Posts from — May 2008

Source: Reuters By Lindsay Beck MIANYANG, China, May 31 (Reuters) - Rich and Happy Mountain is teeming with people but China’s earthquake survivors are feeling neither prosperous nor joyful. The hillside park on …

Rich and Happy Mountain is teeming with people but China’s earthquake survivors are feeling neither prosperous nor joyful.

By Lindsay Beck

CHINESE food is served on all seven continents, even Antarctica, where Monday is usually Chinese food night at McMurdo Station, the main American scientific outpost on the icy continent.

A Chinese police car had been tipped onto its side by an angry crowd. TV footage showed its lights still blinking. It was the most striking example of anger directed at allegedly corrupt officials after this month’s earthquake in China, where the authoritarian government usually keeps tight control of society and quickly suppresses dissent.

The scale of China’s earthquake disaster, which officials say could have a death toll of more than 80,000 with 5 million homeless, has given people more room than normal to express their frustrations.

A Chinese police car had been tipped onto its side by an angry crowd.

A Chinese police car had been tipped onto its side by an angry crowd.

A Chinese police car had been tipped onto its side by an angry crowd. TV footage showed its lights still blinking.

A Chinese police car had been tipped onto its side by an angry crowd. TV footage showed its lights still blinking.

Thu, May 29, 2008 (1:57 a.m.) A Chinese police car had been tipped onto its side by an angry crowd. TV footage showed its lights still blinking.

A Chinese police car had been tipped onto its side by an angry crowd.

Street Paint workshop this weekend TEMECULA —- Workshops to help artists with tricks and tips to painting murals on asphalt will be held from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday and June 21 at the Farmers Market in Old Town.

Paradise Valley Community Center isn’t your granny’s senior center. Well, actually, it is.

Paradise Valley Community Center isn’t your granny’s senior center. Well, actually, it is.

Ambrosia recently announced the re-release of Aki Mahjong Solitaire 1.2 as a Universal Binary application, allowing users to play the tile-based game natively on Intel Macs. The new version also introduces the company’s revamped registration system, as well as several improvements to the interface, gameplay, and several bug fixes. Ambrosia is selli…

Both the stable and unstable GNOME branches have been updated today; both GNOME 2.18.3 ( “This is the final release in a series of point releases for the stable 2.18 branch.”

MANILA, Philippines - Chiquito counted the seconds until the noon bell that signaled lunch break would ring.

Finding a place to begin a life and build one’s family is never easy. This is what Verdana Homes Mamplasan tries to solve. It offers a place suitable for the family person with a fast-paced and active lifestyle.

City and county computers are loaded with software to write proposals, manage finances and apparently conquer all of civilization.