they had Chris Patten on, former EU commissioner and the last British Governor of Hong Kong.
In response to a question on EU aid for Gaza, he was quite visibly angry when he explained that the EU had spent quite a lot of money on aid for Gaza, building schools, hospitals, transport links and homes, making life for the besieged people at least tolerable to basic humanitarian standards. He then saw all the work the EU taxpayer paid for trashed by the Israelis is a fit of bad temper. Even the food sent the UN went up in smoke. He said it was pointless spending a lot of money on aid just to see it once again trashed by the Israelis.
And yes, if the Israelis did put right the damage, then as soon as the blockade comes down, teams of Palestinian builders should be sent to rebuild the homes destroyed by their rockets to the same humanitarian standards.
And the Israeli householders should invite the Palestinian builders in to share a meal, and jolly Jewish music should be heard and enjoyed in the cultural centre of Palestine.
The responses to my last point can be summed up by anyone familiar with modern American history "I have a dream"...
moreResolved Question: Do you think the British influence in Hong Kong has waned?
It has been 12 years since the last British Governor, Chris Patten, left Hong Kong in what has been highlighted as one of the most important events to occur in the remaining years of the 20th century. Do you believe the British is still an important player in Hong Kong today?
moreResolved Question: What do you think of Chris Pattens views on Gender Equality in Europe?
I've just been reading his autobiography, and he raises some very interesting points, before I get to them, a little about him,
Patten served in the British Thatcher government, and later became chairman of the Conservative Party under the Major government of the late 1980s. Upon losing his seat, he was appointed governor of Hong Kong and oversaw its transition to Chinese rule. He was then appointed commissioner to the European Union. In short he is a political conservative heavyweight.
Patten argues that gender equality and reform is an entirely necessary because, in Europe, most especially the UK, the population is aging, such that the dependency ratio - which is to say the number of people working within the economy, compared to the number they must support - will change to the extent that almost half the population will be dependent by the mid century.
Immigration, he argues, cannot fill this gap as the population density in the United Kingdom is far too great, as it is in Europe generally, compared to the states. Therefore the only viable solution is to drastically increase the productivity of the working population which can best and most easily be achieved by ensuring that women are afforded the same skills and opportunities in the workplace as men.
In short, his advocacy of womens rights is not socially motivated, or ideologically driven, as it is for most of the feminist left, rather it is based on economic pragmatism.
What do you think of Chris Pattens views on Gender Equality in Europe?
moreResolved Question: NYC waterfront Urban Planning issue - what to write on?
I'm trying to find a planning issue to write my reflection paper for my Urban and Regional Planning course on. Stapleton, St. George, East River Waterfront, Greenpoint-Williamsburg, Governors Island, and lower Manhattan are examples of what I have been looking at. I want to choose a topic relevant to the New York Waterfront, to compare with Hong Kong's harborfront planning issues. It needs to be a current issue (having been featured in the newspaper in the past 6 months).
I need to summarize the issue, highlight the debates (historic preservation, environmental concerns, economic progress, urban renewal, etc.) and provide my own recommendation, if applicable. It has to be a maximum of 2,000 words, or roughly 6 pages.
Any suggestions?
moreResolved Question: NYC waterfront Urban Planning issue - what to write on?
I'm trying to find a planning issue to write my reflection paper for my Urban and Regional Planning course on. Stapleton, St. George, East River Waterfront, Greenpoint-Williamsburg, Governors Island, and lower Manhattan are examples of what I have been looking at. I want to choose a topic relevant to the New York Waterfront, to compare with Hong Kong's harborfront planning issues. It needs to be a current issue (having been featured in the newspaper in the past 6 months).
I need to summarize the issue, highlight the debates (historic preservation, environmental concerns, economic progress, urban renewal, etc.) and provide my own recommendation, if applicable. It has to be a maximum of 2,000 words, or roughly 6 pages.
Any suggestions?
moreResolved Question: So how do you like it now that China has Ordered a Halt Interbank Deals with U.S. Firms?
Mainland Lenders Ordered to Halt Interbank Deals with U.S. Firms
By Jane Cai and Adam Chen
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong
Thursday, September 25, 2008
http://www.scmp.com
BEIJING -- Mainland regulators have told domestic banks to stop lending to United States financial institutions in the interbank market in a bid to prevent possible losses during the financial crisis, industry sources said yesterday.
The ban from the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) applied to interbank lending of all currencies to US banks but not to banks from other countries, a source said.
The CBRC was not available for comment yesterday.
The decree appears to be Beijing's first attempt to erect defences against the deepening US financial meltdown after the mainland's major lenders reported billions of US dollars in exposure to the credit crisis.
Lending transactions on the mainland interbank market totalled 10.65 trillion yuan (HK$12.17 trillion) last year, according to the People's Bank of China.
In the first eight months of this year, transactions totalled 10.11 trillion yuan, up 104 per cent from a year earlier.
At the end of last year, the mainland interbank market had 717 members, including banks, securities companies and trust companies.
Another banking source said the CBRC issued the ban after obtaining data about the exposure of mainland banks to bonds issued by bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings.
Top officials said they were keeping a close watch on the crisis and warned mainland financial institutions to be cautious in their daily business and overseas expansion.
"The international transaction volume of Chinese banks is not big. Those concerning subprime loans are probably lower than US$10 billion," deputy central bank governor Ma Delun wrote this week in the China Business Post, a People's Bank of China-affiliated newspaper.
But the deteriorating situation in the US has shocked top officials.
Mr Ma said that among the unexpected developments was the effect the crisis was having on normal assets, not just problematic assets; its impact on the whole credit market, not just single products; and its effect on Europe and other nations, not only the US.
The exposure of seven listed mainland banks to bonds related to Lehman Brothers totalled US$721 million.
Mainland banks had US$9.8 billion in exposure to US subprime loans at the end of last year and US$25 billion to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by June 30.
moreResolved Question: What is the name of the traditional tune you hear in farewell occasions/new year eve?
I've heard it a million times but I just can't seem to figure its name, it is usually played with the English backpipe--so I guess it's British song. You usually hear this tune played during the New Year occasions. One notable occasion I've seen it played was during the handover of Hong Kong ceremony when they took down the flag and gave it to the governor. Anyone with an idea?
moreResolved Question: Home Invasion, Robbed. When will they get caught?
I was robbed 2 years ago. Actually it was a home invasion. My grandpa got his valuables taken from him. 20 years of coins collection, a medal governor of Hong Kong gave to him, and many more. It sucks. I want to know from you guys are the robbers are ever going to get caught. If i know who it is, i would break their neck. I really hope they get caught, and if i were to see them face to face, it would kill them. So please answer my question. What a the likeliness of them getting caught? its been two years. Have the police closed the case? Thanks.
moreResolved Question: What Made Norman Hsu Run, and Where Did the Money Come From?
I’ve been doing a bit of online reading this afternoon and found a few articles that are fascinating. Both of them deal with Norman Hsu, a known political financial contributor.
What Made Norman Hsu Run?
He charmed friends, investors and politicians. But behind lurked failures, a kidnapping and lawsuits
By IANTHE JEANNE DUGAN in New York, JONATHAN CHENG in Hong Kong and BRODY MULLINS in Washington
September 8, 2007; Page A1
At a New York restaurant overlooking Central Park in April 2006, the governor of Pennsylvania sat down to dinner with about a dozen Democratic supporters. The 10-course meal in a private room at Per Se, including dishes like Nova Scotia Lobster Tail "Cuite Sous Vide," cost about $18,000, says a diner who was there. The host, Norman Hsu, was a businessman that the crowd admired but knew little about.
In the past few weeks, much more has become known about Mr. Hsu: That he had filed for bankruptcy twice, including a time in 1990 when he said he had no income, no job, and little more than a Toyota 4-Runner and a jade ring. And that he was wanted by California authorities for grand theft charges to which he had pleaded no contest in 1992, then fled before facing sentencing.
Mr. Hsu turned himself in on that matter a week ago, after news coverage of his past -- which began with a Wall Street Journal article about his unusual campaign giving -- had brought the conviction to light and led politicians to hand over some of his campaign donations to charity. Mr. Hsu posted a $2 million bond -- and then he vanished again. On Wednesday, when he was supposed to appear in court in California, he instead boarded Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr near Oakland. Along the trip he fell, was taken to a hospital in Grand Junction, Colo., and arrested. On Friday, authorities were taking steps to send him to California.
Mr. Hsu's lawyer issued a brief statement Friday afternoon saying that "the strain [Mr. Hsu] has been under during the last week has been enormous and, perhaps, unbearable. We will be getting him the best medical care available." As for the charges Mr. Hsu left behind, the lawyer, James Brosnahan, said: "The legal matter pending in San Mateo Superior Court will be handled in its proper course."
Much about Mr. Hsu remains a mystery, most notably the source of the money for the donations that made him a favorite in Democratic circles.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118920845515221199.html?mod=hpp_us_pageone
Suspect Donations
By Brody Mullins
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
09/08/07
Donations from Norman Hsu and other Democratic campaign contributors whose pattern of donations correlates with his.
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-HsuDonations0709-sort.html?s=0&ps=false&a=up
If you read the first link, it brings up many questions. For instance, considering this man’s background, where did the money come from to make these huge donations? Any clues? Does anyone out there have any more information about this person?
moreResolved Question: What Should The US Do During The Commonwealth Games?
The Commonwelth Games are an Olympic-like festival of sports, but with only 68 countries taking part, 4 of which form the United Kingdom, 3 of which are islands of England (Guernsey, Isle of Man) & 6 are non-nations like Bermuda, Hong Kong & the Cayman Islands.
The event attracts 98% of the TV audience size in the UK, Ireland, Malaysia, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, Pakistan, .... that the Olympics do. I believe there are similar Games for other former Empires too. The Commonwelath is also a friendship & cooperation society for economic, social, cultural and political matters. Do you think the US should A have a festival of US states' teams to match this, B join the Commonwealth, C, ignore the whole thing, or D allow individual US states to join the Commonwelath & submit individual teams if their governors & legislators so choose?
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Best British pubs in Hong Kong post 1997 | CNNGo.com
Cast your mind back to the last hours of British rule on June 30 that year in this pub, Bar George, named after George Charles D'Aguilar, the 19th century commander-in-chief of the Royal forces and deputy
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World Travel Gallery: Ocean Park Hong Kong Travel
Founded in 1977 by the then
Governor of Hong Kong Sir Murray MacLehose, Ocean Park has now grown to about 35 attractions and rides. The park has won several awards, including The World's Seventh Most Popular Amusement Park and 33rd Most ...
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Why English did not allow Hong Kong people for its own Governer until?
This is a discovery for me. I thought English, a democracy as it is , would allow
Hong Kong people have its own governer. Actually
Hong Kong did not have a
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Charter Cities? Hong Kong, colonialism, and curing global poverty
And we'd do well to remember that most Chinese don't fondly recall the establishment of British-run
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Hong Kong & Macau March 2010...50th Birthday celebration ...
Run by a local couple who's claim to fame is a meeting with the ex
governor of Hong Kong Christopher Patten before it got handed back to the Chinese. 220HKD for 1 night with hot shower, TV, free cable internet and a really hard bed. ...
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A disastrous intellectual Governor, and a Harry Flashman rogue ...
Meanwhile, back in little Hong Kong, we now come to the Governorship of Sir John Bowring, one of two former MPs to hold the post of
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Hong Kong Government has become a “lame duck . ”
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