"We consider such provisions unfair, prohibiting us from making goods that are produced by the joint ventures while imposing no restrictions on Danone itself."

Zong Qinghou, rebuking Wahaha-Danone partnership terms

"Basically, he (Zong Qinghou) was trying toleverage media, the public, employees, distributors and the government to support his themes."

Emmanuel Faber, in response to Zong's attacks

"China has grown a tremendous degree, but if you get out in the countryside you still see there's an awful lot of poverty."

Robert Zoellick, World Bank president nominee, defending lending to China in spite of the country's record currency reserves and the fastest economic growth of any major economy, in an interview in South Africa on June 11

"Gaza is getting very close to what could be called civil war."

Basem Ezbidi, a professor of political science at Birzeit University in the West Bank, in response to the June 12 decision of the Fatah movement to suspend itself from the Palestinian coalition government with Hamas

"Now we have the shape, the mandate, the command and control-the components of the hybrid force. It is a good move toward peace in Darfur."

Mutrif Seddik, head of Sudanese delegation, after his government agreed the eployment of a joint African Union-United Nations force to the country's war-ragged Darfur region in tripartite talks with the two organizations in Ethiopia's

Addis Ababa on June 12

"It is about prevention-and keeping weapons and the building blocks for them, accounted for, secure, outside of illicit markets, and away from terrorists."

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, calling for a crackdown on the international nuclear technology black market as security experts from around the world warned of the threat of terrorism nuclear attacks on June 11

"Those relying on cheap labor and making profits by violating workers' rights will finally be ousted."

Xie Liangmin, a senior official with the Law Department of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, pledging that the country would not give in to pressure from foreign businesses to water down a new labor law slated to come out later this month

"The liberation of sexual concepts and sexual relations is a natural result of people seeking to be less constricted."

Wanyan Hua, a doctoral candidate at Beijing-based Renmin University of China, explaining the result of a survey with her involvement that says more than half of Chinese people accept premarital sex