"Our policy on the Dalai Lama is clear and consistent, and the door of dialogue remains open."

Chinese President Hu Jintao, in an interview with Japanese journalists on May 4, the day when the Chinese Government officials met with private representatives of the Dalai Lama in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province

"It's a knowledge deficit that carries more weight in the long-term bilateral relationship between China and the United States than the ballooning U.S. trade deficit with China. And as China makes a comeback on the world stage, it's one that the U.S. should address."

Xu Wu, assistant professor in strategic media and public relations at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, in his article "The Real U.S. Deficit With China-Knowledge" that was published in The Christian Science Monitor on May 1

"Many people were killed in a 12-foot (3.5-meter) tidal wave."

Social Welfare Minister of Myanmar Maung Maung Swe, describing the flooding caused by tropical cyclone Nargis that barreled into the country's southwestern coast on May 2 and 3 and had reportedly killed about 22,500 people as of May 6

"The president of America and other leaders of that country should think before they advise other countries. If they look within, they would realize that the per-capita consumption in their own country is almost 10 percent more than that of the Indians."

Indian Congress Party's spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi, refuting U.S. President George W. Bush's May 3 remarks that said India's prosperity was responsible for more food demand and thus led to global food crisis

"With newscasts and the Internet active seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, the pressure is permanently on the journalists to report news, which sometimes leads them to make up news."

Stanley Crossick, founding Chairman of the European Policy Center, a Brussels-based think-tank, talking about the biased European media coverage on the Tibet issue and the Beijing Olympics, in an e-mail to China's Xinhua News Agency