The 6-foot-5-inches, 195 pounds, the 21-year-old Jamaican, Usain Bolt, is the new world’s fastest man. Bolt aka “Lightning”, ran 9.69 seconds, beating his own record of 9.72sec set in New York on May 31 this year.

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The Chinese have (re) introduced the age-old concept of ‘realpolitik’…, given it a new twist - and are reaping a bountiful harvest of assets, primary commodities and regional, geopolitical power…
Some might say, simply a new Emperor(they’d like that!) in new(-ish) clothes…
The Africans, for their part, will gain a greater largesse, wealth of (potential) infrastructure, development [...]

China’s need for raw minerals to fuel its growth, has embraced the Africa continent on a new wave of “business relations” which has angered the West. This month marks the beginning of more than 2,000 miles of road constructions by China in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This is a £4.5 billion deal signed by [...]

As everyone knows, news from China is not really being broadcasted around the world in real time.
From a direct source from Beijing I found out something rather…surprising. Since the Beijing Olympic Games are about to start, the local government decided to organize police raids to arrest the drug dealers selling cocaine and heroin in [...]

Fast Company has a six-part series on China’s incursion into Africa. Excerpt:
While America is preoccupied with the war in Iraq (cost: half a trillion dollars and counting), and while think-tank economists continue to spit out papers debating whether vital resources are running out at all, China’s leadership isn’t taking any chances. In just a [...]