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“Chope Paljor Tsering, the health minister of the Dalai Lama’s government-in-exile, arrived on a low-key visit in Kathmandu on Wednesday from Dharamsala in India to interact with foreign officials, NGOs and Tibetan refugees living in settlements spread across Nepal. He will be in Nepal till October 23.”
Beacon Online, October 12 >>
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The LegCo elections in Hong Kong were a “bad day for business”, said the Economist. The Liberal Party, the most outspoken pro-business party, won seven of the functional-constituency seats - which means that they were voted in by their business guilds. But the Liberal candidates who had to gain support in direct elections (that’s half of [...]

Soon will be more Millionaire Fair. Since 2008 Millionaire Fair will be held Munich and Istambul.
Happy happy everyday!
      

That’s what the Asian Foundation says.
“While the United States has been preoccupied with the situation in the Middle East, the Asian balance has been shifting quietly, if inexorably, in the direction of others.”
China is replacing the US as many Asian country’s main trading partner, and may soon be South Asia’s largest training partner, says the [...]

Martti Ahtisaari is the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. He will get congratulatory messages from all over the world, but besides those from Namibia and Aceh (possibly), the most heart-felt ones will probably come from Zhongnanhai, Beijing.
I’m not sure if Stein Toennesson knew the final decision already when he alluded that it could [...]

Hmph. So comrade Mingzhao, vice director of the State Council Information Office, has met Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia. Comrade Mingzhao is in charge of censorship.
Just between you and me: comrade Mingzhao is a wussy. He has opened our Sacred Firewall in the run-up to the Olympics, and now, Mr Wales is trying to keep it [...]

I previously wrote 13 Things We Know about Neel Kashkari.
There’s a lot more to know about him now…
Here are 10 more things we know about Neel Kashkari...
1. Kashkari worked in the Mechanical Design Department at TRW (now Northrop Grumman Space Technology. This might not mean much to some, but it’s right down the street [...]

751 Hong Kongers will attend Taiwan’s Double-Ten celebrations on October 10 (anniversary of the Republic of China’s founding day in 1911), according to today’s European Overseas Chinese Europe Journal  (歐洲日報, Paris). Among the celebration guests from Hong Kong will be politicians of the Democratic Party (民主黨) and the Civic Party (公民黨), business people, and the Traditional Chinese Societies [...]

I wrote - 13 Things We Know about Neel Kashkari
Edward replied (and I’d be glad to say thanks to Ed had he left an email, but…he did not. Still, thanks!, about Stow, OH and Neel Kashkari -
“First of all, Stow is not ‘nowhere’ as Bill put it, but a very friendly, more upscale town [...]
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The invisible line is the one I’d cross if I made Chinese issues my issues. Or where I would make Taiwanese issues my issues. I’m neither Chinese nor Taiwanese. That doesn’t mean that I don’t have opinions, and I believe that studying the language and the issues as thoroughly as I can is reason enough to me for blogging [...]