- Breaking News San Mateo County ninth-graders struggle to stay fit
- Breaking News Food and wine events
- Breaking News Ask Amy: What To Do When the Doctor Isn t in the House
- Breaking News Ed Blonz: Keep your diet normal pre-surgery
Sharon Stone quake karma remarks spark anger in China
0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008
BEIJING (AFP) — US actress Sharon Stone has sparked a storm of criticism in China after suggesting the earthquake that killed at least 67,000 was bad "karma" after Beijing's policy in Tibet, state media said Wednesday.
Stone, 50, made the remarks at the Cannes Film Festival last week, leading to pledges by some Chinese cinemas not to show her films again, and reportedly motivating a cosmetics chain to remove advertisements with her image.
"I'm not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else," Stone said in Cannes, according to footage widely available on YouTube.
"I've been concerned about how should we deal with the Olympics, because they are not being nice to the Dalai Lama, who is...
- Getting to the root of beautiful hair: shiny, silky hair begins with a healthy scalp - includes list of resources and a recipe for an herbal scalp tonic
- Industry Experts Launch Money Management Resources to Help People Overcome Debt and Learn Proper Money Management Practices
- Made from scratch: When Honda built a plant in Alabama it also built a workforce-using local workers who had no experience in making cars - Recruitment & Hiring
- Portfolio forecasting tools: what you need to know
- Taylor Fund L.P. Gains 40.53% in Third Quarter
- A multi-class SVM classifier utilizing binary decision tree
- Why fly solo when an executive assistant can accelerate your CLNC® business?
- Banking technology, technological learning and competition: comparative case studies in Thai banking