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Rats ravage India, says China
Sometimes, it is fun to read the Chinese The People's Daily newspaper. Among other entertaining things, I have noticed how they tend to over-report anything bad that's going on with India. Do I sense a little competition for the world's best new superpower?Anyway, so I read in The People's Daily newspaper that rats ravaged India and a million people face famine as a result of it. Specifically, they write: "Hordes of rats ravaged the forests of Mizoram, India, feasting on the fruits of wild bamboo that flower every 48 years, then ate the region's entire paddy crop leaving about a million people facing famine, officials and aid agencies said on Monday."
It gets better. "Their harvest lost to rats, some villagers are now working as daily wage laborers on a World Bank-funded road project. Farmers complained that they found work for only one day a month and earned just a little over 2 U.S. dollars."
Now, can you believe that? That would NEVER happen in China!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
David Mar 18th 2008 10:17PM
Propaganda is propaganda, whether in China or here in the US. Obviously China has its problems, but virtually the only kind of news that the supposedly "free" mainstream US media will report on China is negative. Do we feel threatened as well?
monechee Mar 25th 2008 9:15AM
Hello All,
The rat thing is true. Right now people are facing problem because of this. I come from that part of the country, North East India.
I do not care about the competetion but yea the people there need food supplies to survive , Indian aid, Chinese aid or International aid anything is welcome.
monechee Mar 25th 2008 12:08PM
You can read the article here
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3571748.ece