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Wed, 25 April 2007 10:29 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Boris Yeltsin Dies
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Boris Yeltsin (R) talks to Communist Party General
Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow in this 1991 file photo. Yeltsin has died, a spokeswoman for the Kremlin said on April 23, 2007. (Alexander Natruskin/Reuters) Reuters - Mon Apr 23, 10:15 PM ET
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Mikhail Gorbachev, eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, closes his
resignation speech on the table after delivering it on Soviet television in the Kremlin, Moscow on Wednesday,
Dec. 25, 1991. Shortly thereafter, the Soviet hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered from the Kremlin, and in its
place rose the white, blue, and red flag of Russia. Gorbachev, whose reforms of the Soviet Union paved the
way for the Cold War's end and the rise of Boris Yeltsin, on Monday, April 23, 2007 praised the ex-Russian
president while also noting their 'massive divergences' over policy.
(AP Photo/Liu Heung Shing)
AP - Mon Apr 23, 2:46 PM ET
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A priest spreads incense at the coffin of former Russian
President Boris Yeltsin, who is laying in state in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral, in Moscow April 24, 2007.
Hundreds of Russians filed past Boris Yeltsin's open coffin on Tuesday to pay their respects to the former president
who dismantled the Soviet Union and led Russia in its first chaotic years of independence.
REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA)
Reuters - Tue Apr 24, 4:37 PM ET
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin (L) exchanges pens with U.S. President
George Bush after a signing ceremony at the White House in Washington in this June 1992 file photo. Former
Russian president Yeltsin, who clambered on to a tank to bury the Soviet Union, then led Russia falteringly
through its first years of independence, died on April 23, 2007 aged 76.
REUTERS/Gary Hershorn/Files (UNITED STATES)
Reuters - Mon Apr 23, 10:02 PM ET
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Monday 23 April 2007, I browsed the Forbes magazine website to
search for the top five richest persons in 1999, 2000, 2001. Because there was something interesting back
in 2000, whereas after I attended a seminar and product launch of Oracle products in Shangri-La hotel Jakarta,
a few days later there was the news about Larry Ellison, the boss of Oracle, turned to be the second richest
man in the world. Of course it has nothing to do with whether I was some kind of lucky charm, because it
could have been because the stock price of Oracle was up. Or maybe some stock brokers happened to get
inspired by my rare visit to Oracle event and causing the buy up of Oracle stocks in the stock market.
In the evening of Monday 23 April 2007 when I was at home again,
there was the breaking news on TV about Boris Yeltsin died. He was ruling the Soviet Union and then
Russia from 1991 to 1999.
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Date:
Wed, 25 April 2007 10:38 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Your April 2007 Visit to China
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Microsoft Corporation Chairman Bill Gates delivers
his keynote speech at Beijing University, in China's capital city Friday April 20, 2007. Earlier in the week
Microsoft announced a new commitment to help close the digital divide by creating new products and programs
that will help bring social and economic opportunity to an estimated 5 billion people who are not yet enjoying
the benefits of technology.
(AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)
AP - Fri Apr 20, 2:40 AM ET
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China is set to remain the world's largest broadband market after recently
overtaking the US, Bill Gates, seen here, chairman and co-founder of Microsoft Corp, told a forum in Beijing.
(AFP)
AFP - Fri Apr 20, 2:38 AM ET
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Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates (R) and his wife
Melinda stand in front of a lacquer painting, which depicts a spring festival in a Vietnamese rural village, at the
Government Office before their meeting with Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Hanoi April 3, 2007.
Gates and his wife are on a 3-day visit to gather information on Vietnam's immunization program as part of their
work with the Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM)
Reuters - Tue Apr 3, 3:28 AM ET
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(From L-R) Microsoft chairman Bill Gates; Philippine President Gloria Arroyo;
Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress; and Pakistani Prime
Minister Shaukat Aziz attend the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) annual conference in
Boao, Hainan province April 21, 2007.
REUTERS/China Daily
Reuters - Mon Apr 23, 9:47 AM ET
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In my previous letter of
‘Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Visiting Japan on April 11, 2007’ I wrote "………………….On the same day of the launching
of Windows Vista in Jakarta, April 11, 2007, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe listen to the
national anthems during a welcoming ceremony at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo. The logo of Windows Vista is a
circle, just like the circle in Japanese flag. As if he was also attending the launching of Windows Vista in Jakarta…………….."
It was then followed by the news of your visit to China that took place around 19 April 2007,
as if your visit was inspired by my previous letter. But of course you must have scheduled it earlier; I only like to write such rather
concomitant moment here.
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