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The Economist.05.10.2008 SEARCH RESEARCH TOOLS Economist.com Choose a research tool... advanced search » Subscribe Activate RSS Help Saturday May 10th 2008 Welcome = requires subscription My Account » Manage my newsletters LOG OUT » » [+] Site feedback PRINT EDITION Print Edition May 10th 2008 On the cover Previous print editions Subscribe Barack Obama deserves the May 3rd 2008 Subscribe to the print edition nomination; it is not yet clear Apr 26th 2008 Or buy a Web subscription for whether he deserves the Apr 19th 2008 full access online presidency: leader Apr 12th 2008 Apr 5th 2008 RSS feeds Receive this page by RSS feed More print editions and covers » The world this week Politics this week Full contents Subscribe Business this week Enlarge current cover KAL's cartoon Past issues/regional covers Business Leaders NEWS ANALYSIS Russia's oil industry Trouble in the pipeline POLITICS THIS WEEK The Democrats Almost there Microsoft and Yahoo! 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Weekly Indicators New York schools Currencies Six books a week Economics focus Rankings A tale of two worlds Big Mac Index The booming West Chart Gallery Grave goods Science & Technology DIVERSIONS Lexington Land of the free? Myalgic encephalomyelitis Correspondent’s Diary The roots of chronic fatigue RESEARCH TOOLS The Americas Epigenetics AUDIO AND VIDEO Silencing of the lambs Peru DELIVERY OPTIONS Poverty amid progress Lie detectors Whose pants on fire? 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The Economist commodity-price index Yemen Anxious times The Economist poll of forecasters, May averages Zimbabwe Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest Mixed signals rates South Africa Markets Scorpions stung Broad money supply Europe Russia A strange Kremlin wedding Italian tax returns Publish and be taxed Serbia's election Balkan ballot Germany's security strategy Thinking the unthinkable Denmark's prime minister When loose talk may cost a top job Turkish media Circulation wars Charlemagne Whistling in the dark Correction: Russia and Lithuania Britain The Conservative Party The big Mo Scottish politics Another setback for Gordon Taxing multinationals The other tax rebellion Ethics and the arms trade Scout's honour Immigration clampdown Of stable lads and ballet dancers Medical training Dead on arrival Cannabis and the law It wasn't like this in my day Bagehot The final triumph Articles flagged with this icon are printed only in the British edition of The Economist International Food prices and protest Taking the strain Media freedom Hacks v beaks Advertisement Classified ads Sponsors' feature About sponsorship » Jobs Business / Tenders Property Jobs Business / Rule of Law Consumer Request for Proposal: Business and Assets Various Consumer Communications Invites Internship Development of an of Mubuyu Farms Bosnia & Executive Adviser Applications for our Effective and Efficient Limited Herzegovina Council Development "We must destroy Total Immersion Financial The Joint Receivers of Ministers, Program - Inclusive drugs, before drugs Program in Finance & Management System and Managers of Directorate for and Sustainable destroys us" (Karzai) Development for the Health Sector Mubuyu Farms Economic Planning, Business: Creating Eliminat.... (TIP/FD) 2008 in Ethiopia Limited (.... Enterprise Sector Markets with the Poor Rec.... .... About Economist.com | About The Economist | Media Directory | Staff Books | Advertising info | Career opportunities | Contact us [+] Site feedback Copyright © The Economist Newspaper Limited 2008. All rights reserved. Advertising Info | Legal disclaimer | Accessibility | Privacy policy | Terms & Conditions | Help Produced by =ECO PDF TEAM= Welcome to visit www.ecocn.org/forum Politics this week May 8th 2008 From The Economist print edition A cyclone devastated southern Myanmar, leaving large swathes of the AFP Irrawaddy delta submerged under salt water. The Burmese government reported more than 22,000 deaths, but an American official suggested more than 100,000 people may have died. The ruling junta was criticised for failing to organise evacuations ahead of the cyclone, for the slowness of its relief effort and for obstructing the arrival of foreign aid workers and supplies. See article China's president, Hu Jintao, paid the first state visit to Japan by a Chinese leader for a decade. He spoke of an “everlasting warm spring” in relations, and China promised Japan a new pair of pandas to replace one that died in Tokyo. But the visit was not marked by any breakthrough in talks over a disputed gasfield in the East China Sea. See article For the first time since last July, and since violence broke out in Tibet in March, representatives of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, met deputy ministers from the Chinese government in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. Both sides spoke positively about the talks, but there was no reported agreement on anything. See article James Huang, Taiwan's foreign minister, and Chiou I-jen, its vice-premier, resigned to take the blame for a scandal involving the loss of $30m in government money. The funds were apparently lost in an abortive attempt to buy diplomatic recognition from Papua New Guinea. Game over In America's election, Barack Obama made a big advance towards sewing up the Democratic nomination by winning North Carolina's primary by 14 percentage points, and coming a close second to Hillary Clinton in Indiana's contest. A big turnout among blacks in both states was a decisive factor in the results. With Mr Obama's share of delegates and the popular vote mightily increased, Mrs Clinton's attempts to woo the party's superdelegates were probably rendered hopeless. See article The Democrats won a special election for a congressional seat in Baton Rouge that had been Republican for more than 30 years. To test strategies for November's general election, Republicans in Louisiana ran political attack ads associating the Democratic candidate in the district with Barack Obama; in this case, the strategy seemed to have failed. Georgia carried out the first execution in the United States for more than seven months. Last month the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the lethal injection procedure used in Kentucky, giving the green light to 34 other states using similar methods. Grounds for divorce AFP Around 85% of voters backed a plan for autonomy in an unofficial referendum in Santa Cruz, Bolivia's richest region. The vote was a rebuff to Evo Morales, the country's socialist president, and his plan for a new constitution. See article Yoani Sánchez, a Cuban blogger, was prevented from travelling to Spain to receive the Ortega y Gasset journalism prize. Cuban officials did not give her an exit visa. Colombia's government extradited Carlos Mario Jiménez (alias “Macaco”), a leading paramilitary warlord, to the United States to face drugs charges. Human-rights groups objected to the extradition, saying it meant his victims would not be compensated and that he would not have to give testimony concerning murders and other crimes. 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