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...global financial crisis: dramatically slower economic growth. The surprising speed at which Asia's economies are decelerating was made clear in China's third quarter GDP figures, released Monday. At 9% growth, China experienced its slowest quarter since 2003. The State Council over the weekend issued a policy statement in which the government promised to provide economic support through greater infrastructure spending, and by offering tax breaks to help small companies and the sagging property market. As the global financial crisis unfolds, the role Asian governments play in the regional economy will likely continue to grow...
...happen." The confusion over the charge deepened still further on Thursday, Oct. 16, when a new charge surfaced in the Czech media that the informant was not Kundera at all but a friend named Miroslav Dlask, now deceased. A Czech literary historian, Zdenek Pesat, 80, released a written statement claiming that Dlask told him he informed the police about the whereabouts of Dvoracek. Reached by telephone, Hana Pesatova, the wife of Pesat (who is on a respirator and unable to talk) told TIME that her husband "remembers this clearly. Kundera was not involved. Dlask sought my husband out and told...
...Before speeding away from the venue in his motorcade, Mugabe told journalists outside then venue,"It went well - in the wrong direction." He promised a full statement later...
...have supported the Art Museum over the years in recognition of Harvard’s unparalleled role in the development of professionals in the arts worldwide and because of our belief that the arts are a cornerstone in learning and education in all fields," Pulitzer said in a statement...
...burgeoning Sino-Pakistani alliance may check what many in Islamabad and Beijing fear to be a solidifying Indo-U.S. consensus in the region. Though no official statement from either government was made, Pakistan's ambassador to Beijing, Masood Khan, told The Nation, a Pakistani daily, that obtaining nuclear reactors and fuel for civilian nuclear technology would be the "main item" in talks with Beijing this week. Apart from being Pakistan's main conventional arms supplier, China has played an integral part in building Pakistan's nuclear weapons industry. In turn, Islamabad allowed the Chinese to build a deep...