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...willing, he shall bring the world an era of calm and peace," said Akram, a 52-year-old cleaner...
...highest-ranking Chinese envoy to visit Taiwan in 60 years landed in Taipei this week, ringing in a new era of cross-strait relations with unprecedented trade and transport agreements. It is the first time that a top Chinese official has come to Taiwan, the island off mainland China that claims autonomy, and China claims as its own. Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou, who met with the high-ranking Beijing diplomat, has advocated closer economic ties with China and a more pragmatic approach to its sovereignty dispute...
...era of diplomacy will be put to the test soon enough, as Taiwan continues to push for participation in international organizations, such as at the next World Health Organization meeting next May. Taiwan has sought participation in WHO and the United Nations in the past, but has routinely been blocked by Beijing. If China wants this chumminess to go its way, it would be wise, says Lin, to reconsider that stance, too. With a growing opposition movement in Taiwan, he says, "If Beijing does not make any flexible adjustment, it's bad news for Ma, and for cross-strait relations...
...taken advertisers away from magazines, but their search capacity is so extraordinary that you can just find things so easily.”In an age when physical newspapers are getting too costly and nearly any story is available at the click of a mouse, it seems that the era of smudgy newsprint might be coming dangerously close to extinction. Allon has his own optimistic suggestion for those suffering from the changes in the market. “People who have been involved with print models will have to come up with other creative multimedia ways to expand businesses...
Fawkes' henchmen were zealous Catholics who believed that by beheading the government, they might usher in a new era of Catholicism in Protestant England. Led by Catesby, they hatched a plan to explode gunpowder under Parliament during a state opening, when King James I, his queen, and other family members and government leaders were inside. The plot was set for Nov. 5, 1605, and in the preceding days, the conspirators rented a cellar underneath the building, where Fawkes stashed at least 20 barrels of gunpowder...