ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 23 2006 | bbc, service, World
Good BBC overview of the "cheery coup".
Quoted: Well, they didn't just tolerate it, they welcomed it with open arms. Mr Thaksin was the most popular political leader in recent Thai history, the first to win an outright majority in parliament. And yet the troops who had forced him out were cheered and festooned with flowers. What on earth was going on?
- ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 30 2008 | china, bbc, world
Quoted: Police in China have discovered a factory taking orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 25 2008 | africa, bbc, news
Quoted: Ancient humans started down the path of evolving into two separate species before coming back, a study says.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 23 2007 | internet, bbc, world
the internets made me do it
Quoted: An Australian farmer kidnapped in Mali after falling for an internet scam tells the BBC about his ordeal.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 20 2006 | bbc, news, africa, somalia
Uh oh.
Quoted: Fighting breaks out close to the Somali interim government base in Baidoa, during an EU envoy's peace mission.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 09 2006 | news, bbc, mars rover
Crater California.
Quoted: The chief scientist on Nasa's Mars rover mission contemplates whether to send Opportunity into a crater with no escape route.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 02 2006 | events, turkey, armenia, genocide, bbc
redotting to read later. genocide and guilt, always interesting topics. which is why cambodia, rwanda, and to some extent south africa, are so fascinating.
Quoted: BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell talks to Armenians in Turkey and asks why 90-year-old massacres are still such a sensitive subject.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 15 2006 | bbc, computers, nigeria, oops, World
Wonderful... fail to clear out your old computer and it ends up in Nigeria where of course they scrape it for financial information.
Classic.
Quoted: The bank details of Britons are being accessed from old PCs sent to Nigeria, the BBC's Real Story programme discovers.
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