Oct 12th, 2009 - Washington Post
Related topics:
HONG KONG -- Family and lawyers of an exiled leader in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests pressed for his release Monday, nearly a year after he was sent to a mainland Chinese jail while trying to return to his homeland.
Zhou Yongjun, a permanent U.S. resident on track to become a naturalized citizen, was trying to enter Hong Kong in September last year when he was stopped by local officials and handed over to mainland Chinese authorities.
Related stories:
Liz Cheney forms group to take on Obama's foreign policy
Oct 13th, 2009 - CNN
(CNN) -- Months after her father's prolonged campaign against President Obama's national security policies, Liz Cheney is spearheading a new organization aimed at organizing conservative opposition to the new administration's foreign policy approach.U.S. sends Guantanamo detainee home to Kuwait
Oct 8th, 2009 - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration has sent a Kuwaiti detainee, Khaled Al Mutairi, from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, back to his home country...
Senate passes Pentagon budget, war funding
Oct 6th, 2009 - MSNBC
WASHINGTON - As President Barack Obama weighs major shifts in strategy in the deteriorating mission in Afghanistan, the Senate on Tuesday passed a bill bringing total U.S...
Lawmakers oppose transfer of Guantanamo detainees to US
Oct 1st, 2009 - The Raw Story
The US House of Representatives voted Thursday to prevent the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United States, creating another potential obstacle to President Barack Obama's plan to close the facility. The measure...
Related videos from YouTube:
2:31Volunteer Abroad China Yantai Teaching English www.abroaderview.org
history place it among the worlds greatest travel destinations. The Great Wall, Xians Terracotta Army, the Forbidden Palace and Tiananmen Square: the very names ring of history and legend. The Shandong province, where are volunteer projects are based ...
1:59China begins three-day mourning
days of national mourning for the tens of thousands of people killed in the 8.0 earthquake in southwest China's Sichuan Province on May 12th. Earlier on Monday at 4:58 am the national flag at Tian'anmen Square in downtown Beijing ...
6:17Truthers, constitutionalists... could this be us? Tea Party protesters? This is our future!
down your face When you lose something you can't replace When you love someone but it goes to waste Could it be worse? Lights will guide you home And ignite your bones And I will try to fix you And high up above or down below ...
6:10Summer Olympics Open With A Bang In Beijing 2008
Fireworks, a Chinese invention, were set off in great waves, from within the Bird's Nest and from as far away as Tiananmen Square, several miles to the south. Country by country, athletes strolled around the stadium in hot, hazy weather ...
