First Batched of EMB-134 Super Tucano Arrived
About half of a year the purchase contract signed between Indonesia government with Brazillian aircraft manufacture, Embraer to order for 16 of turbobrop trainner, EMB-134 Super Tucano. The first 4 aircraft has landed at Halim PErdana Kusuma AFB, Jakarta on saturday afternoon September, 1st. EMB-134 will replace the aging Rockwell made trainer aircraft, OV-10 F [...]
Where’s ‘Waldo’? The Internet and the Mysterious Case of the Missing Vice President of China
Vice President Xi Jingping, the man presumed to be China’s next president, is missing. He has not been seen since the first of September when he addressed the Central Party School in Beijing. Planned meetings with Hillary Clinton and the prime ministers of Singapore and Denmark have been canceled. The absence has aroused such interest [...]
China and the Growth of Global Wind Power
China is now the global leader in the rapidly growing wind energy sector. The International Wind Energy Development (IWED) report predicts that the wind power market, is expected to grow from $96.4 billion in 2011 to $161.2 billion in 2015. By 2020, wind power expected to supply almost 10 percent (9.1 percent) of the world’s [...]
Vietnam: Immediately release of 17 Vietnamese social activists and bloggers and the withdrawal of all charges
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Socialist Republic of Vietnam Re: Vietnam: Immediately release of 17 Vietnamese social activists and bloggers and the withdrawal of all charges Dear Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, I am William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com. I have been informed by Human Rights watch regarding seventeen Vietnamese social activists, [...]
From Mao suits to Polo Shirts
Recently, while reading an unofficial report on the proceedings of the trial of Gu Kailai, I noticed something that has long fascinated me about modern China. Those following the news may have seen that Gu, the wife of fallen Communist chief Bo Xilai, has just received a suspended death sentence for poisoning a British businessman. [...]
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