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China issues white paper on promoting rule of law

Friday, February 29th, 2008
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China issues white paper on promoting rule of law

BEIJING - A White Paper on “China’s Efforts and Achievements in Promoting the Rule of Law” was issued on Thursday by the Information Office of the State Council, the cabinet.  The paper, consisting of a foreword, eight statements, a conclusion and an appendix, covers such topics as the historical course of building a socialist country under the rule of law, legislation and a legal system with Chinese characteristics, legal systems to respect and safeguard human rights, and other social and economic issues.

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Asian Muslims swarm home to mark end of Ramadan

Friday, October 12th, 2007
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Asian Muslims swarm home to mark end of Ramadan

KUALA LUMPUR — Millions of Muslims in Indonesia and Malaysia headed for their home towns on Friday to mark the end of Islam’s holiest month in Southeast Asia’s biggest human migration.  Escaping their adopted cities, they took buses, trains, boats and planes to maintain the age-old tradition of spending Eid al-Fitr holiday with family at home.

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Top 5 reasons for governments to keep UFOs in secret - Pravda.Ru

Saturday, September 15th, 2007
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Top 5 reasons for governments to keep UFOs in secret - Pravda.Ru

Stanton Friedman, a physicist who once worked for such giants as Westinghouse and General Electric, has devoted much of his adult life to ferreting out clues in the UFO controversy.  Pitching his case before more than 600 campus audiences, Friedman concludes that alien aircraft have been around for decades and that governments have tried to keep an airtight lid on them.  He has five reasons for a massive and sustained cover-up that he labels “the cosmic Watergate.”

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