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I was clearing my email and comes across this, any comment ?? -----Inline Attachment Follows----- Was Sichuan earthquake caused by this mysterious plasma weapon? Terrible if true.Scary and fascinating. Those of you who have broadband, please do review the video cited below. China Sichuan Earthquake Man-made ? * Video* Added: May 29, 2008 Benjamin Fulford investigates a mysterious plasma weapon seen prior to the Niigata earthquake in July 2007 and Red, White & Blue HAARP lights near the epicenter prior to the recent quake in China. Taiwan satellites measured a 50% drop in ionospheric energy above the Sichuan epicenter on the day before the quake. Both earthquakes targeted nuclear military facilities
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http://www.sgcarmart.com/news/article.php?AID=1328
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http://news.hsw.cn/2008-07/15/content_10144614.htm hahah...really kns....this thing only happen in China. -
Just wanna share an encounter today at the Shell Petrol Station along Havelock Road. So there I was stopping over the station merely to replenish my carpark coupons. Walking past the Black SFF Ferrari, briefly admiring it. Then entered the outlet to get my coupons. There was a slight queue, but bearable. Then overheard a rather Chinese accented English speaking voice. Alas! A China (Ah Tiong) cashier working behind the counter. As he was the only cashier at the moment, the queue started to swell. And so I was behind this middle-aged gentlemen who owns the Ferrari. As his turn came, he wanted to check on his points if he could redeem in paying off his pending petrol bill. China FT (Ah Tiong) followed up his request, taking little while. When said cashier tried explaining (in heavily accented and broken English) to Ferrari owner the total of points plus redeemable dollars and so on and so forth, Ferrari owner got blurred. All Ferrari owner wants is to get the points to pay off the current petrol bill, and any balance, he will sign it off using his credit card. Unfortunately, the eager cashier tried further explaining to him his number of points and the total dollars redeemable. And when cashier noticed the frustration of Ferrari owner on his look, he resort to his native Mandrain. This was swiftly rebutted by the Ferrari owner giving the shrug with hands wide apart posture to show his lack of grip of the language. While all these were happening, Ferrari owner did turn back facing me apologetically to express his frustration as well as holding the queue. A pretty modest Ferrari owner. And when I look back, there was already a queue of about 7 or 8 behind me. In the end, Ferrari owner simply sign the credit card making full payment. Perhaps the redeem points can be save for another day. Well, the only salvation to this rather unfortunate event is that the China cashier is very service oriented - with all the pleasant greetings, 2 hands handling the card etc without losing his cool. -
The new ERP is confusing...can someone let me know if I need to pay ERP from Suntec to China Town after 5pm ? Thanks
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Dear ALL, Scheduled for project into Beijing mid-Jul'08 and had fired multiple emails to China Embassy in SG, but not receive reply till date. Anybody can advice on question in RED? Thanks in advance. Guidelines for your references : 1. Visa is required for ALL nationalities from 01 Jul. 2. Visa validity is ONE MONTH from the date of issue. Can we do multiple trips in and out within the period of ONE month? 3. Maximum duration of stay in china is ONE MONTH from the date of entry into China 4. Visa processing is for Normal 4 days and Urgent 2 days only. Procedural/Requirements: BUSINESS VISA 1.Application form 2. Recent Photo 3. Original approval from an authorised Government Office. (for business visa) What or Which is this
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I am on nobody side, after following cool cool's first thread on his A168 and his latest, to be fair to him, he was like fighting an army the size that out number him 100 to 1, this, my fellow MCFer's is a great forum to share our experience and to relax. Especially on his second thread about the china made 520, he was attacked from the very beginning. He tried to explain and defend himself till no avail and in vein, he type in words that are unpleasant to read to some. I really hope that the moderator did not kick him out as I felt he was just trying to share his experience and stories which some chose to believe and some not. He is proud of his ride and he tried to have some fun with it whether is it a one sided sprints or not and he felt good about it. Aren't most of us trying to make ourselves feel good everyday? Please moderators, think it's just too harsh to kick him out of this great Forum. This is my opinion, need not agree or disagree, thanks.
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Sad Memory For China http://www.mediafire.com/?1ztk3nmm2zo
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BEIJING (AFP) - - Staff at a bank in China's quake zone used relief funds to buy themselves US brand runners, the country's audit office said Friday after probing for instances of aid money going astray. A branch of ICBC, the biggest bank in China, in quake-hit Mianyang city bought 56 pairs of Nike runners for its workers, the audit office said in a statement posted on its website. The branch used 28,500 yuan (4,100 dollars) to buy the shoes at the end of May, and faked the receipts to say it had bought raincoats, rubber boots and umbrellas, the report said. "After the audit investigation revealed this problem, the bank returned the 'special earthquake funds' that were inappropriately used," the report said. Another investigation by the audit office revealed that in some areas, text messages about the quake were sent en masse, and were suspected of cheating mobile phone users into donating money into bank accounts, the report said. "According to our investigation, there are some people who already put earthquake donations into the fundraising accounts," the report said. Those accounts had been frozen, according to the audit office, which did not reveal how much money was involved. Misappropriation of funds allocated to help in the wake of the 8.0-magnitude earthquake -- which has killed nearly 70,000 and left another 17,500 missing -- is of huge concern in a country where graft is endemic. Corruption is rampant both in government ranks and throughout society, as the country ploughs through its development boom without a free press or an independent judiciary. President Hu Jintao has repeatedly warned that corruption is one of the biggest threats to the legitimacy of the ruling Communist Party. More than six billion dollars in aid from home and abroad has been donated for quake relief and the government has insisted it is doing all it can to ensure the money is spent in the correct manner. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New slogan for runner "U can't resist owning it". Back to topics, kudos for reporting and ensuring corruptions are minimised.
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http://www.asiaone.com/News/The%2BNew%2BPa...0530-67865.html Maybe the other guy was trying to catch some sleep and got woken up by the China FT.
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Reserved it NOW!! Selling like hot cakes! http://www.xxxxxxx.com/news/news.php?view=1&newsid=911 An ambitious project to built a production ready electric car by 2009. Officials from ZAP (Zero Air Pollution) and China Youngman Automotive Group announced their Joint Venture Company has initiated the RFQ (Request For Quotation) process for a vehicle project called the ZAP Alias. The Joint Venture Company targets the Alias to retail at a price of $30,000 in a two-passenger vehicle with a top-speed of over 100 miles per hour and a range of at least 150 miles per charge. The goal is to bring an affordable, highway capable electric vehicle to market quickly to capitalize on surging interest for electric car technologies. Reserve a ZAP Alias electric car through their website at www.zapworld.com and say good riddance to hefty petrol bills!
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hi bro, for those who own the OWA/Smart-i/blitzaudio DVD touchscreen LCD. (i think all are same OEM). can the Aux input at the back accept normal RCA cable ? i intend to hook up this ipod link, feasible ?
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Any idea where can I get something this in Singapore? I'm a value for money person. No need for Pioneer or Eclipse types.
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http://www.forbes.com/markets/2008/05/08/s...8markets04.html < Chinese workers are just one constituency in Singapore's fast-growing foreign population, but they are the largest component, having crossed the 1 million mark last October and helping boost the population to 4.68 million in an otherwise chronically aging society. Foreigners make up about one-third of the national workforce. >
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New disease outbreaks in China; 12K children infected By HENRY SANDERSON
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Coming to MY roads next month ! Cant believe it , its the most handsome MPV i have ever come across ! Made in CHINA.... OMG...And its going to be cheap.....
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In China at least the Director of Railway has to be accountable. Can The Director say he didnt have a hand in the driver speeding the train? Can he say he didnt lay the railway tracks? Can he say he didnt make the derailed coaches? At least someone other than the tea lady is held accountable here. Ok I know I know, lets move on, forgive and forget. If other people makes mistakes will they be so magnanimous and forgiving and forgetting? At least 70 people have been killed and 400 injured, many of them seriously, after two trains collided at dawn in eastern China, state media have said. A train travelling from Beijing to the summer resort of Qingdao derailed and hit the other, which was going from Yantai to Xuzhou. Nine coaches of the Qingdao-bound train toppled into a ditch after the crash, outside Zibo city in Shandong province. Just hours after the crash, an inquiry concluded it was caused by human error. Two senior railway officials have already been sacked, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. The crash is the second major railway incident in Shandong this year. In January, 18 people died near the city of Anqiu when a high-speed train from Beijing hit a group of track-maintenance workers. Rescue operation Monday's crash is the worst in China since 1997, when 126 people were killed when two trains collided in central Hunan province. It happened at 0443 local time (2043 GMT on Sunday) at a bend in the tracks in the suburbs of Zibo, about 70km (43 miles) east of the provincial capital Jinan. Both of the passenger trains are likely to have been operating at high speed at the time of the accident, railway workers said. It is not clear what caused the first train to derail and its carriages to topple into a ditch. The second was also derailed, but remained upright. Witnesses said many passengers climbed out of the wreckage and wrapped themselves in bed sheets from the sleeper cars to protect against the early morning chill. One passenger who escaped through a hole in a carriage with her 13-year-old daughter said she had been sleeping when the accident occurred. "I suddenly woke up when I felt the train stopped with a jolt. In a minute or two it started off again, but soon toppled," she told Xinhua. At least 70 of those injured in the crash were in a critical condition in hospital, Xinhua said. Four French nationals have been hospitalised with bone fractures. Dozens are receiving treatment at the Zhoucun village People's Hospital, one of several involved in the rescue work, it added. "Most are slight cases and more people are being sent in every hour," a hospital worker told Xinhua over the telephone. "Some of our medical workers have gone out for rescue work, too." Railways Minister Liu Zhijun has arrived at the scene to oversee the rescue effort, while Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang is also en route to assist, Xinhua said. The city government of Zibo has sent a 1,500-member team to help and console the victims' families, the state-run agency reported.
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MFA confirms new ruling for short stays; it is expected to be lifted after Olympics in August. -ST Lee Hui Chieh Tue, Apr 22, 2008 The Straits Times IT IS confirmed: Singaporeans travelling to China from July 1 will need a visa - even for stays lasting 15 days or less. This requirement is expected to be lifted after the Olympic Games, which Beijing is hosting from Aug 8 to 24. A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) here said that it was told of the visa requirement by the Chinese authorities yesterday. She said: 'We have been given the assurance that the visa requirement is a temporary measure. The visa-free travel facility for trips of 15 days or less will be reinstated after the Beijing Olympics.' However, Beijing did not specify exactly when this would happen, she added. The MFA's statement yesterday made official the latest change to China's visa rules, first reported in The Straits Times last Saturday. It follows a series of recent changes which have reportedly caused confusion and delays. For example, travellers going to China through Hong Kong were left stranded when the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong stopped granting them visas. The tightened rules are said to be in line with growing security concerns over the Olympics and the unrest in Tibet. Since 2003, citizens from Singapore, Brunei and Japan have been exempted from applying for visas for short stays of up to 15 days in China. The new rule, however, appears to apply only to Singapore, going by a page on the website of China's embassy in the United States, which was updated a week ago. Neither MFA nor the Chinese embassy here could confirm this. The 2003 move was aimed at boosting tourism and business travel to China - and it seems to have done just that. The number of Singaporeans going there has been increasing: In the first 11 months of last year, Singaporeans made over 812,000 visits to China, more than 11 per cent higher than for the same period in 2006. Travel agents last night said they did not foresee tourists cancelling their trips to the mainland largely because the agents will handle visa applications for their customers. Travellers who would experience the hassle of applying personally for their visas are the minority who buy their tickets online or from the airlines, said Ms Alicia Seah, vice-president of UOB Travel Planners. Getting a China visa usually takes four working days to a week. It is not clear yet whether the new rule will result in delays in getting visas here, but travel agents seem confident they will be able to cope. Ms Ivy Tan, Chan Brothers Travel's director of marketing communications, said her company has an entire department handling visa applications. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Business Times - 15 Apr 2008 China consumers urged to boycott French goods France may be first to feel backlash of Olympic protests (HONG KONG) Chinese consumers are being urged to boycott French products, as activists rally the world's most populous nation to retaliate against last week's disruption of the Olympic torch relay. Consumers are being asked to stop shopping at Carrefour SA, the largest French supermarket operator, and to stop buying luxury goods made by Christian Dior SA and LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, according to short messages circulated on cellular phones and Chinese Internet blog sites for a week. 'If you believe you still love your country, please don't shop at Carrefour' between May 8 and 24, one of the messages said in Chinese. 'Show them the power of the Chinese people. I hope you will mobilise your friends.' A return call to the cellular phone went unanswered. France may be the first country to feel the backlash in the world's fastest-growing major economy, after pro-Tibetan protesters on April 7 disrupted a relay of the Olympic torch through Paris, forcing the flame to be extinguished. Chinese consumers are also dismayed that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has refused to rule out a possible boycott of the Aug 8 Olympic opening ceremony in Beijing. China is facing international criticism for its crackdown in Tibet in response to last month's riots in the capital, Lhasa, and neighbouring provinces - the most serious protests in 20 years. The crackdown in Tibet and its links to the government of Sudan led protesters in London, Paris and San Francisco to seek to disrupt the flame's 137,000-km, 21-city tour. International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge called the protests a crisis, adding that the IOC had weathered bigger storms. He said that the 1972 Munich games, in which he was an athlete, were 'the biggest crisis ever' for the IOC. -- Bloomberg
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Hey bros out there....Am leaving for Shenzhen & Zhuhai this wednesday evening, tot of buying their local line to cut down on my mobile expenses. Anybody knws where i can buy China sim card? My frd bought his Thai line in Golden Mile for S$20 (300 bahts call time)Tks!
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Subprime holdings drag on 2 China banks Reuters Tuesday, March 25, 2008 HONG KONG: Two large banks - Industrial & Commercial Bank of China and Bank of China - posted higher fourth-quarter profits on Tuesday, buoyed by the country's surging economy. But the state lenders were hurt by holdings in subprime-related securities in the United States. Bank of China, hardest-hit among the country's big banks by subprime exposure, said it held $5 billion in asset-backed securities at the end of 2007, or 2.13 percent of its investment securities, and booked $1.58 billion in provisions and markdowns on the holdings. The lender said, however, that it believed that it had booked sufficient provisions and did not expect to incur further losses if it unloads its subprime-related holdings. Industrial & Commercial Bank said it held subprime-backed securities worth $1.23 billion at the end of December 2007 and booked $400 million as an allowance for potential losses on that portfolio. Both banks said they expect comparatively muted loan growth this year, while Bank of China said it planned to step up overseas acquisition activity following a year when mainland Chinese financial institutions made several landmark investments abroad. While the subprime damage incurred by both the two banks was broadly within expectations, one analyst said further losses are possible for Bank of China. "At first glance, the impairment losses that they took seem to be lower than what other banks in the region have taken," Hong Yang-myung, credit analyst with Lehman Brothers, said. "It is possible they could continue to book additional losses going forward." Bank of China lowered its subprime-related exposure from $7.95 billion in September after shedding its collateralized debt obligations and some of its asset-backed securities. JPMorgan said it expected Bank of China to book a $1 billion subprime provision for 2007 and a further $1.5 billion in 2008, while Bear Stearns had expected impairment losses totaling 21.5 billion yuan, or $3.05 billion, for 2007 and 2008. Bank of China, in which Royal Bank of Scotland is a large shareholder, posted fourth-quarter profit of 10.78 billion yuan, up 3.9 percent from 10.37 billion yuan a year earlier and topping forecasts for profit of about 8 billion yuan, according to analysts polled Reuters Estimates. Its overseas flagship, Bank of China (Hong Kong), said it reduced its exposure to American subprime asset-backed securities to 4.1 billion Hong Kong dollars, or $526 million, at the end of 2007 from 12.8 billion Hong Kong dollars at the end of June. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China posted a 63 percent rise in fourth-quarter earnings, beating expectations, to about 18 billion yuan from 11 billion yuan a year earlier.
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Watching Channel 8 show right now. We are going to have FT Bus drivers from China. What are your opinions?
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Hi, With China moving up in the global automobile industry, it's only a matter of time we will see China-made sports cars on the roads here. So, which one do you fancy?
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To DK, can your car do this or can you drive like that? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaV4ERZkWOQ Enjoy!
