2013-11-12, 15:20 | Link #31782 |
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A Chinese Child’s Lung Cancer Is Linked to Pollution
An eight-year-old girl, living near a major road in the Jiangsu Province of Eastern China, has become the youngest person in China, and possibly in the world, to be diagnosed with lung cancer caused by pollution—the cause of her disease according to Chinese officials. And last month, the World Health Organization classified air pollution as a major human carcinogen. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...mpaign=Content
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2013-11-12, 20:06 | Link #31783 |
Sensei, aishite imasu
Join Date: Mar 2008
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A strip club has strippers. A Maid Cafe has a waiting staff that adapts a specific kind of persona while also performing their function as a waiting staff. It's not really different from some place like Hooters.
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2013-11-12, 22:19 | Link #31787 | ||
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Chinese daily accuses Manila of ingratitude over $100,000 typhoon donation
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Wow Hongkong is trying to save there faces from a bad images. It shown there true color. HK's sanctions threat unchanged Quote:
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2013-11-12, 22:54 | Link #31788 |
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Since when are any nation have a minimum for aid? Especially a country that has no positive regards for its citizens? Also, in case no one noticed, China is also busy recovering from 700 million dollars worth of damages done by the same said hurricane.
And frankly, the Hong Kong situation is just what Hong Konger thinks.The total incompetence of the Philippine police force also made a lot of Hong Konger thinks Philippinos intentionally "fucked up" once they found out the tourist were Chinese. then bury the shooter with a Flag probably will tick a lot of people off.
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2013-11-13, 00:00 | Link #31789 | ||
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Why is China doing so little to help the Philippines?
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2013-11-13, 00:48 | Link #31790 |
Juanita/Kiteless
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New England
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Come on, you know if America only gave $100,000 to Japan after the tsunami in March 2011, people would have flipped out. So China, the other great superpower in the world, in response to a neighboring country which might have been hit by the biggest storm in recorded history...gives out chump change. Don't try to justify what they are doing.
It's like, if some billionaire was like "Yeah, I give to the poor" and all he does is donate a few dozen boxes of food to a food pantry every month, yeah, that aid is nice, but you know he is capable of much more and that isn't what people expect when he says "I give to the poor".
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2013-11-13, 01:02 | Link #31792 | |
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What great power? If China gave alot, it would appear to try to bribe the Philippines. Within days, I bet you will see newpapers declare "do not trust China." China use "soft power" to influence another nation. Etc. Since it will be spinned the worst way possible, why waste the money? Furthermore, China just finished assessing its OWN damages of this hurricane. Why should it suddenly pledge a ton to a nation that is openly hostile to China? You don't see America rushing off to donate to Iran during its recent Earthquake right?
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2013-11-13, 01:13 | Link #31794 | |
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2013-11-13, 01:20 | Link #31795 | |
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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And for all we know, it could had been an error. It was not even days yet. Now that we get into international news over this, do u think anyone in china would want to donate?
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2013-11-13, 01:26 | Link #31796 |
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It only shows that PRC is not worthy of being a leader. You either give are much as you can to your possibility or you give none. Such "face-saving" pitiful amounts are what unworthy countries do.
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2013-11-13, 03:05 | Link #31797 |
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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The difference would seem to be that the United States doesn't pretend to be kind to countries it embargos (such as Cuba and Iran). But when its not an enemy nation, the US tends to provide during time of great disaster, if able.
I wonder how many times a US carrier or other warships have shown up to provide aid in a disaster? How often the Americans have sent tons of food to those with massive sudden need? Not even getting around to money. How often to the Americans actually act when disaster strikes?
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2013-11-13, 05:33 | Link #31799 | |
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Edit: Dozens executed in North Korea 'for watching foreign films' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ign-films.html
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2013-11-13, 05:54 | Link #31800 |
Ava courtesy of patchy
Join Date: Jan 2009
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Well, to be fair, China did sent almost 9 million USD aid during Japan's 2011 earthquake, so it's not like they never send any aid(or only send little aid) to other country like what some of the poster here seems to imply. It might be that this case is special, or like Archmage said China is busy add the moment assesing their own damage and have to delay further aid until they've finished licking their own wound.
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