- 4,867,400 'made in China' toys have been recalled in 2007 due to high level of lead found in paint coat of the toys.
- 'Made in China' textiles threatens Turkey's textile industry.
- Lida, illegal 'made in China' diet pills recalled after tests proved presence of unapproved chemical that increases blood pressure.
And then I ask, is China out to kill the world?
In the name of economic progress, China has churned out very high numbers of cheap exports that overtake the sales of local products. Turkey textile businessmen laments the drop in sales of up to 90%.
As one businessman puts it, "A sweatshirt made in Turkey costs $10 while a sweatshirt made in China costs $3, so how do we compete with that kind of price?"
Poor guy, he used to be the CEO of his company but now has to work as the Supervisor and is heavily in debt.
Oh, and this too;
In 2004 hundreds of children in the southern
by Tony Cheng in China's Anhui province
--Al-Jazeera.net--
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2007
10:31 MECCA TIME, 7:31 GMT
Are human lives a just price to pay for economic gain? Has the boundary between unethical procedures and economic prowess been reduced to a thin line? Are loss of human lives merely a means to make up for the end in which China becomes the world's economic giant?
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed”
--Mahatma Gandhi--
I guess this is evidence of why greed is literally, a deadly sin.
>6:34 PM
Dennis angry after reporter attacks Hamilton
Oct.21 (GMM) Ron Dennis left a French female journalist close to tears on Saturday after Lewis Hamilton got a grilling in the post-qualifying press conference.
Anne Giuntini, who has worked in formula one for more than 20 years for the French daily L'Equipe, had aggressively pursued the British championship leader following accusations that he held up title rival Kimi Raikkonen on a qualifying flying lap in Brazil.
"You will have problems, you will have problems," one Spanish newspaper quoted Dennis as shouting at Giuntini, who is married to Renault's Denis Chevrier, later on in the paddock.
In the news conference, she heatedly and repeatedly suggested that Hamilton did not easily let Raikkonen past on a decisive flier.
"What do you want me to do? Put the indicator on?" Hamilton bristled back, before eventually refusing to answer any more of Giuntini's questions.
"Is that what you call the best job?" she fired back after another exchange with 22-year-old rookie Hamilton. "Are you a sportsman?
"Do you think you can do everything you want and then you just apologise -- is that the way it works in formula one?" she added.
"You will have problems, you will have problems," one Spanish newspaper quoted Dennis as shouting at Giuntini, who is married to Renault's Denis Chevrier, later on in the paddock.
In the news conference, she heatedly and repeatedly suggested that Hamilton did not easily let Raikkonen past on a decisive flier.
"What do you want me to do? Put the indicator on?" Hamilton bristled back, before eventually refusing to answer any more of Giuntini's questions.
"Is that what you call the best job?" she fired back after another exchange with 22-year-old rookie Hamilton. "Are you a sportsman?
"Do you think you can do everything you want and then you just apologise -- is that the way it works in formula one?" she added.
Monday, 22 October 2007
MSN.com
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I'm not trying to prove anything here.
For the record, I happen to think that they're both hot, okay?
but.
WHY do hot guys have to be such scumbags?
Hmm. Think about it.
Hmm. Think about it.
Ohwell, it's true what the reporter said...
"Do (they) think you can do whatever (they) want and then just apologise?"
(:
A good thing I don't bloody care how much of an egotistical bastard he is.
>1:12 PM
Don't you think he's the epitome of perfection?
I'm almost drooling over my fingers as I'm typing this.
But then again, he looks odd here.
Man, that crooked smile.. sucha waste.
Good thing there's the car to make up for it.
Ooh. Fierce. 
Hahah! But wait!
Now THIS is perfect.
Don't melt! (:
Of all the guys, he fits the bill.
Black and bald.
I think he resembles sewage a little, but that's such an insult to Hamilton, and to me, no less. Plus, not only is sewage yellow instead of black, he's balding instead of bald!
And I think I draw the line against guys who pluck their eyebrows. Hahah!
But then again, Hamilton is more brown than black.
But this.... on the other hand..
(:
But ohhwell, I don't think pictures do him any justice.
He's like, a hundred times hotter as Doctor Burke in Grey's Anatomy. (:
*sigh*
>9:10 PM
Somehow everything I write about sounds depressing.
I've had to delete the previous 2 attempts just for this fact alone.
Deena once asked me,
"How does it feel like to have no one to call when you're feeling down, or even when you're feeling bored?"
And then I just shrugged.
Nono, don't get me wrong, I have great friends, whom I know, care shitloads about me. But just, I don't feel good about burdening them with my own insecurities. They have demons of their own to face. It wouldn't be fair on them, even if they volunteered to be my emotional dustbin for the day.
And I think this is getting a tad too emotional right here.
Tomorrow is graduation day.
It's surprising how close we've bonded. I hadn't expected to get along with my classmates at first and now we've become such great friends that the thought of leaving scares me.
This here is what I'm afraid of.
Building bonds that bind.
One speaks of bonding and Unity as though they were really just another means to another end.
but the consequential result is emotionally messy.
While some may want to keep the bond going, others think it's time they moved on with their own selfish endeavours.
I cannot say for sure which one of the 2 I will turn out to be.
But I'm hoping that geographical distance would answer that for me.
I'm terrified of the decision I'd have to make.
Be still my heart, now's not yet the time to make it.
Onward, people!
>8:38 AM