| Vietnam to consume more motorbikes in 2007
HANOI, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam is estimated to consume 2.5 million motorbikes this year, up from 2.2 million units last year, a local industry association said Monday. Foreign-invested motorbike firms in the country, Honda Vietnam, Yamaha Vietnam, Suzuki Vietnam and SYM, recorde d total domestic sales of 174,000 motorbikes in January and 128,000 units in February, posting respective year-on-year rises of 29 percent and 28 percent, according to the latest statistics from the Vietnam Motorbike and Bicycle Association. Vietnam spent 572 million U.S. dollars importing motorbikes, components and spare parts in the first 10 months of this year, up 34.6 percent, according to the country's General Statistics Office. Specifically, it imported 105,000 motorbikes worth 111 million dollars, seeing respective year-on-year surges of 124.2 percent and 87.7 percent.
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Darned if the whole house of painted cards didn't come tumbling down on her and her family, all before her 6th birthday. And that's not the whole story. My Kid Could Paint That is a documentary that brings to the fore questions of youth exploitation, celebrity culture, the "con game" that is modern art and media's role in the whole tangled mess. Filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev followed the Olmsteads through their child's rise to fame and into the infamy that followed. The story began in Binghamton, N.Y., when a local newspaper wrote up the precocious little blond whose work was being hung by an attention-happy gallery owner. The New York Times picked up on it. All of a sudden, everybody had to have "a Marla." She was compared to Jackson Pollock. And from the very start, some folks recognized her arrival on "the scene" as the ultimate art-world irony.
Immigrant rights march proceeding peacefully with small group.
About 100 immigrant-rights advocates marched from a Phoenix furniture store to City Hall on Wednesday to protest Mayor Phil Gordon's efforts to have Phoenix police take a more aggressive approach toward arresting undocumented immigrants. The march came on the last City Council meeting of the year, and marchers used the opportunity to speak out against Gordon's decision to no longer back a 20-year-old policy that restricts officers from asking people about their immigration status during routine duties. Under a mounting public frustrated with illegal immigration, Gordon has asked a panel to come up with a new policy that gives police more authority to enforce immigration laws, usually the job of the federal government. The decision marked a reversal from his earlier support for the policy, known as Operations Order 1.4.
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KETTERING — James Free Jewelers will announce Friday plans to build a new showroom, according to Dave Tellman, marketing director for the jewelry company. "We're going to tear down the existing building," Tellman said of the current showroom, located at 3100 Far Hills Ave. Once the new building is built, the location of the current building will turn into parking lot for the new building. .
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UPDATE] One clue may have surfaced this morning, when Microsoft Casual chief Chris Early hinted that a major announcement related to "asynchronous play" between Windows and Xbox Live and Microsoft-backed mobile devices would be made during Schappert's keynote speech. [UPDATE 2] On February 20, Schappert unveiled a massive new Community Gaming program at GDC which will let indepedent developers create and upload their own games onto Xbox Live. .
Aberdeen Fans' Fury At Madrid Police Attacks
And hours before the police assault, a young Aberdeen fan was gang-raped by a group of locals as she walked back to her hotel in the Spanish capital. Aberdeen FC officials are furious over the police assault on their fans outside Atletico Madrid's Vicente Calderon Stadium before Thursday night's UEFA Cup defeat. The club's security chief, former policeman John Morgan, witnessed the mayhem. He said: "It was disgusting and horrific. I saw a child of about 10 being hit with a baton and women were also struck. "The Spanish officers were kicking into grounded fans. It was a sustained and unprovoked attack." Morgan was himself knocked to the ground as the fans tried to get away from the cops. He said: "We want to know why they felt it necessary to have 300 riot police there in the first place." The wife of goalie Jamie Langfield was also forced to flee the violence.
Waldegaard: Age is nothing but a number
Tears of joy epitomised Bjorn Waldegaards unquenched spirit for the Safari. Winning the Kenya Airways Safari Classic Rally with 31-year-old son, Matthias, was an utterly emotional feat at North Coasts Sarova Whitesands, yet the four-time WRC Safari Rally winner wants more of the unforgiving terrain he conquered in his heyday. Waldegaard won his first Safari Rally in 1977 in Ford Escort. He went on to win in 1984 with Hans Thorzelius in a Toyota Celica TCT, 1986 and in 1990 with Fred Gallagher in a Toyota Celica GT4. "Its in a Ford that I became famous in the Safari and it was great to win again in a Ford Escort Mark 1," the Historic Motor Sports driver said. Asked whether hell be back in Kenya to race, the mzee wa kazi of the old Safari quipped: "You know that I am an old man and Safari is a rough endurance race.
UFOs landing in Morristown?
Aliens from another world? Sort of ... beware of the Bike-tivists, hard-core pedal-pushers who invade Morristown roads en masse on the final Friday of every month. The best way to avoid getting run over, they believe, is by riding in traffic on cold, dark nights in the dead of winter . . . defying bewildered motorists to run them over. "Maybe people will notice us, and then when they see a solitary rider, they will take notice again," and share the road, said Samantha Rothman, a member of the town environmental commission who pedaled Friday with husband Dave and a pack of other hardy souls. We tried to count them all, but our fingers and toes were shivering too violently in the sub-freezing evening air. Samantha is an advocate for bike lanes, bike racks and other advances to make the area friendlier to bicycle commuters.
Student shot at Mitchell High; second school shooting in 8 days
Mitchell High School senior Sharmain Mayes weeps for her friend Stacey Kiser as her mother Shaundra Mayes takes her out of school following a shooting that left Kiser in critical condition. Kiser, 19, was shot in the school's cafeteria during a PE class that contained about 75 students. The shooter, a 17-year-old sophmore, was taken into custody after turning the gun over to assistant football coach Darryl Mongomery immediately following the shooting. .
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