Opinions

Swine Flu: Pandemic Potential with Economic Effects

This article indicates the writer’s expectations of a Swine Flu Pandemic alert and briefly outlines the potential effects to the global economy.

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Asia

Twenty Years After Tiananmen Square

Coming up on 20 years since that horrific day, China’s communists remain in firm control.

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International Relations

Japan’s View on the Situation in Colombia

While dealing with such problems of illegal activities on an international level, Japan recognizes the growing global market that demands more illicit drugs and firearms, and consequently the growing alliance between Transnational Criminal Organizations between the Japanese Boryokudans and Colombian cartels among other criminal groups such as the Chinese Triads and the Russian and Sicilian Mafias. The following will describe the history of Japan and Transnational criminal organization and the proposed solutions Japan wants to pursue to fix the situation.

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Asia

Cloned From Ice

Japanese scientists have cloned a mouse 16 years dead. They claim that this will benefit humanity, but how and why? They could bring back extinct animals, too, such as the woolly mammoth or the sabre tooth tiger, but what for?

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International Relations

Will Bizarre Things Happen When India Reaches the Moon?

India has already sent her first indigenous moon mission. What is going to happen when India reaches the moon? Is there going to be a race to conquer the moon? Are there rich mineral deposits there? Is the Indian moon mission going to change Indian society?

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Alternative

Demoralization in IPI: A Waylay Success

Maximum security at its best.

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Opinions

SCMP Issues & Implications: May 29, 2008

Leaders from Beijing and Taipei held their first summit in more than 60 years on May 28. Chinese president Hu Jintao, who doubles as the general secretary of the Communist Party, met with KMT chairman Wu Poh-hsiung for approximately an hour at the Great Hall of the People, highlighting better cross-strait relations, especially after the Sichuan earthquake.

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Alternative

Yahoo Headline: There’s a Woman Living in Every Man’s Closet

According to Yahoo there was a man in Japan who just discovered that a homeless woman had been living in his closet for one year. That’s a guy for you.

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World

Top 25 Countries with the Highest Number of US Military Personnel

Are they the world’s policemen? Or is this colonialism via the back door?

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Alternative

Please Stop Whaling the Southern Oceans

Shocking pictures of a whale and her calf being slaughtered by a Japanese vessel has sparked more controversy.

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