Good morning World, have your say
It's a relatively quiet Monday morning here in London. It's the May Day bank holiday, and the Tube journey was quiet and quick. Quiet. That seems to be the theme this morning, which means it's a good opportunity for you to set the agenda fo the programme. What do you want to talk about?
I got a message from my old colleagues in Washington last Friday saying that there might not be any staff in their building. Why? A boycott by workers, mostly Latino, to draw attention to contribution by immigrants to the US. .
But I am sure there are more things to talk about. Go on. Tell us, and later come on the programme to have your say.
This caught my eye. China's bottomless pool of cheap labour, ?
South Afica's Bishop Desmond Tutu is worried about , but he also faults the country's Truth and Reconciliation Committee for not sufficiently engaging white South Africans.
And, staying in Africa, there is the lack of a deal in Darfur, as rebels reject the peace deal. . And in the US, thousands protest, calling on the government to do something. The Washington Post called it thein the US since the crisis began three years ago.
OK, turning to Asia and South Asia, I saw this interesting story by the Ö÷²¥´óÐã business team: . Japan has a booming toy industry, but not a booming birth rate. As the country has fewer children, Japan's toy makers are looking for new customers to play with their products: Adults and the elderly.
Of course, I can't ignore the talk of the blogosphere this Monday morning. My friends were talking about it on IM last night: The performance of US satirist Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Here are loads of links of the actual . Bloggers, well the ones that aren't fans of President Bush, are laughing, but the Mr Bush did .
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