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Hall in preparation Huang Lihai hands over the prize statuette Reading one of three poems 5 November 23:15 in Guangzhou. Received my Poetry and People award tonight. What a ceremony, Chinese style! Red carpet, glamorous hostess, photographs of me...

A rare day when Fukushima rates only a tangential headline. But never fear, things are at a rolling boil in lots of other venues. . . We begin with a hint of things to come from Want China Times: US dollar era could end: Nobel laureate Thomas Sargent...

1.    Which country officially became the 123rd member of the International Criminal Court (ICC)? Palestine. 2.    Which dam has broken the world record for annual hydroelectric power production, more than a decade after it became the world's largest...

Visual Arts Highlights Seattle ARTRESOURCE Gallery presents a mini-retrospective of the late Northwest painter Frank Okada from Dec. 4th – Jan. 25th. Okada’s work is should be better known, his mastery of brush and color tonalities is unmatched but...

INTERNATIONAL Bangladesh Court Disqualifies Jamaat-e-Islami Party On 1 August a Bangladesh court has disqualified the country’s largest Islamic party from taking part in the next general election.The High Court panel ruled that the opposition...