Graphic testimony heard in Va. beheading case
Posted by admin / Under Zhu Zhu HamsterCHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) SNIPPET: "Each time he looked up, Cox said, Zhu was on top of Yang, who was on the floor. Zhu stared at Yang's face as he cut through her neck, Cox said. "It wasn't really an angry face at all," said Cox, at that point the only witness to the gruesome events. "It was just a really blank, determined look." By the time police arrived, Zhu was holding the woman's head in his hand, an officer testified."
Shock from killing ripples through Tech
Posted by admin / Under Zhu Zhu HamsterBLACKSBURG -- Virginia Tech police on Thursday released gruesome details of a killing in a campus cafe, as students wondered why a campus that went two decades without a murder before the April 16, 2007, shootings has become the site of so much tragedy. When police arrived Wednesday night at Au Bon Pain inside the Virginia Tech Graduate Life Center, they found a decapitated female victim who had arrived on campus just two weeks ago and a young man they have now charged with killing her. The events have shocked a campus still coping with the 2007 shootings of 32...
Virginia Tech releases gruesome details of student's on-campus murder(Decapitation)
Posted by admin / Under Zhu Zhu HamsterWhen Virginia Tech authorities arrived Wednesday night at a cafe inside the Graduate Life Center, they found a decapitated female victim who had arrived on campus just two weeks ago and a young man they have now charged with killing her.
Breaking: Murder on Virginia Tech Campus, Students advised to stay where they are.
Posted by admin / Under Zhu Zhu HamsterNo details yet. Alert sent to all students: VT Police have confirmed a murder in the Graduate Life Center. A suspect is in custody. Stay where you are and stay vigilant. Stay away for GLC. 8:16pm
WSJ: Market Comrades - We need economic dialogue with China -- now.
Posted by admin / Under Zhu Zhu Hamster...[S]ome U.S. political leaders claimed a victory in the campaign to blame Chinese "market manipulation" for external imbalances facing the U.S..... The inherent conflicts in the phrase ("socialist market economic system," and "market supply and demand" with capital controls and a managed float) highlight both the central economic challenges facing China and the need for a comprehensive U.S. economic policy toward China. On the one hand, China's hesitancy to give up its currency stability is understandable. Currency stability contributed to confidence by foreign investors to build capacity in China and stimulated an export-led surge.... On the other hand, the currency...
WSJ: General Zhu Goes Ballistic - Threats of nuclear annihilation won't better U.S.-China relations
Posted by admin / Under Zhu Zhu Hamster...The first ramifications of Gen. Zhu's comments are... being felt.... A self-professed "warmonger," the general has often previously warned of a nuclear war over Taiwan.... That doesn't mean his comments reflect Chinese military strategy. Beijing doesn't have enough nuclear warheads to target hundreds of American cities, and more senior figures in the PLA presumably realize that attacking even one would mean the end of Communist rule as well as most of China. Nor is Gen. Zhu an influential policy maker -- as dean of international fellows at China's National Defense University his main job is running exchange programs for visiting...
Jiang's struggle to retain supremacy divides party
Posted by admin / Under Zhu Zhu HamsterAn orchestrated campaign to have China's president keep most of his influential posts is being played out in the media, and it's not yet clear if he can succeed By Hsia Wen-szu ®L¤å«ä Jiang Zemin (¦¿¿A¥Á) is needed for political stability," read the cover headline of the March issue of Hong Kong's leftist magazine The Mirror (Ãè³ø). The article said, "That Jiang will serve another term as the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) secretary-general ... is a consensus among Chinese people and within the party," and "Jiang's taking the nation's helm is good news for the Chinese people." This is the...



