Independent woman
Posted on June 11th, 2008
Independent woman
Hollywood thriller 'Cellular' gets Chinese remake - Forbes
Hollywood has been mining Asian movies for ideas for years - but now an American studio is remaking one of its home productions as a Chinese-language movie with local partners. Warner China Film HG - a joint venture between Warner Bros. and China's ... (more...)
Identity of drug charge woman can't be proved - Independent
GARDAI are continuing to investigate how a 47-year-old Vietnamese woman charged with growing cannabis ended up in Ireland. A special sitting of Tullamore District Court in Co Offaly yesterday heard gardai were having difficulties obtaining ... (more...)
Woman, 61, killed by police car - Wigan Today
A 61-year-old woman was knocked down and killed by a police car in south-east London, the Independent Police Complaints Commission said. Sandra Simpson, known to family and friends as Sandy, was hit by the car on Homesdale Road, Bromley, at 9pm on ... (more...)
Suda Says BOJ Shouldn't Be Complacent About Inflation (Update1) - Bloomberg
Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The Bank of Japan should seek to contain inflation as part of its efforts to sustain economic growth, board member Miyako Suda said. ``While the Japanese economy is in a sluggish state, containing inflation is key to sustaining ... (more...)
Michelle Obama Tells Of Dreams, Hard Work - San Francisco Gate
Monday, August 25, 2008 "Each of us also comes here tonight by way of our own improbable journey," the woman Democrats hope will become the nation's first African American First Lady told 4,500 cheering, sign-waving delegates at the opening of the ... (more...)
Sarah Churchwell: How to be a real man ? and a jerk - The Independent
I'm as susceptible to nostalgia as the next girl ? and she probably falls short of my devotion to Cary Grant ? but some things are just obsolete. Blood-letting as medicine, chamber-pots as hygiene: we've moved on for a reason. But some primitive ... (more...)
John Rentoul: Brown will be ditched. But when? - The Independent
Labour does not need to lose another by-election to know that it is all over for this Prime Minister It feels like it has all fizzled out. All the end-of-term excitement at Westminster about Gordon Brown's uncertain hold on No 10 seems to have ... (more...)
TV cameras OK'd for Clemson University student strangler sentencing - Anderson Independent-Mail
GREENVILLE, S.C. ? A judge on Wednesday decided to allow television cameras to record the sentencing of a convicted sex offender facing life in prison or death for raping a Clemson University student and strangling her with her bikini top. But ... (more...)
Reaction to Michelle Obama?s speech - Detroit Free Press
Free Press voter panelists shared their thoughts about Michelle Obama?s speech during the Democratic National Convention. "Michelle Obama related to me as a woman with multiple sclerosis, a mother, sister, daughter, aunt and more. It was important ... (more...)
Court remands man accused of killing young Brazilian woman - Independent
Share A 36-year-old man has been remanded in custody on a charge of killing a young Brazilian woman. Amilton Leonel de Olivera, with an address at Lanesborough St, Roscommon appeared yesterday at Harristown District Court , in Co Roscommon . He is ... (more...)