Leaks Reveal Secrets of the Rich Who Hide Cash Offshore

http://economicrisis.com/leaks-reveal-secrets-of-the-rich-who-hide-cash-offshore/4045 Leaks Reveal Secrets of the Rich Who Hide Cash Offshore The British Virgin Islands, the world leading offshore haven used by an array of government officials and rich families to hide...

US Dept. of Homeland Security to seize $1m Auctioned Dinosaur

A New York court has issued a warrant forcing an auction house to return the fossil to modern-day Mongolia, where it was discovered about seven years ago.The dinosaur was sold at auction in New York last month by...

Mongolia Looks to Become Asian IT Leader

A Mongolian information technology company founded by a woman has shown a way to thrive in the country’s often-chaotic economic environment. With the global economic crisis moving into its third year, ...

Beijing Hit With Sandstorm from the Gobi Desert

A strong weather disturbance in Western China has hit Beijing with a huge sandstorm from the Gobi Desert.  While Beijing suffers periodically from sand blown from the nearby desert, this is the most intense...

Canada and India break 34 years of nuclear jinx

Canada, world's largest producer of uranium, has now become the eighth country which has reached a civil nuclear agreement with India, since the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) lifted a...

Largest herd of gazelles sighted in Mongolia

" A mega-herd of a quarter of a million Mongolian gazelles has been seen gathering on the country's steppes, one of the world's last great wildernesses. The coming together on the grassy plains is the largest ever recorded. The biologists who saw it estimate it contained...

World's largest herd of Mongolian gazelles sighted

The world's largest herd of Mongolian gazelles has been sighted in Mongolia, and is the largest event like this ever recorded. It was estimated by watching scientists that there were about a quarter of a million of all the gazelles on the earth in this one herd. ""It was...

Beijing and the Dalai Lama: Machiavellian Strategy or Driving Off a Cliff?

"Beijing is apparently ignoring the Dalai Lama's comments about giving up on making a breakthrough and Chinese officials said yesterday that the next round of talks between the two sides would go ahead as planned. This is in accordance with their apparent long-term game plan,...

World's tallest man becomes world's tallest dad

" The world's tallest man, China's Bao Xishun, became the world's tallest father this week with the birth of his first child, a boy whose initial height seems a compromise between his gigantic dad and...

China's spacewalk astronauts return as heroes

"   By Emma Graham-Harrison BEIJING (Reuters) - Three Chinese astronauts landed safely back on earth on Sunday after a 68-hour voyage and space walk that showcased the country's technological mastery and were hailed as a major victory by...

Researcher finds 2.5 feet dino in world of giants

    This is very intresting discovery from the world the dino.A Canadian researcher has discovered what is believed to be North America's smallest dinosaur, a 70-million-year-old chicken-sized beast that was...

China to launch third manned space flight in September

After achieving technological feat in many sectors China has earmarked into space technology in a very big way. China has successfully sent unmanned as well unmaneed space flight. They have successfully launched...

Name Change for the Philippines

Can we really change a country's name in this times of globalization? Is it really high time for the Philippines to change name? What do you think? "If Ceylon could be changed to Sri Lanka, Mongolia to Ulan Bator, Siam to Thailand, Leningrad to St. Petersburg, Peking to...

The Most Successful Countries at the Olympics: Georgia and North Korea?

A new report has analyzed the medal count of every country in the Beijing Olympics in relation to its size, wealth and human rights record. The leaders of this alternate medal table may be surprising.  ...

Mongolian judo athlete wins first gold medal ever for his country

As we are still waiting for Canadian athletes to score some medals and hum “O Canada” on a pedestal in Beijing, other nations are already in double digits as far as their medal tally goes. And, while China, US...

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