Al Gore

Al Gore

Born in 1948, Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. served as the United States' 45th Vice President under Bill Clinton, from 1993 to 2001. In his early political career, Gore served as a Senator from Tennessee before leaving the post for the 1992... [more]

Born in 1948, Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. served as the United States' 45th Vice President under Bill Clinton, from 1993 to 2001. In his early political career, Gore served as a Senator from Tennessee before leaving the post for the 1992 Election.

Gore has adopted an environmental focus in recent years, including his role in the 2006 global warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."

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Former President Bill Clinton appeared last night on CNN's Larry King, where he indicated Al Gore might run, and with the current "Green" movement revving up, he could be a dark horse:
• The Democrats running for president "are gifted people and they deserve to be seriously listened to," and "you have got the prospect that vice president Gore might run." Clinton also said:
• His wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, "would be the best president by a good long stretch, for all kinds of obvious reasons -- or at least they are obvious to me. ... But she also genuinely loves her job in the Senate. ... So for her personally, she is going to (be) fine regardless. "

On March 28th, TVBS broadcast footage of reputed gangster Chou Cheng-pao threatening his former gangster boss with guns. The piece was later broadcast by other cable TV news channels.It wasn't until the investigation police discovered the footage was actually a pseudo news story by TVBS reporter Shi Chen-kang with the gangster's assistance!

The fabricated news caused public outrage. Muser, who wrote three articles to criticize TVBS, pointed out that it was not the first time TVBS invented news. Global Voices picks up the story.

Caribbean people from all over the globe answer the BBC’s question: what does it mean to be Caribbean?

Late last month, a husband-wife migrant laborer couple from China's poverty-stricken Henan province working in Beijing killed themselves, leaving two teenage children to fend for themselves. Last week, Beijing-based Sohu blogger Li Yuanyuan took her camera and went to the younger child's school to see how the community has reacted. [Here]

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