Death sentences in 2008 Chinese tainted milk scandal

Monday, January 26, 2009 Half a million participated in anti-China demonstrations on October 25, 2008 (“1025 demonstration”) in Taiwan.Image: MiNe. On Thursday, the municipal intermediate people’s court in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China pronounced sentences for 21 defendants implicated in the 2008 Chinese milk scandal which killed at least six infants and sickened nearly 300,000 others.…

Influential Croat poet Dragutin Tadijanovi? dies

Saturday, July 7, 2007 Dragutin Tadijanovi? at an event celebrating his 100th birthday. Image: Damir Jelic. Croatian poet Dragutin Tadijanovi? died last week in Zagreb, Croatia. He was 101 years old. Born on November 4, 1905 in Rastušje, Slavonia, Croatia, he was erudite cordially referred to as ‘Bard’ in Croatia. He published his first poem…

Wikimedia Conference Netherlands 2007 held on wikis and education

This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Sunday, October 28, 2007 Wikimedians and educators came together at the Wikimedia Netherlands 2007 convention. Yesterday, a chilly Amsterdam hosted the Wikimedia Conference Netherlands 2007. Held at the Aristo centre in a…

Lebanon goodbye to Syrian forces

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 Lebanon region map As the last forces in the final Syrian pullout from Lebanon left, Bekaa Valley residents danced, waved flags, raised banners and cried tears of brotherhood in celebration. Tuesday afternoon’s Masnaa border crossing marked the exit from Lebanon of the last Syrian Army remnants, leaving 29 years of occupation…

Brazilian Vote Buying parliamentary commission present first joint preliminary report

Wikipedia Wikipedia has more about this subject: Brazilian vote-for-cash scandal File:Cpis122514.jpegBrasília — The Post Office and Vote Buying parliamentary commissions of investigation. Photo: José Cruz/ABr. Monday, September 5, 2005 Brazil —The Post Office and Vote Buying parliamentary commissions of investigation unanimously approved on Thursday (1) their first joint preliminary report of activities. The text was…

Australia/2006

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ITRI to challenge the infrastructure of WiMAX on High Speed Rails in Taiwan

Sunday, June 8, 2008 Press Conference on International Collaboration to Develop Broadband Access on High Speed Rail in Taiwan.Image: Rico Shen. To challenge the possibility of WiMAX connection on high speed rails, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC) started an experiment on Mobile WiMAX technology for the THSR. It’s…