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Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff, and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. Oh --- Peter Paul and Mary ****************** All that stimulus money. China’s...

Breakthrough promises $1.50 per gallon synthetic gasoline with no carbon emissions By Mike Hanlon 05:26 January 26, 2011 UK-based Cella Energy has developed a synthetic fuel that could lead to US$1.50 per gallon gasoline. Apart from promising a future transportation fuel with a stable...

I never undermined my successor: MM Lee By Faris – January 27th, 2011 MM Lee said his role was to advise the country’s next generation of leaders. (Photo: Agence France-Presse). In his latest book, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said he never undermined his successor unlike Malaysia’s...

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Chinese students are paid to “spontaneously” welcome President’s visit to the U.S. Posted on 13 January 2011 by Chiafu Chen 陳家福 Multiple Chinese student associations based in and near Washington D.C. and Chicago have issued notices saying that those who register with the welcoming event...

China cancels visa restriction on bald Taiwanese visitors The Telegraph UK Chinese authorities imposed the ban over fears that 'it was easier for bald people to disguise themselves' China has cancelled a controversial visa restriction on bald Taiwanese visitors amid discrimination...

Volkswagen to unveil 261 mpg XL1 prototype in Qatar By Darren Quick 19:17 January 25, 2011 At the dawn of the millennium, Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Piëch, who is today Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG, set his sights on creating a practical everyday use production car with a...

Is S'pore heading towards extinction? Singapore’s low fertility: A spreading scourge By Seah Chiang Nee http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2011/01/26/singapores-low-fertility-a-spreading-scourge/ Two eye-catching headlines this past week read: “One million residents –- or one in three –- are...

Egypt president's son, family flee to Britain Cairo, Jan 26 (IANS/AKI) Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's son who is considered as his successor has fled to Britain along with his family, US-based Arabic website Akhbar al-Arab reported. The plane with Gamal Mubarak, his wife and daughter...

Engineer jailed for selling US stealth bomber technology to China By Peter Foster 7:00AM GMT 25 Jan 2011 A former B-2 stealth bomber engineer has been jailed for 32 years by a US court for selling military secrets to China. Noshir Gowadia, 66, made profits of at least USD$110,000...

Passengers asked to push plane after breakdown on runway Passengers on a Chinese Shandong airlines flight were asked to get out and push after their plane broke down shortly after landing. The CRJ7 airplane with 69 passengers and 7 aircrew members flying from Guilin to Zhengzhou...

Copy cat ? ------------ Family threatens suicide in Beijing property row On Wednesday 26 January 2011, 13:15 Wang Shibo's stricken grandparents sit drenched in petrol next to a coffin in her Beijing shop, poised to light a match in a final, desperate protest against the forced...

The PC, notebook and net book maybe history. What could stop the tablet revolution? Bloomberg, Jan 25, 2011, 09.28pm With 2011 shaping up to be the Year of the Tablet, securing the display components for the looming army of tablets may be a key factor in determining success. Last year...

Pretty girl sings for a living on the street, auctions off her first love at RMB100,000 People’s Daily Online Xinhua Posted on 18 January 2011 by Jing Gao A post about a girl singing in Beijing’s underpass for a living has become extremely hot in China’s cyberspace. It dubs the girl...

2011 is the begining of the end for the credit card Monday 24th January, 2011 Experts have said that 2011 will be the beginning of the gradual decline of the credit card, as new technologies make the ubiquitous plastic card antiquated. In 2010, consumers spent US $16 billion on...

Costly mistake, costly fake China Daily Billionaire killed at home while making a fake antique Obviously creating fakes comes at a (heavy) cost. The chairman of a major pharmaceutical company and his employee died in an explosion caused by a “chemical experiment gone wrong” at the...

Men cut off fingertips Four workers cut off the tips of their little fingers at the west gate of Tsinghua University Sunday. By Yang Jie Four protesters who hacked the tops off their pinkies and swallowed the tips were forcibly expelled from Beijing Wednesday. At about 2:30 pm...

New expressway to affect several properties On Friday 21 January 2011, 8:00 SGT The government will acquire several properties along Admiralty Road West and Toa Payoh Rise to make way for the construction of the 15.9 km North-South Expressway (NSE). Some of the affected properties are...

Behind Every Successful Man in China, is a Business-Minded Wife. A boss, in order to keep a mistress, bought a house in Shengzhen for her to live in. Plus he gave her a monthly allowance of 5000 yuan. The house cost him about 500,000 (half a million) yuan He sold the house this...

Gay Member of Parliament? OK, says MM Lee Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew makes his most comprehensive statements about homosexuality in an interview. (Photo: AFP) Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has revealed he has no problems with having homosexuals in Parliament, reported The Straits Times...