Why cricket in China means six short legs The Times | Maybe my eyes were missing the signs, but as thousands of spectators participated in the opening ceremony at the Olympic Games in Beijing last month, enthusiastically banging the drums and waving the flags that had been so helpfully provided, then imitating the movement of doves with their flappin...
Macau becomes a not so sure bet Asia Times | By Muhammad Cohen | HONG KONG - For the past five decades, a Macau casino concession has been licensed to print money. In the past few months, printing money has become less profitable and less satisfying. | This week's opening of Cirque du Soleil's new Zaia show at the Venetian Macao is a reminde...
British cyclists start gold rush BBC News | Simon Richardson broke the C3/4 one-kilometre time-trial world record to win Britain's first gold medal of the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing. | The 41-year-old, making his Games bow, set a new best of one minute 14.936. | Tandem cyclists Aileen McGly...
Postcard from South China The State By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN - New York Times | GUANGZHOU, China - I had the pleasure the other day of visiting the delightfully named Zhuhai Guohua Wonderful Wind Power Exploitation Co. in Zhuhai, on the southern coast of China. It's a good news/bad news s...
Plot thickens in ADUG takeover of Man City Arab News | Mushtak Parker I Arab News | LONDON: The headlines are perhaps predictable - 'Abu Dhabi Doo' and 'Manic Monday' - just two of the bold ones in British tabloids in the last two days. They were of course alluding to the dramatic takeover last weekend...
Why cricket in China means six short legs The Times | Maybe my eyes were missing the signs, but as thousands of spectators participated in the opening ceremony at the Olympic Games in Beijing last month, enthusiastically banging the drums and waving the flags that had been so helpfully provided, then ...
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Games draw to a close Canada Dot Com | Hello world. Goodbye Beijing. | So long Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt. Hello Barack Obama, Stephen Harper and Gordon Brown. | Today's closing ceremonies are the finale of the mos...
Pomp and circumstance shroud criticism at closing ceremonies Canada Dot Com | BEIJING -- Hello world. Goodbye Beijing. | So long Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt. Hello Barack Obama, Stephen Harper and Gordon Brown. | Sunday's closing ceremonies are the final...
Lamaze wins show jumping gold Arab News | Margaret Freeman I AP | HONG KONG: Eric Lamaze of Canada, riding Hickstead, won the gold medal in the Olympic equestrian individual show jumping event yesterday. | Lamaze won a t...
Thomas L. Friedman: China greening International Herald Tribune | : I had the pleasure the other day of visiting the delightfully named Zhuhai Guohua Wonderful Wind Power Exploitation Co. in Zhuhai, on the southern coast of China. | It's a good news/bad news story. The good news was that the Chinese engineers sho...
How to navigate the new global archipelago The Times | As Russia decides where to draw its new boundary with Georgia a reckoning will be due - among the people of Georgia living amid the wreckage of a failed gamble, and among their Western allies suddenly confronted with diplomatic impotence. But for B...
Casinos no longer immune to recession The Philippine Star | As conventional wisdom goes, sin stocks are a smart buy during tough economic times. Investors are advised during downturns to put their money on companies involved in such things as alcohol, tobacco and gambling because people turn to them to make...
Sports scoreboard Ohio | ODDS | Glantz-Culver Line | Today's Games | Major League Baseball | National League | FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE | at Houston -130 Cincinnati +120 | Florida -110 at Atlanta +100 | Los Angeles -180 at Washington +170 | at Chicago -125 Philadelphia ...
'Rent' to bring down the curtain on Broadway run Philadelphia Daily News | MICHAEL KUCHWARA | The Associated Press | NEW YORK - Broadway prepared to say goodbye Sunday to "Rent," 12 years and 5,124 performances after it first became a rock musical with a message for theatergoers of all ages. | "There's mixed emotions, but it's time," said Allan S. Gordon, one of its producers. | The show, book, music and lyrics by Jonat...
Britain leading London 2012 technology race The Times | All they lack is John Cleese playing the part of Q, but for their next trick - the one they intend to pull off in 2012 - the brains trust behind Great Britain's Olympic success intend to bring the following futuristic advancements: radar-tracking technology for archery and the javelin; a judo robot; personalised spikes for sprinters; and a miniat...
