As US President Barack Obama gets ready to meet the Dalai Lama later today, news comes that China has been vigorously selling US government debt.
China dumped $US34.2 billion of Treasuries Dec 2009, its fastest rate of selling in a decade. At the end of 2009, China’s holdings of US government debt stood at $US755.4 billion. This [...]

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Another earthquake is threatening to hit Haiti with possibly more force than the massive quake that levelled Port-au-Prince, seismologists say.
Aftershocks have already rattled the impoverished Caribbean nation in the days following the January 12 quake that killed over 110,000 people, left nearly 610,000 homeless and injured scores more.
On Wednesday, a magnitude 5.9 quake struck people [...]

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CNN’s Anderson Cooper takes a look at the growing number of children who were left orphaned after the quake.

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Amid the destruction in Port-Au-Prince, there are signs of life returning to normal. CNN’s Jason Carroll reports.

We face many pressing challenges from Climate Change – Global Warming – Over consumption of finite resources. Other events beyond our control such as this are a stark reminder how fragile our planet and our place on it is.

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Danny Glover is an acclaimed actor, director, producer and longtime friend of Haiti. His directorial debut, Toussaint, focused on the life of François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, a former slave who became one of the fathers of Haiti’s independence from France in 1804. [includes rush transcript]

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