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(STRANGE) China Scientists Report UFO…
(Newser Summary) – Chinese scientists have reported filming a UFO for 40 minutes during the solar eclipse in July, reports the Telegraph. Researchers from the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing said they will study the footage for a full year before they issue any conclusions. Scientists “discovered near the sun an unidentified object,” said the director of the observatory. “Its physical nature remains to be further studied.”
Researchers will “deal with this data, complete the data analysis, and reveal the scientific findings,” said the director. The report follows a series of UFO sightings in China, including one filmed the day of the solar eclipse by students in Deqing in Guandong Province, which shows a glowing object that changes shape.
Source: Daily Telegraph (UK)
(FOREIGN POLITICS) READ: Gadhafi to Urge UN to Abolish Switzerland…
(Newser Summary) – Moammar Gadhafi plans to urge the United Nations to wipe Switzerland off the map when he visits New York later this month, the New York Daily News reports. The Libyan leader—as part of a vendetta against the Alpine nation that began when his son Hannibal was busted for beating up his servants in a Geneva hotel—will ask the UN to abolish the country and divide its land up between Italy, France, and Germany, Swiss lawmakers say.
Source: New York Daily News
(SHOCKING) List of American Corporations With Jobs Overseas (outsourcing)…
Source: CNN
Aetna
Affiliated Computer Services
AFS Technologies
A.G. Edwards
Agere Systems
Agilent Technologies
AIG
Alamo Rent A Car
Albany International Corp.
Albertson’s
Alcoa
Alcoa Fujikura
Allen Systems Group
Alliance Semiconductor
Allstate
Alpha Thought Global
Altria Group
Amazon.com
AMD
Americ Disc
American Dawn
American Express
American Greetings
American Household
American Management Systems
American Standard
American Uniform Company
AMETEK
AMI DODUCO
Amloid Corporation
Amphenol Corporation
Analog Devices
Anchor Glass Container
ANDA Networks
Anderson Electrical Products
Andrew Corporation
Anheuser-Busch
Angelica Corporation
Ansell Health Care
Ansell Protective Products
Anvil Knitwear
AOL
A.O. Smith
Apple
(SHOCKING) READ: Will Boeing move to Beijing?…
Source: DailyFinance
Boeing (BA) CEO Jim McNerney is eager to move the company to China. Whether moving Boeing to China means shifting its headquarters from Chicago to Beijing is up in the air. But Boeing already has $600 million in supplier partnerships with China — such as a deal with Shenyang Aircraft Corporation to build an assembly for the 787’s vertical fin. And Stan Sorscher, who spent 20 years at Boeing before taking a post at the Society of Professional Engineers in Aerospace (SPEEA) in 2000, told me that McNerney is hooked on the idea of shifting Boeing to China.
Sorscher told me that McNerney recently hosted a meeting with a group of engineers to discuss how Boeing should build its next aircraft. The conclusion of the meeting was that McNerney is comfortable with the way the 787 was developed but thinks it could use a bit of tweaking — and he’d like to shift more of the design and manufacturing of future Boeing aircraft to China.
This would leave Boeing as a systems integrator which outsources product development to China and other countries. According to Sorscher, the engineers were very nervous in their presentation — perhaps fearing that they would be punished for bringing McNerney the bad news that they believed Boeing should never repeat what it has done in the design and manufacturing of the 787. The engineers reportedly believe that in the future Boeing should take far greater authority and responsibility for aircraft design. Read More
(WORLD) READ: Travel Back to Normal in Koreas…
(Newser Summary) – Travel between North and South Korea returned to normal today, eight months after Pyongyang clamped down on imports from the South. It’s the latest sign of warming ties between the two Koreas, following a recent deal on reuniting separating families and the fight high-level diplomatic talks in two years. Negotiations last month between North Korea and South Korean automaker Hyundai led to the changes, reports CNN.
Source: CNN
(POLITICAL) READ: Japanese election ends half a century of rule by conservative party…
Source: Newsrunner
TOKYO — Japan’s opposition swept to a historic victory in elections Sunday, crushing the ruling conservative party that has run the country for most of the postwar era and assuming the daunting task of pulling the economy out of its worst slump since World War II.
A grim-looking Prime Minister Taro Aso conceded defeat just a couple hours after polls had closed, suggesting he would quit as president of the Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan for all but 11 months since 1955.
“The results are very severe,” Aso said. “There has been a deep dissatisfaction with our party.”
Unemployment and deflation — and an aging, shrinking population — have left families fearful of what the future holds.
Fed up with the LDP, voters turned overwhelmingly to the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, which ran a populist-leaning platform with plans for cash handouts to families with children and expanding the social safety net. Read More
(READ): Colonel Gaddafi party to outshine the Beijing Olympics…
Source: Telegraph.co.uk
Libya is planning a celebrations on the scale of the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the coup that brought Colonel Gaddafi to power.
If anything, the superlatives will be even greater as Beijing 2008 did not boast the world’s largest tent, 1,000 camels, Toureg nomads or 40 hot air balloons.
Performers are being flown in from all over the planet, from dancers and fireworks specialists to a brass band from Wales.
The giant tent, and the stage within it, longer than a football pitch, are being built by a British special events company, Atlantic Enterprise.
The director is a Frenchman and the party is being put together by a public relations company run by the British government’s one-time favourite ad-man.
“Everything is bespoke for this event,” said Atlantic’s managing director, Shane McCarthy. “Nothing like this has ever been done before.”
Organisers are expecting 300,000 Libyans to watch the show being put on next Tuesday to mark the anniversary live, with more on television.
After congregating in Libya’s capital Tripoli, newly whitewashed and decorated with Gaddafi posters, hundreds of VIP guests will enjoy an evening buffet.
They will then be escorted into a smaller version of the open Bedouin tent, 130 yards by 45 yards, by 27 yards tall, in which the pageant will take place. Once they are joined by Col Gaddafi himself, the show will begin. Read More
(READ): California Garage Sale: State Holds Giant Garage Sale To Raise Funds…
Source: The Huffington Post/AP
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is hoping that the “Great California Garage Sale” will turn government clutter like surplus prison uniforms and office furniture into cash to bulk up the state’s depleted finances.
On offer as the state clears out clutter are nearly 600 state-owned vehicles and thousands of pieces of office furniture, computers, electronics, jewelry, pianos, even a surf board, a food saver and an Xbox 360 gaming system.
State officials estimate the giant two-day yard sale being held at a state warehouse will bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars. In addition to clearing out office products, the state is also selling unclaimed property from state parks and items confiscated by law enforcement, said California Department of General Services spokesman Eric Lamoureux.
The prison department contributed dental chairs and surplus prison shirts and jeans.
“This is a win-win for the state and for shoppers,” Schwarzenegger said in a statement Tuesday announcing that a selection of items also would be sold on eBay and Craigslist. “Together we are eliminating waste and providing great deals in this tough economy.” Read More
(READ): South Korea’s £245m Satellite ‘Burns Up’…
Source: Sky News
The nation had invested more than 500 billion won (£245.3m) into the failed project.
But Seoul has vowed to press on with its drive to become a space technology leader, despite the setback caused by defective fairing covering the satellite.
South Korea’s technology ministry said one of the two aerodynamic fairings covering the rocket’s tip failed to fall away, after opening in preparation for the satellite’s release.
It fell to Earth and was probably destroyed as it re-entered the atmosphere.
Deputy science minister Kim Jung-Hyun
The extra weight prevented the rocket from achieving enough thrust to place the satellite in orbit.
(READ): Teen Lotto Winner Faces Bankruptcy…
Source: Newser.com
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Newser Summary) – Callie Rogers was once the UK’s second-youngest lottery winner, coming into more than $3 million in 2003 at the age of sixteen. Now at 22, she’s attempted suicide twice, drives a secondhand car, and works three jobs to avoid bankruptcy, the Mail reports. Rogers—who has two children with a criminal—told a friend, “’My life is a shambles and hopefully now it has all gone I can find some happiness.”
(READ): Coming Home: Appliance Maker Drops China to Produce in Texas…
Source: The Wall Street Journal.
ASIA NEWS AUGUST 24, 2009
By TIMOTHY AEPPEL
HOUSTON — Farouk Shami, a Palestinian-born hairdresser who built a $1 billion manufacturing company around a popular line of hair irons, is moving all of his production of hand-held appliances from China to a sprawling new factory here.
"We’ll make more money this way — because we’ll have better quality and a better image," says the 66-year-old, who says his company, Farouk Systems Inc., spends about $500,000 a month fighting counterfeits, most of which he says originate in China. The company collects the fake products and tracks the source, and then brings action in China to shut down illegal producers.
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"I think you’re starting to see more manufacturers rethinking outsourcing," says Daniel Meckstroth, an economist at the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI, a public policy and research group based in Arlington, Va., calling a June speech by General Electric Co. CEO Jeffrey Immelt, where he said that overseas outsourcing had gone too far and that U.S. companies needed to expand domestic production, a "bellwether of what’s happening in manufacturing."
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The move is creating jobs in Houston at a time when factory jobs are evaporating in most places. On a recent afternoon, job applicants sat in the lobby of a cavernous new factory, hoping to be one of 30 people hired daily. The company expects to have 1,200 workers when the factory is at full speed in December.
Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125107636394652753.html
(WORLD) READ:Could East Africa become an outsourcing hub?…
Source: Globalpost
The arrival of broadband in Tanzania presents dazzling business possibilities.
Updated: August 18, 2009 11:18 ET
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — Ramadhan Mubarak shook his head as he gestured to his six forlorn PCs.
“I believe that many people want to use the internet,” he said. “But most Tanzanians are poor, so they can’t manage the cost.”
Mubarak owns two of the handful of internet cafes in downtown Dar es Salaam, and he can barely cover his overhead of $1,500 a month. Like many people here, he’s hoping that will soon change: East Africa’s new fiber-optic cable has been laid across the Indian Ocean and made landfall here on July 23. When it goes into use in late August, it is likely to dramatically reduce costs and improve connectivity speed.
The cable, which is a two-year, $650 million project of the private venture Seacom, connects East and Southern Africa to India and Europe and will end the dependence of Tanzania’s internet on satellites. Even accounting for exaggeration — some boosters have promised it will improve education and healthcare and curb corruption — pretty much everyone who uses the internet here agrees that fiber-optic connectivity is nothing short of a revolution. Read More
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