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Thursday, November 8, 2007 OLPC XO-1 Mass Production has startedIndia is the latest of the countries where the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) experiment has started. Children from the village of Khairat were given the opportunity to learn how to use the XO laptop. During the last year XO was distributed to children from Arahuay in Peru, Ban Samkha in Thailand, Cardal in Uruguay and Galadima in...

Saturday, February 5, 2005 Australia —James Gosling, the creator of the Java programming language, said last week that he believes Microsoft is wrong in its decision to support C and C++ programming languages in the common language runtime in Microsoft .NET. According to him, this decision may lead to severe security flaws in .NET. Gosling is currently in Australia, giving talks and visiting...

Monday, January 26, 2009 Half a million participated in anti-China demonstrations on October 25, 2008 ("1025 demonstration") in Taiwan.Image: MiNe.On Thursday, the municipal intermediate people's court in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China pronounced sentences for 21 defendants implicated in the 2008 Chinese milk scandal which killed at least six infants and sickened nearly 300,000 others. In...

Buffalo, N.Y. Hotel Proposal Controversy Recent Developments "Old deeds threaten Buffalo, NY hotel development" — Wikinews, November 21, 2006 "Proposal for Buffalo, N.Y. hotel reportedly dead: parcels for sale "by owner"" — Wikinews, November 16, 2006 "Contract to buy properties on site of Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal extended" — Wikinews, October 2, 2006 "Court date "as needed" for...

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Wednesday, October 5, 2016 The Singaporean branch of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) published a guide yesterday critiquing the practices employed to catch seafood destined for sale in the country. According to the publication, three-quarters of the more than 40 species of seafood commonly consumed by Singaporean residents were obtained in a manner detrimental to environmental sustainability. The...

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 Zork Hun is running for the Libertarian party in the Ontario provincial election, in the Parkdale-High Park riding. Wikinews' Nick Moreau interviewed him regarding his values, his experience, and his campaign. Stay tuned for further interviews; every candidate from every party is eligible, and will be contacted. Expect interviews from Liberals, Progressive Conservatives,...

Friday, January 28, 2005 New York —American manufacturing giant Proctor & Gamble (P&G) plans to acquire Gillette Co. for US$57 billion in stock. The purchase plan calls for P&G to swap 0.975 shares of its stock per share of Gillete Co. P&G also announced a stock buyback program in which they would purchase up to US$22 billion of shares over the next 18 months. Including the...

Wednesday, April 7, 2021 Portrait of Ron Wright, whose death left a vacancy.Image: United States Congress.Wikinews extended invitations by e-mail on March 23 to multiple candidates running in the Texas' 6th congressional district special election of May 1 to fill a vacancy left upon the death of Republican congressman Ron Wright. Of them, independent candidate Adrian Mizher agreed to answer some...

Tuesday, November 18, 2014 Interior (stairwell) of Edinburgh's Usher Hall Image: Brian McNeil. 1 2 Musicians gather outside the Usher Hall prior to the meeting Image: Brian McNeil. Attendees inside the Usher Hall Image: Brian McNeil. Yesterday evening saw the Usher Hall in Edinburgh host a meeting between representatives of the City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) and the local rock and pop music...