"The disadvantaged position of Muslim minorities, evidence of a rise in Islamophobia and concern over processes of alienation and radicalization have triggered an intense debate in the European Union." 

Beate Winkler, Director of the Vienna-based European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia

"It will have an impact. I don't think it will necessarily have a major impact because there are still a lot of people wanting to adopt. There is a positive aspect; the wait will not be as long for families who do meet the criteria."

Keith Wallace, head of Families Thru International Adoption Inc., commenting on China's tightened rules on foreign adoption that bar applicants who are unmarried, obese, over 50 or who take antidepressants

"When we tell our children that they cannot vote when they are 15 years of age, we do not allow them to drive or to drink, then how is it that we think that they are capable of getting married?"

Renuka Chowdhury, Indian Minister for Women and Children, expecting the recently passed Prohibition of Child Marriage Bill to give effective protection to tens of thousands of children forced into marriage every year

"Motivating employees, building relationships with customers, and marketing in China are all very different than in the United States."

William Bao Bean, analyst at Deutsche Securities Ltd. in Hong Kong, talking about eBay's $40-million joint venture with Beijing-based Tom Online after closing its non-profitable Web auction unit on the Chinese mainland

"AIDS prevention education is so urgent in this country, since young people's knowledge of sex lags behind their physical growth."

Li Bian, Deputy Director of the AIDS Prevention Education Project for Chinese Youths