The Burmese regime must surely be on a par with Kim il Jung and Mugabe as the most repulsive regimes on earth. Realistically, there is little that can be done from this side of the world, but as orwellwasright points out, the French (among others)...

North Korea has made threats against Japan should they try to intercept the missile. It wasn't going to harm them, so there was no need to shoot it down, it would have made relations with North Korea even worse.

Better late than never. Spurious and contaminated Chinese food products have been taking lives of thousands of Chinese lives and the state controlled media used to gag those reports from coming out. Still a few incidences do come out.

The G-8 has not remained the G-8 anymore. It has become quite a farce now. If the current trend continues all countries would be in the G-8 one fine year some time in the distant future. In my opinion, the G-8 should be dissolved in 10-15 years from now.